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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:25 PM Original message |
Poll question: Once the Gulf is dead... |
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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. We will eventually degrade into Soylent Green-like chaos. n/t |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. Other... organisms that eat oil will be allowed to do their thing |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Other - the Gulf will not die from this. (nt) |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It won't die? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. It and other bodies of water have recieved vastly worse than this |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The spill totals have drastically increased with the newest 'hat' |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. You're probably talking about the Ixtoc |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Either is a drop in the bucket alongside the Gulf War spill. (nt) |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:14 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Ixtoc was roughly one-third the size of the (Persian) Gulf War spill |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. "panicfests around here"... EXACTLY that. Thanks. I've been looking for a word that |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yeah. For god's sake, someone was seriously arguing that this is worse than the K-T impact. (nt) |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
23. did you see the post the other day suggesting the Keys are now "destroyed" |
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lamp_shade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:19 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Similar experience. My family vacationed every summer (50's and 60's) in Massachusetts. Tarballs |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Yeah, it seems that worst-case hyperbole's the only acceptable stance on this one |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. What percentage of a person's body needs to die in order to sterilize them? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Has this site defined "the Gulf" as "the northern extremes of the Gulf?" or something? (nt) |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. If the Gulf's Balls are swimming in hydrocarbons (+Corexit), chemically castrating it |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. eh? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Ah, yes, because I live in Canada I automatically know nothing outside my borders |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:10 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Geographically |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Where do you live, so I can tell you not to discuss anything outside the immediate neighborhood? nt |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. No |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:20 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. So a majority of the gulf is full of oil? It's allllllllllllll gonna die? |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Again |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:32 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I'm hammering nobody, and I've yet to see anyone clued saying the whole gulf is going to die. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It survived Ixtoc |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. That was totally different |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Denial is so comforting. n/t |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Beats the hell out of mindless hyperbole, doesn't it? (nt) |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. The Gulf won't die off completely. It won't be safe to take much from |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. You forgot the part where the only compromise Congress can come to funding a clean up is an increase |
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Ardent15 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. I picked Option 1 |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Last I heard the Gulf is connected to other bodies of water. If we keep |
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Politicalboi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-06-10 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. I thought I read that if the oil continues to gush |
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