Users Online Now:
2,137
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
1,326,072
Pageviews Today:
2,199,095
Threads Today:
841
Posts Today:
15,007
09:31 PM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:fellowearthling:MV8xMTEzNTg2XzIwMTg3NjUyXzExNUE1MzM0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 1147689] <snip> Earthling, you keep bringing up the Russian's involvement in the GOM and I suspect that you have not read the entire thread, or that enough important parts have been deleted limiting understanding. If there is something specific you are leading up to, well ... spit it our and let's talk. I cannot go back and link up this statement, but in general terms, the following seemed to be what was/is happening. The Russians have experience in sub-freezing elements and were forced to work through a 'containment' issue in Antarctica about ten years ago. Subsequently, they developed their underwater tech and equipment and worked in Lake Baikal. The Russians and BP have an energy partnership. Tony Hayward in now in Russia, we're told, in a 'consultant' position. When BP got in trouble in the deep waters of the Gulf back about February or before, Russia was probably their first contact. February 13th is when BP notified the US government that they had an uncontrolled gusher, which meant they had tried everything available to them and had not been able to stop the oil. BP would also have known that it was in trouble with the organism. There were rumors that both Russia and the US Navy had submersibles in the Gulf to try and assist. {Missing US Navy ROVs from a base in Virginia and Russia never confirmed or denied being in the Gulf.] Officially, the US government was denying all foreign assistance in the Gulf and the Department of Defense was only standing by and operating through the US Coast Guard, with no other involvement, likely for legal reasons involving BP's agreement to hold the DoD harmless for the cleanup and containment of the oil in the Gulf. Mid-summer we got the media reports of Putin going down in Russia's mini-sub in Lake Baikal. The thinking was that Russia was showing that ALL its submersible equipment was in Russia, and therefore could not be in the Gulf. [How long to it take to ship equipment from the GOM to Russia?] BP, its corp-o-rat allies and US government officials footsied around with this mess until it got totally out of hand. My guess is that when Russia saw that the situation was impossible, that they got out-of-Dodge. [/quote] Thanks AC 1147689 ~ you're quite right in that I haven't read the whole thread ~ I started to but I have to earn a living too. As far as I can tell, OP's no expert on naval operations and has simply been relaying the info (or dis-info) that he and his GF have been privvy to. Occasionally, he and or his GF have had 'translation problems' and may not have correctly interpreted the info - eg the 'empirical calibrator' referred to may be an 'experimental calorimeter'... I don't know, but given the context it was used in, it seems logical that it is some sort of device that can come in handy onboard a ship or submarine. So, the theory goes that our fellow earthlings in Russia: A: Discovered a bug which get's out of hand very quickly ~ possibly in Antarctica. B: Had an issue containing it (there?). C: Either took it home and experimented with it in/on Lake Baikal [b]or[/b] discovered a similar bug 'back home' and conducted their experiments. D: Deveoped a 'multi-platform' device which OP interprets as the 'empirical calibrator', specifically for deployment on maritime vessels of various makes and models, which is about 80% effective. So, given the time frame the events happened in the GOM, it seems unlikely (imo) that the Russians developed this technology from scratch, to deal specifically with a situation arising from deploying a microbe related to 'Synthia'. Then: E: The Russians volunteered to share their technology with at least the French and US because of a threat. So, if they could afford to give/loan/share their technology to others, they must have a few of these gadgets lying around spare as I would imagine they would ~ quite naturally ~ keep them for the protection of their own assets before they allowed them to be deployed on assets belonging to foreign navies. About the only publicly known fact common to the situations is that they, our Russian friends, have more experience in deep-drilling operations and handling the potential fall-out these operations can cause. So AC 1147689, as you see I have nothing specific but more conjecture ~ conjecture specifically aimed at trying to clarify how our Russian friends became so integral to what transpired in the GOM. [/quote]
Original Message
My girl friend has a D.E.D link on her laptop from the French Embassy. (She works at the embassy)
Crazy traffic on DED
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>