That there oil spill....

[acer5200]

This is what the Gulf of Mexico looks like now:



Discuss.

[Asmo]

lets go surfing!

[acer5200]

Yes, go surfing, and have a nice time coming out covered in oil.

[Arathorn136]

The Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in US history.The best way they could have stopped it was nuke it. But of course, he greedy shareholders don't want to lose their precious oil. Instead of nuking it, the idiots decided to make a cap, which didn't work, and wasn't expected too. Now the oil spill is ten times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. Heck it's probably 100 times worse. The oil spill is still leaking, what is it, 500 barrels a day or something like that. During the Exxon Valdez spill, millions of fish and fish eggs were killed, hundreds of thousands of seabirds, whales,, and pretty much every other marine organism. Since this oil spill is so much worse, who knows how much sea life it will kill?

Not only is the oil polluting the water, it is polluting the land. Waves and ocean currents are constantly pushing oil landward, causing a build-up of oil scum on the coast. Some oil sinks to the bottom, where it is almost harmless, but for the most part, it goes directly to the top, as it's desity is less than water.

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[WN1 Hit]

Seriously. About 80 days now.

[acer5200]

The Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in US history.The best way they could have stopped it was nuke it. But of course, he greedy shareholders don't want to lose their precious oil. Instead of nuking it, the idiots decided to make a cap, which didn't work, and wasn't expected too. Now the oil spill is ten times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. Heck it's probably 100 times worse. The oil spill is still leaking, what is it, 500 barrels a day or something like that. During the Exxon Valdez spill, millions of fish and fish eggs were killed, hundreds of thousands of seabirds, whales,, and pretty much every other marine organism. Since this oil spill is so much worse, who knows how much sea life it will kill?

Not only is the oil polluting the water, it is polluting the land. Waves and ocean currents are constantly pushing oil landward, causing a build-up of oil scum on the coast. Some oil sinks to the bottom, where it is almost harmless, but for the most part, it goes directly to the top, as it's desity is less than water.

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Yes, please, nuke the Gulf of Mexico. It's not like any nuclear fallout would hit Florida, where I live.

Also.

Here's one of the aerial views:



It also looks like BP is going for good PR instead of actually fixing the problem.

This won't end well...

[Arathorn136]

Of course it wont end well. Anybody with some sense can see that it won't end well. I need to get a job with an engineering firm that deals with oil spills.

[pialpha]

.The best way they could have stopped it was nuke it.

What happens if that fails? There is now a crater, you can no longer stop the oil at all, relief wells wouldn't work, and every drop of oil in that well would leak into the gulf.

I applaud your foresight!

[Arathorn136]

You forget that you can shape charges. All they would be doing is collapsing the pipe in on itself, and shifting the surrounding bedrock to fill the hole. I don't mean by nuke that we should just drop a nuclear bomb into the ocean, get out of the way and cross our fingers.

But you just have to look at Russia's success rate with this method. 80%. Isn't it work giving it a shot?

[acer5200]

By the way, I'm asking that none of you go into politics with this thread. Else it'll get closed, just like every other good thread that gets made in OT.

(And there's still the 20% that needs to be worried about)