In the recent film "Knowing" of 2009 (Knowing is a 2009 science fiction/disaster film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage) there is a scene in which a man watches a television news that informs ... the explosion of an oil rig in Mexico!
How can a film just a year ago, "to predict" what happened? Just coincidence?
Hard to believe given that the coincidences are too many: the platform explodes, the exact location, the date so close: in the film explains exactly what happened April 20, 2010, a year later!
This reinforces the suspicion …
We should not let us get caught in fear. Hollywood movies always have worked with catastrophy, fire & destruction. There is a movie genre for this and some folks like a lot watching this to feel safe in their own cuddling nests.
So in order to ensure sufficient supply for the demand, all kinds of disasters are being pictured and of course an oil rig also gives a perfect platform for constructing and colouring a disaster, related fear and enabling the "kick" about it that some like. There are maybe 20 top potential disaster scenarios that are available for any combination within any movie and that are constantly being repeated again and again.
However, there is something to this story that makes go hmmm.
But we should not forget that wherever oil is being extracted or transported, there are always severe negative impacts on environment. Oil is not clean and never will be.
Land pollution can easily be seen on google maps, e.g. for the town of Hassi Messaoud, Algeria, or searching for the results of bursted pipeline in the Russian Federation, e.g. area of Irkutsk.
Pray a hurricane doesn't come in the Gulf this year. Pray hard. Really hard.
Its already predicted to be a busier year then usual for hurricanes, this oil spill will spread all over the world. Get your cameras out and take as many pics as you can while you still can. Our Mother is going to be really sick for a long time!
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Poor other species! They have to suffer coz of our needs! This planet isn't just ours and we forget that as humans
You´re right - before we lay our finger on the guilty ones, we shouldn´t forget about our own role in the whole.
The fact that oil companies have a strong interest in lobbying the governments is undisputable.
As recently as 20 years ago, oil companies made deep drillings up to 3000 metres depth of the sea.
Nowadays, it´s drilled in depths of 7000 metres and more - with increasing risks and, as we presently see,
uncontrollable consequences for nature.
It´s also a fact, that the per capita consumption of oil has continually grown over the same period of time, worldwide.
That concerns every one of us. To look the other way when scopes of this abuse come to light is not a solution.
Putting the blame on "them" isn´t as well. But to change our own pattern of behavior can help to diminish the consumption.
They don´t care about us may be true.
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As the consequences are getting out of horizon, there are some blogs that are following the disaster on a larger scale and are providing very good observations:
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The movie can be watched in 13 parts on youtube:
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The oil rig explosion is in end of part 4.
We should not let us get caught in fear. Hollywood movies always have worked with catastrophy, fire & destruction. There is a movie genre for this and some folks like a lot watching this to feel safe in their own cuddling nests.
So in order to ensure sufficient supply for the demand, all kinds of disasters are being pictured and of course an oil rig also gives a perfect platform for constructing and colouring a disaster, related fear and enabling the "kick" about it that some like. There are maybe 20 top potential disaster scenarios that are available for any combination within any movie and that are constantly being repeated again and again.
However, there is something to this story that makes go hmmm.
But we should not forget that wherever oil is being extracted or transported, there are always severe negative impacts on environment. Oil is not clean and never will be.
Land pollution can easily be seen on google maps, e.g. for the town of Hassi Messaoud, Algeria, or searching for the results of bursted pipeline in the Russian Federation, e.g. area of Irkutsk.
Its already predicted to be a busier year then usual for hurricanes, this oil spill will spread all over the world. Get your cameras out and take as many pics as you can while you still can. Our Mother is going to be really sick for a long time!
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If this is true and this is available, well, then I have no words. Please pass this on.
Be careful for what you wish for, i guess.
You´re right - before we lay our finger on the guilty ones, we shouldn´t forget about our own role in the whole.
The fact that oil companies have a strong interest in lobbying the governments is undisputable.
As recently as 20 years ago, oil companies made deep drillings up to 3000 metres depth of the sea.
Nowadays, it´s drilled in depths of 7000 metres and more - with increasing risks and, as we presently see,
uncontrollable consequences for nature.
It´s also a fact, that the per capita consumption of oil has continually grown over the same period of time, worldwide.
That concerns every one of us. To look the other way when scopes of this abuse come to light is not a solution.
Putting the blame on "them" isn´t as well. But to change our own pattern of behavior can help to diminish the consumption.
They don´t care about us may be true.
But how much do WE care?... <!-- s
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/05/03/nasa-satellite-images-show-gulf-oil-spill-larger-florida/
They have live streams from various sources too:
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/05/20/live-video-feed-webcam-gulf-oil-spill/
http://blog.skytruth.org/
NASA following:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oilspill/index.html
ESA image gallery:
http://ew.eo.esa.int/web/guest/ig?p_p_id=31&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_31_struts_action=%2Fimage_gallery%2Fview&_31_tabs1=folders&_31_folderId=16707&_31_keywords=&_31_advancedSearch=false&_31_andOperator=true&cur2=1