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Drunken GW
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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 12:41 PM      
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Oil rig sinks off Brazil's coast

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — An oil rig billed as the world's largest sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and state oil company Petrobras raced to prevent 400,000 gallons of crude and diesel fuel still aboard from spilling into the sea.

The 40-story-tall rig, 75 miles off the Brazilian coast, was ravaged last Thursday by explosions and fire that killed at least two workers.

Eight others were still missing and presumed dead.

The explosion knocked out a supporting pillar, and the platform tilted and sank slowly into the sea off the coast of Macae, 120 miles northeast of Rio.

Over the weekend, a team of navy divers, engineers and foreign consultants injected nitrogen into flooded compartments, partly righting it, Petrobras said.

But high winds and rough seas hindered efforts on Monday.

Petrobras said the platform ''shifted suddenly'' early Tuesday morning, and workers gave up trying to save it. ''It's at the bottom of the sea,'' said Carlos Aurelio Miranda, a Petrobras spokesman.

Chief Executive Henri Philippe Reichstul said the oil and gas wells were sealed before the rig was evacuated, but the danger was that the oil still aboard could spill.


I think we as humans keep shortening the time we will be on this earth. Unreal.

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Arthur Dent
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 12:50 PM      
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Don't remember where I read it, but I think the numbers were:

20-30yrs : US must open its strategic reserves
25-50yrs : Severe World Energy crisis
50-100yrs : No more oil on the planet

Alternate energy sources are becoming an absolute necessity.



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jewdown
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 12:55 PM      
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It isn't even April yet and the entire county is worried about an energy crisis over the summer.
(sarcasm)But don't worry George W. has everything under control(sacasm)


Joey BigArms
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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 12:57 PM      
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Arthur Dent, well that makes me fell really good about the gas prices dropping.


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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:00 PM      
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I say we send HangUpthePhoneYouSkank to clean up the mess


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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:04 PM      
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I gotta agree with Dick!.. I mean Fez.... Send the thread killer to clean it up.

Oh wait, didn't he get banned last night? Oh well....Looks like you'll have to do it Fez. Have fun and send me a postcard when you get their.



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SFShield
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:06 PM      
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There is too many f'n people. You should only be allowed to have maybe one or two and then they operate so you can't have any more. Put some freakin condoms on people!

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Arthur Dent
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:19 PM      
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I was trying to find an article to back up the numbers I posted, but every article I found just kept saying the same thing:

quote:

Two important conclusions emerge from this discussion. First, if growth in world demand continues at a modest 2 percent per year, production could begin declining as soon as the year 2000. Second, even enormous (and unlikely) increases in EUR oil buy the world little more than another decade (from 2007 to 2018). In short, unless growth in world oil demand is sharply lower than generally projected, world oil production will probably begin its long-term decline soon -- and certainly within the next two decades.



The article I quoted is four years old. The "experts" all KNEW this was coming. The world governments had all the warning they could ask for. That's why Clinton put out that challenge for an 80 mile per gallon car.

And yes, there are too many people. Population growth is outstripping production by a lot.




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spitfire421
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:20 PM      
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Oh, well...it seems like you get to the point that you just have to say "Well, then I'll be dead or at least too old to care" It's a shitty way to look at things, but our parents and grandparents (and great grandparents) just fucked everything up for the future generations...I don't think there will ever be a way to repair the damage that has been done. We're all fucked!



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Arthur Dent
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:28 PM      
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Actually our greatest hope for an alternative energy source is about twenty years away.

There is a working FUSION generator. Unfortunately, the magnetic field needed to contain the plasma (which is hotter than the surface of the sun) requires more energy than is produced from the reaction. As soon as that problem is solved, the world will have a cheap, clean, and infinite source of power. (Of course, it would radically alter the world economy and change everything which probably scares the SHIT out of all the politicians and economists)



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The Painter
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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:32 PM      
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Spit. Don't blame your parents, grandparents, etc... How much energy, and resources are being used for chat rooms, message boards, etc...

We are all to blame

Kid Afrika
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:46 PM      
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My two cents...

You can blame modern medicine for the overpopulation of the world. Humans now live longer than they every have in the past, and the avereage life expectancy is growing at an alarming rate. Couple this with the fact that people are also having children at an increased rate and you find the source of our cluster fuck.

I find that this overpopulation and impending depletion of resources is amazingly similar to Agent Smith's theory in the Matrix:
quote:

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows that same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague.



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spitfire421
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:47 PM      
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I know everyone plays a huge role in seriously effing the planet, but I certainly know that before I was even born it was already irreparable...

The human race is a virus



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Rog2K
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 1:51 PM      
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It's pretty sad but true...
THe sad thing is, our time here has been a drop in the bucket of the history of the planet & we're gonna end up roonin it for everything.

Pretty soon, we'll be spreading like a virus to other planets & then the fun really begins...


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Drunken GW
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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:11 PM      
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Viruses....good effin analogy.





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spitfire421
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:29 PM      
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Yeah, you like that anology? That's an original ;) LOL



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Sephiroth
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:32 PM      
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After a rigorous manhunt, the Captain of the Vessel was apprehended after trying to flee the country. He has pleaded not guilty due to Mental Intoxication. More news to follow.





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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:51 PM      
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The sad fact is that no matter how smart we think we are, or how technologically advanced we think we are, we do more and more to hurt the surrounding environment each and every day. Between air pollution, water pollution, and resource depletion, wer'e basically screwing ourselves, and rationalizing it out as being for the "betterment of the future" - at this rate, there will be no future. I'm a firm believer in evolution, and each dominating species on this planet (that we have been able to discover and learn about) has had its "time in the sun", and then disappeared rather quickly - we'll be no different, aside from the fact that, in the grand scheme of things, we're gonna be the fastest to have come and gone. Ever wonder why all the dinosaurs lasted as long as they did? 'Cause they weren't smart enough to figure out how to screw the planet over - but we are.


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Sloatsburgh
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:52 PM      
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Hey, I'm 30 and I have yet to reproduce! Actually I have my own economic theory about division of weath and procreation. Wealthier couples are less children later. Poorer couples tend to have more children younger. The wealthier couples can distribute more wealth (than their poorer conterparts) and distribute it to less children. Also the wealthier couples have an easier time sending their children to more expensive colleges and universities so their children can produce even more wealth on their own. What can develop is that a large division in class over a couple of generations.

But what I really wanted to say was "How long until the solar panels are back on the White House?"



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Rog2K
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 2:54 PM      
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Although dominant species have come & gone, I have a feeling we may be the last this planet ever sees...
(and if we are on track like other species, this is just the beginning)


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Sloatsburgh
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 3:00 PM      
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We must move to the stars, because if we don't, it [fate] won't just take you and me, but it will take Lao Tzu, Marilyn Manroe, Fez, Buddha.... and all this, this great experiment we call life, will be for nothing.....



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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 3:06 PM      
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quote:

We must move to the stars


You know, this theory is still around (send a man to Mars, colonize it), but that wouldn't solve a damn thing - we would end up doing the same shit there, or any other planet we "went" to. If it's one thing we as human beings excel at, it's never learning from our mistakes.


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Sean Cold 3:16
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 3:17 PM      
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Wow first we lose skank and now this! Brazil is in some deep shit! Next thing you know, Pele is going to annouce that he has Aids and he got it from the pre-banned Skank!

And Thats The Bottom Line.....


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The Painter
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posted on 03-20-2001 @ 3:50 PM      
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No one really knows what the big picture is. Through out evolution the dominate species disappeared because of a change in the environment. Then a more advanced species came along. Maybe our purpose is to totally screw up the environment and cause our own extinction, to make room for the next , more advanced species.

Kid Afrika
posted on 03-20-2001 @ 4:23 PM      
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Painter checking in with a great theory. I agree that although we consider the human race to be the most intelligent to exist, it's rather arrogant to think it can't get better. Shit, for all we know the insects rule the planet, and they're just waiting us out.


Hootie hoo slapped ya boyz across the cheek wit Isotoners
And went to tell yo momma and yo pop that you was a goner
Tell em Big Boi did it; I swear that nigga be rhymin
Every lyric that he spit be turnin charcoals into Diamonds and Pearls



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