out of your smoke detector in your house, not wanting to be bothered by an alarm in the middle of the night that could have given rig worker morse time to evacuate the drill floor and not get trapped there in the explosion. there were alarms that went off, but not the general alarm, apparently. they also had a problem with, you know, months before this with rubber gaskets blowing up in the well. they had computer problems. but the most significant thing i think today that he said was that they had failed they had bypassed a system that would have isolated a potential ignition source in the engine control room on an electronic panel, and that could have caused the spark that ignited this enormous amount of methane that was blowing out of the well. rick steiner, marine conservationist and consultant, thanks for your time tonight, rick. my pleasure. let s turn now to russ lee, vice president for research at the university of south alabama in mobile. and dr. lee, i should explain