Convince stores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? At night? In foggy weather? I'm sue we will see other camera views but this isn't capturing pics of some twerp stealing potato chips.

Further, I don't recall Musk saying anything along the lines that this was about you.

No, it is K'Breel holding the Staff of Power that he won by stabbing the Evil Earthling Intruder before it could attack the hive.

That is a good point however, consider the following:

- Tight oil fields (ie, the Baaken) need many more wells drilled than 'conventional' oil. Each well increases the risk of bore failure.
- The states where much of the frakking is currently happening (remember we've been frakking stuff for 50 years or so) have a history of poor regulatory supervision of the process. Texas and Louisiana have been bitten bad in the past and have tightened up drilling regulations such that they have very few bad wellbores. The other states, not so much. Why those states didn't just borrow the time tested regulations is an interesting question.

So, you're point that the actually hydraulic fracturing of a given well is unlikely to cause aquifer damage is a good one. It's a bit pedantic since most people consider the entire process as 'frakking'. It's pretty clear that frakking in tight oil plays does increase the risk for aquifer damage. Again, it's really annoying that the bad actors screw things up for everybody. In a way, there are parallels to nuclear power. If done correctly risks are low and manageable. However, doing things correctly yields an economic penalty. Some folks will try to take advantage of that, usually for minimal short term gain. So the entire industry gets pilloried.

The devil is always in the details. Yes, the fluids go through the wellbore. Which is a steel pipe thousands of feet long sealed with a cement liner. Now, this liner is a complicated thing - it's deep in the ground and hard to see. The well bore / liner also has a number of seals and fail safes. If done correctly, there is very little chance of damage to the rocks from the fracture site to the surface. If done incorrectly, there is quite a bit of chance that liquids will push out and some chance that this liquid will interfere with the aquifer. Or worse (ie, Deepwater Horizon)

Not everyone in the oil patch is competent and compulsive enough to do everything right all of the time. We CAN enforce bore testing and make these sorts of issues very, very unusual. AFAIK, only Texas and Louisiana have strong enough oversight to drastically limit wellbore 'excursions' (obviously, nothing is perfect). The Dakotas, Pennsylvania, NY have very little regulatory control over the wellbore quality.

Thus, you can expect a higher number of failed wellbores and thus pollution. Remember, even in unregulated states this doesn't usually happen, but it can be quite expensive to test and re cement a failed well (ie. Deepwater Horizon). Anyone trying to cut costs is going to let a marginal casing job slide.

Did you notice the part about the 'two killed'?

Dead men tell .... well, nothing.

If the lawyer was smart, he would pit the DEA against the NSA instead of some bitcoin bozo.

Now that would be entertaining.

Think about this. You're using it to find the person's name. THEY think you're looking up the name, address, phone number, Facebook page and other personal bits.

So, you've changed from a mildly socially clumsy human to a scary gargoyle. I'm not sure this is going to get you further along the social chain.

Good Grief.

1. How hard is it to see "Bennett Haselton" in the storyline and ignore it. Does the computer have to do everything for you?
2. Who reads TFA?
3. ????

No, that's the NSA's job.

Didn't you get the memo?

My God! A good reason to be in one's 60's!

Yipeee! You've made my day!

Well that's a good thing, no? He tried to reduce domestic oil production, now it's blowing through the roof.

Maybe he is smarter than you realize. Wheels within wheels.

Whoa there buddy. Maybe you should see a nice psychiatrist or perhaps a bartender.

This is SLASHDOT (says so right on the top). TFA has only transient and extremely limited interest to the vast majority of people and bots here (Hi Bennett!). It really makes little difference if this was reported in Nature or the National Enquirer. Nobody really believes anything happened remotely as described.

You must be new here.

Doctors are much more like technicians. You don't want doctors "experimenting" on you unless you really, really need that. Physicians are typically not brought up in a 'science' environment (question assumptions, learning how to research a topic, critical thinking.) Doctors are brought up in 'cram mode'. Dump a lot of into down your throat. You're expected to believe it. They are increasingly taught to 'follow the protocol' which amazingly, is what technicians do.

Yes, there are 'physician scientists' but they aren't treating the majority of patients and you don't want them to be ('hey that looks interesting, what happens when I tug on it?').

This case is interesting as the husband of the patient kicked the docs out of 'technician' mode. And, of course, used a 3D printer.

ALWAYS ask your doc questions about stuff you don't understand.

Not quite... Since it's not actually PART of the imager itself, it needn't be FDA approved. However, if it were .... yes. We had a generic hard drive fail on our CT. Just a typicall 400 GB SATA drive. We had literally dozens of them hanging around but we couldn't use it because they were not special FDA approved generic SATA hard drives. No special firmware needed - the console for the CT runs a GE version of Linux (you can see this as it boots). All the drive did was hold the images temporarily. It couldn't kill the patient unless you threw it at them. But we had to shut the machine down for 48 hours until they could FexEx a drive to Anchorage and commercial jet it in.

So, we'd probably only charge $2000 for the gizmo (the specialist time would be included since they are not a doctor - you can only add special charges for doctors).

See, you feel better already.

Most medical imaging equipment will dump out a DICOM file, which, IIRC, can be translated into the more typical 3D formats. So pretty much everybody that gets a CT or MRI could get the data. Then you just have to set up the printer.

I could see this as a growth industry for hospitals (hey, we need the money) - instead of getting some miserable little CD with your image, you get a plastic skeleton (or plastic squishy part). Coffee table discussion item or new D&D figurine?