Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event

[JMarz]

http://www.helium.com/items/1882339...ster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

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[Harry Hughes]

 

[xFkx]

We'll.. like.. use the bladeless fans to blow the methane in the other direction.

TECHNOLOGY FUKK YEEH !

 

[kaomao]

strange enough both my credit card and debit card expire on 2012.
I hope they won't be my last cards lol

 

[drew_drummer]

WE'RE ALL GOANNA FRIIIEEE!!

 

[roy22341]

So not only are the oil companies in bed with politicians, raping and pillaging the environment, destroying free market economics, but now they're being blamed for an impending armageddon? Wow...

 

[JMarz]

True or not, that whole article has me a bit shooken up. Pretty scary shit.. I wouldn't expect to see this on CNN or BBC anytime soon, for the whole commercial world to see. Mass panic, anyone?

 

[FIXXXER]

We'll.. like.. use the bladeless fans to blow the methane in the other direction.

TECHNOLOGY FUKK YEEH !

 

[drew_drummer]

I'm not scared. My soul will take a trip to jupiter.

 

[roy22341]

The reason you won't see it on CNN or the BBC anytime soon is they tend to have a (admittedly minimal) level of responsibility when reporting. Why go flaunting this story when you can pretty clearly tell its not even a remotely scientific study. Sources for this article include: about.com, a Canadian museum website, and a youtube video.

"The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water." It doesn't take an oceanographer to know that this happens in the ocean EVERY DAY.

Just another one of those conspiracy theories looking for 5 minutes of fame. Its also quite a convenient to distract everyone from the real environmental impact this incident is having.

 

[-Gavin-]

The reason you won't see it on CNN or the BBC anytime soon is they tend to have a (admittedly minimal) level of responsibility when reporting. Why go flaunting this story when you can pretty clearly tell its not even a remotely scientific study. Sources for this article include: about.com, a Canadian museum website, and a youtube video.

"The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water." It doesn't take an oceanographer to know that this happens in the ocean EVERY DAY.

Just another one of those conspiracy theories looking for 5 minutes of fame. Its also quite a convenient to distract everyone from the real environmental impact this incident is having.

Truth

 

[JMarz]

The reason you won't see it on CNN or the BBC anytime soon is they tend to have a (admittedly minimal) level of responsibility when reporting. Why go flaunting this story when you can pretty clearly tell its not even a remotely scientific study. Sources for this article include: about.com, a Canadian museum website, and a youtube video.

"The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water." It doesn't take an oceanographer to know that this happens in the ocean EVERY DAY.

Just another one of those conspiracy theories looking for 5 minutes of fame. Its also quite a convenient to distract everyone from the real environmental impact this incident is having.

Good point. Though, I'm seeing Reuters and BBC sources as well?

 

[Notuern]

You reacted to that part?
I reacted to this one:

Next, the ocean bottom will collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives.

Now im not all that in to physics.. but in order for the water to create a "supersonic high pressure atmospheric wave", that would mean that something has moved at supersonic speeds in the first place, and that the pressure is enough to hold that pressure throughout the atmosphere as it moves.
That pressure should dissipate as it moves(You know, friction.), and i find it kind of unlikely that it will maintain a "supersonic speed"(Because you know, friction.)..
If such an explosive atmospheric event would occur, i think its more likely that it would actually shoot the atmosphere in to space, then create a supersonic air-wave that destroys everything in its path.

At the same time, i wouldn't be surprised if such a methane bubble might actually erupt.. but i seriously doubt that any of the other things in the article has any form of scientific backround.

 

[SocialNumb]

Oh hell yeah! Supersonic bullshit!

 

[drew_drummer]

Only potheads believe this kind of bullshit.

 

[JMarz]

Only potheads believe this kind of bullshit.

Guilty as charged

 

[neverpurify]

I'm a pothead (kinda) and I don't believe it. It's a terrible thing but the gulf of mexico is tiny compared to the rest of the ocean. I do believe that the earth has a way of dealing with shit and if it means that something has to die so be it. but the earth isn't going anywhere.

 

[Jaymz]

Lets hope you guys are right...

 

[JMarz]

Lets hope you guys are right...

+1, like I said, true or not true.. It's still a scary thought/theory.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Total bullshit.

If you want to be worried about something, be worried about Yellowstone.