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if those protestor care about it so much, they should just volunteer to clean up the shore

Got this from Trinity. Pretty funny:

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress...1850289561.jpg

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Originally Posted by Gumby (Post 6987824)

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The numbers on every front of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster keep their steady march upward to staggering proportions, and Friday was no exception.
As the oil spewed, so did more grim statistics.
Researchers have doubled estimates of how much oil has been gushing from a ruptured BP well, reporting that up to 40,000 barrels, or 1.7 million gallons, a day may have escaped for weeks.
If the latest estimate is correct, that would mean 90.1 million gallons have spewed in the 53 days since the rig exploded. That's more than eight times the amount spilled by the supertanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/gul...ex.html?hpt=T2
bp is so full of shit. when it first started they said there was 5000 barrels a day i think

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet but it helps to show how large the spill actually is WOW

http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

just nuke it, the moment the relief well doesn't work.

i dont know whats worse for the eco system oil or radiation.

The oil and the oil plumes has already messed up the chances of life being able to survive in the region quite a bit, throwing a nuke in there won't do as much damage anymore compared to a 100% habitable area. Also, the radiation will be slowed down because it will be underwater and affect just that area compared to letting the oil continue to leak and spread around the whole world.

Well, to be honest, Mother nature will sort this mess out no problem. We'r the ones that r fucked.
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stopped following the thread... but did you guys hear?

the guy thats going to solve the problem of all the oil leaked is none other than Kevin Costner... Waterworld star

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gree...-no-green.html

he owns a machine that sucks up the sludge and splits the oil and water

BP is already going to buy 36 of them

http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/im...40428_640w.jpg

damn they should really nuke it now, this thing is way out of control

wow is it really kevin costners machine? LOL

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Originally Posted by TomBox_N (Post 6988393)

Well, to be honest, Mother nature will sort this mess out no problem. We'r the ones that r fucked.
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How would Mother Nature sort this out? You really can't 'dilute' your way out of something this big.

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Originally Posted by cressydrift (Post 6988005)

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...3_23692825.jpg
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...of_mexico.html

That's just plain fucking sad.:(

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Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo (Post 6989832)

How would Mother Nature sort this out? You really can't 'dilute' your way out of something this big.

Everything will die, and mother nature will start over in a few hundred years?

I don't know if you guys watched the video I posted, but in a round about way they said basically the well can not be plugged.

Remember when they tried to put mud into it? When they said it was suppose to take a couple days and they will know, but then all of sudden they said it didn't work? Well they had a 30,000 hp pump, pumping drilling mud into the well. When they did that, the mud started to come up through the sea floor. So basically they have cracked the earths crust and compromised the integrity of the well. So it has to keep flowing or people will find out that they have done more damage.

The countdown is on till this get's into the Atlantic. Not that they would tell us if it has or not.

once it hits the atlantic we are fucked

There is a high potential that this low pressure system will turn into a tropical hurricane in the next 48hrs. Not sure when it will hit the Gulf.

http://www.stormpulse.com/

just keeps on getting worse and worse

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Originally Posted by Mananetwork (Post 6987162)

Why are people so greedy! They need unlimited wealth and more of it! How do they sleep at night knowing they are destroying the planet they live on!

yeah man , so stupid

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Originally Posted by bengy (Post 6989908)

Speaking of crap in the ocean...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_P..._Garbage_Patch

ive heard about this before and it blows my mind:eek:

U.S. Gives BP 48 Hours to Boost Containment Capacity

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June 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Coast Guard gave BP Plc 48 hours to find more capacity to contain its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after scientists and researchers doubled their estimates of the spill’s size.

BP’s efforts don’t “provide the needed collection capacity consistent with the revised flow estimates,” said Rear Admiral James A. Watson, the federal on-scene coordinator, in a letter dated June 11. It was sent to Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer for exploration and production, and was released today.

BP plans to almost triple its capacity to capture oil from its leaking well to as much as 50,000 barrels a day by mid-July, the Coast Guard said yesterday. The plan calls for two pairs of production ships and shuttle tankers to replace a cluster of vessels at the site, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government’s national incident commander for the spill, said yesterday at a press conference in Washington.

The well was releasing between 20,000 barrels and 40,000 barrels a day, twice as much as previously estimated, before BP cut away a kinked pipe on June 3, U.S. government scientists and independent researchers reported June 10. They are still studying the current leak rate. BP recovered about 7,570 barrels of oil during the first 12 hours of today.

Call With Cameron

Based on government estimates, the drillship isn’t capturing as much of the spill as BP predicted earlier this month. In a June 4 interview with CBS, Suttles said the system would be capable of capturing as much as 90 percent of the flow.

The additional ships planned next month will give BP backup pumping ability in the event that one of the vessels can’t be used, Allen said.

“The issue is for BP to move quickly,” Allen said.

In its application for the well, London-based BP told the government it was prepared for a worst-case oil spill of 250,000 barrels a day.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama, meantime, talked today and Cameron expressed his “sadness” at the “human and environmental catastrophe” caused by the spill.

“The president and prime minister agreed that BP should continue -- as they have pledged -- to work intensively to ensure that all sensible and reasonable steps are taken as rapidly as practicable to deal with the consequences of this catastrophe,” Cameron’s office in London said in an e-mailed statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aRlScD2WqctA

its about time and it only took them 50 some odd days:rolleyes:

Here you go, one cracked seafloor with oil coming. Stoping well, IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!

EDIT : This is bad... Real bad!