Deepwater Horizon oil spill

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by krashkart

Not once when I was a kid did I believe that an American and a Russian could ever be friends (see why I hate governments so much?)

And here I was as a kid believing that me and big gov't could never be friends, this decade is showing that me and big business can't be friends either. Big anything seems to be a Forrest Gump in all the bad ways and none of the good.

[mookiemookie]

BP rent a cop cuts off media access to a public beach. The cover-up continues:

[Admiral8Q]

Sick bastards...BP

[mookiemookie]

My favorite part was the "oh sh*t" moment the pissant rent a cop had when the real sheriff showed up and laid into him.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

BP rent a cop cuts off media access to a public beach. The cover-up continues:

We have seen this kind of behaviour before... now where.. .let me think...

http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-...gton-sidewalk/

http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/06/15/oil....ex.html?hpt=T1

"Oil estimate raised to 35,000-60,000 barrels a day"

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/06/15/oil....ex.html?hpt=T1

"Oil estimate raised to 35,000-60,000 barrels a day"

Ayuh. Those numbers just keep adding up, don't they bud? The President was on TV tonight to reassure us that everything is being done to fix it. Didn't really watch him, though.

Did you happen to see the computer models of the predicted reach of the spill? With any luck nature will give us a better model and the oil won't end up in the middle of the Atlantic.


http://www2.ucar.edu/news/ocean-curr...atlantic-coast

Oh, crap. It's headed for Europe, first Ireland & UK and then the rest.

They better boom it off into the Mexico Gulf or something, no way the rest of the world will forgive the US if this messes up the entire Atlantic.

[krashkart]

Those are only predictions... although I do certainly share some of that fear. It's bad enough to mess up our own coast but if some of that does end up floating around in the swirlies/mucking up other shores, we'll have to figure out how to tell our grandkids how and why that happened.

I'm just gonna keep these fingers crossed.

[EDIT]

From the looks of that image, Canada will be safe at least. *bonus*

Not sure about Canada being safe, that thing is going to linger around. Stuff like that is happening all over all the time, oceans being polluted. Like the 'plastic patch' in the Pacific and other oceans / large bodies of water.

[krashkart]

Oh yes, the plastic. The tourist traps of the future.

[Blood_splat]

Executives don't make good engineers.

[krashkart]

Unless they've had some years at the job, and are actually good at engineering. I kind of wonder how many people on this detail are pulling their hair out with frustration? I'd be frazzled by now.

Louisiana lawmakers propose prayer to stop oil disaster

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/20...ex.html?hpt=T1

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

Seriously though on this side of the Atlantic people are getting fed up with Obama's rhetoric and language and can't help feeling the there is an anti-British sentiment being stirred up and coming out of Obama. Saying that I never thought he cared much for the UK as a partner anyway, or anyone else for that matter.

Good riddance to the "special relationship".

Seriously. Dave Cameron used the US a punching bag during the election campaign and nobody cared. Good to see people in the US and UK giving less of a toss what the other is doing.