Comments on: Oil In The Water http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Woody Tanaka http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60130 Woody Tanaka Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:20:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60130 Please ignore #8. It was meant for a different blog entry. Please ignore #8. It was meant for a different blog entry.

]]> By: Woody Tanaka http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60129 Woody Tanaka Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:19:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60129 What boggles my mind is the amount of work it must have taken to put the confederate nonsense on the $5. How bad must your life be to spend that time on losers and traitors who've been dead for almost 150 years? What boggles my mind is the amount of work it must have taken to put the confederate nonsense on the $5. How bad must your life be to spend that time on losers and traitors who’ve been dead for almost 150 years?

]]> By: Woody Tanaka http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60128 Woody Tanaka Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:10:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60128 "People also expect quick fixes to be available for every problem." I don't think the issue is that there is no quick fix. Rather the problem is that this was a clearly foreseeable event with an enormously high disaster potential but the multi-billion dollar corporation apparently contemplated no fixes, quick or otherwise, to deal with the problem and they drilled anyway. (And the government let them. That's a problem, too.) “People also expect quick fixes to be available for every problem.”

I don’t think the issue is that there is no quick fix. Rather the problem is that this was a clearly foreseeable event with an enormously high disaster potential but the multi-billion dollar corporation apparently contemplated no fixes, quick or otherwise, to deal with the problem and they drilled anyway. (And the government let them. That’s a problem, too.)

]]> By: Jon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60036 Jon Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:20:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60036 Take it away Elvis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDrOmqbI8k Take it away Elvis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLDrOmqbI8k

]]> By: Bruce http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60032 Bruce Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:14:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60032 Can we anoint the king and queen with oil as Ashcroft was? Gotta do something with all that oil besides making landfills into tar sands. Can we anoint the king and queen with oil as Ashcroft was?
Gotta do something with all that oil besides making landfills into tar sands.

]]> By: Mapa del derrame en el Golfo de México día a día « [Px] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60025 Mapa del derrame en el Golfo de México día a día « [Px] Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:19:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60025 [...] CNN Edition: International Categorías:Información, Recomendaciones Web Etiquetas: Avizpate telecom, Información, Recomendaciones Web Comentarios (0) Trackbacks (0) Dejar un comentario Trackback [...] [...] CNN Edition: International Categorías:Información, Recomendaciones Web Etiquetas: Avizpate telecom, Información, Recomendaciones Web Comentarios (0) Trackbacks (0) Dejar un comentario Trackback [...]

]]> By: Guy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60011 Guy Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:07:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60011 When it comes to disasters two things come to mind. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." -Ben Franklin "Hope for the best but prepare for the worst." -Proverb When it comes to disasters two things come to mind.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” -Ben Franklin

“Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.” -Proverb

]]> By: GM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-60007 GM Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:25:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-60007 People also expect quick fixes to be available for every problem. And that's not how the real world works People also expect quick fixes to be available for every problem.

And that’s not how the real world works

]]> By: Roberta http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/06/10/oil-in-the-water/#comment-59997 Roberta Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:28:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=9492#comment-59997 People expect their President to be an action hero. That's not what situations like this require. People expect their President to be an action hero. That’s not what situations like this require.

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