Anyone watching the spillcam? The robots are grabbing things and spinning things.

[Kablooie]

It just went through a oil huge cloud and now is carrying some equipment.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Link here. I imagine they're preparing for Top Kill.

Here's one link I found, live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wkrg

Top Kill animation: http://www.youtube.com/deepwaterhorizonjic#p/a/u/2/v4YG7J-Ws6k

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Thanks. That is fascinating.

[napi21]

3. How is it even possible to see anything? It's DARK in the Gulf right now.

I don't think they have any lighting dow here because that was one of the reasons BP gave for having to do different things at specific times because hey needed the daylight.

[Posteritatis]

5. Extra lighting probably helps, but that thing's obviously got onboard lights. (nt)

[Kablooie]

6. It's dead black all the time down there. All the light is artificial.

Sunlight doesn't go deeper than 500 feet. This is 5000 feet.

[global1]

7. I Have To Think That Not Much Surface Daylight Gets Down 5000 Feet .....

to this well gusher. I have to think that they have lights down there that illuminate the site.

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. I don't think light of any kind penetrates 5,000 feet of seawater.

I'm guessing there MUST be artificial light down there.

[tranche]

15. This is why I can't with a straight face take anything I read on DU seriously.

[Ex Lurker]

17. it's always dark at that depth n/t

[global1]

4. I'm Sure Every News Organization Has A Person Assigned To Watch The Live Feed....

and report any unusual activity - like explosions, implosions, more spewing of oil, etc. So as you are watching the live feed - people are getting paid to watch it.

[Catherina]

8. Watching now. Lots of movement. Lots of robots movement eye n/t

[Kablooie]

10. Here's the pbs link if anyone is interested.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/05/newshour-oil-widget-2-including-spillcam.html

[Blue-Jay]

11. The robots will become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.

Then we're all truly fucked.

[global1]

12. I'm Watching The Live Feed At This Link......

http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

It's interesting that occasionally a Copyright 2010 shows up on the bottom of the feed border. Seems odd.

[RKP5637]

13. Thanks for reminder, also here's the live video streaming directly from the BP site.

Wonder if the web site will crash tomorrow from all the watchers...
It takes about a minute for the streaming to start...

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. They are killing it, they said it themselves

that said there are good reasons and tinfoil reasons

the good reasons the pressures are such that you don't want your ROVs too near this... so they might have a problem with getting those artificial lights

And to quote the locals... what are they hiding?

Take your pick on this. The truth is probably in between this. They don't want you (or chiefly their competitors) seeing the highly proprietary equipment involved... and if it fails, well they don't want this on the teevee machine. Not that they can hide it.

I can see it.

We capped it...

Boss why are we still getting black stuff coming up?

[RKP5637]

16. Thanks for the update, at one time earlier I had heard they were leaving them on. That is

sure one failure you wouldn't want the whole world to be watching real time.

Yep, right, as you said...

"I can see it.

We capped it...

Boss why are we still getting black stuff coming up?"

Oh SH**!!!