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Oil Means More Arsenic In Seawater
oxi writes "Besides the oil already spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of up to 60,000 barrels daily, a group of British scientists says one can expect to see elevated levels of arsenic as well. The research, published in the journal Water Research, showed that oil prevents naturally-occurring arsenic from being filtered out of the water by the sediment on the ocean floor."
You don't seem to understand. BP is spending much more trying to hide the oil, not actually clean it up. It would be wise to move the corporate pinheads out of the picture (and possible into prison for their criminal neglect) so we can at least perform a legitimate inspection of the damage being done.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
"(stopping a hurricane - OMFG)"
Sorry, we can do this. We just aim a laser at the center of the system cell and destabilize it.
Yes, the government has a patent on this, already. We even have laser-controlled decomposition of chloroflurocarbons.
I think you underestimate the technology we actually possess.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
If they'd fucking listen to me, it would stop WITHOUT NEEDING A NUKE.
But I doubt they will because they're too busy listening to EXPERTS instead of those that bothered to do real-life physics calculations.
Fuckwads. I can seal that bitch with half a million dollars worth of focused C-4 charges from 50 feet down to 500 feet of well-breach.
Why, yes, I have worked on oil platforms. 6 months on, 6 months off. In that time, I worked wells up to 2500 feet deep. Once you're that far, either internal gas pressure or external water/atmospheric pressure is your enemy.
When it's internal gas pressure, the best chance is a relief well even 800 feet into the wildcat and blasting the main line to just above the level of the relief well line.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
If Obama can wait 70 days before he asks for international help to clean this ecological disaster up, how soon do you expect the government to act when they need to do something to save your puny life.
Oh, do you have a plan for staunching the flow without drilling?
It better not turn out that the reason they skipped pre-drilling the relief wells is some kind of extra regulatory burden, like a limit on overall number of wells that counts relief wells towards the total...
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Sending their names to the government woudn't help; they've already refused the help.
Well, obviously they did. Those ships are owned by the government. How could a government possibly be capable of doing something in a more efficient manner than the free market? Let alone the government of a country with less people than the state of New York?
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.