US to arbitrarily rape Canada to the tune of $250 million

[Flubber]

Originally posted by notyoueither


How close is too close? They do the math and figure where it could reasonably fall. Nothing is in that area. They should now extend it? What? 100 miles? 1000 miles? You never know when things could go really wrong and the thing blast off toward Chile. Might want to just stop launching rockets. On second thought, we might want to slip a few payements to ensure that Ottawa is ground zero for an evernt.

Rhetoric aside , my understanding is that the evacuation is being ordered by the companies involved . . The Hibernia platform is operated by ExxonMobil, a US corporation not gioven to irrational actions that hurt the bottom line.

The reality is that none of us on here has seen details . Some are assuming that the space guys "one in a trillion" qote is accurate while others, including myself have been assuming that the oil companies would not be considering evacuation if that was the real probability.

I just know that if the planned impact zone is within a mile, that seems awful close. If thats the zone " where it could possibly hit if everything goes wrong" then we have a different situation. But if thats the situation, why are the the oil companies so fussed?

Its a big big ocean out there and much of it is empty but theres a relatively small patch out there thats relatively busy. Aside from the Hibernia platform, there is the Terra Nova development and work being done on the Whiterose development all within less than 50 km of Hibernia. Each if these developments have exclusion zones where there don't even let shipping pass through, so caution is the norm when we are talking offshore oil development. The question is whether the oil companies are going overboard here

[Dr Strangelove]

In the 1950s the Canadians were nice enough to give us permission to detonate nuclear anti-aircraft missles in their airspace to defend opurselves if the need were to ever arise. This is peanuts by comparison.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Fifties: When Canadian men were still men!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
The Fifties: When Canadian men were still men!

...... and quiet men at that.

[KrazyHorse]

The fifties: when there was a real threat...

[Lancer]

The fifties: when real men, manly men, were born.

[DanS]

Send the ****ing thing another 20 miles east. That way everything will be cool.

If we give in to Canadian irrational fears now, such requests for accommodations would never end. Better to educate the Canadians on the actual risk and do the launch as planned.

[Krill]

How fast will the debris be travelling at when it hits? And will it hit land or sea?

[Krill]

Because if it hits the sea, what sort of splash will it make?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
...or we did, if you count all the states together.

If quality counts over qunatity, then Bolivia wins, getting impacted with an intact nuclear reactor.

[Lancer]

"Because if it hits the sea, what sort of splash will it make?"

I wonder if I could get a billion $ government grant to answer this very important and relevant question, for the good of mankind of course.

[Kuciwalker]

Was it still intact after it hit? If so, I'm impressed.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DanS


If we give in to Canadian irrational fears now, such requests for accommodations would never end. Better to educate the Canadians on the actual risk and do the launch as planned.

Irrational my ass.

A lot more rational than the people quacking "one in a trillion"

[DanS]

Have you taken a look at the risk analysis? Every launch in the US requires one. If not -- as I expect -- then I'm not going to trust your straight-from-the-ass assessment.

[KrazyHorse]

Risk analysis on anything except the crudest level in rocketry is a joke.