WTF: "BP CEO says Apollo 13 moon mission ‘did not stop the space program’"

[KansasVoter]

Yes idiot, but the Apollo 13 disaster risked nothing but the three astronauts. Your damn oil leak threatens thousands of miles of coastlines. What the hell is wrong with these BP Execs?

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HAMMOND, La. - BP's chief executive has spoken out against a ban on deep-water oil exploration following the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Tony Hayward, speaking to BBC radio, said the problems which affected the Apollo 13 moon mission had not resulted in the space program being halted and plane crashes did not stop people flying.

However he also said that significant changes should be made to the oil industry as a result of the rig explosion on 20 April, which he described as a "transforming event," the BBC reported.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37164267/ns/gulf_oil_spill/

[LakeSamish706]

1. I don't know why President Obama can't declare these guy as

Enemy Combatants and send them to Guantanamo Bay forgetting about Habeas corpus.

[thereismore]

2. A new talking point? nt

[KansasVoter]

3. LOL....someone unrecommended this. Amazing!

[ClassWarrior]

4. More than one. It's gotta be the troll patrol, because I refuse to believe DUers favor...

...killing 11 people and destroying our environment.

NGU.

[backscatter712]

7. Gave a rec for you to counter the unrec patrol. :) n/t

[KansasVoter]

10. Thanks!!

[woo me with science]

5. As I recall, they SOLVED the problem for Apollo 13

rather than making excuses.

[csziggy]

14. They patched together the craft just good enough to get the men home

They had to abort the mission and it reduced the enthusiasm of the public for the Moon program - and was probably a major reason the entire space program was scaled back in the late 70s. The only further missions after Apollo 13 were the ones that the Saturn rockets were already produced and pretty much ready to go. There were additional missions on the drawing board that were scraped, if I remember correctly.

So if BP wants to use Apollo 13 as their comparison, by extrapolation we should abandon all additional offshore oil exploration and only utilize the wells that have already been proven to be productive rather than invest money into speculative and dangerous efforts. Somehow, I do not believe that is what the BP a$$hole meant to say.

[woo me with science]

19. Excellent points,

especially your second paragraph.

BP has not even "patched the craft" yet here. Until they can do that, they have no right to make this comparison.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Apollo 1 is a better parallel

The fire that killed three astronauts during a test run.

First, it was a test run that exposed the dangers in a tragic way, before an actual mission was conducted. Second, it did put much of the program on hold until the investigation was complete and corrective measures were in place.

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. I was thinking the space shuttle Challenger actually

Shitty workmanship, combined with defective materials and no safeguards = big explosion and a lot of needless death.

[hatrack]

8. Man, this guy is getting dumber by the hour . ..

Pathetic.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. You that saying, "When you're in a hole, stop digging?"

Apparently this guy has never heard it.

Shut the hell up. Only open your mouth to say, "I'm sorry."

[HughMoran]

11. Since you can't guarantee that this won't happen again, you can't drill

The end.

[AndyA]

12. That article made me so angry I couldn't finish reading it.

Did Apollo 13 destroy the Gulf? Did it devastate wildlife in a wide area?

The answer is no, you stupid fucking putz Tony Hayward.

I hope BP is put out of business over this. I hope they're forced to sell off all of their assets, and the assholes who allowed this to happen can't find jobs, and are condemned by strangers every time they set a foot out of their house.

I hope restaurants refuse to seat them. Stores refuse to sell them merchandise. Plumbers refuse to make repairs to their houses. They deserve worse.

The mess they've made persuing the almighty dollar will take years to clean up, and there will be no recovery for much of the fish, wildlife, and plants in the area.

Fuck them all. Every last one of them. This is the incident where an example needs to be made of these people. Right here, right now. No looking forward, Obama!

[KansasVoter]

13. +1000

[lunatica]

15. BP CEO is pretty full of himself isn't he?

[tomm2thumbs]

17. and this is hardly a mission with a higher purpose - this is simply profiteering

for the sake of profit, and nothing more

[ladjf]

18. What in the living Hell does the Apollo disaster have to do with

this array of criminal acts? nt

[ncteechur]

20. And no one died. 11 died here.

[KansasVoter]

22. And the astronauts knew it was a extremely risky, maybe fatal job!

[jillan]

21. Apollo 13 didn't affect an entire ecosystem. What an idiot!