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I have no sense of scale. So, looking at the second picture, exactly how far off the calm sea is the bottom of the platform? Area dimensions? # of stories?
I see a large structure in the upper left of the picture - what is it?
How many work on the platform at one time?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The lowest main deck level is 24m from the sea (this allows for a 6m clearance of the calculated 100year storm wave).
The main deck footprint occupies 64mx40m and outwith this you do have bolted on various things like the lifeboats, flare stack etc.
The two main production decks are each 10m in height (the lower levels), above this you then have the drilling facilities and the accommodation module side by side, on top of the accommodation module there is the helideck structure.
The accommodation module is 6 stories tall. The helideck is approx 220ft from sea, and the drill derrick is approx 320ft from sea to top. The water depth is approx 350ft.
There are currently 181 people working on board, but the max is 195. It total, from seabed to highest point is approx 650ft and the structure weighs in around 36,000 tonnes. It is nailed to the seabed using 33m long piles.
The structure in the background is 5 miles away and is the fields sister platform where the oil/gas is sent. It is even bigger (sketch[^]. )
Hope this helps with a feeling of scale.
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Holy crap! (Best Carson voice) I did not know that.
/ravi
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Sailing Stoned? 
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I'm not sure I would recommend that, unless it was a dingy in a pond
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This phenomenon is the tragic result of pet rock abandonment; the poor things are just trying desperately to find their way home to the formerly loving families who adopted them in the 70s and 80s, then abandoned them in the desert when the novelty wore off. They are doomed to a future of only rejection and disillusionment, as their former owners and families obviously don't want them back. It's a pitiful sight... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Perhaps we (well...you, we have no desert round these parts) should start a Pet Rock Shelter, where families can drop off "Rocky" and "Pebbles" when they can no longer afford the sand bills, and new families can adopt the poor abandoned creatures?
I think I have the slogan: "We never melt a healthy rock down and recycle it as a lava lamp"
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I have so many rocks in my yard now that I've been trying to find new homes for them. A few thousands I've already carted off to a place called Golden Valley, which has a dire shortage, to a loving family I know there. Those lucky few are living a fulfilling life, serving as fill for gullies in the driveway caused by heavy rains. It gives them a sense of purpose, I find, and that's good for them. I'll be taking a few more bucketfuls up there today, in fact, to join the thriving colony we've established there.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Ah! I assume you have a "Mother rock" living an breeding in your yard?
Herself assures me that we had one living in the vegetable patch in the last house... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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It could be evidence of Elvis.
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I was wondering where I put that silly thing.
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I don't think that's a rock.
I think it was left by a martian dog.
Steve Wellens
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That is not jelly-filled; it is cream-filled !
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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Did it say to the Rover, "Take me to your leader"?
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Board at work and got some time on my hands, hence looking to join an open source project. ( C# )
All opinions, suggestions are welcome
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I'd strongly recommend learning cloud frameworks and android this is the future for business.
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You think Android will kill windows and Apple ? I'm all for that, but I doubt it. I'd say learn jquery mobile and be platform agnostic.
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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I'm not convinced on either part of that: I'm a cloud sceptic, because I remember what it was like in the old days with centralised processing and data and cloud feels like a less-secure version of that. I'm not convinced it's a business model that will survive so much as a fad that will pass.
And Android is good - but...it's not Windows and it's not desktop. Yet. It might be, one day, but there is a lot of investment in desktop out there and not all of it translates to mobile devices well, or vice versa. As MS has found with Win8...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Cloud - Just a new name for Outsourcing.
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Don't.
What are you interested in?
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Quote: Google Moon
I knew they pretty much owned this world but had not realized their reach was that far. Man, I should have bought stock a long time ago. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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