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Deepwater Horizon
2016 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Peter Berg
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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A janitor can't program his cleaning bots without it.
The Deepwater Horizon movie clips show workers arguing over all the things that have failed diagnostics testing, and how important that is or isn't. They're interacting with machinery 5.6km down.
Developed-world underground miners are already using heavy machinery that has to conform a cut to a specific 3d model which is adapted to the seam and the structural engineering of the tunnel. Open pit mines have similar structural concerns, but also environmental remediation issues. The trucks making that long journey down into the pit are all going robotic now.
An infantry unit in 2025 that hasn't already won or lost on overwhelming air superiority, is rapidly adapting drones to help it fight.
If you aren't making software, you're at least using software that somebody else created, you need to understand the problems and strengths of a software aided approach (as opposed to an apprentice aided approach, or a mechanically aided approach) and you're in a (hopefully) collaborative relationship to make that software better.
Seconded.
Add to that the (insane?) early SIOP, a plan for an all-out attack on the USSR with waves of nuke-armed strategic bombers.
As for the Damascus accident, I'd love to watch a high-budget movie about it (preferably on the level of "Deepwater Horizon", with Mark Wahlberg to boot).
Mauritius wants a word with you. :)
And there’s been a movie made on this little BP incident:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
Thats just two out of many.
Honestly, IMO, the “entire pipeline” puts EV so far ahead it’s ridiculous.
Without talking about what the ICE exhaust pollution is doing to the bodies and brains of people in dense urban environments.
The paywall prevents me from finding out the economist's theory, but I can put forth my own.
The two movies Sully and Deepwater Horizon, which both came out in 2016, are near mirror images of each other in many ways.
Sully is partly the story about a pilot who has spent his entire career landing failing airplanes, effectively training him to do it again with higher stakes, where its never happened before. But its also the story of all of the regulation that has prevented all commercial aviation disasters since 2001. Sully may stay calm under pressure, but he's standing on the shoulders of giants. The flight attendants stick to their training. The port authority and the captains of the boats that rescue all of the passengers stick to their training. The NTSB even sticks to their training in certain ways. Plans were set forth, and followed. Even at the end of the movie, it is made clear that the NTSB's flaw was to control for all of the time constraints Sullenberger faced, all of the stress, and hid the fact that it was something like the 20th attempt in the simulator that was the first successful landing.
Deepwater horizon is the story about a company that has successfully captured their regulatory framework. There was inadequate training, inadequate safety measures, inadequate equipment to properly measure the specifics of the well. And so when the shit hits the fan, does everyone stay calm and exercise the plan to effect their continued survival? Nope, they all panic, and they nearly all die.
Planes and Trains are far safer than automobiles because of ratio of humans to engines.
i wouldn't be able to tell that the chair in the first few seconds of this isn't real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nKb9hRYbPA
on the blue ray dvd of pixar's finding dory, closely examine the sand and water (ignore the living creatures) in the first few minutes of the short film piper. you know a-priori it's not real, but i'd like to hear people describe what they think looks off with the environments (not the creatures). try to normalize that with the intent of a director trying to craft an identical ambiance from a recorded video (color temperatures may be made warmer in post, increased saturation, more vignetting, etc).
in big hollywood vfx house showreels, there's a lot that's obviously cg (again, we're still off on creatures), but what about the environments within? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnfdpgDDLc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SabPuZ5coKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i0XuA9KLEo
in particular, i don't think people watching that night-time sequence of deepwater horizon in theaters would identify it as entirely computer generated.
>Drilling rigs don't suck oil out of the ground, they drill a hole...
One of the clever pieces of writing/directing in Deepwater Horizon was at the beginning when the daughter of the character played by Mark Wahlberg did the thing with the coke can to demonstrate how an oil well worked (or didn't).
IMO, it was a brilliant piece of non-exposition exposition, whether or not a lot of the audience really picked up on it. The basic concept was pretty important to the incidents of the movie but to explain it during the normal course of the movie would have been really tough to make seem natural. (I can't come up with a great CS example off the top of my head, but it would be like two programmers making a statement like 'You know, we have to remember that these programs are actually translated into 0s and 1s.')