BP Kills world? maybe?

[Echo717]

http://www.helium.com/items/1882339...ster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

what ya'll think about this?

 

[Jelly]

Somehow I'm not surprised by their idiocy. Tim Robbins can explain why.
Also I don't fully believe that story. But I didn't delve very deep into those theories.

 

[Thothie]

If I had a nickel for everytime someone said the world was going to end, I could put an end to the world.

Still, be nice if we actually learned from this sort of thing, but we won't. I was really hoping that hurricane would enter the gulf, pick up a bunch of oil, and then catch fire, so we could have a big flaming spiral of hate on youtube as a symbol for our stupidity, but alas, water ratio and physics prevents this dream. Even then, I'm not sure we'd learn anything.

...but it'd still look really kewl.


Sidenote: Anyone else notice how the media leaves Halliburton is off the hook for this? They setup the pipe that broke, and sure, the BP foreman being pressured to keep on schedule only secured it with 6 of the 22 required bits, but it was Halliburton that didn't supply said bits on time, and told him it'd be alright.

 

[Tentadrilus]

Aye, the rig in question was maintained on behalf of BP by an American company, as well...

Also, if a methane bubble was the apocalyse, the world would have ended 251 million years ago. We probably won't be alive when the Gulf of Mexico's seabed bursts anyway.

 

[Thothie]

Also, if a methane bubble was the apocalyse, the world would have ended 251 million years ago.

It did. (Or about 99% of all life on the planet ended - surely that qualifies as apocalyptic.)

Think there was a series of volcanos going agro and earthquakes resulting in methane pocket explosions IIRC (and adding to the mess). I dun see a pin-prick like BP's opening one of those hundred-mile methane pockets when it took insane geological activity like that to do it last two times - if anything, ya think it'd relieve some pressure. So who knows, maybe BP just saved the world.

 

[FER]

What the f*ck means BP??? Breast pinching?

 

[HumanSteak]

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[The Man In Black]

Came from the company's original (or at least one of their original names), British Petroleum.

 

[Thothie]

A brief history of Global Extinction Events and Evolutionary Reponses:

GEE1 - 439 Million Years Ago: Ordovician-Silurian extinction
~80% of all life (nearly all in the ocean at the time) wiped out when sea levels drop due to sudden glacier formations.

Evolution responds: F*ck. Need moar vertebrates so we can swim deeper!


GEE2 - 364 million Years Ago: Late Devonian extinction
~60% of marine life and all small land animals die from rapid ocean temperature changes of unknown cause.

Evolution responds: F*ck this ocean-only sh*t, we need to get more critters on land!


GEE3 - 251 million Years Ago: Permian-Triassic extinction
~95% of all species wiped out by Volcano/Methane madness.

Evolution responds: F*ck! Spread out! Spread out everywhere!


GEE4 - 214 million Years Ago: End Triassic extinction
~60% of species wiped out by centralized oceanic volcanic activity leading to massive global warming.

Evolution responds: F*ck this small sh*t, it can't take the heat. Let's do it BIGGER!


GEE5 - 65 million Years Ago: Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction
~50% of species wiped out (including all those "bigger is better SUV models") when asteroid smacks into Mexico.

Evolution responds: Asteroids!? F*ck this shit! We're out of here! You, monkeys, get smart and build us some space ships!


GEE6 - Some time soon: Homo Sapius Stupidicus exinction
~100% of species wiped out by some yet undreamed man-made suicide-for-profit effort, or is wiped out by passing planetoid/distant nova/pulsar turning the wrong way as mankind decides he's too busy playing Monopoly™ to worry about survival.

Evolution responds: Well f*ck. Got any ideas Keith Richards? Cuz I'm fresh out. :/

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[Dridmar]

What the f*ck means BP??? Breast pinching?

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Was just dropping by for 45 seconds and HAD to do it, sorry. :-(

 

[Thothie]

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

Sounds neat