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this isnt very political.
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yeah, your right. The oil spill is not causing a stir politics these daysBrian JacobsComment
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If the rain is not collected directly and checked for oil film, then there's no way to know whether this stuff fell from the sky. Bubba's truck just up the street could have bad seals...
I call BS.
Show me an oil film in a rain gauge, then I'll give it a look.Comment
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Really brian???? I know you are smarter than this
See all that rotting veggie matter in the curb gutter and the fact thats its on the edge of a fucking road where cars drop fluids and the rain picks it up and washes it along????? Thats your oil sheen
The video is nothing more than every day normal occurrenceLast edited by mrsleeve; 06-23-2010, 02:25 PM.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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this!Originally posted by mar1t1me View PostBuild your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs!
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Oil doesn't evaporate."We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgement to shine."Comment
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No your right Crude dose not evap entirely, but its lighter components can and do. But you will not see it come down in the rain in a visible from.The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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Evaporation is a great way to purify water. On that account this is a total physics failure.
HOWEVER.. we also have a huge amount of natural gas and other dissolved hydrocarbons in the area (or not, fuck if I know how close this guy is to the spill). I do not know if it's possible for that to contaminate moisture or to do it's own gas to liquid conversion. I know that propane is heavier than air, but natural gas rises. What we have out there is both and everywhere in between. Anyone here familiar with hydrocarbon chemistry? I haven't touched it in a decade.
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i meant gas to liquid. not water. duhhhhh
anyways it's looking pretty much impossible, I looked up some phase change temperature ranges and they are way outside normal temps at sea level. So yeah I can't see any possible way that this video isn't retarded.Last edited by Wiglaf; 06-23-2010, 04:21 PM.sigpic
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Originally posted by Wiglaf View Post
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. -Alexis de TocquevilleOriginally posted by Fusion
The Desire to Save Humanity is Always a False Front for the Urge to Rule it- H. L. Mencken
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants.
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"The visible spectrum is rainbows. This cannot be natural."
Duck tape that bitch and drop her in an aquarium.
Ich gehöre nicht zur Baader-Meinhof Gruppe
Originally posted by Top Gear
Every time you buy a car with DSC/ESC, Jesus kills a baby seal. With a kitten.
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Let's think about this a moment.
First, we don't know, nor can we determine the authenticity of the video without collaborating evidence. Suppose oil was being rained down in the concentration shown in the video. Why didn't the cinematographer show something like a car windshield? It would be easy to dump oil on the ground during a rainstorm and shoot a quick video. He shows us only the ground.
So the video is suspect. But let's look at some physics. If you can smell something, anything, use your imagination, it's because some of that material is reaching your nose. (Note: Some things produce a reaction and the smell comes from the production of the reaction) That doesn't mean the material necessarily is changing state and turning to a gas. Some molecules are "free" and bounce into the air and mix with with other molecules and particles.
There is dust and pollen in the air, right? Dust and pollen don't reach the air by changing state. They are light particles and easily carried by air movement and assisted by heat.
Back to the spill. Anyone near the scene can smell the oil. There is some oil in the air in sufficient concentration to detect with the human nose. A wind strong enough could push that inland. Strong wind mixed with rain could collect oil and push a greater concentration inland.
But oil is heavy. The scientific point is that a large quantity will not "evaporate" and thus rain down as shown in the video.
The danger for a long time however, many years, is not going to be in the seen but rather in the unseen. You won't see or notice 10 parts per million. And yet, the gulf will have vast areas at that concentration for years---maybe indefinitely.
We'll see lot's of these videos in the coming weeks. A tree will die after a 100 years on the family farm. Someone's garden will fail. A lawn will yellow. We'll hear cancer stories. Most will have no connection with the spill. But some will.
The point is, we don't need a fake video showing oil flowing in a gutter to know this is a very serious disaster.
There will be consequences to this spill that no company or nation has the funds to ameliorate.tasty
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