Obviously snipers were deployed in case it was a Korean/Al Qaeda, etc. terrorist action, so as to prevent another rig from being taken down. Now if this affair hasn't given ideas of how to wreck the US economy to those who might care to do so, they must be taking a Rip van Winkle style nap. How many hundreds of active wells do we have in the gulf? Hopefully those have better failsafe cutoff valves.<br>
<br>GC<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Preston Boyington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> Would that be so bad? Wouldn't it be nice to have a shorter drive to<br>
> the beach? If Hartsfield were suddenly beachfront property they could<br>
> take off over the ocean without annoying folks trying to sleep. :-)<br>
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</div>LOL! well I haven't read the article, but a small (low yield?) nuke<br>
like the US and other countries have in their arsenal doesn't do quite<br>
that much damage. from my understanding it's more of a small city size<br>
area of impact.<br>
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my assumption would be their using small ones like was proposed for<br>
space shuttle propulsion years ago.<br>
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on a different note; I still haven't heard _why_ snipers were deployed<br>
to neighboring rigs. I worked on offshore drilling rigs for years (and<br>
still have family working thereon) and that was a first for me.<br>
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