Could Dr. Seuss Goop Have Plugged BP’s Oil Well?
From a month-old copy of Physical Review Letters, NPR stumbled on an article bearing the somewhat impenetrable title, ” Viscoelastic Suppression of Gravity-Driven Counterflow Instability .” Behind the mouthful was an interesting premise: That the calamitous BP well could have been plugged using oobleck. The combination of two parts cornstarch to one…
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Could Dr. Seuss Goop Have Plugged BP’s Oil Well?
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