back in the day when we played with Legos....

When I played Legos with my brothers we frequently built "space stations". The reason why we (or at least I) did this because then we could make cool but odd looking "cars"/flying saucers, platforms because in outer space, normal rules just don't apply.

You can imagine my surprise, when I saw my first oil platform up close and discovered that our Lego-designs weren't so outlandish after all.

Especially while we were off the coast of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi there constantly were oil rigs on the distant horizon or close enough for us to see helicopters landing and taking off.

I'm used to the ocean being a dark place by night the only sources of light being the moon and the stars (and there are SO MANY when there isn't so much light pollution) and whatever lights the ship has on. Here, in the Gulf I was constantly surrounded by illuminated platforms, rigs and crew boats. In some places there were so many of them I felt like they were closing and trying to take over.

On the other hand, looking at the amount of off-shore drilling going on in the Gulf and all the leases Florida has already given out even though currently nothing is actually being built... maybe that is exactly what is going on!