>> ^longde:

Congress passed a law in the early 90s giving the President the authority to do what he has, with respect to oil companies in this situation. I can't remember the name of that legislation, but what Obama did is perfectly legal.


Dunno about that, it seems to fall squarely on the shoulders of the MMS regulatory body, and then the courts...but I could be completely mistaken. linky.

It seems the MMS actually encourages people to get deep sea leases (all deep water is owned by the federal government). The MMS and the federal government get huge sums of money from these leases. This seems like an institutional failure in addition to all the other aspects. The MMS encouraged leases of offshore drilling. It now accounts for over a quarter of all domestic natural gas and crude oil. At this point, saying "lets shut it all down" would basically destroy us.

Interesting side note, the department of energy was founded in 1977 by Carter to try and purse an end to reliance of foreign oil. However, MMS falls under the department of the interior, not energy. Which is doubly insulting in their dubious leasing habits, as the DPI chief concern is the conservation of natural icons of the US. The fact that they get money, and encourage risky practices and glide over regulation points them out to be a blaring failure of a regulation body.

The legislation you are talking about is the President's role in moratorium. He has the ability to susped activities and such. He does not have direct arbiter, nor enforcer of penalties. Both he and congress have an annual moratoria responsibility. States also hold a veto power to a certain extent over the activities of off shore drilling. No where does there seem to be a piece of legislation that says the president can do what he has done. And as such, there is also no way in which to appeal to a different power, there simply isn't a system setup to handle this action.

The president has taken an unprecedented action at present (zing!)

(o and by the by, I could be completely wrong about this and the president may have some obscure power to do it, and while that is "good" in a certain way, it also seems bad to me to have the president involved with affairs that should be left to the courts...that is why we have them! We may trust this president with that power, but what happens when our "Nero" comes to power?)

So how does a degree in astrophysics qualify him in any way for deep sea drilling inquirers. Sure, he is a smart guy, but I think he is way outside the realm of expertise. Even so, years could suck.

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The job was being rushed on BP's behest. The buck should stop with them. And this.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bps-dismal-safety-record/story?id=10763042

>> ^malakai:
I doubt they would have rushed the job, because if they had, then by default, every other deep-sea well "operated" by BP would be compromised and it would be only a matter of time until they all have the same problem they had here.
I would bet that whoever first drilled the well and installed the casing and the well head would have rushed the job, and looking around a bit on the internet, it seems that the US doesnt require a remote fail-safe installed on wells. So a cock-up in US safety regulations, coupled with rushed work and a crap rig caused this. None of which are wholly down to BP.

I doubt they would have rushed the job, because if they had, then by default, every other deep-sea well "operated" by BP would be compromised and it would be only a matter of time until they all have the same problem they had here.

I would bet that whoever first drilled the well and installed the casing and the well head would have rushed the job, and looking around a bit on the internet, it seems that the US doesnt require a remote fail-safe installed on wells. So a cock-up in US safety regulations, coupled with rushed work and a crap rig caused this. None of which are wholly down to BP.

I look forward to his next speech about how deep sea drilling could lead to an accidental draining of the oceans.

Very nice imaging system that have on that submersible. Most deep sea footage I see is terrible.

I took it as him saying that it's the first deep sea eruption that had been filmed.

>> ^glomer8888:
I appreciate all of the interesting ideas as to what I do or if I'm loaded...

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

All I have to say is 14 years....if you've been alive for 30, 40, 50 years and you don't have any "exotic" looking memories like whats shown in this video; then you probably need to re-evaluate what you are spending your money on. Almost anyone regardless of income can afford to see a baseball game, to skydive, to go on a deep sea fishing trip, and take a once a year trip to some faraway location...maybe not every month but in 14 years??

I mean come on people, you can fly to almost any region of the world for under $1000 last I checked.

Thanks. I'm still calling for your ban though
http://www.videosift.com/video/Deep-Sea-Explosion#comment-889110

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
^awesome shit cybrbeast. Somethings aren't as intuitive as you'd be lead to believe

>> ^EndAll:
dude what if I was holding a baby? i could have been so scared that i threw the baby across the room

Don't ever watch a video or play a maze game while holding a baby...that's just internets 101

I belive you are wrong. I am sure without future investigation that this is a deep sea animal as I have just watched a deep sea floor documentary by attenburough and this was shown in it. down their there is no light and it makes it own USING BIO ILLUMINESence

In reply to this comment by rich_magnet:
I see no direct evidence of bioluminscence in this example. It's red indeed, and the scintillation effect is produced by light scattering of the combs, not bioluminscence. Perhaps if filmed in low light...

Dupe, sadly.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Enormous-deep-sea-volcano-filmed-by-OSU-researchers

Do not go to see this or buy the DVD. You are much better off, downloading or buying the HD video of the eleven-part series BBC Planet Earth. This movie is just clips from the eleven unique one hour episodes from Planet Earth edited together to make Earth the movie.

Watching those episodes of Planet Earth in high definition is amazing. They take the series from the mountains to life on the flat to the deep sea, and go from North to South. From each of the places they visit, they manage with most amazing cinematography to produce jaw dropping beautiful views of extraordinary places.
This is on of the most highest budget documentaries ever made. I can't recommend it enough.

>> ^bamdrew:
was this from Planet Earth? I really should rent that series.


id guess it was the blue planet series

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