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05-18-2010, 03:25 PM
Loki

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

Because I work in the industry and I don't care if 50k people a year die in car accidents. It's their own damn fault for not wearing seat belts and driving sober. So fuck you.

And what does this have to do with off shore drilling and whether the practice can be safe enough with proper regulation?

Are you seriously claiming that all of those people die because they don't wear seat belts or are drunk? :bored:
05-18-2010, 03:28 PM
Nessus

Low-key gets to have the argument he wants, every time
05-18-2010, 03:35 PM
Loki

Thanks for the color commentary.
05-18-2010, 03:36 PM
Nessus

You are very welcome!
05-18-2010, 04:41 PM
GGT

Well, if this oil gets into the loop current and around FL, up into the east coast.....that will fuck up so much more. It's unbelievable how this is still going on weeks later. :(
05-18-2010, 04:48 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Loki

Are you seriously claiming that all of those people die because they don't wear seat belts or are drunk? :bored:

What are you, German now?

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Originally Posted by GGT

Well, if this oil gets into the loop current and around FL, up into the east coast.....that will fuck up so much more. It's unbelievable how this is still going on weeks later. :(

Ah HA! But would you kill 50,000 people to make the oil stop leaking? Huh? Wouldja? HUH! WOULD YOU!?!?! SEE? All your arguments are CRAP! Fuckin' liberal loser.
05-18-2010, 04:58 PM
GGT

I must have missed something. :confused:

No, I probably wouldn't BAN off-shore deep drilling. But I'd stop all the rigs right now and double check their permits and SOPs and safety measures. Might even have them operate at 50% until all this is figured out.
05-18-2010, 05:53 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by GGT

I must have missed something. :confused:

No, I probably wouldn't BAN off-shore deep drilling. But I'd stop all the rigs right now and double check their permits and SOPs and safety measures. Might even have them operate at 50% until all this is figured out.

Might be a good idea to come up with a way to stop leaks before we continue pumping. :o
05-18-2010, 09:58 PM
GGT

Sure, but we also fly in planes and don't bat an eyelash when the emergency plan is....your seat cushion becomes a flotation device.

:bulb:
05-19-2010, 02:58 AM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by GGT

Sure, but we also fly in planes and don't bat an eyelash when the emergency plan is....your seat cushion becomes a flotation device.

:bulb:

Really the plan is if anything goes very wrong, everyone dies. So, make sure nothing goes very wrong. Someday this will be regarded as madness.
05-19-2010, 03:14 AM
GGT

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

Really the plan is if anything goes very wrong, everyone dies. So, make sure nothing goes very wrong. Someday this will be regarded as madness.

Pretty much, yeah. We must be collective optimists (or delusional) because we don't plan for worst-case scenarios or long term very well. Levees busting, markets crashing, oil wells leaking. All man-made problems.
05-19-2010, 05:36 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

You really have to wonder which of BP's PR sessions are complete bullshit, and which ones are only slightly bullshit.

First they claimed the leak was only gushing 5,000 barrels a day.
Then, a day later, they claimed they were saving 1,000 barrels a day with their siphoning tube.
Then it was 2,000 barrels a day.

Now they claim they are saving 84,000 barrels a day with their 4 inch siphon.

Wait...what?

I wonder if that last number might have been mislabeled as barrels and is in fact gallons.
05-19-2010, 05:37 PM
Ominous Gamer

yeah, it was, deleted it (didn't see your reply yet) with a note of wrong units, but you got there first.
05-20-2010, 12:52 PM
Ominous Gamer

Fuck BP
05-20-2010, 12:57 PM
EyeKhan

I heard on the radio this morning that heavy oil is washing into the coastal wetlands in Louisianna. :(
05-20-2010, 12:59 PM
Nessus

No man alive can criticize the age of industry!
05-20-2010, 01:01 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Nessus

No man alive can criticize the age of industry!

What about women? Can living women criticize it?
05-20-2010, 01:03 PM
Nessus

No one cares what women think
05-20-2010, 01:05 PM
GGT

:coffee:

"Once it reaches the loop current, it will be so dissipated no one will notice...." :mad:
05-20-2010, 01:13 PM
Timbuk2

Nice pic OG. :up:

Really shows the flow of ocean currents. Nice! :o
05-20-2010, 01:26 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Nessus

No one cares what women think

I do. :downcast:

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Originally Posted by GGT

:coffee:

"Once it reaches the loop current, it will be so dissipated no one will notice...." :mad:

The solution to pollution is dillution.
05-20-2010, 01:37 PM
Nessus

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

I do. :downcast:

You only say that to ease the sex portion
05-20-2010, 01:43 PM
Being

I wonder how this will affect hurricanes. I suspect the slick will slow evaporation of water causing it to get warmer.
05-20-2010, 01:44 PM
Timbuk2

Affect. :o
05-20-2010, 01:47 PM
Being

Beat you to it. :p
05-20-2010, 01:54 PM
Timbuk2

:mad:
05-20-2010, 01:59 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Nessus

You only say that to ease the sex portion

You forgot to punctuate.
05-20-2010, 02:01 PM
Nessus

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

You forgot to punctuate.

You routinely sleep with young boys who may or may not be related to you
05-20-2010, 04:07 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Nessus

You routinely sleep with young boys who may or may not be related to you

What happened to you? Punctuation is wonderful. You don't have to fear it, shun it, hate it!
05-20-2010, 04:59 PM
Nessus

It's all part of my whimsical charm
05-20-2010, 05:13 PM
']['ear

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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

You forgot to punctuate.

That's what she said.
05-20-2010, 06:22 PM
GGT

The latest underwater pics are both amazing and horrifying. So when does BP start drilling in the Arctic?

:cry:
05-20-2010, 07:49 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Nessus

It's all part of my whimsical charm

The irony is you're more sane than fully 2/3 of the monkeys frequenting this forum. And I'm not joking. At all.

:|

Ok, half. You're more sane than half the monkeys on this forum. Fucking nit picker. :mad:

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Originally Posted by ']['ear

That's what she said.

I just watched the first 5 years of The Office in three months. Fun stuff. I've really developed an affection for Dwight, ever since he did the Musolini speech at the SalesMan of the Year convention. :up:

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Originally Posted by GGT

The latest underwater pics are both amazing and horrifying. So when does BP start drilling in the Arctic?

:cry:

You make a post like this and don't post the fucking picture or a fucking link to the fucking picture? What the fuck? Come on. :mad:
05-21-2010, 03:56 AM
Being

Sanity is subjective.
05-21-2010, 11:58 AM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Being

Sanity is subjective.

Not to me. ;)
05-21-2010, 12:53 PM
Ominous Gamer

Lets try this again.

Now BP has admitted that their original claim of 5,000 barrels a day leak was a lie. BP was trying to brag about how their mile long tube is sucking up 210,000 gallons a day (5,000 barrels), only to have to admit it wasn't caputring all of the leak, and that BP no longer wishes to measure to the leak, only to end it. :down:
05-21-2010, 01:30 PM
EyeKhan

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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

Lets try this again.

Now BP has admitted that their original claim of 5,000 barrels a day leak was a lie. BP was trying to brag about how their mile long tube is sucking up 210,000 gallons a day (5,000 barrels), only to have to admit it wasn't caputring all of the leak, and that BP no longer wishes to measure to the leak, only to end it. :down:

Yeah, I heard something about how they've said all along measuring the leak wasn't important, that they wanted to focus on stopping it. Its only not important for their PR efforts. I think they know more or less exactly how much oil is coming out of that hole. That or they've intentionally not tried to estimate it accuately.
05-21-2010, 02:33 PM
Ominous Gamer

What the fuck? :bulb:
05-21-2010, 04:25 PM
Being

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Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer

What the fuck? :bulb:

Well, somebody needs to go to jail for this mess, might as well be the media. I mean, it's the media's fault that we know about it, right?
05-21-2010, 04:40 PM
']['ear

Mainstream media, no less!

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