BP oil spill
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- benfal990
SHIT!
I think they broke it even more with the "Top Kill" mission!!THE KRAKEN HAS BEEN RELEASED! ALL HELL ARE BREAKING LOSE! >>> live feed under the sea from BP robots: http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_…
- plash0
- my bad. it was just postedplash
- no worries - only posted 4 times in this thread so far...invisiblechamber
- Déjà vuutopian
- EightyDeuce0
Sorry if this has been posted already.
Visualizing the BP Oil Spill / Disaster
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/- code does not work if you view it form else where than USAspraycan
- benfal990
Did you know that?
The pipe has only 15cm diameter.
- 3030
- WrappedInBooks0
Not yet...it's still spewing.
- they say its the mud that's still coming out, not oil.dorf
- ukit0
Submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher on Wednesday.
After six weeks of failures to block the well or divert the oil, the latest mission involved using a set of tools akin to an oversized deli slicer and garden shears to break away the broken riser pipe so engineers can then position a cap over the well's opening.
But it's a big gamble: Even if it succeeds, it will temporarily increase the flow of an already massive leak by 20 percent - at least 100,000 gallons more a day. That's on top of the estimated 500,000 to 1 million gallons gushing out already.
If BP's new effort to contain the leak fails, the procedure will have made the biggest oil spill in U.S. history even worse.
"It is an engineer's nightmare," said Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University professor of environmental sciences. "They're trying to fit a 21-inch cap over a 20-inch pipe a mile away. That's just horrendously hard to do. It's not like you and I standing on the ground pushing - they're using little robots to do this."
- elektro0
how are they gonna stop that :
- whatsup0
@ponyboy
The BP oil spill has me really conserving plastic because its something I can do now. As far as transportation... I'm not going to quit cold turkey just like that. If I did, I would be somehow fixing one problem to create another? That's not smart. However I will change or transition to better energy efficient modes when and if the opportunity arises. I also hope that the people in positions to do something will also go the route of relying and finding better energy sources.- nice, dude... ... I do what I can to recycle etc - but there are sooo many plastics we use daily that it's going to take...PonyBoy
- ... serious effort even for the greenest of the green folks to completely get off them... it would be nice to see us...PonyBoy
- ... to just completely ween off the 'need' for them.PonyBoy
- besides recycling, I'll also reuse.whatsup
- TheBlueOne0
Real fucking sad man. I guess that's how you sleep at night, denying the facts just because of certain social realities is all the rage with you free market libertarians, huh?
Just because a doctor smokes doesn't mean his advice to you to quit smoking is invalid.
Just because our entire industrial/infrastructure system is set up to be dependant on oil doesn't mean that an individual who suggests we should maybe rethink our civilization is a "hypocrite"
But you just be content in yourself that "Well, I guess we can't even try, and anyone who does is a fucking hypocrite because they drive to work."
Fuck off, there's a planet to save and we don't need you pointing fingers at who you think is "trendy" or not.
Seriously dude, you're the fucking problem.
- subcommandante0
Someone get bruce willis to assemble a team to send to the Gulf. I think if we get Will Smith and John Travolta onboard, and some sort of huge manned drill to dig to the center of the earth we can get this fixed up real quick.
- done and done
flashbender - don't forget tom cruise with his grenade.sea_sea
- and Chuck Norris with his water tight jeans and high kicksRamanisky2
- done and done
- bliznutty0
they need sharks with freakin' laser beams
- dopepope0
- why is this not being used right awayRamanisky2
- yeah I don't get it... It's seems like a straight forward solution.BannedKappa
- Good question, why is this not being used.pillhead
- vsplus0
NYT
NEW ORLEANS — An oil sheen one mile long was spotted on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico hours after an offshore oil platform exploded there on Thursday morning, the United States Coast Guard said.
- CALLES0
breaking news:
BP Kills The Kraken
- luckyorphan0
U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Gulf Oil Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/0…WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that federal authorities have opened criminal and civil investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
- Ramanisky20
PENSACOLA, Fla. – This morning residents and tourists in Pensacola Beach awoke to the day they long feared.
The high tide, plus southeast winds overnight, brought globs of oil onto the pristine white sand beaches here. The oil is now fouling those beaches for as one official said, "as far as the eye can see."
- sucks ... we have a beach house not too far from there ... FUUUUUUUUUURamanisky2
- Born and raised in FL, still live here. Family all along the Gulf coast. It really and truly turns my stomach. I feel for you.discoduro