That's a cool thing about FreeRepublic -- I'm always learning something here.
Posted on 05/27/2017 6:13:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The floor of the Gulf of Mexico is one of the most geologically interesting stretches of the Earth’s surface. The gulf’s peculiar history gave rise to a landscape riddled with domes, pockmarks, canyons, faults, and channels — all revealed in more detail than ever before by a new 1.4 billion-pixel map.
This striking view of the ocean floor off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas was created by a government agency you’ve likely never heard of called the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The bureau’s job is to manage exploration and development of the country’s offshore mineral and energy resources. Consequently it has access to all the survey data that private companies collect.
The exploration companies use 3-D seismic imaging to map areas of the Gulf they are interested in. This involves towing high-powered underwater air guns behind a ship. When the guns fire, they create sound waves that travel down and are reflected back up by the sea floor. Lines of underwater microphones pulled along the surface behind the ship record how long it takes the reflected waves to reach them, data that can then be translated into topography.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
BOEM is recent and before BOEM it was called Minerals Management Service(MMS) and that single agency did both the leasing and the collecting of the royalties. When Bush was prez some of the MMS employees got caught messing around with employees of the oil companies. So they split MMS into two with one doing the leasing(OEMM) and one collecting the money(MRM).
All this dates back to the 50s with the birth of offshore drilling and the Submerged Land Act of 1954 when congress gave the Sec of Interior the authority to manage the continental shelf.
If you have never heard of this you are dumber than a dog turd.
A virtual constellation of bureaucracies, many of whom work in areas that overlap and often duplicate the work of other agencies. These redundancies are very expensive and wasteful.<<
Not to mention the fact that when “everybody” works for the govt. in some way it’s called COMMUNISIAM....
If you have never heard of this you are dumber than a dog turd.
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Your factual comments contributed to the thread but your off handed emotional comment was totally unnecessary. What do you expect to accomplish by making crude and insulting comments like this?
Not sharp enough to show all the GUNS lost in the FReepers boating accidents!
So fast the hounds couldn’t catch them.
That's a cool thing about FreeRepublic -- I'm always learning something here.
An angled impact crater?
Instead of calling you dumber than dog shit, I could have called you a low information voter.
20 years ago they said people would become better informed if they used the internet and that was true for some people but not for all people because some people accumulated in certain places for chit chat and collective misinformation.
You have been on the internet at least 17 years and have never taken the time to learn about offshore drilling.
You are pitifully and poorly informed to the point that you are dumber than a dog turd.
Which means that it is easy for the politicians to fool you.
Offshore drilling is the exception and not the rule because most states don't allow offshore drilling because they don't make a dime of royalty but a spill from offshore drilling can destroy that state's coastal economy.
Probably a homing beacon/target for the trillion dollar asteroid due to be towed to Earth.../s
Nice map!
Out of curiosity where is the DeSoto Canyon? I just can’t figure that out!!
Wanna really piss off a psychologist ? They made me take one of those tests when I was about 14. I said it looks like an ink blot. The psych would turn redder and redder with each card as I continued to answer the same. They knew I had to be a Conservative.
It looks like a random splattering of ink. No wait... there’s Marlin Monroe dancing with JFK.
Marilyn, whatever
I like Marlin better. ;-D
Note: this topic is from . Thanks BenLurkin.
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Potsdam Gravity Potato keyword:
“Wanna really piss off a psychologist ? They made me take one of those tests when I was about 14. I said it looks like an ink blot. The psych would turn redder and redder with each card as I continued to answer the same. They knew I had to be a Conservative.”
I made the huge mistake huge mistake of quoting a Kurt Vonnegut character once when a psychologist asked me if I had any friends for a medical exam to get a prescription for a pain killer. My reply was “I had a friend once. His name was Stony Stephenson. We served in the army of Mars together. I killed him.”
She’d never read that particular book and didn’t understand why I was laughing.
You’d think in dealing with crazy people, they’d have more of a sense of humor about it.
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