Comments on: The World’s Weirdest Engineering Disaster

By: Thor

Thor — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:43:52 +0000

To Uncle B.
The US developed the middle east after the west found a use for oil. We taught them everything we know. We gave them the power and wealth that they have now. Go figure.

By: Jinx

Jinx — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:55:22 +0000

Yeah, hi. I live on Lake Peigneur. More specifically, I live in Delcambre, which is a town right on the lake. Whoever wrote the article missed a fact. A house on Jefferson Island was also sucked into the lake. The chimney is still sticking out of the water today. We usually ride past it when we’re out in our boat. It’s quite funny to see a chimney just sticking up out of the middle of a lake. =] Just thought I’d share that with ya’ll.

By: reine.de.tout

reine.de.tout — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:50:10 +0000

Uncle B – you said, “And we’re trying to show the Iraqis how to do things? Better stay home until we get it right here first.”

Do you get that this happened in 1980 – which is, like, 28 years ago? And it hasn’t happened since? Do you get that?

By: Common Sense

Common Sense — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:10:15 +0000

*Towards Yogesh Baxi comment*

Ummm… You must be commiting crimes against your own beliefs for using the computer. You are using energy, most likly produced from oil powered electricity. Before you say something hypocritical… think about it first.

By: George Bush

George Bush — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:07:46 +0000

this is something that was supposed to be controlled by Kerry

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:12:33 +0000

And we’re trying to show the Iraqis how to do things? Better stay home until we get it right here first. Cavalier comes to mind, so does stupid, inexperienced, irresponsible, shoot the engineer,and a few I can’t put in print

By: Yogesh Baxi

Yogesh Baxi — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:30:42 +0000

Are we civilised?If we call ourselves civilised then we

have to pay price for that.We have become money-minded &

we neglect nature.Ultimately we have to suffer for our

wrong doings.To live our life we must look to-wards birds

and animals around us and learn from them.

Yogesh Baxi

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:53:33 +0000

It’s not unusual that they were drilling near a salt mine. At least in the Gulf of Mexico and on the land in Louisiana (I can’t speak for other areas), oil is very commonly found by salt domes. In a few cases, those domes even get used to store excess oil or even compressed natural gas.

By: Vintagepc

Vintagepc — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:52:49 +0000

Well… I bet the guy in charge had only one thing to say… “Oops”

By: AmyOops

AmyOops — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:04:26 +0000

Cool site!