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Oceanographer "Cannot Think Of Any Scenario Where The Oil Doesn't Eventually Reach The Florida Keys"
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As I explained in detail yesterday, the oil spill may be carried by the "loop current" to Florida: How could the oil get all the way from Louisiana to Florida, where the Gulf As Discovery explains: Many ocean scientists are now raising concerns that a powerful current could spread the still-bubbling slick from the Florida Keys all the way to Cape Hatteras off North Carolina.
These oceanographers are carefully watching the Gulf Loop Current, a "It could make it from Louisiana all the way to Miami in a week, maybe less." said Eric Chassignet, director of the Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University. "It is pretty fast." Right now, some computer models show the spill 30 to 50 miles north of the loop current. If the onshore winds turn around and push the oil further south: "That would be a nightmare," said Yonggang Liu, research associate at the University of South Florida who models the current. "Hopefully we are lucky, but who knows. The winds are changing and difficult to predict." Imagine the loop current as an ocean-going highway, transporting tiny The Gulf Loop Current acts like a jet of warm water that squirts in from the Caribbean basin and sloshes around the Gulf of Mexico before being squeezed out the Florida Strait, where it joins the larger and more powerful Gulf Stream current. *** Oceanographer George Maul worries that the current could push the oil slick right through the Florida Keys and its 6,000 coral reefs. "I looked at some recent satellite imagery and it looks like some of the oil may be shifted to the south," said Maul, a professor at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla. "If it gets entrained in the loop, it could spread throughout much of the Atlantic." In fact, new animation from a consortium of Florida institutions and the A graphic from the Discovery article shows what the Gulf loop current
Stream flows?
clockwise swirl of warm water that sets up in the Gulf of Mexico each spring and summer. If the spill meets the loop -- the disaster becomes a runaway.
plankton, fish and other marine life along a watery conveyor belt. Sometimes it even picks up a slug of freshwater from the Mississippi River -- sending it on a wandering journey up to North Carolina.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, predicts a slight southward shift in the oil over the next few days.
looks like:
The Gulf Loop Current enters from
the Caribbean basin,
moves around the Gulf of Mexico and
exits out the
Florida Strait, where it joins
the more powerful Gulf Stream current.
Naval Oceanographic Office
According to ROFFS, the oil spill is getting close to the loop current:
Unfortunately, we may be only 24 hours away from oil entering the loop current. As AP writes today:
Scientists say the Gulf oil spill could get into the what's called the Loop
Current within a day, eventually carrying oil south along the Florida coast and
into the Florida Keys.Nick Shay, a physical oceanographer at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, said Monday once the oil enters the Loop Current, it likely will end up in the Keys and continue east into the Gulf Stream.
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Shay says he cannot think of any scenario where the oil doesn't eventually reach the Florida Keys.
As Orlando's Fox 35 notes:
Brevard County oceanographer, Mitchell Roffer is watching the oil on the
south end of the spill. He says it's starting to push into the gulf stream.
"Thats going to then get pulled around into the loop current then get pulled
down around the east side of loop current off of Tampa and into the Keys," said
Roffer.He's tracking winds and currents to try to determine where and
when the oil slick hits Florida's East Coast. He says its only a matter of time.
"I think its a question of when, and my colleagues all believe the same thing, I don't believe it will be an if," Roffer said.
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For some real updates and some very informed speculation about the cause of the accident go to this link. Page 12 of a now 14 page thread:
http://drillingclub.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=wellcontrol&thread=4837&post=13287
Then there is this simple account from two very lucky boys. They were offshore fishing right under the thing when the well kicked and exploded:
http://www.mudinmyblood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6104
There was an amazingly similar spill in the Timor Sea last year (oil rig explodes after a cement casing job by Haliburton) but because it didn't involve the US, it was not important, and hence, not newsworthy.
There is good news and bad news from that spill: the good news is that they stopped it, and it was so far out to sea that it only destroyed a couple or ten thousand sq. km of marine habitat.
The bad news is that it took 3 months to plug since several attempts to plug it failed. They have to drill the relief well on a curve, and I guess that's a real bitch.
The part that I'm not sure is good or bad is that it was only leaking 400 barrels a day. Good for them, but... I wish we were only leaking that much.
"only destroyed a couple or ten thousand sq. km " :)
For the next few days it seems to be as good as it can get:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1473
Jeff Masters is a serious pro who knows what he's talking about.
If it fks up enough vacation resorts, fisheries, oil work, and other maybe we will have two down days in a row?
Ok, the following post is purely wild ass conjecture not supported by any evidence.
What if the gulf oil spill was not an accident?
Just think about it. Who gains from this? Who loses?
Obviously the oil rich Middle East stand to gain a LOT from the US no longer allowing offshore drilling, (Which was just recently reauthorized.) Also standing to gain ground is the Obama administration. One of the key points that cost Obama some points in the last election was Palin's Drill, Baby, Drill chants, and this accident has turned that into Spill, Baby, Spill which means it will be another 30 years before we grant new permits again. And Obama can state that he only did it in response to the popularity of his opponents message - an olive branch, if you will, to bridge the gap between the "two" parties.
Who else gains - Oil companies, as they now have an excuse to raise prices a few cents per day because of a lessening of the supply. Big food companies, as now they can raise prices and state it is in response to a reduced supply. "Green" energy producers - they can point at this and state that, so, its not just the proper use of oil that is polluting, but the potential "accidents" that can happen can also be polluting. Wall Street - they control the oil trading markets, and they make some money when prices move - no matter which way they move.
Big government people also gain from this as this will cause more regulation and thus necessitate more personnel and a bigger bureaucracy.
Who loses - the common Citizen and a bunch of fish... This also casts a pall on the prior administration because of its oil connection - groundwork is already being laid to blame this on Cheney per several articles that I have read on the subject. A non-American oil company - British Petroleum is going to pay the cost of this clean-up, and the real cost is going to be in the form of the attorney's fees. The current downturn had hit the law profession hard, and a major environmental disaster is just what "God" ordered to put thousands (literally) of lawyers back to work.
So let me see if I can add this up - Who benefits, almost every single big player currently in power. Who loses, the little guy, the fish, and a foreign owned oil company. Not a bad payoff for a couple of hours worth of work from some Navy deep sea divers with a couple of pounds of explosives, or hell, just a couple of canisters of pure oxygen...
But, like I said, I dont have a shred of proof, other than a cost/benefit analysis.
Sorry, but you actually all missed it.
THE RIG WAS NOT UNDER A AMERICAN FLAG!!!
MEANING:
- No more "unAmerican" rigs will be allowed for "safety maesures" in the American Economic zones (10 miles further, and the water is as deep as the pockets of the government).
Only American.
Britisch Petroleum =Soon to be: American Petroleum (just waiting to see that ipo launch) ALL THAT OIL, AND IT DIDN'T EVEN TOOK A WAR TO GET IT!!
Conspiracy anybody?
Remember Toyota? Remeber GM? Remember Ford?
Who was taking the lead in sales 12 months ago? AND WHO IS NOW TAKING THE LEAD BITCHES!! Coincidance? I THINK NOT!!
The truth? THE TRUTH?!!
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!
NUFF SAID!! NUFF SAID!
now where are my nicotine patches....
count on the press to do exactly that.
The Loop current could actually improve the situation, depending on how much oil is ultimately spilled and how deeply the loop current meanders into the spill. The old civil engineering saying is "The solution to pollution is dilution". The loop current will lower the concentration of oil in the Gulf and spread some of the oil around the world. The amount of oil affecting the east coast of Florida may just be an annoyance, depending on the above mentioned variables. The real danger is with the press making it sound worse than it is and keeping people away from Florida.
True, but since we always seem to have to do our own analysis around here we might want to figure out the flow rate and the amount of dilution to get below say 1 ppm. I am thinking each gallon of oil needs a million gallons of water, or two to be mmmm...what's that word...oh yeah 'safe'....so if we have a million gallons of oil we need (1,000,000 * 2,000,000) 2,000,000,000,000 gallons of water to be nicely diluted. Twelve zeros...that's um two trillion gallons of seawater per million barrels of oil. Which we think is what we're looking at every four days or so. If it's perfectly mixed of course.
So I look up the flow in the Loop Current and the University of Florida tells me it's 24-30 Sv. I go, what in the hell is an Sv? and that is a Sverdrup (for Christ's sake) which in turn is 264 million gallons per second. 15.84 billion gallons per hour. 380.16 billion gallons per day. Times 24-30 of course.
So if every drop of precious oil was shot into the Loop Current, the flow could dilute a million gallons of oil down to 0.5 ppm in...about five hours. Hmm. Put another way the flow is able to handle some 200,000 gallons per hour. In an uncontrolled blowout we would overwhelm the Loop Current to toxic levels at about 4,800,000 gallons/day. So, that's OK if we only have 200,000 gallons per day, right?
But the rates for an uncontrolled discharge are estimated to run up to 6,800,000 gallons per day, and some of the current estimates are more like 1,000,000/day.
In yet another fantastic coincidence of damnation, it appears that we have a 'volcano of oil'--COINAGE: OILCANO--that could release just about exactly enough oil to poison the Loop Current. It better not, though, right??????
Trust, but verify. Oh and check my math, OK?
So long, and thanks for all the fish....
Actually, one cubic mile of water = just over a trillion gallons. It will take a while to blend, but no biggie...
And 1 part per million is beyond safe... When I'm mixing 2 cycle fuel for my chainsaw, and I come in to have a cheese sandwich for lunch. sometimes I don't wash my hands (fuck it)... Thats gotta be like 1,000 ppm oil and another 1,000 ppm gasoline in that cheese sandwich. Food for thought.
Roger roger....the entire Gulf = 642 trillion gallons (it's not a mile deep on average). So if we had 100 million gallons eventually, we'd only contaminate a third of it... as for your hands, crash helmet, seatbelt, and ergonomics while blogging, I agree, fuck it if that's what floats your boat.
As Zappa put it:
Do what you wanna
Do what you will
Just don't mess up your neighbor's thrill
And when you pay the bill
Kindly leave a little tip
And help the next poor sucker
On his one-way trip....
heh
Jim, for tragi-comic humor, and the only one that fits here, that take the cake (crab) and eats it too.
Now on the substance of the matter, does it strike anyone else that if BP is blasting the plume with dispersants down below, it's not making it to the surface as a sheen, and therefore we don't really know anything about where it is? Not to mention the churn and wave action.
And does it not then follow that it most likely ALREADY IS in the Loop Current?
So my next research item is to locate marine water quality sensor-equipped facilities in the path of the oil and see if they have a fucking clue about what may already be hitting them. I believe there is a marine research station in the Keys.....
Also, can we please get some USCG/Navy/NOAA/EPA resources parked on the Loop Current as it heads toward Cuba (sorry/bonus if it tweaks out the Cubans, eh)? Is that too much to ask? Satellite imagery just ain't going to cut it here.
We need to start observing the water table for contamination all the way down at the 'gateway' to the Gulf Stream. It's not OK to not know what the hell is happening down there.
NOAA would be the go to source, if their raw data can be obtained. Although I am willing to wager that there is nowhere near the resources in place to do the kinds of motoring necessary at all the various depths and locations. Most of what's in the Gulf probably has to do with basic measurements of surface conditions and wave action with little or no real capabilities to gather complex data at various depths and so forth...
A youtube of dead baby manatees coated in oil is worth 1000 EPA findings...
Simpletons like me believe with their eyes...
Cool. When are you gonna do the deep water dive and tell us all what you viewed?
I nominate this post the sanest on George Washington's two threads on the topic. We need a baseline measure if nothing else so that we can compare as time moves on.
And just in case anyone thinks that co-incidences run our lives, as opposed to man-dated events (actually god-dated, but who is to tell man that?), do note two other "burning" issues added to the cauldron at this time.
1. The illegal immigrant issue. This will not go away quietly with some legislative double speak. It's all a part of the model that has been predictively (hah!) running the meta-system since at least the Club of Rome in the 70's. The model runners feel that as long as they give inputs in accord with the model, the outcomes will be controllable (double Hah!).
It too is and will grow into a Burning issue. Note the linguistics, nothing is accidental.
2. The fire on Wall Street. The witch hunt launch timing is also in accord with the Plan. It smacks of Timing, since there is no startling new revelation that triggered it.
Social chaos: Check
Financial chaos: Check
Political chaos : Coming soon
Ecological chaos: Check (some man-made some ordained from higher forces)
And so on, down the list.
There you have it folks. We are way beyond six-sigma land here, yet even the best of us have a foot (at least) in a long defunct and irrelevant assumption set.
Most of our best choices are personal at this point, not collective.
A new collectivism might arise, but only from the ashes of our times.
Growth at all costs!!
Onward Ahoy Matey!!
Back in the day, we used to test nukes in the desert SW... Nevada, Arizona, etc. How many of you fucking people would be shitting your pants if a small 100 kiloton device went off in a remote part of the desert now a days? I'm sure you would all be telling me that the world was ending and that the radioactive cloud was going to kill off all life, and that the environment would NEVER recover, blah blah blah.
Facts are really a pain in the ass. The fact is, things like nukes and oil spills and volcanos don't really affect the ecosystem over the long term. The earth is more than capable of repairing itself and humans are quite good at adapting to new conditions in the mean time. You fucking people make me sick with your hand wringing. Get some perspective...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYQOfs98ljM
The Earth is able to repair itself?
This suggests that the Earth has a healthy/functional state it would strive to regain.
The Earth has no functional state to recover.
Life on Earth is not a intrinsic property of Earth. Earth, among many other planets, features conditions favourable to life.
Destroying these conditions will not lead the Earth to try to recover these conditions.
We may make you sick, but I actually think you mean well so I am going to give this a try.
Don't you think there is an upper limit to how much the earth can take? On a long enough time line, the survival rate drops to ZERO for everything. I personally would rather reduce my consumption so that all of us can live longer on this very impermanent rock.
Or should we just live life to the fullest and crack the earth wiiiide open to get at that rich creamy nougat and slurp it all up. I've gotta straw, how bout you? Is that your logic? Do you feel responsible to take care of anything for your neighbors or the future? Just because the environment has absorbed atomic blasts in the past, does that mean we can go about merrily setting them off, without limit? How about letting oil jiz all over the ocean, where ever?
You know what is funny, there is already a gigantic "oil spill" in the form of plastic, accumulating off the coast of California, which is the size of Texas. Instead of dropping dead and washing up on shore, the animals ingest the plastic, then we catch them and eat them. We already have plastic and oil running through our systems in the form of pesticides, fertilizers, fumes, and crap in the water.
I suppose by your line of thinking, those who can handle the new plastics and oil in their system and live, are superior in a Darwinistic kind of way and all the rest can go to hell and die?
We may make you sick, but I actually think you mean well so I am going to give this a try.
Ah, guilty as charged... I do love this site, and am just playing to the opposite extreme for the sake of a devils advocate..
Don't you think there is an upper limit to how much the earth can take? On a long enough time line, the survival rate drops to ZERO for everything. I personally would rather reduce my consumption so that all of us can live longer on this very impermanent rock.
Yeah, I agree... but its a fundamentally personal choice. Like becoming Buddhist. Being Buddhist is cool until its the government telling you that you must do it. Personally, I'm the most parsimonious motherfucker out there. I reuse shit that is of no economic value whatsoever. But I can't stand people telling me I'm not allowed to throw some plastic bottle in my curbside trash can. Fuck that! I'll dump it at City Hall, motherfuckers...
So to answer your question, yes, there is an upper limit. And when we get there, we will know, and we will adjust our behavior accordingly. Not by fiat, but by personal choice.
You know what is funny, there is already a gigantic "oil spill" in the form of plastic, accumulating off the coast of California, which is the size of Texas. Instead of dropping dead and washing up on shore, the animals ingest the plastic, then we catch them and eat them. We already have plastic and oil running through our systems in the form of pesticides, fertilizers, fumes, and crap in the water.
I suppose by your line of thinking, those who can handle the new plastics and oil in their system and live, are superior in a Darwinistic kind of way and all the rest can go to hell and die?
Actually, you've hit the nail on the head. We are all gonna die. I smoke cigarettes and I constantly have liberal baby boomer women say shit in the street like "there's no smoking here, GAWD, I'm alergic to smoke!!!" blah blah, and I think, lady, guess what? If your bloodline survived for thousands of years, through war and famine, only to have its latest iteration keel over dead from some second hand smoke from my cigarette, then that is a GENEPOOL FAIL.
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Yeah, when we got down to 5,000 breeding pairs a while back it was like no sweat man.
This board is not as Manichean, or Commie, as you seem to fear. Follow along a while longer, and much will be revealed.
We do like tail events. So perspective is an apropos term. Got any on ya?
Seriously, if you don't have a problem with any of this, I challenge you to take you and your family down to the Gulf this summer and take a swim and eat the local seafood. If you do that, then you can say whatever you want about how oil spills will, "Just pass" like every other environmental disaster.
Seriously, there are more drama queens in this thread than a Huffington Post convention. You fucking people were telling me that Teh Next ICE AGE is Comin!!!! When that stupid fucking volcano erupted. Every pussie politician in Europe jumped on board and grounded their flights (sound familiar yet?)... and it was all hype. All bullshit. The world didn't end. In fact, really jack shit came about because of it. Now stop with the Al Gore theatrics, because you are only playing into the hands of the socialists with your hyperventilating.
I don't know if the next ice age is coming but I'm just torqued that some foreign entity just fouled up US oil exploration / development /production and tied our hands due to the idiocy of our ability to get information to our populace. Who was the B. Arnold in this fiasco?
Oh! Oh....AR15AU...how....how COULD you....sob....now where's that dress I made out of the plantation curtains so I can wipe my eyes.....sob.....
Global Warming scientist "cannot think of any scenario" in which free markets do not destroy the planet... blah blah blah
Let us thus remind them that admonition includes thier own efforts.
I am not from NOLA but I lived there as a kid for first and part of second grade. I grew up in Florida, St.Pete/Tampa, Boca Raton.
My consciousness has come lose from any moorings that may have secured it. I am obsessed and sad. My only hope is that I have surrounded myself with like minded folks who are amplifying some negative tendencies my thought patterns tend to naturally go to. Perhaps this is a feedback loop I am caught in and everything is not as bad as it seems?
I don't think this is true though. The financial stuff, I keep calling it right. I am in good shape, when others where shocked and in denial and suffering. This oil spill is going to fuck with us in ways we have yet to anticipate. Here are some things I can see, already. Takes nothing special to make these calls:
Oil production will slow down. Peak oil is in the rear view mirror.
People all over will lose jobs.
Real estate is going to collapse bigger, harder, faster.
Someone compared this to the dust bowl. Check.
Animals are already washing up on shore dead NOW.
They may fuck around trying to fix it and make it worse.
The web of life will be affected. The sea supports much O2 production. We already have dead zones in the water where nothing can live. How about dead zones in the air, pockets of no O2?
People relocating, crowding out areas that have good resources. Fighting, conflict, martial law.
Food production fucked. Florida is on a limestone sponge. Slurp, slurp. slurp. Who is to say the sponge will not be saturated with oil? Oil oranges and tomatoes may taste nasty. Never mind oil fed cows.
I hope the right people give a shit.
"I hope the right people give a shit."
The only ones who truly care are the powerless.
Thanks for the updates GW.
Not seeing any encouraging news today, mostly half-informed wishful thinking. I expect all of this optimism about a quick hand-wave solution will fade away once the oil makes landfall and no measurable progress has been made to seal the wellhead.
Heard an unconfirmed rumor today of large Japaneese buyers coming into the Gulf seafood market and trying to buy up all available fresh seafood. Not a good time to own a small local seafood restaurant.
The major fishing banks are in the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras. The oil will reach there if they cannot stop the flow of oil in a reasonable amount of time. Secretary Salazar said if they cannot cap the BOP, and have to drill two new wells to inject cement and seal the wellhead, that would take 3 months (best case) to accomplish. At the current flow rate, three months will put a lot of oil into the Gulf Stream off the eastern seaboard. (Assuming the restricted flow rate of 5000 bpd remains constant and an catastrophic event (see below) does not occur in that 3 months...).
I think we are going to need more than 3 propane tanks in the back of a Nissan pathfinder to bump this story off page one going forward. Perhaps they will turn up the heat on the Iran storyline.
This spill is a big oil industry Tsunami that none of them could have anticipated.
Who is insuring this mess?
Article on insurance losses:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/336ec764-56cd-11df-aa89-00144feab49a.html
An article on BP self-insurance:
"BP won’t be able to rely on any insurance company for help shouldering the costs. The company self insures its operations “except in those circumstances in which it’s mandated by other regulatory or partner-related constraints,” BP’s Chief Financial Officer Byron Grote told investors and analysts last week during the company’s quarterly earnings call.
“So with respect to this specific incident, it’s all BP self-insurance, which we’ve determined over the course of time is a much more economic way for a company like BP to manage its risk factors,” Grote said."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/bp-races-to-contain-d...
Thanks Tom.
Congress Better Pass That Liability Limit Increase
Another worker familiar with the rig told the lawyers that the company had chosen not to install a deep-water valve that would have been placed about 200 feet under the sea floor. Much like blowout preventers, devices that are meant to seal leaks, this valve could have served as a cutoff of last resort in explosions, the lawyers said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/us/04spill.html
The British are coming, the British are coming!
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea!
Save the presidents desk! Again!
one could write volumes on the various environmental depredations presently being inflicted on the planet. even a minimal acquaintance with the literature on these disasters far outpaces the many fictional and cinematic attempts to depict even the most egregious human catastrophes. this decades long slow motion apocalypse seems to be kicking into high gear along with the economic cataclysm wrought by the unlimited power of invidious human greed.
Hudamnity is assailed within and without to the point where even convinced atheists have to resort to metaphysical and religious metaphors which were once condescendingly smiled upon and reserved for those considered infantile, febrile, or insane. The natural phenomena alone such, as the unbelievable man-made volcanic oil eruption on the ocean floor or the catastrophic earthquakes, volcanoes, and hurricanes, conjure up horrific and terrible dimensions unknown especially to a nation at once convinced of its own unassailable superiority and comfortably ensconced in its dissociative and manic pursuit of a sedate, undisturbed and insular existence.
We are under an unprecedented assault from our own awesome and incredible technologies which at once provide the life blood, strength and security to our social order and just as quickly turn Janus like and erupt with demonic and destructive fury laying waste to the very foundations of our civilization. As if the feral power of Hades itself was unleashed from the underworld kingdom to wreak awful vengeance on human kind, we stand helpless as fire and smoke rain down from the mountain heights and massive floods of Pluto' black broth erupt from the bowels of Oceanus. Woe to us. Woe to benighted man. Woe and sorrow.
The following comments were lifted from an article from Pure Energy Systems News responded to by Paul Noel:
"The oil industry has knowledge of the deposit more than they admit. The deposit is 100 miles off shore. They are drilling into the edge of the deposit to leak it down gently to be able to produce from the deposit. The deposit is so large that while I have never heard exact numbers it was described to me to be either the largest or the second largest oil deposit ever found. It is mostly a natural gas deposit...
It is this deposit that has me reminding people of what the Shell geologist told me about the deposit. This was the quote, "Energy shortage..., Hell! We are afraid of running out of air to burn."
The deposit is very large. It covers an area off shore something like 25,000 square miles. Natural Gas and Oil is leaking out of the deposit as far inland as Central Alabama and way over into Florida and even over to Louisiana almost as far as Texas. This is a really massive deposit. Punching holes in the deposit is a really scary event as we are now seeing."
In addition:
"The rig that was drilling was not a US Flagged rig. That means US Inspectors were not allowed on board the rig to inspect it. As a matter of National Security under the GATT the USA has a right to demand US Only in various technology. The USA should never allow a foreign flag vessel to drill for oil in the US Economic Zone (200 mile limit)..."
I realize the implications of this event are not only ecologically / environmentally and economically tragic, but this angle of who dropped the ball from a National Security standpoint should be investigated to the nth degree and those found responsible for their (in)action dealt with appropriately. imo.
Hey, don't worry, this will pass. Just keep your head buried in the sand and believe what you are told. Go shopping, buy a house, max out your credit. It's ok, taking responsibility is only a lesson you learn as a child. Once you grow up only fools take responsibility for their actions.
Or maybe only weak people are got to take responsibility for their actions, children being weak people.
Strong people display an opportunistic behaviour "what is good for me, it is good, when it is bad for me, it is bad"
Responsibility is such a failure, opportunism is the way to go (and the gone way)
tiptoeing through the goo
miles of oil stained reefs
making tracks in the sand of time
burma shave
Death of Drill, Drill, Drill
(a haiku by the Rolling Bearing)
We've been safe so long,
What technology has claimed
Oops! Chocolate milk!
water repels oil
as oil slicks through water
look at those fractals!
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/30/oil.spill.slick.bp/
"Moon Over Marin"
The crowded future stings my eyes
I still find time to exercise
In uniform with two white stripes
Unlock my section of the sand
It's fenced off to the water's edge
I clamp a gasmask on my head
[Chorus]
On my beach at night
Bathe in my moonlight
Another tanker's hit the rocks
Abandoned to spill out its guts
The sand is laced with sticky glops
O' Shimmering moonlight sheen upon
The waves and water clogged with oil
White gases steam up from the soil
[Chorus]
I squash dead fish between my toes
Try not to step on any bones
I turn around and I go home
I slip back through my basement door
Switch off all that I own below
Dive in my scalding wooden tub
My own beach at night
Electric Moonlight
There will always be a moon
Over Marin
--Dead Kennedys
Great reference!