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I don’t see how this is a fail. A Hurricane may have knocked it over.
You fail. If there was a hurricane there would be waves.
PEAK OIL?
you are not too smart are you? you do realise that hurracines end, right? how about this- that photo was taken AFTER a hurracine knocked it over? DOUBLE FAIL- idiot…
yes… you fail because if there were a hurricane there would be waves, rain, and the sky would be gray and cloudy
aftermath, retards
i was about to say that but at least other people are smart
Yeah but it’s going down as the picture’s being taken, if it were caused by a hurricane wouldn’t it go down while the hurricane was hurricaning?
Hurricaning…lol
Maybe it just stuck that way, like if a building kind of collapsed, but not fully. Anyway, I get your point.
That would be a fail since oil rigs are constructed to endure storms
There is no such thing as an OIL rig…the rig does not oil, either it drills or it produces! And yes, they’re built to endure storms but that doesn’t mean this cannot or does not happen!
WTF they’re CALLED oil rigs.
Wow, I think you WIN the trophy for being the biggest idiot of 2009.
Wow you are retarded. It’s called an oil rig..
there goes a million dollar contract
It could also have been deliberately sunk after it’s useful life was over.
learn something please
Are you serious??? I think that may just be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!
Really? Disposal of large metal structures underwater is actually fairly common. Obsolete ships are often stripped and scuttled rather than being taken to dock for scrap. Usually touted to the public as an artificial reef, but it’s really “we’re too lazy to recycle.”
Oil drilling rigs are not mobile, so the effort needed to scrap it (or move it to another source) would be significantly greater.
Admittedly, there does seem to be a lot of equipment left, and even if it was scuttled, it would still be a fail because, judging from the calmness of the water, it’s at rest in that position, while the goal of scuttling is to send something to the bottom, not just break it.
However, the next set of comments (with the wikipedia article) indicates it was not a scuttling failure, but rather a significant industrial disaster involving explosions of unknown origin and several people dying.
Yes, this was a fail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrobras_36_Oil_Platform
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1233083.stm
Cloverfiiiiiiieeeeeeeeld!
Houston, we have a problem
More like $350 million. The picture can also be called the Leaning Oil Tower of Petrobras.
Total Fail. lol
You sunk my oil rig (from the game of battle ship)
LIKE WE DIDNT GET THE CONNECTION no need for the paraentheses thanks
you did! don’t u dare lie!
lol this would definately not happen because of a hurricane!! Nor would it be been deliberately sunk because it was past its sell by date!! If that was the case it would be dismantled and things taken off it … not to mention that this rig is a semi-submersible … they do not sink them in the middle of the sea, they take them back to the shore.
Secondly, this most likely occured because of bubbles. Yes, bubbles.
Pockets of air from where the rig is drilling can escape forming small bubbles. However, these bubbles are only small at the seabed. Once they reach the surface and the rig they are quite simply massibe pockets of air with the potential to sink any mass. The buoyancy force that once held the rig in its position is now gone and thus, starts to sink.
Trust me, i work on these things. Also, it would have cost them an absolute fortune … many many millions
no one cares about the science its just hilarious
well, now that’s where you’re wrong. personally, i like mixing my science and my humour. some brains can take life at that speed.
well said, but the average idiot could care less.
its not hilarious. people died. and they do all the time in accidents like these. my brothers friend and cowoker died a few months back when an oil rig tipped over.
If you work on these things, you should know that it can and does happen in a hurricane. Do some research and find out just how many rigs broke loose and/or sunk durican Hurricane Rita in 2005.
oh jus read the report … although the bubbles thing does have the potential to sink rigs too
ha ha … p36 do brasil \o/
Nope, this was for real. 10 people died.
Quote from a Petrobras executive not long before this accident:
“Petrobras has established new global benchmarks for the generation of exceptional shareholder wealth through an aggressive and innovative programme of cost cutting on its P36 production facility. Conventional constraints have been successfully challenged and replaced with new paradigms appropriate to the globalised corporate market place. Through an integrated network of facilitated workshops, the project successfully rejected the established constricting and negative influences of prescriptive engineering, onerous quality requirements, and outdated concepts of inspection and client control. Elimination of these unnecessary straitjackets has empowered the project’s suppliers and contractors to propose highly economical solutions, with the win-win bonus of enhanced profitability margins for themselves. The P36 platform shows the shape of things to come in the unregulated global market economy of the 21st Century.”
http://www.skyline-technologies.com/briefings/0206/briefings_160206.htm
and
http://quisquose.tripod.com/capitalism.html
parese de pemex
Oil rig goes down. Gas prices go up!
That’s not a fail, that’s us enviromentalists getting revenge against unrenewable resource fuel!
suck it, what’s unrenewable resource fuel? you’re gonna have to talk slower around here please…
By dumping hundreds of gallons of oil stored in the rig and its inner workings in the ocean? I think not…or maybe so. You tree huggers are laughably stupid.
lol. FAIL
Lol our tax dollars going under.
mayday mayday
Black Gold Down
Plataforma P36, de Petróleo…(Rio de Janeiro-Brazil)
Stargate Atlantis: Ep. 5X20 Recreation fail.
My comment -> readyness fail
Bluthton?
colorful…
They sink oil rigs all the time. Same thing with ships, it builds habitats.
Environmentalist WIN
wouldn’t wanna be up the stick when that thing bucked, jesus.
fufufufufufufu
sex sex sex
3,2,1…
end of the oil as we know it…and i’m feeling fine!
there go’s 1million bucks a month
*Sing to tune of London Bridge Is Going Down*
Oh, fail rig is going down, going down, Fail Rig is going down, my fair moron. No one really knows why, knows why. No one really knows why, my fair moron. So this ends the song, ends the song. This ends the song, my fairrrrr MORON! =D
hey that one guy that said thAT it wuz bubbles wuz right cuz u can the bubbles undaneath.
theres no hurricanes in brazil lol.
they had an explosion in one of the legs and the 3 other legs supported the entire tower for days.. and after they took all the oil out of it they just left it there since the insurence covered everything.
thought its just the way they built things
this is a metaphor for the american economy.
this is really not funny! This only ends in polluting the sea with tons of oil!!!
OH…No………
bp has it!!!
This is TERRIBLE. People could have DIED. Stop laughing at matters like this. It’s not cool.
you comment fail my friend
so this is where the bottom of the gene pool is…referring to this thread.
at least it’s not as bad as the BP deepwater horizon incident
BP?
OH…No OH…No