> Deep sea drilling, while an important part of world production, is not essential, and certainly in no way necessary for spaceflight. I never said that it was

> Deep sea drilling, while an important part of world production, is not essential, and certainly in no way necessary for spaceflight. I never said that it was. The relevance is that spaceflight has had disasters. And, thanks for bringing up plane crashes. Spaceflight has killed less than 100 people. Plane flight kills that many every month or so, with incidents as much as 300 people. > This looks like it's going to impact most of the gulf coast, with significant losses to food industries. You mean like the Exxon Valdez, which actually didn't despite all the predictions? Talk about crying wolf....