The Oil
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Matt²
so .. at least we know we have LOTS of offshore oil and we don't have to be so dependant on foreign oil anymore? yyyyyaaaaaay??
I'm still thinking the Russians or Chinese are secretly working on the tech to just slurp up all that spilled oil and separate it into a usable form. It's in international waters, so whoever can get it, has it.
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Element 117
Russians or Chinese huh? Not the Japanese? Swedish?
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".
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Element 117
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".[/QUOTE]
Q: do you still do your nuclear bomb drills?
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".[/QUOTE]
Q: do you still do your nuclear bomb drills?[/QUOTE]
A: Good luck finding anyone under the age of 40 who knows what a fallout shelter is.
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Chazwozel
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".[/QUOTE]
Q: do you still do your nuclear bomb drills?[/QUOTE]
A: Good luck finding anyone under the age of 40 who knows what a fallout shelter is.[/QUOTE]
29 here, sir. I know what a fallout shelter is and where a local one in my community is. Aww yeah, duck and cover bitches.
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".[/QUOTE]
Q: do you still do your nuclear bomb drills?[/QUOTE]
A: Good luck finding anyone under the age of 40 who knows what a fallout shelter is.[/QUOTE]
DarkAudit, you're talking to a group of people who have played Fallout and Fallout 2. Suggesting people in this group, no matter what age, wouldn't know what a fallout shelter is comes across a little silly.
The Russians and/or Chinese would do it as a big FUCK YOU to us and the rest of the "West".[/QUOTE]
Q: do you still do your nuclear bomb drills?[/QUOTE]
A: Good luck finding anyone under the age of 40 who knows what a fallout shelter is.[/QUOTE]
DarkAudit, you're talking to a group of people who have played Fallout and Fallout 2. Suggesting people in this group, no matter what age, wouldn't know what a fallout shelter is comes across a little silly.[/QUOTE]
Come on, you've seen it yourself in IRC. It's amazing what these people have never heard of.
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wana10
sorry i'm late
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JONJONAUG
Oh my god.sorry i'm late
On the plus side, we could send him to BP HQ to rip some throats.Knowing BP, we'll getinstead.
Hey, soon that oil will be right on shore where you can just ladle it into stuff!
So we got that going for us.
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JONJONAUG
So is this the oil spill thread or is the other thread the oil spill thread?
The Onion continues to be awesome
The Onion continues to be awesome
Magnificent.
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My attititude is starting to change pretty rapidly. This is such a nightmare scenario catastrophe. The failure here wasn't the equipment, but the people, and I don't see any way you can remove them from the equation. At my work we have something called a "risk matrix", where you plot how bad the damage of a failure is vs how likely the failure would be. Something like this would have a very very low risk of failure, however the potential damage would be at or near the top of the chart. I believe that when something has that high potential damage we simply don't do it, regardless of the risk, because failing once is catastrophic.
I'm just really starting to freak out about what's happening down there. The long term environmental effects are worse than Bhopal and Chernobyl combined. I know that may seem ridiculous but you have to appreciate that those were land disasters, this is different. BP pissed in the pool, and there is absolutely no way to remove a lot of what they did. The whole 'dispersant' concept just shows how ineffective our measures are, because all that did was an 'out of sight out of mind' magic trick. That benzene is still there.
And that's the one I am most worried about. Benzene. shudder. Screw the little duckies covered in brown sludge (ok that's bad too). Benzene is incredibly toxic, and I am really concerned that we have permanently increased the PPM of benzene in the oceans. If it was all on the surface that would be fine. Benzene and all the other dangerous hydrocarbons would evaporate and you would just have the heavy paraphins/olephins that aren't nearly as toxic and are much easier to capture. But this plume means that the benzene is trapped under hundreds to thousands of feet of water where it can't escape. Sure, eventually it will get to the top and leave. Hopefully. Maybe after a century.
shudder.
I'm just really starting to freak out about what's happening down there. The long term environmental effects are worse than Bhopal and Chernobyl combined. I know that may seem ridiculous but you have to appreciate that those were land disasters, this is different. BP pissed in the pool, and there is absolutely no way to remove a lot of what they did. The whole 'dispersant' concept just shows how ineffective our measures are, because all that did was an 'out of sight out of mind' magic trick. That benzene is still there.
And that's the one I am most worried about. Benzene. shudder. Screw the little duckies covered in brown sludge (ok that's bad too). Benzene is incredibly toxic, and I am really concerned that we have permanently increased the PPM of benzene in the oceans. If it was all on the surface that would be fine. Benzene and all the other dangerous hydrocarbons would evaporate and you would just have the heavy paraphins/olephins that aren't nearly as toxic and are much easier to capture. But this plume means that the benzene is trapped under hundreds to thousands of feet of water where it can't escape. Sure, eventually it will get to the top and leave. Hopefully. Maybe after a century.
shudder.
Kill the more complex organisms, and then you get mass reproduction of simpler organisms. In some parts of the Pacific they've been running into masses of jellyfish/algae organisms pushing a burning vapor into the atmosphere above the water. Fun times.
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JONJONAUG
I thought this was an onion article until I saw it on CNN and FoxNews and saw Sarah Palin championing the idea on Twitter.
What the fuck.
This is actually a really good idea.
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