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To: NOW who wrote (41714)	5/28/2010 3:15:00 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 233787

Then there is this pollution danger: "A single collision between two satellites or large pieces of “space junk” could send thousands of pieces of debris spinning into orbit, each capable of destroying further satellites. Global positioning systems, international phone connections, television signals and weather forecasts are among the services which are at risk of crashing to a halt." telegraph.co.uk Artwork showing space debris in low and geostationary Earth orbit. Space debris includes thousands of inactive satellites, fragments of broken up spacecraft and equipment lost by astronauts. This artwork is based on density data, but is not to scale Photo: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRAR

To: NOW who wrote (41714)	5/28/2010 7:47:48 AM
From: GC	Respond to of 233787

And they have a limit on their liability, If I remember it is only 75 mil . could be wrong

To: NOW who wrote (41714)	5/28/2010 11:29:21 AM
From: hank2010	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 233787

"A company shows a pattern of ignoring safety rules, causes a complete environmental catastrophe, that kills 11 people, and ruins the lives of thousands of people. No one arrested. No one charged." Yes, allowing the Alaska line to corrode to failure, and probably the Texas refinery blowing up were BP management and safety failures. However, it was Transocean doing the drilling. The way I understand it, the cuttings from oil drilling are continuously being examined under a microscope and the "pebble gazer" can tell by a sheen on the cuttings that they are approaching hydrocarbons. When pieces of rubber showed up in the cuttings and were reported to the Transocean supervisor he made the decision to ignore the evidence as it was nothing to worry about. One wonders at the thinking of this person. You are 5000 feet down to bedrock and thousands of feet into bedrock, where is the rubber coming from? Obviously something is coming apart! Maybe the blow-out preventer? Was there a BP rep on board who instructed Transocean to keep drilling? If not, Transocean were the culprit.