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Author Topic: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea - One Year Later  (Read 111787 times)

Urist McOverlord

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1095 on: September 18, 2010, 11:19:09 pm »

So... the bottom kill apparently worked.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1096 on: September 19, 2010, 12:06:28 am »

Waiting for reverse of that to be said in a few days, i am.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1097 on: September 19, 2010, 01:16:55 am »

So... the bottom kill apparently worked.

Looks like my derail attempt was cut off quickly.

Waiting for reverse of that to be said in a few days, i am.

hur hur, I get it!
Really, though, I didn't expect it to stick. Apparently it has. Are we supposed to forgive BP now or boycott them out of their share of our national market? Who sets the tone so I know what is socially acceptable?
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1098 on: September 19, 2010, 09:08:46 pm »

-snip-
« Last Edit: June 09, 2015, 08:41:51 pm by Bauglir »
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1099 on: September 19, 2010, 09:53:39 pm »

Bottom kill was ALWAYS going to work.  The question was just how long.

I wonder if BP will announce when they start producing from the relief well?  That's the next step in drilling really;  to mill a path out and reroute the oil/gas into the relief well.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1100 on: September 19, 2010, 11:25:13 pm »

So... the bottom kill apparently worked.

Did Aqizzar post a reward for whoever rerailed the thread, or are you the same person?
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Urist McOverlord

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1101 on: September 20, 2010, 12:39:21 am »

So... the bottom kill apparently worked.

Did Aqizzar post a reward for whoever rerailed the thread, or are you the same person?

Ah, but did I get it back on the rails, or merely derail the derailment?
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Vector

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1102 on: September 20, 2010, 12:55:51 am »

Read a newspaper article that says most of the spill was eaten by bacteria--scientists looked around for oil, but found no oil and lots of microbes.

Hurm.
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Solifuge

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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1103 on: September 20, 2010, 01:20:54 am »

Link for the lazy, please?

I've heard of petroleum-eating bacteria before, and oil is a hydrocarbon, so it makes sense. Still, I wonder how much of that is wishful thinking or science-spinage. Life as a whole has a habit of rolling with the punches though. Here's to hoping.
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« Reply #1104 on: September 20, 2010, 01:22:13 am »

It was a physical paper from a while ago.  As in... a newspaper...

So no link ^_^;  Sorry.
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« Reply #1105 on: September 20, 2010, 01:24:28 am »

Physical paper? I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about.

Do you know the date and publisher/periodical? 5 interbucks says I can find it online through my school's many databases.
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Vector

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« Reply #1106 on: September 20, 2010, 01:29:30 am »

Bleh, fine.

Here.

That wasn't the article I read, but it's close enough.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2010, 01:33:02 am by Vector »
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"The question of the usefulness of poetry arises only in periods of its decline, while in periods of its flowering, no one doubts its total uselessness." - Boris Pasternak

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pronouns: prefer neutral ones, others are fine. height: 5'3".

Solifuge

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« Reply #1107 on: September 20, 2010, 04:03:00 am »

*Tips hat* Much obliged, ma'am.

That is good news... and the study seems pretty legitimate. At times life reveals just how awesome it is, when a toxic plume of oil can be turned into a bacterial buffet.
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Re: There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
« Reply #1108 on: September 20, 2010, 06:06:52 am »

This is where my sweet, sweet grandmother smiles one of her knowing smiles and says "Doesn't God just have a plan for everything?"
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« Reply #1109 on: September 20, 2010, 07:43:54 am »

This is where my sweet, sweet grandmother smiles one of her knowing smiles and says "Doesn't God just have a plan for everything?"
Happens to me, but with the sarcastic "sweetness" of my devoutly Catholic mother. Anger inside, time to change her ringtone to a Venom song.
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