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Having two pipelines certainly would lessen the impact of potential accidents, terrorism, etc.  Do you have an extra $24B lying around that couldn't be spent elsewhere?

So maybe the best solution is to go east from Inuvik to Prudhoe, and then south along the current Alaska pipeline to Fairbanks, and then down the Alaska Highway to meet up with the current pipeline network.  My point is that constructing two large parallel natural gas pipelines (thousands of...

The experimental LNG plant in Kenai, Alaska has had so many problems it would be foolish to depend on that technology for natural gas delivery when a simple pipeline will do.  If we were ignoring politics altogether, the best engineering solution (and by far the cheapest) would have the pipeline...

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And what was he supposed to do- admit that he's an arrogant wanker that has lost the support of his constituents, and fall on his sword?  He's working on staying in power, why should doing the right thing get in the way?

For a tract of land the size of ANWR, a couple of seismic shots and one exploration well do not constitute much of a comprehensive survey.  In fact we don't even know if there's oil there.  We know from the seismic information that there are some interesting geological traps, which may hold...

98.7% is an awfully precise approximation, and it's total hogwash, unless you count the most cursory look as a survey.  Why do you think American politicians are dying to start drilling in ANWR, off the coasts of Florida, Virginia, etc.?  Because they're sedimentary basins which have not been...

The "artillery piece" was in fact a derelict Soviet tank that the PPCLI were firing on.  The upwards ricochets off the tank were what Schmidt mistook for artillery firing at him.  IIRC, he also claimed that the artillery was tracking him...

That's an amazingly ridiculous statement.   There's exploration going on all over the world (including in Saudi Arabia).   If world production is at 100% capacity, how did we manage to produce more oil today than we did yesterday, and more oil this month than last month?   Rightly or wrongly...

The real disheartening thing for me about watching this collective hissy fit from inside France, is the pathetic level of debate involved.  There has been quite a bit of airtime and ink spent on the question of Turkey's role in the EU (which has absolutely nothing to do with the constitution)...

In the Int cell, we used to use DEET to clean the maps of all symbols drawn with permanent marker.  Stuff worked much better than alcohol.

One other point about adding a Dom Ops bar to the SSM that no one has brought up yet: You need 6 months cumulative service to be eligible.  Guys that went up to Alert to do GD's for the summer aren't eligible for the SSM until they spend a few more months up there.  I knew a guy who had spent 5...

Or the Ocean Ranger?  Or the Quebec bridge?  Giant Mine?  Moose River Mine?  That nasty bus crash that killed a few schoolchildren? To be blunt, no.  The math doesn't work that way.  The Halifax explosion was a terrible disaster, but it was an accident.  The Montreal Massacre was a...

I was in Res EW for 5 years in the mid 90's.  In that time, we probably had about a dozen reg force pers "retire" into the reserves and start to parade with us.  Only a couple of them lasted more than a year.  Whatever they were looking for after their time in the regs, they didn't find it with...

U-234? I seem to remember a History Channel program I saw a few years ago about this boat, which was carrying U-235 (the nuclear fuel, not the submarine) to Japan at war's end (the sailors laughed because the SS came on board with crates that were labelled for the wrong boat...)  They didn't...

Then why do both parties keep putting these candidates out there (Kerry, Dole, and Mondale in the last 20 years)? Another interpretation of this thread's title: Does Barack Obama save his party from left-wing lunacy and return the Democrats to an inclusive party of the center?  For many of the...

You are quite right that the influence of a professor and peers can have a profound impact on your learning.  If you think that studying new material after your degree occurs alone in the recesses of a public library, then you need to get out more.  In a professional environment, you are...

Actually, when I was in 3rd year, I performed an experiment on the lifetime of cosmic ray muons, which proved the time dilation aspects of particles moving at near light speeds. The bending of light in gravity fields (which is predicted by General Relativity, and is impossible in Newtonian...

If you were looking to hire a regular force Intelligence Officer, would you rather have: a) a reservist Lt/Capt who had worked a lot of evenings and weekends while holding down a regular civvie job, or b) a reg force Lt/Capt who has been working with the military full time for several years...

I've been to east LA and Detroit.  I've also been to Kazakhstan and Russia, and the Americans come out on top in terms of quality of life.  And the former Soviets have many Africans beat by a country mile.  You're out to lunch.