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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on July 15, 2010, 07:42:13 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8752094
Oh my.
sattahipdeep (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-15-10 08:32 AM
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Kiss your ass goodbye!
Cracks and bulges
Methane is now streaming through the porous, rocky seabed at an accelerated rate and gushing from the borehole of the first relief well. The EPA is on record that Rig #1 is releasing methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases. Workers there now wear advanced protection including state-of-the-art, military-issued gas masks.
Reports, filtering through from oceanologists and salvage workers in the region, state that the upper level strata of the ocean floor is succumbing to greater and greater pressure. That pressure is causing a huge expanse of the seabed-estimated by some as spreading over thousands of square miles surrounding the BP wellhead-to bulge. Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet.
The fractured BP wellhead, site of the former Deepwater Horizon, has become the epicenter of frenetic attempts to quell the monstrous flow of methane.
The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.
Another well-respected expert, Dr. John Kessler of Texas A&M University has calculated that the ruptured well is spewing 60 percent oil and 40 percent methane. The normal methane amount that escapes from a compromised well is about 5 percent.
http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gul...
hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-15-10 08:35 AM
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1. Here we go again!
FSogol (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-15-10 08:36 AM
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2. Looks like another "The Sky is Falling" Post using Helium.com as a source.
Birthmark (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-15-10 08:36 AM
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3. Oh, Christ
Not this shit again.
Upton (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-15-10 08:38 AM
THE UPTON SINCLAIR PRIMITIVE
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4. Supposedly this has been debunked but at this point, not only don't I believe anybody, but I also think just about anything is possible
http://io9.com/5585294/methane-bubble-doomsday-story-de...
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Who knew Dinosaur farts could be compressed that much?