Honestly, I wouldn't be too worried about that now. Besides you're on the Pacific coast, not the Gulf.. but I'm suspecting some sort of sci-fi scary fiction from that, much like War of the Worlds in 1938.
Could that scenario happen? Suuuurrreeee.... perhaps. I actually highly doubt it though. *HUG*
This article is a bit more clear and less alarmist. Yes, it would devastate the Gulf, but as dieppe pointed out, you're on the Pacific Coast. Probably not something to stay up nights worrying about.
In other news, I got a new guitar, then played so hard I got tendonitis in my left hand, but I'm better now.
Doomsday scenarios are very popular. But this one is nonsense.
The oil/methane pocket of the well is THREE MILES UNDERGROUND. That's not underwater (another mile), that's underground. It doesn't come out easily.
This isn't even the first spill of this magnitude in this region... that credit goes to the Ixtoc spill of 1979 in Mexico. And giant spills have occurred in the Persian Gulf as well.
Seriously, this disaster is quite awful enough without people dreaming up doomsday scenarios.
For a long time (I'm not sure if it's still considered valid) there was a theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Asteroids hit the planet on a regular basis. The difference: It was a much, much larger asteroid than normal.
I wouldn't worry about this, either. There will definitely be long-term, tragic effects of Deepwater Horizon's breach, felt throughout the Gulf and beyond, but the extinction of 95%+ of life on the planet in our lifetimes won't be one of them.
It was. They're conflating the meteor strike (the crater still scars the Earth, just off the coast of Yucatan) with a natural gas release, that may well have happened as a result. But there was a LOT more damage than just a gas release. Not to mention there's a substantial difference between a 21" pipe, and a meteor strike that left a 50 mile wide crater that's still there 75 million years later.
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Could that scenario happen? Suuuurrreeee.... perhaps. I actually highly doubt it though. *HUG*
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and nice to meet you.
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This article is a bit more clear and less alarmist. Yes, it would devastate the Gulf, but as dieppe pointed out, you're on the Pacific Coast. Probably not something to stay up nights worrying about.
In other news, I got a new guitar, then played so hard I got tendonitis in my left hand, but I'm better now.
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I'm sorry about the tendonitis. . . .so now that it's better, are you playing again? How is that going?
I hope you're well otherwise.
*hugs*
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The oil/methane pocket of the well is THREE MILES UNDERGROUND. That's not underwater (another mile), that's underground. It doesn't come out easily.
This isn't even the first spill of this magnitude in this region... that credit goes to the Ixtoc spill of 1979 in Mexico. And giant spills have occurred in the Persian Gulf as well.
Seriously, this disaster is quite awful enough without people dreaming up doomsday scenarios.
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I wouldn't worry about this, either. There will definitely be long-term, tragic effects of Deepwater Horizon's breach, felt throughout the Gulf and beyond, but the extinction of 95%+ of life on the planet in our lifetimes won't be one of them.
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