The google ad on mine said, "Whole Foods Market. Let's save the planet one coupon at a time." I'm sure my organic rucola will offset the Deepwater Horizon nicely.
I read somewhere that the fellow what ran the company what put out drilling rig fires in Iraq post-invasion ....
was highly critical of this fire suppression operation. He observed that (a) by letting it burn instead, you spill less into the ocean until it's capped; (b) by pouring all that water on it, you accelerated the sinking of the platform and upped the difficulty of capping the well.
Don't know if he's right or wrong but it makes some sense to me.
The suggestion in what I read is that when the platform went down, it wrecked the under-sea line of pipes between the sea-bed floor on up. That is, even while burning wildly, it was at the very least still holding the hose steady (so to speak). It made sense to me.
I was really hoping the grim meathook future would take its time coming to the first world, but it looks like we're doing all we can to hasten its arrival.
No, the GMF isn't that sexy: it's when you wake up and realize that some multinational has fucked you economy and local environment so much that suddenly you live in Somalia and are trying to grow your own backyard Superfund Lemons.
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That's not ominous at all...
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was highly critical of this fire suppression operation. He observed that (a) by letting it burn instead, you spill less into the ocean until it's capped; (b) by pouring all that water on it, you accelerated the sinking of the platform and upped the difficulty of capping the well.
Don't know if he's right or wrong but it makes some sense to me.
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http://trueslant.com/juliaioffe/2010/05/04/nuke-that-slick/
big (it's the only way to be sure)
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