Users Online Now:
2,107
(
Who's On?
)
Visitors Today:
448,803
Pageviews Today:
754,450
Threads Today:
306
Posts Today:
4,840
09:53 AM
Directory
Adv. Search
Topics
Forum
Back to Forum
Back to Thread
REPLY TO THREAD
Subject
Mother of All Gushers Could Kill Earth
User Name
Font color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
Black
Font:
Default
Verdana
Tahoma
Ms Sans Serif
In accordance with industry accepted best practices we ask that users limit their copy / paste of copyrighted material to the relevant portions of the article you wish to discuss and no more than 50% of the source material, provide a link back to the original article and provide your original comments / criticism in your post with the article.
[quote:Anonymous Coward 975136:MV8xMDcwMTA1XzE3MDA0MDUxXzgwNkVFRDcy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 617593] Here is a theory.... you know how these tar balls are washing up in Florida and they keep saying they aren't from Deep Water?? And how they say Deep Water is drilled into an oil and gas deposit that is ENORMOUS and is even under the US land mass???? Now WHAT IF this thing is LEAKING ON ITS OWN? What if its a TICKING TIMEBOMB all by itself?? Now, *WHAT IF* our .GOV took it upon itself to try and DEFUSE this bomb by drilling into it to pump out some oil in an orderly fashion and this plan went BAD??? [/quote] Uh, no. [/quote]
Original Message
Alright GLP'rs, this is gone viral on another site, no names mentioned.
However, the point is that it has not been debunked. So, here is the doom and gloom you've been waiting for.
We truly could be fucked!
magine a pipe 5 feet wide spewing crude oil like a fire hose from what could be the planets' largest, high-pressure oil and gas reserve. With the best technology available to man, the Deepwater Horizon rig popped a hole into that reserve and was overwhelmed. If this isn't contained, it could poison all the oceans of the world.
"Well if you say the fire hose has a 70,000 psi pump on the other end yes! No comparison here. The volume out rises geometrically with pressure. Its a squares function. Two times the pressure is 4 times the push. The Alaska pipeline is 4 feet in d
[
link to pesn.com
]
Pictures (click to insert)
General
Politics
Bananas
People
Potentially Offensive
Emotions
Big Round Smilies
Aliens and Space
Friendship & Love
Textual
Doom
Misc Small Smilies
Religion
Love
Random
View All Categories
|
Next Page >>