Bacteria chows down on remaining oil spill in Gulf

Drop a SINGLE drop of chocolate into LARGE MUG of WHITE milk, what happens?

EVENTUALLY it will become brown.

A drop of poison in a GALLON of water won't kill you either.
 
LinuxGold said:
Drop a SINGLE drop of chocolate into LARGE MUG of WHITE milk, what happens?

EVENTUALLY it will become brown.

A drop of poison in a GALLON of water won't kill you either.
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On the surface it does that. But leave it alone and over time the chocolate settles at the bottom.

Using the poison analogy doesn't help here since this is oil we're talking about. You didn't say what kind of poison. A drop of natural oil in a gallon of water won't kill you.
 
kokonut said:
On the surface it does that. But leave it alone and over time the chocolate settles at the bottom.

Using the poison analogy doesn't help here since this is oil we're talking about. You didn't say what kind of poison. A drop of natural oil in a gallon of water won't kill you.
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Alright, I'll leave oil on grass in my front yard, lets see if it survives.

=P
 
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I never thought that oil leaks into the ocean naturally. I have heard of bacteria that can survive in space and in very hot and cold climates. These little orgasms sure can survive extreme conditions.
 
LinuxGold said:
Comparable to how much BP spilled. (90% still remain)

I'd venture to about 90% of my yard.
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The estimated volume amount of water in the Gulf of Mexico is 643 quadrillion gallons or 643,000,000,000,000,000 gallons.
General Facts about the Gulf of Mexico | GMPO | US EPA

The estimated volume amount of oil spilled: 206 million gallons.
washingtonpost.com

A little math here. 643,000,000,000,000,000:206,000,000 = 3,121,360,000 gallons of Gulf of Mexico water to 1 gallon of oil spilled. A ratio of 3,121,360,000:1.

About 57,000 drops of water amount to 1 gallon of water. In this case it'd be the equivalent of having 55,000 gallons of water with one drop of oil in it by scale. (3,121,360,000 gallons/57,000 drops = 55,000 gallons/1 drop).
 
kokonut said:
The estimated volume amount of water in the Gulf of Mexico is 643 quadrillion gallons or 643,000,000,000,000,000 gallons.
General Facts about the Gulf of Mexico | GMPO | US EPA

The estimated volume amount of oil spilled: 206 million gallons.
washingtonpost.com

A little math here. 643,000,000,000,000,000:206,000,000 = 3,121,360,000 gallons of Gulf of Mexico water to 1 gallon of oil spilled. A ratio of 3,121,360,000:1.

About 57,000 drops of water amount to 1 gallon of water. In this case it'd be the equivalent of having 55,000 gallons of water with one drop of oil in it by scale. (3,121,360,000 gallons/57,000 drops = 55,000 gallons/1 drop).
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Suuuuuure, believe those numbers. Yup. No problem at all, folks. There is no fish kill, don't kid yourself. Just carry on drilling and nature has proven itself capable of handling spills. :roll:
 
Beowulf said:
Suuuuuure, believe those numbers. Yup. No problem at all, folks. There is no fish kill, don't kid yourself. Just carry on drilling and nature has proven itself capable of handling spills. :roll:
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I'm talking purely about scale here. The amount of oil is much smaller the amout of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
kokonut said:
I'm talking purely about scale here. The amount of oil is much smaller the amout of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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If you believe what they tell you. We know your intention here, dude.
 
kokonut said:
I'm talking purely about scale here. The amount of oil is much smaller the amout of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Well, let's put it this way... if somebody took a dump in a swimming pool, would you go into it since it only takes up a small space of the pool?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
 
Banjo said:
Well, let's put it this way... if somebody took a dump in a swimming pool, would you go into it since it only takes up a small space of the pool?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
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That's what chlorine is for.
 
Lets look at this the other way around.

Lets say the ground under water is the part that provides oxygen INTO the water.

Put the plastic blanket across that ground.

What happens to the MASSIVE water above that area?

Now -- back to discussion, let's forget about how many gallons of water covered, since oil falls down to the ground.

How much sq ft of FLOOR is there in Gulf AND how much oil is covering that area?

How much of oxygen is blocked because of that?
 
Banjo said:
Well, let's put it this way... if somebody took a dump in a swimming pool, would you go into it since it only takes up a small space of the pool?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Not the same scale. Nor the same thing. And what is the volume of the swimming pool are we talking about to the volume of this "dump"?
 
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