Top Kill: Reflections of the Deepwater Horizon

Another recollection that somehow fits for me here, the Oarfish. During this crisis, I remember watching all the hoses and tubes and man made objects under the deep sea and in a wondrous moment saw a glimmer of an Oarfish who was just hanging back looking like a trench pipe. I was in awe of the creature and truly wondered if anyone else saw it too. The irony of the that fish juxtaposed with the inventions of man in its own environment still has me captivated.

One of these days, maybe, I will be able to post pictures and such, but the Oarfish been linked to sea serpent myths.


"Recalling the event Professor Benfield explained how at first, they thought the fish was simply a drilling pipe called a riser being lowered into the water.
"We saw this bright vertical shiny thing, I said 'are they lowering more riser?' as it looked like they were lowering a huge pipe."
"We zoomed in a little bit and we said 'that's not a riser that's a fish!'"

[link to news.bbc.co.uk]

Editing to add this link that came my way, for whatever reason, also that Oarfish have no teeth.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

Became a tension breaker release to those of us that were glued. One clever soul started calling it, “The eel in the Top Hat”. So when we were watching explosions going on down there with the force to spin around the ROV’s someone would come in and say, “Did you see the eel in the Top Hat.”

Oh, this could be a fun thread.

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Beyond Petroleum Indeed
May, 2010

I have been blogging a live chat of the “live” cam (sometimes it is looping) of the underwater oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico since Saturday night. It was actually pretty cool to connect in avatar land during this human and environmental beyond tragedy. Kinda like watching the towers go down over and over and over again while watching the MSMBS in 2001. Often we were left speechless while sharing that speechlessness with our loved ones.

Let’s just put it this way, while watching live cam and chatting, and seeing just what has been going on down there, massive explosion after explosion, that the MSMBS is not showing us, well, there were many moments of, “Did you see all those seeps of gas coming straight out of the sea floor!”,”OMG”, “WTF”. Those chatting moments were often followed by those precious moments of collective speechless fingers. Then, of course, to break the silence, that clever soul would come in to say, “Did you see that eel in the top hat?”

Anyway. I was chatting and watching until I got banned today. Not quite sure why I got banned, but , oh well, I did. Maybe I was imparting too much research, too many links, or too many moments of “You are a BP Shill”. Or maybe some could have been, “You are an Obama or Palin or Cheney shill”. Or maybe just “Shill, Baby, Shill.”

My links were good: Links to info that BP has been highly involved in drilling for Methane Hydrates for a few years now. Involved to the point that they drilled an experimental well in the Arctic for methane in collaboration with our Government in the last couple years, and that they possibly could have been doing “fracking” in the ocean looking for a pocket of natural gas that just happened to include methane hydrates.

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is very controversial on land much less offshore. They shoot highly toxic chemicals into the well piping so the can save money and not have to drill so far. (BP only drilled this well 18,000 feet below the ocean floor. Most wells out there are 25,000 or more.) Big oil and gas and Government, won’t release the chemicals they use in fracking, Halliburton’s formula, but it’s gotta be pretty bad. People can set their own water faucets on fire with a lighter. There’s a few utubes of it.

Anyway, I was imparting large sums of info and links on the site where I was live chatting for several days watching live cam in avatar land and then just got banned. Again, I really don’t know why. There were numerous people on the live chat that had their links and insights handy as well. We were kinda bonding in an Avatar “I see you” kind of way.

Just prior to getting banned I had mentioned “fracking” and Halliburton and then info about the toxins that the drilling “mud” is composed of that they are now shooting into the Gulf to have it leak out with all the other toxins that are already there. I got banned shortly after that:

"I guess the sheeple think the drilling mud is just plain old mud. It is a freaking toxins and now more toxins are being added into the Gulf b/c of the the “leaks” in the pipes. Those gushes will continue while they push the toxic mud b/c they are having to push it with more pressure than in normal drilling.

(Response) This “mud” is indeed highly toxic. Yet what else can you do?

(My Response) Hell, I don’t know. I’m not god. Just the goddess of years worth of bookmarks just waiting to post theim_a_gay_spammers while the sheeple are getting the opportunity to wake up and start asking,”Yet what else can you do?"

Of course, I didn’t type “theim_a_gay_spammers” part. I think it was, “just waiting to post them on forums while the sheeple are getting the opportunity to wake up and start asking,”Yet what else can you do?” Now mind you, most people had already become accustomed to my snark, as well as others, in this thread of over 100,000 views and 154 pages since Saturday night.

Now I’m much more curious about fracking in the ocean, BP having participated with a Government study to do an experimental well for methane in the Arctic, and, well, just all of it. Oh, and also, our Congress and EPA have already been holding hearings on fracking and the toxic composition, and there is much research by corporations and our Government about Methane Hydrates being the new energy wave of the future.

Me really is starting to think that indeed, yes, Beyond Petroleum is not lying about their name change. They just might have envisioned Methane Hydrates to be beyond petroleum, and from what we have witnessed 5000 feet deep in the Gulf on live cam, well, I would agree. There is a shit load of Methane explosions down there. And we just thought “beyond petroleum” meant solar or wind or shit like that.

Sorry. I am too tired to link links to explain what I just said, but you know I’m good for them. I will depart with one decent clip [link below] of some decent info that the MSMBS has shared though. It doesn’t mention much of what I said above, but it is a little more truth than what the sheeple are being fed.

[link to www.msnbc.msn.com]

Things to reflect back on but a reflection that has entered my mind here and there is, which mod banned me? Has the super powers of changing words within a reply field? Not trying to stir any muck here as I was let back in after a scathing email of "what the f up”? I figure a mod got canned that day which is awesome. But there do seem to be some greater concerns. Those were awfully strong replacement words in that post. You know. The kind of words that people might use to try to discredit other people. In the biggest of pictures. It’s all good. I must have hit a nerve in some drilling shilling some where along the way.

lol I just like that movie.

lol

I remember following it closely. Things I wonder about: is it safe to eat the fish from the Gulf? Did the incident alter the Gulf Stream to the point that we are seeing weather effects? And is the story "not over" in the sense that we will see a methane hydrate rupture in that weakened area?

The Atlantic lives on my mind more than not.

Haha, this could be a lot of fun if you started posting pictures of certain people's head.

But this has been on my mind on and off too.

What? Like Medusa mythology? lol

Hehe, I dunno that story confuses me Poseidon raped her and turned her into a gorgon? I don't mean to sound queer but even if i was a devout temple virgin head if the God of the sea showed up looking for a peice I'd give it up. Maybe we should just start Eternal Living Legends?

The Medusa fish tale is a whopper and I still can’t wrap my head around it. I just remember snarking that my avatar reminded me of the head of Medusa with the face of Dick Cheney coming out of it...lmao

Last Edited by Metanoia on 04/11/2012 02:15 PM

Shell Spots 10-Mile Oil Sheen In Gulf Of Mexico

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