BP oil spill, are we all going to die?!?

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Toony [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Drilling at 5k feet presents problems shallow (500') drilling doesn't.

Any guesses as to why they were drilling at 5k?

5k? The avg on land is 2k and goes much deeper. This one is something like 20k feet.

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Theyre running out of Oil along shorelines and on land. Thats not a scientific affirmation, thats what i could muster from reading recent articles about the spill here and there.

Sorry, no. We are running out of places that we are allowed to drill on land. They are drilling in the gulf because there are no insane restriction nor millions and millions of dollars in fees just to explore a site to find if it does have oil.

Originally Posted by Eyry [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

More oil leaks naturally out of the earths crust and into the ocean every day than what the Oil spill is doing right now. The only reason people are complaining about it is because its noticeable in one area.

There were tar balls before the spill and there will be tar balls after the spill. Deal with it.

True. I've even seen oil pools on land that have come up from oil caches below. This stuff is always coming up, not going down. It's more than likely a natural byproduct of the earth. Lets see you get a trillion "dinosaurs" 5 miles down where pressure is like 10000psi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Oh yeah edit: problem is though that it's concentrated in one area. I'd probably go for the nuke option even though....

Originally Posted by smokiing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But have no worries, we might just have one solution to save mankind. Drill down a nuclear bomb and blow that sucker up or... make it much worse human style!

Problem is, who is going to pay for the damage from the tsunami? In the US, we can't even seed our clouds in most places, because of the impact resulting in lawsuits. This would make for international lawsuits on a big scale after shores get wiped. Jones is an ass btw, shock jock radio. Wait until he smears you, he has it against everyone... unless you buy gold from him.