That reminds me of Steve Alten novel I’ve read a few years back. It was about that 2012 mayan apocalypse thing. At one point, what was bascically alien s#it seeping from a sunken spacechip deep in the Chixchulub crater reached the coast and killed everything in sight.
I am not one to fancy conspiracy theories, but this explosion is awfully suspicious!
There are thousands of such platforms operating in much more hostile environments. Off the coast of Norway for example, and with excellent environmental records.
I seriously doubt that this was an accident. These platforms are very well engineered and employ several levels of redundancies, that makes it highly unlikely that an explosion of such an incredible force could have been generated without the aid of well placed high-explosives …
Aside of the obvious suspects, I would suspect that ‘environmentalist terrorists’ have the most to gain from this catastrophe - timed but days after 0bama tacitly gave signal that he might agree to additional off-shore oil exploration …
British Petroleum (BP) is the driller and they are responsible for the cost and work of the cleanup. Pres Obama has been on TV for the last couple of days speaking about this disaster. The US Coast Guard was out immediately after the explosion. Now that BP has failed in their efforts to contain and clean the spill, the government and the people of the coast will have to step up, and they are. But the first efforts were the responsibility of the drilling company, not Pres. Obama’s government.
Sure, peter. As you pointed out, there are many, many oil platforms out there. Know how many? NOAA says 3,858.
http://tinyurl.com/2fe3tmb
BP fought regulations that might have helped prevent this, and furthermore it appears (though it is early days yet) that the problem was the cement housing intended to prevent seepage from the drill bit may have failed, leading to a “blow-out.” Interestingly, this was installed by Halliburton.
http://tinyurl.com/353msnc
With nearly four thousand platforms just in the Gulf of Mexico, with inadequate control of such safety issues, it was only a matter of time before one blew. No conspiracy necessary - simply ordinary greed, incompetence, and bad luck.
Accidents happen all the time on rigs.
The COMPANY, NOT THE GOVERNMENT, is obligated by lease terms to contain spills, (okay so MMS under Bush re-wrote a lot of terms to increase profit, and remove inspections, but hey, gotta love them soup-rims fostering corporations as real children)
ONLY a nutter like Limbaugh, and his followers (MAN! that nose ring must hurt) could even dream that “environmentalists” blew up an oil platform for “Earth Day”.
Why is it that only nutter “righties” even when someone on the left busts buttock to even ATTEMPT to say anything good about GHW or any retarded Republican as bad as “W”, they come unglued, again!
Sorry, I spent 4 days actually listening to Limbaugh to hear what he was saying. There isn’t enough Prozac in the world to help. Nor is there enough sodium pentathol to EVER get Rush to tell the truth on ANYTHING- “free speech” really wasn’t meant to include treason, slander, and filthy racist garbage.
Human, your foolish parrot of the weak-spined medias accusation against Bush does not take into account all the information available—;Objectivity credits Bush and Brownie - the head of FemA - with living up to the standard requirements that had been in place for Hurricane emergencies up to that time. The fact that ‘Nawliners and Nagin were caught with their boats and buses locked up should not reflect badly on Bush!
Motive, as you know, I know something about physics, and based upon the very sketchy information that I have seen, it would seem highly unlikely that a well blow-out would have generated the kind of energy that would have caused the capsizing of this enormous platform.
Keep in mind that this particular platform was designed for, and has withstood some serious hurricane-like wind-loads …
It is analogues to the World Trade Towers’ collapse. They clearly withstood the impacts of the two airplanes, but the super-hot burning of the jet-fuel proved to be too much for the structures to resist.
With respect to Katrina and Bush’s response:
Liberals had to go all the way up to the top of the political pyramid, to the White house, to find a Republican to blame, for what was a clear failing of the first, second, third, and on, responders - all Democrats.
CorosiveFrog Premium Member about 14 years ago
That reminds me of Steve Alten novel I’ve read a few years back. It was about that 2012 mayan apocalypse thing. At one point, what was bascically alien s#it seeping from a sunken spacechip deep in the Chixchulub crater reached the coast and killed everything in sight.
fallacyside about 14 years ago
Mildred Tight-knickers is really giving her cynicism a work out lately (The lady in the last three ‘toons).
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
They won’t recognize any “damage” until Denver is swimming in the stuff.
petergrt about 14 years ago
I am not one to fancy conspiracy theories, but this explosion is awfully suspicious!
There are thousands of such platforms operating in much more hostile environments. Off the coast of Norway for example, and with excellent environmental records.
I seriously doubt that this was an accident. These platforms are very well engineered and employ several levels of redundancies, that makes it highly unlikely that an explosion of such an incredible force could have been generated without the aid of well placed high-explosives …
Aside of the obvious suspects, I would suspect that ‘environmentalist terrorists’ have the most to gain from this catastrophe - timed but days after 0bama tacitly gave signal that he might agree to additional off-shore oil exploration …
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
Limbaughciles strike! Peter is just rewinding and playing Rush’s line.
Mythreesons about 14 years ago
British Petroleum (BP) is the driller and they are responsible for the cost and work of the cleanup. Pres Obama has been on TV for the last couple of days speaking about this disaster. The US Coast Guard was out immediately after the explosion. Now that BP has failed in their efforts to contain and clean the spill, the government and the people of the coast will have to step up, and they are. But the first efforts were the responsibility of the drilling company, not Pres. Obama’s government.
petergrt about 14 years ago
Hay, leftist intellectuals!
Surely you can do better than the spectacularly stupid comments above?!?
fallacyside about 14 years ago
In the age of on-line acronyms and smileys - is grammatical exactitude primordially necessary? ;^)
petergrt about 14 years ago
I am sorry for the typo …
It does not excuse the sloppiness, but English is not my ‘mother’s tongue’, and so I am illiterate in five languages …
Sorry for the destruction.
I stand by my challenge to the leftist intellectuals though.
Motivemagus about 14 years ago
Sure, peter. As you pointed out, there are many, many oil platforms out there. Know how many? NOAA says 3,858. http://tinyurl.com/2fe3tmb BP fought regulations that might have helped prevent this, and furthermore it appears (though it is early days yet) that the problem was the cement housing intended to prevent seepage from the drill bit may have failed, leading to a “blow-out.” Interestingly, this was installed by Halliburton. http://tinyurl.com/353msnc With nearly four thousand platforms just in the Gulf of Mexico, with inadequate control of such safety issues, it was only a matter of time before one blew. No conspiracy necessary - simply ordinary greed, incompetence, and bad luck.
Dtroutma about 14 years ago
Accidents happen all the time on rigs. The COMPANY, NOT THE GOVERNMENT, is obligated by lease terms to contain spills, (okay so MMS under Bush re-wrote a lot of terms to increase profit, and remove inspections, but hey, gotta love them soup-rims fostering corporations as real children) ONLY a nutter like Limbaugh, and his followers (MAN! that nose ring must hurt) could even dream that “environmentalists” blew up an oil platform for “Earth Day”.
Why is it that only nutter “righties” even when someone on the left busts buttock to even ATTEMPT to say anything good about GHW or any retarded Republican as bad as “W”, they come unglued, again!
Sorry, I spent 4 days actually listening to Limbaugh to hear what he was saying. There isn’t enough Prozac in the world to help. Nor is there enough sodium pentathol to EVER get Rush to tell the truth on ANYTHING- “free speech” really wasn’t meant to include treason, slander, and filthy racist garbage.
fallacyside about 14 years ago
petergrt about 14 years ago
Motive, as you know, I know something about physics, and based upon the very sketchy information that I have seen, it would seem highly unlikely that a well blow-out would have generated the kind of energy that would have caused the capsizing of this enormous platform.
Keep in mind that this particular platform was designed for, and has withstood some serious hurricane-like wind-loads …
It is analogues to the World Trade Towers’ collapse. They clearly withstood the impacts of the two airplanes, but the super-hot burning of the jet-fuel proved to be too much for the structures to resist.
With respect to Katrina and Bush’s response:
Liberals had to go all the way up to the top of the political pyramid, to the White house, to find a Republican to blame, for what was a clear failing of the first, second, third, and on, responders - all Democrats.
SuperGriz about 14 years ago
“TheObamaScowl (alias poopsie) said, 1 day ago
In the age of on-line acronyms and smileys - is grammatical exactitude primordially necessary? ;^)”
Why, yes, of course.
thekingster about 14 years ago
Yes, you’re right. Obamanation…did you respond quickly? …er, no.
[Listening for the same consternation given to Bush in the aftermath of Katrina…]
[,,,,silence…]
‘Nuff said.