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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (400085)7/19/2008 6:32:23 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1578414
 

Offshore drilling rigs are some of the biggest structures on earth. "Months" is a REAL stretch!

Another idiotic post.

Building large offshore drilling rigs is NOTHING compared with the task of building B29s, fighter planes in quantity, or two nuclear weapons or aircraft carriers.

Now it is true that it currently takes a few years (depending on rig type, 2.5-4) to build a huge offshore rig, if we committed ourselves to it in the way that we committed ourselves to WWII, as I suggested, this could EASILY be reduced to months.

There is precedent for this kind of ramp up.
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