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Massive underwater oil cloud may destroy life in Gulf of Mexico
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Posted on 05/17/2010 5:31:20 AM PDT by Scythian
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"Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the broken undersea well could be substantially worse than estimates that the government and BP have given.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:31:20 AM PDT
by
Scythian
To: Scythian
Build more refineries along the gulf coast- surf’s up
To: Scythian
Nothing can be more detrimental to the USA than the Obummer Administration. Too bad we couldn’t siphon it off like they are doing with the oil leak.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:35:53 AM PDT
by
Renegade
("Bring it on while I still don't need glasses to shoot your eye out ")
To: Scythian
Doesn’t oil float on water? Wouldn’t the underwater oil gradually rise to the surface? Or will the scientists find some explanation for why that oil stays lurking underwater ...
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:38:00 AM PDT
by
Ken522
To: Scythian
BP better declare bankruptcy quickly.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:39:04 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
To: Scythian
I’m skeptical on the ‘scientist’ part of the article....
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:39:37 AM PDT
by
databoss
To: Scythian
The Christian Science Monitor also reports now that as much as 3.4 million gallons of oil may be leaking into the Gulf every day!
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Has anyone ever seen a cut finger in water. The “plume” of blood might look like exsanguination, because of the diluent effect. I bet the same thing is happening with these underwater plumes.
For years we have been told to believe that the world supply of oil is disappearing, and now we are being told that three and a half Million Gallons of oil are leaking every day!
Please, readers, have a bit of healthy scepticism.
How many gallons per day does a functioning well in the Gulf produce?
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:40:44 AM PDT
by
maica
(Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
To: Scythian
The Christian Science Monitor also reports now that as much as 3.4 million gallons of oil may be leaking into the Gulf every day! And it may not be.......
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:40:52 AM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Scythian
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:40:55 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(HEY GORE -- GIVE BACK THE OSCAR! - GIVE BACK THE NOBEL! ANSWER THE HOAX!)
To: basil
Its at least ten billion times worse than we can possibly imagine!
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:43:48 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Ken522
Particulates in the ocean attract the oil. At some saturation point the oil clumps and fails to rise to the surface. Instead it should precipitate out to the bottom, coating the ocean floor in sludge.
If this happens too close to the continental shelf we’ll lose the ocean as a food source, if the currents take it out to deep water I hypothesize the end result will be better for the environment. The deep cold waters will act as a natural containment.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:44:15 AM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: Scythian
All of the drama queens in America are drawn to one profession...journalism.
I don't rely on a thing they write, as the final outcome of all their stories hardly ever matches their chicken-little predictions.
This is not to discount the oil spill...it's bad, but to remember that "exaggeration" is a writing style for the MSM.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:44:44 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
To: Scythian
Giant mountain of burgers may destroy life in lower Manhatten.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:45:27 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: cripplecreek
Ten times greater than that. :)
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:48:25 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
To: Ken522
“Doesnt oil float on water?”
Crude oil is an extremely complex mixture of hydrocarbon molecules. Some are lighter than water and float but those that are heavier will sink.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:52:11 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: databoss
Agree you know the next thing they will say,it’s the oil spill that is causing global warming greater than expected.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:54:26 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Ken522
“Doesnt oil float on water? Wouldnt the underwater oil gradually rise to the surface? Or will the scientists find some explanation for why that oil stays lurking underwater ...”
Because the idiots are using underwater dispersant's on the leaks. They are spraying the oil as it comes out of the pipe with these chemicals. They say that it makes drops finer and promotes bacterial growth that consume the oil. The only problem that I see is they have never done this before. I am all for any solution to the situation but truly these people are making it up as they go along...
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:54:59 AM PDT
by
Syntyr
(Mace, Kirk, Thomson, Griffin, Scusa, Martin, Gallegos, Hart - Remember the fallen of Kamdesh)
To: FrankR
Correct. Besides being global alarmists they have no Logic Gene at all.
We are supposed to believe that the earth can survive shifts in tectonic plates, but underwater life as we know it cannot survive this hole in the Gulf of Mexico.
I have more faith in Mother Earth than that!
And I also thought that the carbon cycle included rainwater taking carbon back into our oceans. What we have here is a mega-test of the ocean’s ability to recycle carbon. I doubt if any dinosaurs died under the Gulf of Mexico.
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posted on
05/17/2010 5:55:38 AM PDT
by
maica
(Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
To: tgusa
BP better declare bankruptcy quickly.Yep. And then reorganize as OP (Obama Petroleum).
To: Scythian
Invisible CO2 in the air...
Invisible oil underwater...
More "science" for even Bigger Government.
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posted on
05/17/2010 6:03:23 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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