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Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

It's still there. 

All you need is a time machine (a photograph or a film).

um,  that assumes that photographs and/or film were taken before the manuscripts were destroyed.   Also film/photos is not quite like having the real thing.    

True in some ways they are better because they're unique properties are easier to reproduce.

All things are physically ephemeral but conceptually eternal, even if the idea is lost someone or something will have it or an idea very similar to it again. The actual article is doomed by entropy, all physical objects change.

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BACKGROUND: In Spring of 2012, Louisiana's Corne and Grand Bayou residents noticed strange bubbling in the bayou for many weeks, and they reported smelling burnt diesel fuel and sulfur. Then suddenly a sinkhole the size of three football fields appeared on Aug. 3, swallowing scores of 100-foot tall cypress trees. The sinkhole resulted from the failure of Texas Brine Company's abandoned underground brine cavern. The Department of Natural Resources issued a Declaration of Emergency on Aug. 6, and 150 families were evacuated. 

Photo: Sinkhole back in early August 2012

In early August 2012, it was reported that...
A nearly 400-foot deep sinkhole in Louisiana has swallowed all of the trees in its area and enacted a mandatory evacuation order for about 150 residences for fear of potential radiation and explosions.
The sinkhole is 1,500 feet from a butane gas cavern. If the current sinkhole grows, it could rupture the adjoining salt dome storage caverns.  Not a good situation.  It would be a domino effect that could devastate and impact a huge area of that state (Including New Orleans). Our nations emergency reserve of Oil and Natural Gas is kept in these salt domes, and their on a fault line!

VIDEO: "RED ALERT: Bomb on the Bayou (Louisiana SINKHOLE could blow!)" CLICK HERE


From August 2012: 
The gaping hole has a diameter of 372 feet. It is in Assumption Parish, La., about 50 miles south of Baton Rouge.

The sinkhole sits in the middle of a heavily wooded space where it has consumed all of the soaring cypress trees that had been there. Flyover photos show some of the treetops still visible through the mud.

Authorities enacted a mandatory evacuation for between 100 and150 homes in the area, but most people have chosen to stay, according to the Mayor's Office of Emergency Preparedness. If any of the dangers seem to become more imminent, the order will be escalated to a forced evacuation.

While officials are not certain what caused the massive sinkhole, they believe it may be have ben caused by a nearby salt cavern owned by the Texas Brine Company.

After being used for nearly 30 years, the cavern was plugged in 2011 and officials believe the integrity of the cavern may have somehow been compromised, leading to the sinkhole.


It is believed that a breach of these salt domes could ignite close to 1.5 Million barrels of liquid butane!!! 

The thermal power of 1.5 Million barrels of liquid butane is = approx 100 Hiroshima's 

Bayou Corne Louisiana has experienced a series of events which 'professionals' are having a hard time explaining --- or at least the pros are finding it to be an inconvenient time to offer an explanation as to what is going on.

Its a long story, but crucial for everyone to understand !

full blog post here:http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/8112012-louisiana-sink-hole-explai...

 

The event began weeks ago with strange bubbles arising out of the bayou in large amounts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RleGRi9WVlk

Move forward to the sinkhole forming recently... the "non-harmful" radioactive filling to a salt dome which has now collapsed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBc5aZeYFKg

Now there are worries that an adjacent (nearby?) well (salt dome) .. that is filled with 1.5 MILLION BARRELS of Liquid Butane... might be ruptured , causing a catastrophe.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/09/us/louisiana-bayou-sinkhole/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

They had recently found out that natural gas bubbles are coming up from Bayou Corne and that the area could possibly explode. There could be a huge explosion!

October 2012: 

Photo: Sinkhole in October 2012


Louisiana Sink Hole (sinkhole) has Seismic Activity, and sits within The New Madrid Fault Zone.

 

January 2013

Jan 20, 2013:

Assumption Parish officials said scientists have noticed a recent increase in seismic activity near the huge sinkhole at Bayou Corne, and worry that it might grow again.


Parish emergency preparedness director John Boudreaux told The Advocate that the increase was first noticed about two weeks ago.

He said scientists noticed more than 80 such events on Friday, but activity dropped after the sinkhole "burped" crude oil, debris and hydrocarbon to the surface on Saturday morning.

Boudreaux said officials worry that something may be shifting in salt deposits just east of the failed Texas Brine cavern that scientists believe caused the sinkhole.



Read more: http://www.wdsu.com/news/around-louisiana/Scientists-note-increase-in-seismic-activity-at-sink-hole/-/9853348/18207676/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/9bb06oz/-/index.html#ixzz2JeEmkInD

 This sink hole in Bayou Corne is on property owned by a company named Texas Brine. They use large amounts of sodium chloride (salt) in their production of brine. 

Photo: Sinkhole Jan 25, 2013

"Five weeks after our last update of December 24 on the Bayou Corne sinkhole, we are finding that things actually look a bit worse. The water levels seems higher, and the work efforts appear to have subsided. Equipment has been removed, and the homes to the west and northwest of the sinkhole look seriously unpopulated. The recent seismic activity has people and the government concerned [...]"

Video from Jan. 31 flyover of giant sinkhole — Shows new road/containment berm to south CLICK

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

It's still there. 

All you need is a time machine (a photograph or a film).

um,  that assumes that photographs and/or film were taken before the manuscripts were destroyed.   Also film/photos is not quite like having the real thing.    

True in some ways they are better because they're unique properties are easier to reproduce.

All things are physically ephemeral but conceptually eternal, even if the idea is lost someone or something will have it or an idea very similar to it again. The actual article is doomed by entropy, all physical objects change.

whatever.  Why do I waste time talking with you? 

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I don't know.

Only you can answer that one.

Maybe on a subconscious level you want to understand what I'm writing.

Probably not, I get these weird flashes of optimism.

It probably fumes from cleaning the kitchen.

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Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

It's still there. 

All you need is a time machine (a photograph or a film).

um,  that assumes that photographs and/or film were taken before the manuscripts were destroyed.   Also film/photos is not quite like having the real thing.    

True in some ways they are better because they're unique properties are easier to reproduce.

All things are physically ephemeral but conceptually eternal, even if the idea is lost someone or something will have it or an idea very similar to it again. The actual article is doomed by entropy, all physical objects change.

whatever.  Why do I waste time talking with you? 

Because Teletubbies has been off the air for 10 years.

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Though inevitable, entropy is neither here nor there.

Here is an interesting story for those who look beyond entropy.

The blue elephant in the room.

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Leonardo said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

It's still there. 

All you need is a time machine (a photograph or a film).

um,  that assumes that photographs and/or film were taken before the manuscripts were destroyed.   Also film/photos is not quite like having the real thing.    

True in some ways they are better because they're unique properties are easier to reproduce.

All things are physically ephemeral but conceptually eternal, even if the idea is lost someone or something will have it or an idea very similar to it again. The actual article is doomed by entropy, all physical objects change.

whatever.  Why do I waste time talking with you? 

Because Teletubbies has been off the air for 10 years.

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Mrebo said:

Though inevitable, entropy is neither here nor there.

Here is an interesting story for those who look beyond entropy.

Oh it's here and there alright, it's everywhere we can see and we can see a long distance.

The solution to the featured story is obvious.

Other providers should offer free food for teaching Buddhism, various traditions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and that way the pupils would be exposed to a variety of influences both spiritual and culinary.

The Jewish temple should only be allowed to operate if it opened up it's services to everyone. That way more people will learn about the traditions of Judaism and it's food.

If the school itself offered free food to encourage people to learn about Maths, English, History, Geography and the Sciences perhaps it's pupils would be too full to wander off into the pavilions of religion and nosh.

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...People, Places, Things You Should Have Learned In School (Had You Been Paying Attention), Science, and Odds and Ends.

 

Keep Circulating the Tapes.

END OF LINE

(It hasn’t happened yet)

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That is cheerful news, Bingo. Now I feel less inclined to send in an elite archaeological-military team to kill the ignoramuses.

I continue to not understand the Japanese. Though good relations with the Asians I have.

As for entropy, it is not here nor there as far as discussions of what is important to us as humans is concerned. Reference to physical laws makes every human concern small - from the holocaust to destroyed artifacts.

Bingowings said:

The Jewish temple should only be allowed to operate if...

One of your curious statements.

The blue elephant in the room.

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Mrebo said:

Bingowings said:

The Jewish temple should only be allowed to operate if...

One of your curious statements.

I meant (in context) from school property obviously, as an educational service.

Jewish religious instruction goes on off campus presumably.

Religious freedoms have their limits.

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Bingowings said:

May I be the first to wish you a happy Valentines day.

whatever.

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Swearing keyboard = my new favourite thing.