BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Bigger than Manhattan

[kgrandia]

Found a very cool Google Earth app created by one of the Google Map engineers. You can compare the size of the spill to any region in the world. This thing is already dwarfing Manhattan: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bp-gulf-mexico-oil-spill-bigger-manhattan

[LakeSamish706]

1. It certainly makes one wonder if the Planet can/will survive this. There is going

to be a massive loss of life of our ocean critters for certain.

[kgrandia]

3. Every day

I just keep thinking back to how big of a disaster it was after just the first day - now its been gushing oil for more than two weeks. What the hell is the Gulf going to look like in another two weeks if they continue to fail?!

[Nihil]

11. A rainbow sheen (dotted with dead creatures) with a black & sticky edge

> What the hell is the Gulf going to look like in another two weeks
> if they continue to fail?!

And that's only the surface ... underneath it will be worse.

:cry:

[flamingdem]

2. BP with their thumbs up their collective butt

What arrogance to have not thought this through.

[LakeSamish706]

4. I gotta say that our Government is just as much at fault for letting this go on with

no safe guards. We need to put a complete stop to off shore drilling, period.

[flamingdem]

5. I'm sorry to think it will take the destruction of the gulf to achieve this

boy was Obama wrong on this one. So much overconfidence.

And if it doesn't stop now it's the end of us.

[phantom power]

6. Nobody is going to stop offshore drilling.

They were issuing exceptions even as they announced the temporary moratorium.

[flamingdem]

7. Talk about needing a movement and bodies on the line at the ports nt

[LakeSamish706]

8. If that is the case we can pretty much kiss all living things on this planet

good bye in the not to distant future.

[phantom power]

9. It's the fossil fuels we *burn* that will kill us all.

[flamingdem]

10. Extinction level event brought to you by BP extras include dispersant cover-up ETC nt