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#501 Postby gtalum » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:09 am

abajan wrote:
gtalum wrote:There really are a lot of nutball theories floating around. My favorite thus far is the one about the alleged super-volcano (which of course ignores the fact that geologically speaking the GoM is one of the quietest places on Earth).
Except, of course, for that little incident 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. :lol:


So if another giant asteroid hits there, I admit the supervolcano threat will increase. ;)
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#502 Postby Aquawind » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:09 am

Correction off the Alaskan Coast.. 10,000 feet down!!! LOLOLOL They are nutz!!!!

2 miles below the surface of the Arctic Ocean is whacked..we couldn't come close to a cleanup effort like the GOM..
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#503 Postby Rocketman » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:57 am

I'm noticing some pretty intense storms popping up right over/around the DWH site in the early AM, wonder if it's got anything to do with all smoke and heat they're generating there. I've never seen this happen every night in the same area, night after night. I can see it from my local radar on TWC.

Anyone else notice this?
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#504 Postby petit_bois » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:22 pm

The MS, AL and FL coast beach communities are playing this down as best they can.
I still plan on being there for the Free Jimmy Buffett concert on the beach in Gulf Shores Thursday July 1st and staying through Monday.
Just hope the kids and swim!
This is going to be off and on oil for a long time I'm afraid... Hard to make plans.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#505 Postby Aquawind » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:41 pm

BP's next try...

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#506 Postby petit_bois » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:25 pm

Fed Judge in New Orleans overturned the Obama 6 month moratorium on deep water drilling
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#507 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:55 pm

Rocketman wrote:I'm noticing some pretty intense storms popping up right over/around the DWH site in the early AM, wonder if it's got anything to do with all smoke and heat they're generating there. I've never seen this happen every night in the same area, night after night. I can see it from my local radar on TWC.

Anyone else notice this?
I thought there were more storms than normal in that area, but never connected the two. I'm not sure that the burns are big enough to cause this though.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#508 Postby Stephanie » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:16 pm

Aquawind wrote:BP's next try...

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:roflmao:
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#509 Postby angelwing » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:17 pm

Maybe it was mentioned before, but look at this feed, I see fire?????

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_interne ... _ROV2.html
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#510 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:13 pm

angelwing wrote:Maybe it was mentioned before, but look at this feed, I see fire?????

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_interne ... _ROV2.html

I think what you are seeing is light reflecting off the dispersant not fire.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#511 Postby WeatherLovingDoc » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:18 pm

Another view of same:
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3

Maybe this explains it:

Gulf oil full of methane, adding new concerns

"BP PLC said a containment cap sitting over the leaking well funneled about 619,500 gallons of oil to a drillship waiting on the ocean surface on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a specialized flare siphoning oil and gas from a stack of pipes on the seafloor burned roughly 161,700 gallons."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9GDJBO84
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#512 Postby Brent » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:41 pm

angelwing wrote:Maybe it was mentioned before, but look at this feed, I see fire?????

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_interne ... _ROV2.html


They said earlier they were burning natural gas.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#513 Postby WeatherLovingDoc » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:54 pm

"But tell me what would happen to the methane coming from the two thirds of the of the Earth, which is the sea bed?"

Interesting discussion on sea water methane burning from an active blog of 2009:
[Methane burning= production of CO2 and H20}

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=19282
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#514 Postby Ptarmigan » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:45 pm

gtalum wrote:
So if another giant asteroid hits there, I admit the supervolcano threat will increase. ;)


A giant asteroid hits the Gulf of Mexico, it will make a supervolcano look like a single Black Cat firework going off. :lol: :eek:
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#515 Postby HurricaneBill » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:25 am

Aquawind wrote:BP's next try...

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A recent picture of BP CEO Tony Hayward.

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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#516 Postby gtalum » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:02 am

angelwing wrote:Maybe it was mentioned before, but look at this feed, I see fire?????

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_interne ... _ROV2.html


They've been flaring natural gas ever since the LMRP cap was put in place. Now they're also flaring ~8,000 barrels per day from the choke line on the BOP, which is the much larger flame we can see. They'll be flaring another ~8,000 barrels per day via the kill line in another few days. It's gonna be hot in that vicinity. :lol:

EDIT: D'oh! I see you meant underwater. No, there's no flame underwater. There's no oxygen for the combustion. It must have just been some light reflection.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - Two months since the disaster started

#517 Postby Brent » Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:35 am

WASHINGTON - Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths of workers in the response effort.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37841204/ns ... n_the_gulf
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - 2 deaths, oil gushing out uncontrollably

#518 Postby WeatherLovingDoc » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:17 pm

NY Times reporting the Cap was accidentally bumped by an underwater robot:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/06/23/business/AP-US-Gulf-Oil-Spill-Containment-Cap.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

Lot's of gas coming out too: http://www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour

Two workers deaths under investigation, not apparently related to spill itself.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - 2 deaths, oil gushing out uncontrollably

#519 Postby LSU2001 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:39 pm

from what i can gather the two deaths are totally unrelated to the clean up effort. One death was a boat captain who died of a gunshot wound and the other was a swimming pool accident.
I don't know why the media is reporting these deaths in such a vague way to imply that they are somehow related to the clean up or to the spill in general.
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Re: GOM Oil Spill - 2 deaths, oil gushing out uncontrollably

#520 Postby bvigal » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:41 pm

LSU2001 wrote:from what i can gather the two deaths are totally unrelated to the clean up effort. One death was a boat captain who died of a gunshot wound and the other was a swimming pool accident.
I don't know why the media is reporting these deaths in such a vague way to imply that they are somehow related to the clean up or to the spill in general.
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I know why. Because that is more sensational. Because most news media are rags these days. i.e., who cares about truth and accuracy, just make my adrenaline pump! :roll: Jerry Springer is STILL ON TV, I'd never have believed it in a million years, but a goodly chunk of the population wants sensationalism, it sells $$$. (apologies to any Springer fans out there...)
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