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From: Archimedes' Lever on 7 Jun 2010 11:59
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:20:04 -0700, Charlie E. <edmondson(a)ieee.org>
wrote:

>On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:51:55 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
><mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>Martin Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> It looks like BP used cowboy drillers and failed to supervise them
>>> adequately.
>>
>>
>> Cowboy drillers? They must have imported them from England. US
>>cowboys work on cattle ranches.
>
>I don't think so. What has happened is that industry standard
>practices, using industry standard parts that 'just don't fail',
>failed. Maybe it was defective parts, or something not installed
>right. Or, maybe, it was just a one in a billion high pressure gas
>bubble that hit those parts and broke them. Ever notice how on a
>water hose when you get a air bubble to the nozzle how hard the water
>hits afterwards? It could have been something as simple as that.
>
>Like a lightning strike will take out even the most protected board...
>
>Charlie

If it can make it from way up there to way down here, nothing you do to
protect the circuit will keep it from getting flooded over with a bath of
rampant electrons.

Even the smallest ones are like 6 Million Volts.
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