Topic: Naming the Unspeakable

[sam]

Two hundred thousand gallons per day of Gulf crude are leaking from a hole 5000 feet under the water’s surface in the wake of the still mysterious destruction of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform last week . How and when it will be stopped is entirely unknown. The mayonnaise-like oil is being blown ashore into the nursery for shrimp for the whole region and the home of hundreds of the other species. Welcome to what may turn out to be the worst single human-caused environmental disaster ever. (Unless you regard global warming in general as a single event. Semantics.)

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/04/30/naming-the-unspeakable/


 

[Simon]

It's terrible, isn't it?  Not only for ecological reasons either.  We can hardly afford for all this oil to go to waste.

[Rik]

Two hundred thousand gallons would keep me going for an awfully long time.

[Rodders]

Another flimsy excuse for the greedy oil companies to raise prices again and further inflate their vast profits.  Where are your 'green' credentials now, BP?

[Rik]

Floating in a sticky mess in the Gulf of Mexico.

[sam]

they just need to pump it out of the sea - I don't see a problem with a big ship going around just filling up!

[Simon]

Would they not have thought of that, if it were that easy? 

[Rik]

It's something I often wonder about. It ought to be that simple.

[Clive]

My pension may be safe after all.   

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[Simon]

That would be a relief for BP!

I assume you're home now then?

[sam]

It's something I often wonder about. It ought to be that simple.

yes and the process of distilling it... which is done all the time in Northern Alberta - the oilsands.

[Clive]

I assume you're home now then?

Yes, home at 5pm last night.  And a decent BB speed of 5.2 Meg.   

[Simon]