this could be the end of the world

[hoggy952]

Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico may be about to reach biblical proportions.

251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world.
check this out
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

[Meat-Head]

Cool wiped out by a massive fart.

So as long as Mr Devilfish makes sure the DK servers have a good battery backup, the rest of the world will be gone in 2010, but the DK will survive

HURRAH!

[hoggy952]

I always thought that the mass extinctions that took place millions of years ago were caused by asteroid impacts with the earth. There was one in the Gulf of Mexico which caused mass extinction.
Personally I think this report is just scaremongering of the highest order.

Edit, I see there is no evidence for mass extinction being caused by methane bubbles. It's called "Ryskin’s methane extinction theory"

Exactly ,,, It's a THEORY

[Meat-Head]

Exactly ,,, It's a THEORY

Thought that counts

[maca]

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[Meat-Head]

YouTube - R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I...

If this thing is radio active and folks hair falls out then it's

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[patkins]

Hoggy, I`ve just been in Comedy Central forum and I have to say that this post is in stark contrast to anything funny.
We are supposed to be heading for something big in world events and every such type of article does nothing to divert ones mind from 2012 etc.
What crossed my mind while reading the article is the men who are working to contain this leak. The oil company`s history of the expendability of humans is well documented and with the media blackout we will never know the true cost of life so far in this disaster.

[Meat-Head]

What crossed my mind while reading the article is the men who are working to contain this leak. The oil company`s history of the expendability of humans is well documented and with the media blackout we will never know the true cost of life so far in this disaster.

Simple, just tell mr BP that his oil well is ~~~~ed and he needs a new one.

[hoggy952]

There's something about that report that rings true. I heard on the news that they are delaying putting that new cap on the pipe as there was some kind of leakage elsewhere that would blow if it wasn't sealed. Recent footage of the oil leak shows a much lighter and much faster emission - and I guess that must be because the ratio of oil and methane is changing. Something down there is seriously not right and that's why Obama is getting so het up about it all.

If you think about the leak as a broken water main then the leak starts small but gets bigger and bigger. You can't block the original leak as it just bursts out more and more until it goes like one big geyser. There's something wrong that we don't know about - which is why all efforts to cap it have failed. My guess is that the entire pipe from the oil up to the bottom of the ocean is breaking up. I've heard that the hole is 10km deep!

Even if this thing is finally capped - what of the future? As oil becomes scarcer we have to drill deeper and deeper - but can we risk the same thing happening again?

Think of a child's balloon - it's really tough until a sharp object pierces it - then bang. I think BP have just pierced that balloon.

[Meat-Head]

If you think about the leak as a broken water main then the leak starts small but gets bigger and bigger. You can't block the original leak as it just bursts out more and more until it goes like one big geyser. There's something wrong that we don't know about - which is why all efforts to cap it have failed. My guess is that the entire pipe from the oil up to the bottom of the ocean is breaking up. I've heard that the hole is 10km deep!

Even if this thing is finally capped - what of the future? As oil becomes scarcer we have to drill deeper and deeper - but can we risk the same thing happening again?

Think of a child's balloon - it's really tough until a sharp object pierces it - then bang. I think BP have just pierced that balloon.

1) OFF TOPIC:

Water mains burst in the night, when no demand, so why is this thing got this issue, contius demand?

ON TOPIC

1a) Where does this pipe go to and from, was it laid by mother nature?

2) Face bothered, who cares

3) awesome

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[Cronus]

I've been following this for weeks. Here's a link to the ROV cameras

Reality Check - BP Video Portal (Basic)

There is more than one leak and that is what they are worried about.

There is a huge methane deposit under the GoM and if it comes out then the linked report above is the worst case scenario.

They don't know what will happen when they back up the pipe with a cap. All that pressure has to go somewhere and there is a very real danger than the sea floor could crack and collapse.

God I could talk for hours about this. Been keeping a close eye on it for ages now.

[hoggy952]

I've been following this for weeks. Here's a link to the ROV cameras

Reality Check - BP Video Portal (Basic)

There is more than one leak and that is what they are worried about.

There is a huge methane deposit under the GoM and if it comes out then the linked report above is the worst case scenario.

They don't know what will happen when they back up the pipe with a cap. All that pressure has to go somewhere and there is a very real danger than the sea floor could crack and collapse.

God I could talk for hours about this. Been keeping a close eye on it for ages now.

Cronus with respect... you reckon a small hyperdermic needle sized p***k in some rock is literally Earth shattering news, compared to the power of two massive tectonic plates wreaking havoc? which has regularly happened for millions of years?

[Cronus]

hoggy,with respect,they are two different events.

An earthquake,even a mega earthquake,does not have the power to be an extinction event.
Methane release has already been proven to have caused extinction events in the past.

You have to,without sounding disrespectful,try to understand what a massive methane pocket quickly released under this kind of pressure can do.

For an experiment on pressure and state. Buy a glass bottle of coke.It has to be glass.

Now put it in the freezer overnight. It won't freeze. It can't freeze under pressure from the bottle and lid.

Take it out and open it and watch it freeze instantly. After you open the lid, and relieve the pressure, the entire thing changes state at one time!

Imagine a much more dramatic version of this experiment. DON"T TRY IT! But imagine if you had heated that bottle to several hundred degrees. It couldn't boil, because of the pressure, but as soon as you popped the lid, the entire thing would boil instantly, and you would have a whole room full of super-heated steam explode out of the neck of that bottle instantly!!

That is how people get burned by radiators on oveheating cars. They release the pressure on a radiator by removing the cap. 2 gallons of super heated water becomes several hundred gallons of steam blasting out at them in an instant!

Now imagine the Gulf as a giant radiator, and the cap being 5000 feet of sea water. Then something comes along and stirs up that water and the cap isn't on so good anymore. To make matters worse,instead of steam,we have a flammable gas and vapor that could potentially explode in addition to just expanding.

The highlighted part is the thing to remember. It would create a mega-tsunami hundreds of feet high that nothing would stop.
The article linked is a bit ott. It wouldn't be a world killing event but Florida would be gone for a start.

So a small ***** would leave millions dead. The Gulf of Mexico is one place you shouldn't really be drilling into because of the huge pressures under the ocean floor with these methane pockets.

[chroma]

Cool wiped out by a massive fart.

I thought GMB already tried this and it failed badly.

[hoggy952]

Well the new cap is holding at the moment but if those reports of fissures and rising sea beds are true then as the pressure builds it just may make things worse.


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