Oilmegeddon will not be fixed any time soon.

Stinky The Clown

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Tue May-25-10 06:20 PM
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Oilmegeddon will not be fixed any time soon.

This will be a global turning point.

They have absolutely no idea how to fix this. None at all. I don't care if "they" is BP, the larger oil industry, or the US government.

Ideas are in very short supply.

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JuniperLea

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Tue May-25-10 06:22 PM
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1. Exactomundo, oh odoriferous one...

Edited on Tue May-25-10 06:22 PM by JuniperLea

BP is more concerned with keeping the oil well viable... the only fix would render it inoperable forever.

Doesn't really matter now, after a month... we're fucking doomed. Say good-bye to the world as we know it.

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bighughdiehl

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Tue May-25-10 06:35 PM
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2. Has this thing made anyone else think of.....

Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle. In that book, the end of life as we know it was caused by something really small and stupid instead of Global warming or a plague. I don't know if that's where this is headed, but it does make me shake my head and wonder, and think of KV as possibly a literal prophet.

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JuniperLea

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Tue May-25-10 06:45 PM
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3. It's been a long time... nine-ice? Ice-nine?

Crystalized water?

Yeah... you can't drink solid water. Fish can swim in it either. If the oceans die, we die.

I can't help but think this is far more serious than we think.

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bighughdiehl

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Tue May-25-10 06:53 PM
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4. Ice-nine.

Yep, makes water into ice on contact regardless of temperature(fantastic, of course, but a great analogy for something small making things go so off-kilter). I won't make specific predictions, but like I said, I do certainly wonder now. Even if it is fixed soon, we are still looking at destruction of the gulf for at least a few years. But if not, then perhaps something worse.

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JuniperLea

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Tue May-25-10 07:02 PM
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6. I don't think anyone is saying...

But I bet there are scientists out there who know... but probably can't say.

Considering the Exxon Valdez disaster is still not cleaned up, I think it's easy to say decades. We don't have enough observed learning from such things... we can only hypothesize. Surely there must be an oceanographic computer that can generate conclusions from "what if" questions. I know they do this with weather and such.

I wouldn't be surprised at anything right now... you can die from a hangnail if you don't keep it clean.

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Tesha

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Tue May-25-10 07:51 PM
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9. Not any temperature, but any water below 114.4 degrees F.

When they were young, the Hoenikker kids would play with it, freezing and
melting water over and over again.

Yeah, Mr. Tesha and I were discussing Cat's Cradle quite recently; it
does seem quite aprpos these days...

Tesha

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WinkyDink

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Tue May-25-10 06:54 PM
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5. AGREED 100%.

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Lesleymo

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Tue May-25-10 07:45 PM
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7. Whaddya mean?

I thought the shoot-shredded-tires-and-golf-balls-into-the-hole was a brilliant strategy. Or, hey, how about the "plop-a-hunk-of-cement-on-top-of-the-rapidly-gushing-hole" concept? Each "idea" they come up with sounds dumber than the last.

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meow mix

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Tue May-25-10 07:47 PM
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8. time for the ultimate plan, Top Ramen

plug the hole and let it hydrate.

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Tesha

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Tue May-25-10 07:52 PM
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10. Well, oleate. (NT)

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