...in which timing is everything. Drilling industries have always avoided non-contiguous areas (or so say the mission statements and, presumably, common sense), but this doesn't really address the issue I'm raising here. Environmentally speaking, the proverbial chicken may be coming home to roost.
Tens of hundreds of billions of gallons of liquid oil depletion all over the planet, for over a century, may have created weight imbalances to limited areas of the earth’s tectonics, by leaving formerly filled areas essentially empty of their natural liquid buffers and ballast. Long abandoned oil wells all around the planet may now be turning into sink holes due to new or long developing stresses (i.e. magnetic pole shift, tectonic movement, support displacement).
Deep sea drilling may have created especially vulnerable areas that have to maintain ocean weight without the 'ballast' necessary to counteract the pressure. This may also include other massively epic heavy resource removal, but liquid weight would be an unquestionably leading contender based on simple physics and my thoroughly imaginative assumption.
Given the recent horrendous BP situation in the Gulf, I'm beginning to wonder if the story about Tampa airport having shifted ten degrees is in some way connected to this as well as the natural magnetic changes. No other airport or location has recently gone to the extent of shutting down for corrections. The FAA says they will be working on airports across the country as time goes on, but the fact that Florida seems to be the starting point (Eastern Florida airports were adjusted last year), leaves me more than ponderous.
I am totally not interested in the end times-esoteric-apocalyptic-conspiratorial-alien-second coming-Howdy Doody did it crap that's out there, but I found this idea interesting in a genuinely curious way.
“If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.” –Thomas Hardy 1887
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