Interestingly enough the US imported more in 2012 from the Persian Gulf. We've mostly trimmed the amount of business we do with nations like Mexico, Nigeria, and Brazil, in response to our new gains in supply. This is just crude oil, a substantial part of US demand is met by imported petroleum products too, of course. U.S. Crude Oil Imports Mexico is due to begin declining in production in the next few years, and the Trans Alaska Pipeline may have to be shut down soon as well - this is more of a wildcard, estimates of how low the flow through can go before it becomes unprofitable to operate vary a great deal - so new sources of supply are going to be needed, even with US demand having peaked and declining slowly owing to less driving/more efficient new vehicles/the slow inroads made by EVs removing demand for gasoline entirely.
I was under the impression Blockbuster was still around, but had become a museum. In fact, they should take that idea into consideration...maybe they could get Dennis Duffy to be a tour guide and sell some beepers on the side.
No, the Wilmington Field (pdf) in Long Beach CA apparently generated sharp quakes in the late 40s, while the oil being extracted caused ground subsidence, trashing all sorts of man made structures in the process.
This is a common discussion, but fortunately in the oil industry it won't happen for a long time. The oil industry is notoriously slow-moving. The executives do not like new tech. New tech is untested, unproven.
When I was a kid in the 80s I remember reading about how many of the advancements in deepwater production or seismic imaging then common in the fossil fuel industry would have been considered science fiction in the 50s. It's always been my (admittedly casual) observation that the FF business is more cutting edge in testing out new techniques than many other sectors of industry - perhaps not as much as the computer sector, much more so than the automotive.
This doesn't really apply to on the ground occupations like roughnecks as it'll be ages before we can deploy bots that can climb gantries etc.
To my knowledge, the new surgical techniques were invented to reduce operation's side-effects (less invasive surgery, less anesthetics, less hospital recovery). It also reduces the cost of an operation.
I found no relation with Jehovah witnesses, so I'm curious to listen where you heard about this ?
I've been wondering for a while if there couldn't just be some coarseness in these measurements and that most of these exoplanets they've detected will just turn out to be chimerical. NOTE: This is just curiosity on my behalf, haven't actually delved into the data, aren't capable of doing so really. But I'd like to know if anyone else has delved into this - which is undoubtedly the case - and if there aren't any solid arguments that many of these detected extrasolar bodies might someday prove to be actually non-existent.
Here's a rather acerbic anecdote about the original BSG from SF writer Mike Resnick, may be of interest, or amusement, or:
I did a Battlestar: Galactica novelization back in 1980. To this day I have never seen an episode of the show. I hope to go to my grave without ever learning what a Cylon is, and based on the script I was given I can't imagine why the show lasted all the way to the first commercial break of the first episode without being cancelled. There were more science errors, English errors, and plot errors than you would think anyone could possibly put into a 65-page teleplay. I tried Bob Hoskins' method: just transfer the dialog (after you convert it into something resembling conversational English), put in the descriptions, fix what laughably passes for logic, and presto, the book is done. But it didn't work that way; when I hit page 25 of a 275-page manuscript I was already on page 33 of a 65-page script. I wrote the book in four days, on the reasonable assumption that if I took any longer my brain would turn to porridge and run out my ears. A week later I had so thoroughly put the whole thing out of my mind that I couldn't have told you a single incident that was in the book. I knew the readers would hate it as much as I did, and that would be the end of my career as a science fiction writer.
Sigh --- of course it became my bestselling book.
From the book "The Business of Science Fiction", by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg.
Oh, the bureaucrats I'm familiar with only appear singly, or perhaps in pairs in a pinch. Can't recall them slobbering, ever. Moving slowly, sure. Mindless - give you that. Well, one sort of mind. But otherwise, don't see it. "Hey Peter, what's happening. We need to talk about your TPS reports. That, and your BRAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNS!"
SyFy Original Pictures Presents Metal Mountain Corin Nemec / Kellie Brothersen / Barry Corbin Corin Nemec is 16th century conquistador Hernan Cortes, and Barry Corbin is a US Senator running for President of the United States. Their experiment, while noble, has gone terribly, terribly wrong. Also starring Kellie Brothersen as a very large android, can they stop the alien menace that has taken over our world?
Maybe not the best example as I'll watch anything with Barry Corbin, he rocks. "Beefed up? How about screwed up?"
One interesting factoid I learned from David E Hoffman's book The Dead Hand was that, according to Reagan's biography, the only time the Gipper mentioned being depressed in his diaries was after watching The Day After. Dunno if he or Iron Maggie caught Threads, that probably would have brought the whole Cold War to an abrupt stop. That flick is about as grim as can be imagined. Babby kom!
TDA really apparently did a number on Reagan, though - before that he was hawkish and then some, albeit realizing that a wind down of the Cold War in some fashion or another was essential; but afterwards he really began to take more of a direct approach to curtailing weapons stockpiles and the like.
Hoffman's book is highly recommended for its fright value, too - towards the end it has accounts from the late 90s of Russian weapons grade plutonium stockpiles being held behind doors sealed shut with "Civil War" class bolts and locks...
Albini also used to front Big Black, who, to the surprise of those who now consider him anti-technology, used a drum machine instead of a flesh-and-blood percussionist.
OPHELIA: I think nothing, my lord. Translation: I'd rather not keep talking about this and I can't acknowledge your sexual innuendo because that would suggest that I, an unmarried maid, know a little too much about sex.
HAMLET: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Translation: In Shakespeare's time, "nothing" was another slang word for female genitalia.
Thanks, will check those out. There are a ton of interesting podcasts out there of course. Haven't turned on the radio in some years now except to try and get traffic reports.
I make MP3s of online discussions/articles/books/etc with TTS software. Infinitely more interesting than talk radio, ugh. Am listening to Aftermath by Charles Sheffield at the moment, only a few minutes in and a fascinating listen. Haven't crashed yet.
Was listening to a discussion of bans on cell phone while driving and someone was talking about observing other drivers - which I began to do for a second...while still moving...bad idea!
Thanks - excellent viewing. Haircut 100 and Men Without Hats add to the horror! It's helpfully up on YouTube. TPB is 3 seeders and 700 mb so that could take a while to say the least.
I started this whole helihunting thing making a joking Sarah Palin ref; didn't realize it was so popular that I'd be taken wholly seriously. Taking shots at game from a helicopter, that's a bit overkill innit?
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Interestingly enough the US imported more in 2012 from the Persian Gulf. We've mostly trimmed the amount of business we do with nations like Mexico, Nigeria, and Brazil, in response to our new gains in supply. This is just crude oil, a substantial part of US demand is met by imported petroleum products too, of course. U.S. Crude Oil Imports Mexico is due to begin declining in production in the next few years, and the Trans Alaska Pipeline may have to be shut down soon as well - this is more of a wildcard, estimates of how low the flow through can go before it becomes unprofitable to operate vary a great deal - so new sources of supply are going to be needed, even with US demand having peaked and declining slowly owing to less driving/more efficient new vehicles/the slow inroads made by EVs removing demand for gasoline entirely.
This has a few more: Found: A never-before-seen asteroid with six comet-like tails - latimes.com
I was under the impression Blockbuster was still around, but had become a museum. In fact, they should take that idea into consideration...maybe they could get Dennis Duffy to be a tour guide and sell some beepers on the side.
No, the Wilmington Field (pdf) in Long Beach CA apparently generated sharp quakes in the late 40s, while the oil being extracted caused ground subsidence, trashing all sorts of man made structures in the process.
This is a common discussion, but fortunately in the oil industry it won't happen for a long time. The oil industry is notoriously slow-moving. The executives do not like new tech. New tech is untested, unproven.
When I was a kid in the 80s I remember reading about how many of the advancements in deepwater production or seismic imaging then common in the fossil fuel industry would have been considered science fiction in the 50s. It's always been my (admittedly casual) observation that the FF business is more cutting edge in testing out new techniques than many other sectors of industry - perhaps not as much as the computer sector, much more so than the automotive.
This doesn't really apply to on the ground occupations like roughnecks as it'll be ages before we can deploy bots that can climb gantries etc.
Citation needed !
To my knowledge, the new surgical techniques were invented to reduce operation's side-effects (less invasive surgery, less anesthetics, less hospital recovery).
It also reduces the cost of an operation.
I found no relation with Jehovah witnesses, so I'm curious to listen where you heard about this ?
I read about it in Awake!
I've been wondering for a while if there couldn't just be some coarseness in these measurements and that most of these exoplanets they've detected will just turn out to be chimerical. NOTE: This is just curiosity on my behalf, haven't actually delved into the data, aren't capable of doing so really. But I'd like to know if anyone else has delved into this - which is undoubtedly the case - and if there aren't any solid arguments that many of these detected extrasolar bodies might someday prove to be actually non-existent.
Here's a rather acerbic anecdote about the original BSG from SF writer Mike Resnick, may be of interest, or amusement, or:
From the book "The Business of Science Fiction", by Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg.
This evidence is compelling, but let's not...
[sunglasses]
Get ahead of ourselves.
[air boat, YAHHHHHHHHHHHH!]
More like kablammmmmmmmmmmm. And Walter White shows that all you need is a squeegee.
Get him one with an app that will. Give instruction on how to avoid creating. Sentence fragments. ;)
Oh, the bureaucrats I'm familiar with only appear singly, or perhaps in pairs in a pinch. Can't recall them slobbering, ever. Moving slowly, sure. Mindless - give you that. Well, one sort of mind. But otherwise, don't see it. "Hey Peter, what's happening. We need to talk about your TPS reports. That, and your BRAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNS!"
Terrible ideas at the refresh of a page: TRHOnline.com - SyFy/Sci Fi Channel Original Movie Generator
Maybe not the best example as I'll watch anything with Barry Corbin, he rocks. "Beefed up? How about screwed up?"
One interesting factoid I learned from David E Hoffman's book The Dead Hand was that, according to Reagan's biography, the only time the Gipper mentioned being depressed in his diaries was after watching The Day After. Dunno if he or Iron Maggie caught Threads, that probably would have brought the whole Cold War to an abrupt stop. That flick is about as grim as can be imagined. Babby kom!
TDA really apparently did a number on Reagan, though - before that he was hawkish and then some, albeit realizing that a wind down of the Cold War in some fashion or another was essential; but afterwards he really began to take more of a direct approach to curtailing weapons stockpiles and the like.
Hoffman's book is highly recommended for its fright value, too - towards the end it has accounts from the late 90s of Russian weapons grade plutonium stockpiles being held behind doors sealed shut with "Civil War" class bolts and locks...
Albini also used to front Big Black, who, to the surprise of those who now consider him anti-technology, used a drum machine instead of a flesh-and-blood percussionist.
Tonight, on the SyFi channel - Roboctopus!
Shouldn't it be Hortons Tim?
I'm ok, I'm just thinking, you know? Why don't you get me a Pepsi?
These "Hyperloop" ideas have been bouncing around since at least the 1850s. They are nothing new.
FTFY.
Pneumatic Mail, Part 1 - Dieselpunks
Don't go there, man.
Judy Garland: No Love, No Nothin'
Billy Preston - Nothing from nothing
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U
Now, these fellows set a Blake poem to music so they may have been hip to this...nega entendre, I think you'd call it:
The Fugs - Nothing
There's more to it than the obvious one in that scene: Hamlet Steaminess Rating
OPHELIA: I think nothing, my lord.
Translation: I'd rather not keep talking about this and I can't acknowledge your sexual innuendo because that would suggest that I, an unmarried maid, know a little too much about sex.
HAMLET: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Translation: In Shakespeare's time, "nothing" was another slang word for female genitalia.
Thanks, will check those out. There are a ton of interesting podcasts out there of course. Haven't turned on the radio in some years now except to try and get traffic reports.
I make MP3s of online discussions/articles/books/etc with TTS software. Infinitely more interesting than talk radio, ugh. Am listening to Aftermath by Charles Sheffield at the moment, only a few minutes in and a fascinating listen. Haven't crashed yet.
Was listening to a discussion of bans on cell phone while driving and someone was talking about observing other drivers - which I began to do for a second...while still moving...bad idea!
Thanks - excellent viewing. Haircut 100 and Men Without Hats add to the horror! It's helpfully up on YouTube. TPB is 3 seeders and 700 mb so that could take a while to say the least.
I started this whole helihunting thing making a joking Sarah Palin ref; didn't realize it was so popular that I'd be taken wholly seriously. Taking shots at game from a helicopter, that's a bit overkill innit?