BP oil leaked so far wouldn't fill Superdome

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Originally Posted by RandomGuy

This is a publicly traded company.

Reserve data is highly important to an oil companies' net worth.

Since the US subsidiary is traded on a public exchange, the reserve data is likely not quite as secret as all that, since management must discuss, per SEC regulations (HA!), things that materially affect the bottom line.

It may be proprietary, but if the reserve were larger by a factor of 100, and larger than the Saudi field, that would have been disclosed by now for those reasons. It would instantly have made BP, as the discoverer/owner of the field vastly rich, by inflating its assets.

Kind of hard for that to sneak under the radar in mysterious conspiracy land, unknown to the rest of the world, IMO. No offense.

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All they have to do us use terms like "greater than" without really disclosing what they might really know.

I've worked with proprietary information before myself. Trust me. There are ways of wording it, and as long as it isn't fraudulent, they cannot get in trouble once the truth comes out.

Everything settles on semantic differences with you. What I wanna know is, who died and made you the dictionary?

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Originally Posted by Winehole23

Everything settles on semantic differences with you. What I wanna know is, who died and made you the dictionary?

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Nobody.

As time passes, we gain wisdom and knowledge.

One would hope so.

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Originally Posted by Winehole23

According to BBC overnight, the US is in talks with Petrobras to loan them money. For what I have no idea.

Possibly related?

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supposedly to encourage exports to brazil, who will purchase a good deal of equipment from the US as a result of the loan.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/bog...ian-oil-claims

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Originally Posted by rjv

supposedly to encourage exports to brazil, who will purchase a good deal of equipment from the US as a result of the loan.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/bog...ian-oil-claims

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Circumstantial?: http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/3633...as+Subsea+Deal

Are we up to the critical "Filled-the-superdome" level?

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Originally Posted by LnGrrrR

Are we up to the critical "Filled-the-superdome" level?

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On bs you mean? The Superdome was never gonna be big enough.

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The problem was that Bazalgette wasn’t thinking big enough. His diversion project was created for a city of 2.5 million – and even that number was almost unthinkable at the time. In 2011 , however, London’s population has swelled to 8 million, and the infrastructure is simply no longer up to the task. About 50 times a year, the sewers overflow and send enough sewage into the Thames to fill up a sporting arena once a month.

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http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/201...in-the-thames/

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Originally Posted by Winehole23

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/201...in-the-thames/

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I read the Water Room by Christopher Fowler recently, it has a lot of fascinating stuff in it about the lock systems and all the underwater/lost rivers in and around London, and on top was a great murder mystery. I'm surprised the article didn't mention Dr. John Snow's efforts in tracing the cholera outbreak back to its source.

sounds like a good one. thanks for the tip, leemajors. :tu