19th June 2010, 9:31 AM
Many tens of thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the ocean every single day for months and you're surprised that there is a lot of oil in the sea? Really?
I apologize, I must have been napping during that lecture in my fluid dynamics class at Harvard that involved how much sludge will wash onto the Gulf Coast shoreline in the event of a major catastrophe. I knew I should have taken notes!
You can say "bajillion gallons a day for a zillion years" but those are just numbers... I have no way of knowing how dense and how visible the damage will be on a particular stretch of beach. If I had seen a picture with zero visible oil I would have believed it were true, too. The ocean is vast and deep and there are many, many thousands of miles of coastline. Deriding us because we take that picture with a grain of salt is folly because there is no way that the layman could have KNOWN it were authentic just based upon the numbers we hear in the news.
Furthermore, I bet you that this is an extremely bad instance of beach here, and the vast majority is far less visibly stained. I bet you can't walk up and down the Louisiana coast and see this yellow, black befouled much as dense as here.
I apologize, I must have been napping during that lecture in my fluid dynamics class at Harvard that involved how much sludge will wash onto the Gulf Coast shoreline in the event of a major catastrophe. I knew I should have taken notes!
You can say "bajillion gallons a day for a zillion years" but those are just numbers... I have no way of knowing how dense and how visible the damage will be on a particular stretch of beach. If I had seen a picture with zero visible oil I would have believed it were true, too. The ocean is vast and deep and there are many, many thousands of miles of coastline. Deriding us because we take that picture with a grain of salt is folly because there is no way that the layman could have KNOWN it were authentic just based upon the numbers we hear in the news.
Furthermore, I bet you that this is an extremely bad instance of beach here, and the vast majority is far less visibly stained. I bet you can't walk up and down the Louisiana coast and see this yellow, black befouled much as dense as here.
H.R.M. DARVNIVS MAXIMVS EX TENEBRIS EXIT REX DEVSQVE GORONORVMQVE TENDORVM ROMANORVM ET GRÆCORVM OMNIS SEMPER EST