Satellite images shows spill tripling in size (in approx 1 day)

deminks

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Sat May-01-10 12:05 PM
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Satellite images shows spill tripling in size (in approx 1 day)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEQwHTvXVvyLulB_h5a_rQNWNOtgD9FE49781

WASHINGTON � The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has grown tremendously in just a day or so.

Satellite images analyzed by the University of Miami show the spill has expanded from the size of Rhode Island to something closer to the size of Puerto Rico, close to tripling.

Hans Graber, executive director of the university's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, said Saturday that the spill is moving faster and expanding much quicker than estimated.

Graber says the size of the slick was about 1,150 square miles on Thursday. By the end of Friday, he says it had tripled to about 3,850 square miles.

Pic here:

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/article/oil-slick-triples-in-size-in-the-last-day-or-so/881630/May-01-2010_11-07-am/

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KILL THE WISE ONE

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Sat May-01-10 12:10 PM
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1. that is nothing wait another 60 to 90 days

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KILL THE WISE ONE

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Sat May-01-10 12:10 PM
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2. delete

Edited on Sat May-01-10 12:10 PM by KILL THE WISE ONE

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branders seine

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Sat May-01-10 12:10 PM
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3. we should make the spill and every square inch it fouls

a national park.

We could call it Dick Cheney National Park.

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branders seine

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Sat May-01-10 12:11 PM
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4. god damned republicans

and every bastard who ever gave into their deregulatory bullshit.

god damn them all.

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Stuart G

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Sat May-01-10 12:15 PM
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5. If they cannot stop this..it could foul the entire gulf coast

All for the lack of devises that could have prevented this.

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Rex

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Sat May-01-10 12:17 PM
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6. And all they had to do was spend 500k, but NO even when raking

in BILLIONS in profit - half a mil is just too much to keep the oceans safe from man's greed.

BP should earn a lifetime achievement award for sucking.

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