Posted on 06/22/2010 2:31:53 PM PDT by thirst4truth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Overwhelmed and saddened by the gargantuan size of the Gulf oil spill?
A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the environmental catastrophe in perspective. Viewing it through some lenses, it isn't that huge. The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months.
On a more human scale, the spill seems more daunting. Take the average-sized living room. The amount of oil spilled would fill 9,200 of them.
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Just a different perspective from an AP writer no less.
Katie said yesterday that it would fill an enormous amout of living rooms.
the lengths these people will go to...
Ping.
no offense, but it is funny that they had to hunt one of the largest buildings in the world to be able to say “See? It aint much.”
so are they saying Katrina was a bigger disaster?
Well in that case, what’s all the fuss then. Must be racism driving all the GOM people batty. Only explaination
Completely non-sequitor attempt at downplaying the problem. The issue is that the oil makes its greatest impact directly where there is the highest proportion of living organisms.
Perhaps they should put their money where their mouths are, and head for the beaches there. After all, the surfactant-infused oil isn’t too much now, is it?
If you put the oil in gallon milk jugs and lined them up, they would stretch about 11,000 miles.
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wow. In terms of volume, this is a drop in the oceans of the planet.
he got reassigned from global varming reporting.. thank goodness. :-)
The st pete paper must be one of the worst in the country.
So it won’t fill up the Superdome but that isn’t the question The question is how much it would cover in a layer about 1/16th of an inch think, because that is about all it takes to screw everything up.
This was hooted down for the crap it is in a thread yesterday. Many of the comments noted that Rush’s similar happy-talk a week previous was off the mark as well.
But,but,but, it’s a lot more interesting to fill the astrodome with oil, and/or 92000 liveing rooms, or kill of millions of fish, turtles, or humans in the Gulf than it would be to disturb some Caribou and bears in Alaska,,,besides the eviro/RATS/queers won’t allow the ‘’pristine’’ enviroment of Alaska to be despoiled.
I did some math, and if I did it correctly, the amount of oil dumped into the Gulf will probably end up being the same as a single drop of crude dumped into a 10,000 gallon pool. Wow, really, it shows how vast the oceans are.
You are witnessing the HEIGHT of STUPID pointless journalism.
Vast yes, homogenous no. 99% of the life in the seas is concentrated in the top 200 ft. Given that oil floats, that makes relatively small amounts by volume far more of a problem. I can give you a glass that is 5000 ft tall and ask you to drink 1oz. off the top. If there is 1 oz. of petroleum in that nearly 2000 gallons of water, you are going to drink most of it.
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