Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez

it all seriousness, nothing will change. if anything, people will ignore the environmental aspect of the situation and focus blame on the government rather than the business and oilworks

in light of these events im almost fully convinced that the human race doesnt deserve to exist much longer.

  On 5/2/2010 at 1:53 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

in light of these events im almost fully convinced that the human race doesnt deserve to exist much longer.

Feel free to off yourself at any time to get the ball rolling

i wouldnt deny myself the pleasure of seeing you go first.

  On 5/2/2010 at 2:23 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

i wouldnt deny myself the pleasure of seeing you go first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6eEKetnak

  On 5/2/2010 at 2:06 AM, 42Orange said:

  On 5/2/2010 at 1:53 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

in light of these events im almost fully convinced that the human race doesnt deserve to exist much longer.

 

Feel free to off yourself at any time to get the ball rolling

You first, you apathetic worthless piece of shit.....

in defense of 42orange, hes just trying to be funny.

yeah he has pulled his awesome sense of humor on me before, he isn't funny....

yeah nevermind

When the oil starts decimating the coast, I'll be doing a live feed for my friends and all to see!

Are you kidding? I'm apathetic because youre bitter about me ribbing you previously? grow a pair atop. I havent voiced a single view about this disaster in this thread or anywhere so dont go putting words in my mouth.

and im not just poking fun. i find it absoluetly disgusting when people are such ignorant misanthropes, saying every single human on this planet doesnt deserve to live for reasons theyre guilty of themselves, yet they as a human wont "do the world a favor" (in their words) by killing themselves? Its utter ignorance, hipocrisy and jeuvenile pessimism.

I personally wish you no harm smettingham and think you are entitled to your life as any other living thing on this planet.

  On 5/2/2010 at 1:53 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

it all seriousness, nothing will change. if anything, people will ignore the environmental aspect of the situation and focus blame on the government rather than the business and oilworks

 

in light of these events im almost fully convinced that the human race doesnt deserve to exist much longer.

  On 5/2/2010 at 3:30 AM, 42Orange said:

Are you kidding? I'm apathetic because youre bitter about me ribbing you previously? grow a pair atop. I havent voiced a single view about this disaster in this thread or anywhere so dont go putting words in my mouth.

 

and im not just poking fun. i find it absoluetly disgusting when people are such ignorant misanthropes, saying every single human on this planet doesnt deserve to live for reasons theyre guilty of themselves, yet they as a human wont "do the world a favor" (in their words) by killing themselves? Its utter ignorance, hipocrisy and jeuvenile pessimism.

 

I personally wish you no harm smettingham and think you are entitled to your life as any other living thing on this planet.

some inconsistencies in your statements:

"almost fully" vs. absolutely

"much longer" vs. right now

also note i never said humans should off themselves. this is for nature to decide.

in conclusion, you are baseless and a rightful idiot if you drew such "declarations" from the aforementioned. good day.

lol shits gettin fuckin intense on the auld watmm here aye. mega

oil schmoil

what a clusterfuck of a thread.

i do agree that the media is basically ignoring this... why? seems odd.. they never seem to miss an opportunity to scare the shit out of people...

  On 5/2/2010 at 3:30 AM, 42Orange said:

Are you kidding? I'm apathetic because you're bitter about me ribbing you previously? grow a pair atop. I haven't voiced a single view about this disaster in this thread or anywhere so don't go putting words in my mouth.

 

and I'm not just poking fun. I find it absolutely disgusting when people are such ignorant misanthropes, saying every single human on this planet doesn't deserve to live for reasons they're guilty of themselves, yet they as a human won't "do the world a favor" (in their words) by killing themselves? It's utter ignorance, hypocrisy and juvenile pessimism.

No you are just apathetic based on all of the posts I have ever read by you...

And you enjoy patronizing people, based on most of the posts I have read that you've written...

whatever you do care about, I wouldn't know. Maybe someone, other than yourself, at watmm knows...

I fixed your post for you...

It's

I apologize for my last post, completely off subject...and childish

Media ignore things they find boring. At the moment... all they see in their eyes is "boring shots of ships at sea".

  On 5/2/2010 at 4:37 AM, Z_B_Z said:

what a clusterfuck of a thread.

 

i do agree that the media is basically ignoring this... why? seems odd.. they never seem to miss an opportunity to scare the shit out of people...

I dont think the media is ignoring this at all? its been on the front page of pretty much every major news website for a few days now and its definitely gotten airtime on the networks too, i cant say how much. What is there to report on so far, the oil slick is growing of course, they set some of it on fire but other than that? Relatively, not much damage has been done yet.

  On 5/2/2010 at 5:06 AM, 42Orange said:

  On 5/2/2010 at 4:37 AM, Z_B_Z said:

what a clusterfuck of a thread.

 

i do agree that the media is basically ignoring this... why? seems odd.. they never seem to miss an opportunity to scare the shit out of people...

 

I dont think the media is ignoring this at all? its been on the front page of pretty much every major news website for a few days now and its definitely gotten airtime on the networks too, i cant say how much. What is there to report on so far, the oil slick is growing of course, they set some of it on fire but other than that? Relatively, not much damage has been done yet.

when that swine flu bullshit happened the coverage was non stop. maybe theyre not ignoring it, but they certainly should be giving it more coverage? i dont know, i guess i havent been watching the news much

So any ways I read a bunch of posts of people calling this "Obama's Katrina" and people are already trying to blame Obama for not fixing it instantly. Mind you this was on stupid anti-obama forums where they hate/blame him every chance they get.

that whole comparison is ridiculous

  On 5/2/2010 at 4:59 AM, Philip Glass said:

Media ignore things they find boring. At the moment... all they see in their eyes is "boring shots of ships at sea".

pretty much this.

wait a few days until there are some dead animals (cute ones though) and then you'll see the shitstorm.

I just read something on another forum. who knows how accurate it is... I really hope its not...

"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.

First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!

I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.

First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.

When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.

Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!

First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.

The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.

If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?

We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.

Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life. "

Ok now I'm not an engineer, but I would hope that an engineer (what discipline?) with 25 years of experience could come up with something a little more technical than "drop a nuke on it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure".

I'm not trying to say that this isn't a terrible (quite possibly one of the biggest) man made disasters ever, but hyperbolic science does nothing to help the situation.

I admit, that quote did concern me.

Can't they just stretch a boom across the whole gulf from the tip of Florida to the Yucatan. That'd be pretty rad, and it'd stop Cubans too.