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[alway]

I thought oil would make it worse since it would cause more heat to be absorbed at the surface. For it to actually prevent evaporation it would probably need to be several centimeters thick.

And that would be assuming calm seas; even with that much oil, if the seas were choppy, kinda like if it were in a tropical storm, it wouldn't prevent evaporation. Oh, and BP stock is now down to less than 27. Hehehe.

[Greiger]

What most of the local weather folks seem to say is that it would theoretically impede the formation of tropical systems, but if a tropical system is already more or less formed and enters the area of the slick it probably won't have an adverse effect on the storm itself one way or the other.

Of course it's the news, so everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt. But it's a Florida news station, and I like to think we see enough hurricanes and things for our weathermen to know what they are talking about.

[LordMelvin]

What most of the local weather folks seem to say is that it would theoretically impede the formation of tropical systems, but if a tropical system is already more or less formed and enters the area of the slick it probably won't have an adverse effect on the storm itself...[snip]

Great! That'll fix the one huge storm a year that does spontaneously form in the gulf. Now what do we do about the thirty named storms we'll be seeing come in off the Atlantic?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Cracked suggests we declare war on BP: http://www.cracked.com/article_18614_6-objective-reasons-us-army-should-invade-bp.html

Is it bad when Cracked's suggestions begin to sound reasonable?

[Taco Dan]

I don't think so... They do sound pretty reasonable...

[Aklyon]

They do sound pretty reasonable...

...and when your screw-up is visible from space we're fairly sure Captain Planet's allowed to start existing and kicking your ass. Never mind the country whose coast you just turned into the world's worst slip'n'slide.

thats sounds reasonable to me.

[Zangi]

Cracked had always sounded reasonable.

Obama should make this official US policy.

Fuck up the environment (in the US) enough and be invaded.

[Jreengus]

How exactly do you invade a company? Storm it's offices?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yes, then throw the executives to the people. Use all of the corporate giant's money to fund a massive cleanup operation. This will scare the shit out of the surviving oil companies.

[Taco Dan]

Yuhs!
I say we make a petition!

[Aklyon]

Yuhs!
I say we make a petition!

Nuhs!
That never works online!

[nenjin]

The Cracked article was gold all around...but this really resonated with me.

His survival is living proof that every reporter he talks to has been castrated--there is no other way he could remain unbeaten-to-death. And if you meet one of those reporters, feel free to take his wallet and sleep with his wife, he won't object, she'll actively thank you and even if you're a girl you're more man than she's used to.

The media has done a terrible job covering the oil spill. And by covering, I mean vocally calling out BP and the government on the sheer ridiculousness and criminality of what they've done. They should be in the White House Press Briefing room every day going "So, how many egregious safety violations does it take by a major corporation in the U.S., and how many indications that they don't take our outrage seriously does it take, before the U.S government prosecutes said corporation?"

Every day, they should be asking that. The media acts as though having a live cam watching the oil spill is the peak of their job. Bull****. They have more knowledge and opportunity to seek justice in this instance than anyone else, by putting pressure on the Obama Administration every chance they get, so this doesn't slip by in America's collective memory of ways we've been ****ed. 

[AtomicPaperclip]

I'd trust the company being held financially responsible to fix it over, say, the government.

Can someone give me an update? I haven't been watching the news lately and I don't wanna search the thread.

[Aqizzar]

I'd trust the company being held financially responsible to fix it over, say, the government.

And you know whose job it is to make them financially responsible?  The government's, that's whose.  It's a little silly how often people need to be reminded of that.

Can someone give me an update? I haven't been watching the news lately and I don't wanna search the thread.

Last I heard, they found out the riser pipe is starting to lean over, then a robot crashed into it, so the containment stray they were using to siphon off some oil is unplugged, then some gas burped out of the pipe while they were trying to clog it again.  Now it's back up to its peak spill.  Like, somewhere approaching 100000 barrels a day.  I swear, either it's getting bigger all the time, or BP just doesn't know when to stop lying about this.

[AtomicPaperclip]

Wow, that is utterly fantastic.

Are we gonna have to get the Chinese to do it?