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Author Topic: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea - One Year Later  (Read 110507 times)

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #840 on: July 08, 2010, 04:08:10 am »
Oh.

Oh Shit.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #841 on: July 08, 2010, 04:15:56 am »
Quote from: Siquo on July 08, 2010, 04:05:04 am
Oil spill Oil schmill.

It might be the End of the World (As We Know It (and I feel fine)).

I caught part of the Rachel Maddow show a couple weeks ago.  She was putting up little oil patches on a map of the US to show where oil spills had occurred in the last decade.  The later guests commented that it looked like the weather reports from some horrible Road Warrior future (their words).

As much as I'd love to live in crazy dystopia action-movie world, watching the relative normalcy of the 20th century sink under a cloud of oily methane is a pretty bummer way to watch it happen.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #842 on: July 08, 2010, 04:18:53 am »
Meh, I'm an ocean away, front row seats without the immediate discomfort of death.

I'll probably die in the toxic fallout, but at least I got to see it all :)
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #843 on: July 08, 2010, 07:41:17 am »
While it is a terribly high pressure, 40,000 PSI is still manageable.  Even the tools we DON'T call high pressure tools are rated at being able to withstand 50,000.

I'd love to think about the horrid scenarios possible,  but the DWH is really more of a world dies with a whimper instead of a bang thing.
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« Reply #844 on: July 08, 2010, 07:47:58 am »
And it seems they try to keep journalist out. http://www.csindy.com/colorado/lowdown/Content?oid=1761206
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #845 on: July 08, 2010, 08:53:03 am »
 This just keeps getting ~better and ~better. I wonder how many of the people here would be as stupid if they were in the same situation.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #846 on: July 08, 2010, 09:41:10 am »
I dunno, looking at other articles around the internet, only that one seems to be predicting game over man game over.  Most of the other ones are saying a low probability of major tidal waves taking out most of the gulf coast.  Still bad, but not apocalyptic.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #847 on: July 08, 2010, 09:55:31 am »
I wonder if the other platform would be able to take it or if they will sink too. An interesting chain reaction is possible.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #848 on: July 08, 2010, 12:21:39 pm »
Everything in the area would sink because the methane bubbles would disrupt buoyancy.  Even if it didn't sink, everyone in the area would suffocate when the gas broke the surface
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #849 on: July 08, 2010, 12:54:43 pm »
OMG That must be why they had to take that cap off!  A robot didn't bump into it at all!  They realised it was causing the methane buildup to accellerate and had to take it back off to try to release the pressure to try and buy time!  Everybody evacuate the gulf coast!  I'm getting out of Florida!  We are all doomed! Stockpile food and water! The end is near!  Cancel your trip to the gulf states!  It could happen ANY DAY NOW!

...Or it could just be more fear mongering killing the Florida tourism industry even more.  Not like the state depends on that or anything.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #850 on: July 08, 2010, 01:02:55 pm »
We're all going to die like we always have been for the past several thousand years! Sure, every single world ending event that was predicted have all failed to happen and all the ones now have factors that raise serious doubts, but we are still all going to die!
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #851 on: July 08, 2010, 02:51:22 pm »
Quote from: Phmcw on July 08, 2010, 07:47:58 am
And it seems they try to keep journalist out. http://www.csindy.com/colorado/lowdown/Content?oid=1761206
Ah, media blackout. 

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #852 on: July 08, 2010, 08:59:47 pm »
as a resident of tourist-friendly, oil-rig-less New England, I say, OMFGWTFFBBFQWe'realldoomed! AAAAAH! Stay away from the gulf coast!

And if you happen to be vacationing this summer, don't forget to try the lovely lakes of New Hampshire, the charming seacoast of Cape Cod, or the beautiful hills of southern Vermont. There's this one really great diner on route seven just north of where it crosses route nine, which serves the most delicious breakfasts...
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #853 on: July 08, 2010, 09:07:12 pm »
No oil spills here in Ohio. Just the occasional !!rivers!!
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« Reply #854 on: July 08, 2010, 09:46:35 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on July 08, 2010, 04:15:56 am
Quote from: Siquo on July 08, 2010, 04:05:04 am
Oil spill Oil schmill.

It might be the End of the World (As We Know It (and I feel fine)).

I caught part of the Rachel Maddow show a couple weeks ago.  She was putting up little oil patches on a map of the US to show where oil spills had occurred in the last decade.  The later guests commented that it looked like the weather reports from some horrible Road Warrior future (their words).

As much as I'd love to live in crazy dystopia action-movie world, watching the relative normalcy of the 20th century sink under a cloud of oily methane is a pretty bummer way to watch it happen.

Theres a bit too much 'Oh Halp! The sky is falling!!!!!!!11!!!1!11!1' in that article to be really believeable. When it hits mainstream news, maybe I'll believe it.
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