You cannot predict earthquakes. There was a technician at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory who had predicted a quake in Abruzzo basing upon an increase in radon gas in the rocks and he was threatened with arrest for spreading fear. Then the quake arrived but not in the exact location he had predicted. There is still disagreement about this method.
Tullio

The world is getting closer.
Think about team USA.

Thats great.

Ahoy, shipmates!

Happened to see what I’d describe a rather odd thing: “Revealed: Japan’s bribes on whaling”, The Sunday Times of this date, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7149091.ece.

Regards

PK
Finland

I have to admit, that as a former engineer, I'm finding some of the comments coming out of the mouths of U.S. politicians, rather hypocritical. Lets be quite honest (something politicians avoid); every company who is piping oil from under the sea, is hoping that something like this, does not happen to them. No doubt, many will breathe a sigh of relief that today, it has not happened to them! If Mr Obama thinks he can fix things straight away, well, let him try - lawyers always seem to think they are experts on everything, when they go into Politics. Does he think its just a case of sending down a plumber wearing goggles and a snorkel, with a roll of Duck Tape?!

Mr Obama has certainly been very critical of BP (it has not been British Petroleum for about 20 years, due to mergers etc) and yet, how many Union Carbide employees have actually stood trial in India over Bhopal? Seven. All Indian nationals, who were found guilty this week, whilst Warren Anderson remains a 'fugitive', with an outstanding Indian arrest warrant, having not responded to summonses and seemingly aided by the U.S. Government. Between 2,200 and 15,000 people were killed and many times that exposed to toxins, and the U.S. Courts have proved to be very helpful to UCC. On this, Mr Obama and indeed, many U.S. politicians, have been very quiet, in the week that seven Indian men who stood trial, were found guilty, whilst any American involvement has barely been recognised. Thats a very odd set of standards. Contrast that, with the grief that has been aimed at Tony Hayward. Now, what was Nancy Pelosi saying about a lack of integrity?

There is plenty of blame to go around in this mess but the one group that no blame will fall on is the U.S. Government unless it's blame Bush. Problems are not solved unless the source of the problem is identified and the years of the U.S. government not doing their job is the place to start looking. The time for the government to fix this was before it happened. Now it's time for the government to step back and let people who have the most skill in that environment to do their job.
Obama said every move BP was making to correct the problem had to be approved by the government. Could that be why things are moving so slow?

I hate that I'm not the least upset over the upload problem.
I hate that I can't bring myself to bother at all about that issue.

Sten-Arne

Yer in the wrong thread. This one is for whining, you must have thought this was the "I don't have a thing to whine about" thread. :)

adding the "I hate" in front of it doesn't cut it. lol