If that hole is not sealed soon or if what's left of the well-head goes, this event could destroy vast expanses of ocean and will change the direction of the human race. If this is not checked, we could be looking at the greatest man-made disaster of all time.

ultimate clusterfuck so this should come as no surprise. They allowed BP to get away with this crap.

:kick: & R

I live in Houston and go the Galveston, we are spared for now.

I am going to take the next week off and travel along the gulf coast in Texas and take pictures and videos.

That may be the only chance I have to do this now.

I am beyound sad, very angry.

Maybe it took this happening to wake up a lot of people to the real price of oil.

hole that could blow all the way up that pipe to the platform, causing the explosion that killed 11 people and sank the rig. How on earth are they going to plug a muddy hole 5000 feet under water that is under pressure that detroyed the whole complex? I read somewhere that if what's left of the well head and rising piping erode from sand being blown out with the oil, the quantity of oil could increase to 2 million gallons per day. The damage will be astounding.

I have two weeks of vacation coming, now seems a good time to use it.

Mother Earth took a big hit on this one.

Things are never going to be the same again.

I am hoping other countries are coming to our aid, this is beyound what the USA can handle alone.

They hope to divert the flow so they can seal off the old well.

Estimated time is 2-3 MONTHS.

Just think of the amount of oil that will be in the water and land at that time.

The greed that caused this is hard for me to understand.

How much money is enough.

Money can't put back what the oil will kill.

Save the gas and stay home.

It is now or never time.

We need pictures of what was for the future.

I have pictures of pre Hurricane Ike , they are priceless.

This could get real ugly.

in my brief life that I'm not sure I even know how to wipe my ass right anymore.

I'm going to trot off a few:

Chernobyl
Disappearance of Amazon Rainforest
Melting of Polar Ice Caps
Love Canal
Overfishing
Exxon Valdez
Persian Gulf Oil Spill during 1991 Gulf War
Bhopal
Disappearance of the Aral Sea
North Pacific Trash Pile (now roughly the size of Texas)
Riverine Fishkills (my most local one occurred in White River in Indiana just a few years ago)

before the epic moment.

that's capitalism, baby.

the oil is leaking right now at a rate equal to one Exxon Valdez every 10 days. It could take months to plug this hole and they may be circumstances that lead to an even higher rate of flow in the coming days and weeks.

The Exxon Valdez spill was 11 million gallons.

You can do the math.

if your means for doing so are destroyed.

My litany of man-made disasters. Repeating it was depressing.

No offense or confusion intended.

to go down there to assist in the clean-up if this thing comes ashore. I was down in Gulfport just after Katrina and Lake Charles after Rita. The last thing that area needs is another disaster. But, alas, it looks like they're going to get it.

if it breaks apart completely and flows completely uncontrolled...nobody really knows how much oil it could continue pouring into the gulf. Enough to flow around Florida and up the Atlantic coast is a distinct possibility.

or makes a big fuss.

that Mother Nature has just had it with man-made abuse.

The Native Americans have such great respect for Mother Nature. I grew up during the time of LBJ's 'Great Society.' Lady Bird had a big beautification program....NO LITTERING. Highways were planted with perennials. Mother Nature was admired and cared for.

Today, I get so damn angry....there's gum everywhere on the ground. I constantly see people throwing cigarettes and trash out of their car windows. Landscapers (who I don't believe now a damn thing about horticulture) keep adding mulch around trees until it's 3 feet high. Dead branches just hang there until the whole tree is dead and then someone cuts it down.

:wtf: is wrong with people today? Too busy playing video games or watching pron? Just ignorant fucking people everywhere. And NO ONE CARES! I mentioned to my apartment manager that so much shrubbery was dead and I was told to do it myself. So I did! Then when they saw me up on a 2-step ladder reaching for dead tree limbs, I guess I shamed the young dude into doing something. Actually they thought I would fall and sue.

Now, I'm 'a trouble-maker!!!!' All because I wanted to save their damn trees and shrubs. I can't stand looking at dying plants.

The next day someone had placed a dead bird at my front window.....! I just want to be a hermit....and live with animals. People suck! :rant: is over....for now.

but the bird might have hit the window and died on its own.

birds everyday....and I've had birds slam into the building and either break their neck or get stunned and later revive....but NO...this bird was not of this area. It had a longish orange bill and brown feathers on top and whitish on the bottom....nothing I have EVER seen in my four years of feeding.

I have never seen this species before in my area. That is what bothered me so.

And the neck was NOT broken...usually the result of hitting a window.

Goddess, the evil in this world is beyond most comprehension....but I know it when I see it.

This maintenance dude is trouble...not me.

Take care. :hug:

...I'll just keep a low profile.:hide:

And in the meantime try to get it together to buy a little land in the country and build my hermit house!

I am so upset I can barely read any more threads about the spill. :cry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I

Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, about 600 miles (970 km) south of the U.S. state of Texas. On June 3, 1979, the well suffered a blowout and is recognized as the second largest oil spill in history.

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The Exxon Valdez was very small by comparison. Ixtoc I is second only to the Pesian Gulf oil spill during the war. And, of course, you know who was responsible for that.

Humans are parasites on Mother Nature. Nature creates very little waste. That's ALL we create.

We seem to want to destroy and kill every living thing we encounter. Human beings are an abomination.

I'm horrified.

it's never been done before, for this kind of circumstance. Everything is trial and error at this point. There were no contingency plans because in their supreme greed-fed arrogance they chose to believe their own marketing bs...that it wouldn't/couldn't happen. And that if it did, it would contain itself and clean itself up.

n/t

Ixtoc 1 leaked for 9 months, spilling between 100 million and 140 million gallons into the Gulf, between June 1979 and March 1980, and hardly anyone is aware of it.

In 10 years, it will be business as usual, much to our detriment.

Sid

Once the oil gets out of the ground, it really doesn't matter. Pouring out of a broken pipe, being used to sustain civilization, there isn't much difference.

There have been worse spills, not to mention other ecological disasters.

the end is no where in sight.

Not saying that this one won't get there, but here are the 10 worst oil spills in history. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36852827/ns/us_news-environment/?GT1=43001 EXXON VALDEZ doesn't even rank.