Reply To: The recent "discovery" of Dark Matter

[Brian H]

Warwick wrote: “Fortunately FF will render all of that irrelevant. “

Hopefully it will be rendered irrelevant, but if it is, it will be by a popular social recognition of responsibility so that explicit rules and inspections are not longer needed. It’s going to be many years before anything of any description replaces all the already-built fossil plant in the world.
You know it’s the Washington Post when they assume that absent an electric pencil sharpener you would have to just go back to the jungle and start carving with a knife, that was the funny bit for me… it’s like they go out of their way to be lame.

Would that be the same demented self-righteous bureaucracy that would be involved in preventing oil slicks?
http://www.gregpalast.com/slick-operator-the-bp-ive-known-too-well/
If not having 1000 miles of devastation is crazy, perhaps we should sometimes be more keen to talk crazy.

As I mentioned elsewhere, this was a first-ever explosion of a hugest-ever gas bubble, probably. There are no extant or plausible standards that would have prevented it. Not even gubmint ones. Not to mention, of course, the theory that it was caused by a torpedo from a N.Korean sub that mysteriously disappeared from Cuban waters a few days earlier … :bug: :cheese: :ahhh:

The platform and its safety standards were state-of-the-art, and saved all but the immediately vaporized workers.

The oil in the slick is coming from very deep down, very hard to get at. It will probably be capped or “domed” and controlled shortly.