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Old 07-02-2010, 03:43 PM   #1
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Can't help but notice that things like people and rights aren't on this list ... but then, I'm a stinkin' socialist pinko type.
Nice way to misrepresent my points. That alone was a key...
What do they have to do with the spill?
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Old 07-02-2010, 09:47 AM   #2
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Can't help but notice that things like people and rights aren't on this list ... but then, I'm a stinkin' socialist pinko type.
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Old 07-02-2010, 05:42 PM   #3
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Old 07-02-2010, 08:42 PM   #4
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Classic, mate ...

In other news, I've seen some twit saying that they're drilling too deep and it is going to unleash a volcano. OMG we're doomed! We won't even make it to 2012!
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Old 07-02-2010, 08:49 PM   #5
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No we won't make it until 2012. The aliens are coming back Dec of 2011. I keep telling everyone, but everyone wants that extra time.
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Old 07-02-2010, 09:08 PM   #6
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No we won't make it until 2012. The aliens are coming back Dec of 2011.
Those illegal aliens will go back to Mars. The stimulus that has averted a serious recession ends in 2011. We know from 1929 and 1933 that we will not have any jobs for them ... unless they want to be hired as Martian Rover repairmen.

However Spirit may have died. More job losses.

Only thing we can do about the oil spill is call that a new reality - or try to get that job on Mars.
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Old 07-02-2010, 09:18 PM   #7
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We're just an experiment for the aliens of which I speak. I am one of their prime subjects. I'll get a job. Even aliens need humor, right?
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Old 07-03-2010, 09:05 AM   #8
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I'll get a job. Even aliens need humor, right?
Thinking of a rat inside an aquarium running on a spinning wheel.
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Old 07-03-2010, 06:37 PM   #9
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Thinking of a rat inside an aquarium running on a spinning wheel.
Is there water in the aquarium, or just some of that gerbil stuff?
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Old 07-03-2010, 12:34 AM   #10
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I'm not worried about a hurricane. worst case scenario is that they have to remove the cap entirely and leave the area for several days while the hurricane passes through. That will increase the spill for those days, which is bad, but it's not like they are collecting all the oil spilling out anyway.
I thought the danger of a hurricane in the area was not to the cleanup crew themselves, but rather that the hurricane would basically blow all that surface oil inland, pouring sludge-rain on everything.
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Old 07-04-2010, 09:15 AM   #11
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I thought the danger of a hurricane in the area was not to the cleanup crew themselves, but rather that the hurricane would basically blow all that surface oil inland, pouring sludge-rain on everything.
A nice infographic in the Post today said that if a hurricane hit, the recovery effort could be suspended for as much as two weeks as they break the equipment down, wait it out, and then set it up again. It said that all the wave action would accelerate the breaking up of the oil. And it said that depending on if the center of the storm was to the West or East of the slick, it would either push the oil in to land or blow it back out to sea, respectively.

So it's a mixed bag.
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Old 07-04-2010, 10:32 AM   #12
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I don't see how it would push it out to sea. It would seem that the storm would have to originate from land towards the middle of the gulf.
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Old 07-04-2010, 11:36 AM   #13
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I don't see how it would push it out to sea.
Hurricanes spin counter-clockwise. If the hurrican is south or west of the oil, then where does the oil go?

Maybe the pumps in New Orleans need to be oiled?
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Old 07-04-2010, 05:52 PM   #14
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wonderful list of excuses, bravo.
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