Disaster Movie In The Making
My friend, Robby, pointed me to this article about a possible mass extinction brewing in our Gulf of Mexico. I don’t want to belittle the seriousness of the oil spew occurring in the Gulf and I don’t want to let BP off the hook in taking full responsibility for all the damage they have done, but it is a little difficult for me to believe that drilling a six inch hole through the sea bottom is going to result in a blow out of the ocean floor that will release the methane gas bubble this article talks about.
But what do you think about this? Am I wrong in dismissing the theory as I am? Could this really be serious or is it just the thing that Hollywood disaster movies are made from?
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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Note the tremendous attention to scientific detail. “100,000 pounds psi”, “Some claim the seabed in the region has risen an astounding 30 feet”, and the quoting of a lot of stuff out of context with the general feeling that you should be deriving the results the article wants from them.
So, yeah: Hoohey. Or at least scare crap at the same level of the “There’s a supervolcano under Yellowstone that could destroy us all!!!1!!1!one!!eleven!1!!”
If only it were a movie…
Fodder for a movie? Yes. Reality? Not so much. Several people posted links to my post revealing that the article was hyping the situation. Just an FYI.
Robby, I threw that up on my weblog when you first posted it. Facebook is suppose to sync that with my notes every few hours. It just now appeared here.
It isn't going to happen. The story was written by some hack journalist trying to make a name for himself. His science was completely wrong. It has been debunked more times than a recruit at boot camp.