The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

The expert on “condensed matter” is presumably on the panel to tell us about the devastating impact to the planet from tar balls

she's the only person on the panel that i think will have the mental capacity to understand the processes involved in drilling an oil well and how such an accident can occur. I suspect she has zero experience with pressurized systems and stress; however, she is a legit physicist so she can probably figure things out.

I should've included a drilling engineer in my list of people who could've been substituted for lawyers (although having 2 lawyers wouldn't necessarily be bad). If the panel had included a real oil industry executive, there's a good likelihood that person would've had some sort of well experience.

In contrast, the Rogers commission had several experts with direct experience in the matter being investigated. This commission has 0 members with direct experience in the source/cause of the problem(s) but many 'experts' (again being generous) in dealing with effects (mostly biological). Not even sure any members on this commission could claim experience in remediation (unless liability is included as being remedial).