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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 02:47 PM
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The domino effect of the hemorrhage of BP oil if unchecked
Edited on Sun May-23-10 02:50 PM by lunatica
This is just the first domino falling in a world class ecological disaster that may include a huge portion of the planet eventually. At 200,000 gallons a day the supposed 90 days it'll take to build a back-up well all the while 200,000 gallons emptying into the Gulf means 18 MILLION gallons are still going to gush out in that time. That's 18,000,000. And so far the weather has been nearly perfect in the Gulf. The hurricane season starts on June 1 of every year and ends on Nov 30 of every year.

In those photographs we see from the air of the surface oil leak imagine adding 18 million gallons in the next three months. And imagine the underwater plumes and the toxic dispersant that will be used in those 90 days and the oil being caught in the deep sea currents. The Caribbean and Mexico will also be affected. If not with direct oil on the ocean with the dead sea life because the oil death will be quite entrenched in the food chain by then. Larger fish roam at will, with or against the current.



The oil could eventually work it's way around the entire Gulf like a washing machine cycle with many eddies while great rivers of it will get caught up in the Gulf Stream.

NASA photo of the oil spill with a plume being pulled by the Gulf Loop



Photo of Katrina in 2005 from space



The Gulf Loop Current



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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 02:51 PM
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 02:57 PM
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2. K&R...n/t
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:05 PM
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3. pure agony nt
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:31 PM
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BanzaiBonnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:35 PM
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5. I was awakened at about 4:15 this morning
with words that needed to be written. These are not my words. These words do not come to me alone, but there are others receiving the same or a similar message. They are the words of the planet.



The energy systems that were put in place to run this planetary body have been disrupted to a degree that drastic measures are now being moved into play. This is going to be a bumpy ride. This is a correction that is necessary to stabilize the system.


Disruptions have gone too far. A system dump may be necessary. This planet is a living breathing organism that has been abused. It is she who has kept you alive. It is she who was built for your comfort. The system dump is necessary to save what is left.

The system was similar to the autonomic nervous system that is echoed in the human life form. It runs on its own without much conscious thought, but you have awakened the mother and she must now attempt to save herself. Great changes are in store to reposition order. Restraint will be authorized but cannot be guaranteed.

Anything that disrupts the life force of the planet to the degree that humans have, must be challenged. There must be a correction. This was not the plan but there has been too much interference in the self-regulating system.

Stop the loss of the pressure fluids from bleeding off into the ocean. Stop it NOW before the planet must shift and shake to return to equilibrium. You have no idea what you’ve done. It is through your own hubris of ownership of the planet that has brought you to this place. This is a living breathing organism. Not an animal, but something else. Her cycles are in-breathing and out-breathing. And when corrections must be made the skies and the oceans will empty.

There will always be life, but it will be different. Can you not hear the mourning song. She weeps for what must be done. But be done, it must. It may already be too late. It is not fully known. You have been warned before but did not listen. Please elevate your better natures now. Work together to solve these painful wounds on the earth mother.

We do not live in a state where one thing does not affect the other. The whole is one thing. My pain is yours. I am sorry. This planet is dense. It has great gravity. It pulls relentlessly on you. Your position is to escape the gravity and stand as a bridge between earth and sky as the great and beautiful beings you are meant to be.

But the gravity here causes you to forget. You think you are small. You forget how large you really are. The gravity pulls on you to a small stature. You were giants here. That was how it was meant to be. The experience has changed and now you are smaller. Find your own equilibrium to stand tall once more and save one another.

Sent through She Who Walks
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:55 PM
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8. It's as if the planet is bleeding out
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:37 PM
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6. The REAL spill rate is 4 million gallons a day. In 90 days, that would be 360 million gallons...
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 03:53 PM
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7. I was deliberately trying to keep it a a conservative level
Thinking, perhaps mistakenly that the smaller numbers could be grasped easier. In the end it probably won't matter anyway.
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