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Please tell me this article is all lies, /sci/. I'm scared. ;_;

http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing
-event

>> No.1375961

Nothing will ahppen, it's just a little fucking fart!

>> No.1375965

It's legit. We're fucked. You heard it here first

>> No.1375970

Do you faggots want to live forever?

>> No.1375973

>>1375957

It's not legit, it was written by a fucking idiot who wants attention.

>> No.1375978

>>1375973

Explanation: The undersea methane bubble was only 1/6 causes of the extinction and the extinction only wiped out 57% of all life on earth.

U happy now?

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Fucking Britain. Goddamnit. I hate you stupid fucking pasty pieces of shit.

FUCK YOU ALL. YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED OFF YEARS AGO, YOUR MONARCHY IS ARCHAIC AND A WORTHLESS SHAM. WHY DO YOU EVEN HAVE A QUEEN? IT IS 2010 FOR FUCK'S SAKE. IF ONLY THE MUSLIMS RAN YOU FUCKERS OUT YEARS AGO.

YES I MAD

>> No.1376017

You see, there's just one problem with this article...

deepwater horizon is leaking crude oil, not methane gas.

What the fuck is this author going on about?

>> No.1376026

>undersea mammoth methane bubble

What.

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we have a queen to lure over stupid amerifag tourists that spend their money here :D

>> No.1376035

>>1375981
Well this post and image looks familiar...

>> No.1376040

>>1376026
it's more scientific sounding than "giant earth fart"

>> No.1376050

>oil leak
>methane
i lold

>> No.1376059 [DELETED] 

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Don't worry, the aliens got it all handled.

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2012

you're are now aware of it

>> No.1376073

>>1376017
>>1376050
He's saying that the area that was drilled will erupt.

>> No.1376079

I'm more worried about the thousands of gallons of Corexit being dumped there TBH

Of course, no one will care about it because it doesn't affect them directly. In a few years, when perfectly healthy human beings drop dead because that shit gets brought inland by rain or hurricane, maybe then the people will start noticing.

>> No.1376080

>>1376040
Wikipedia doesn't seem to have that "catastrophic incident" which seemingly wiped out 97% of the Earth's species.

>> No.1376085

>>1376079
>by oil rain or firecane
ftfy

>> No.1376089

theoretically, couldn't you drill in such a way as to release the methane in a controlled fashion, or ideally capture it?

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>> No.1376090

Lol. Anyone who thinks this will have a lasting effect on the environment is clearly an uneducated hick who cannot think for themselves.

The gulf is fine, the fish are fine, BP is cleaning up the last of the very, very minor spill in that area, and all will be well.

>> No.1376093

As far as all you crying about the fishing industry, we're not really losing anything , now that fishing is banned the will be more fish.....get it ?

>> No.1376095

>>1376090
This. What I've seen hasn't looked too bad.

I call a bluff.

>> No.1376100

I think the oil flowing actually isnt that much judging by the pictures. Just the media trying to BIG UP a story, we are still not even close to the largest spill ever.

Do some research , its far from the largest.

>> No.1376104

>>1376093

yes, because an industry based on catching those fish will thrive when they cannot catch those fish.

YOU SO SMRT

>> No.1376108

>>1376104

BP is giving out money to those whose jobs are affected..whats bad about that? Everyone is happy in this case

>> No.1376111

>>1375970
yes.

>> No.1376113

>>1375957
Would you trust a web-site with the same name as a type of gas that gives you a squeaky voice by breathing it in.

>> No.1376120

who cares, oil spill doesn't affect me in the midwest anyway, its just a small portion of the US you fucking tinfoil hat faggots

>> No.1376124

This is fucking methane. It's not like poison would be in the air.

Your voice might just get a little higher and you might fart a bit more. Nothing that some air freshners wouldn't fix. Just more alarmist bullshit.

>> No.1376130

>>1376113
Ad Hominem. "They have a stupid name, therefore they can't be right!"

I still doubt it, I just wanted to point it out.

>> No.1376132

FUCK can we go one day without some raging homosexual hippie bringing up the oil spill? It's like you faggots have nothing else to do other than hate on BP when they are clearly the victim in this case.

>> No.1376133

The environment will be fine , only a few years after the yanks Nuked Japan the birds were back nesting , their eggs did glow in the dark , but that was kinda cute

>> No.1376139

o hai when did /sci/ turn to into /new/?

get this oil spill shit out of here. we have REAL problems to deal with in here. saging for science

>> No.1376142

>>1376130
joke - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

It's not funny, I just wanted to point it out.

>> No.1376145

>>1376090
>>1376095
>>1376100
>>1376108
>>1376120
>>1376124
>>1376132
>>1376133

WOW, first time in ages that /sci/ has shown some basic common sense, good job guys!

>> No.1376151

relax, OP, its just a scare. They pull a new doomsday crisis out of their asses every year. Plus the writer has no idea what hes talking about--he bullshitted all the facts, and is just looking for attention. Life goes on.

>> No.1376153

butthurt rednecks scared that their precious "gulf" is gonna get destroyed.

HAHA FAGGOTS im living in the superior northeast. where's your superior food industry now?

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I wish everything was fine.

But it's not.

I'll give it another couple of weeks until I evacuate.

>> No.1376161

It's true and the government is in this thread trying to calm it down.

>> No.1376163

>covered in iPad ads
>no scientific backing
Carry on. Nothing to see here

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>>1376161
>>1376157

>> No.1376172

>>1376080

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian-Triassic_extinction_event

Actually, it was 97% of marine species, 70% of land species

That said, an enormous methane explosion would probably not do anything more than make a lot of fireworks and possibly kill a few people. Nothing too serious to worry about.

>> No.1376175

>>1376161
>>1376157

LMAO and i bet you thought the moon landing was fake too? GB2 inforwars with your bullshit.

>> No.1376178

>>1376157
>>1376161

tin-foil hatters spotted

>> No.1376180

>>1376157
>>1376161

oh boy, the conspiracy nuts have arrived

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>>1376161
>>1376157

>they think there's something wrong!

>> No.1376190

>>1376180
>>1376178
>>1376175
You're too eager to take me seriously.

>> No.1376192

>>1376172

I haven't researched this at all and am talking out of my ass here but i don't think the dangers of a giant methane bubble would be from explosions, it would be from methane being a greenhouse gas (7 times as effective as co2 I've heard)

>> No.1376194

Why does the government always try to keep the people in the dark about huge matters? They never let people know about aliens, and they're covering up this disaster's implications, as though maintaining peace and order could possibly do any good. We're doomed.

>> No.1376214

>>1376192

The methane trapped in that oil field is probably not that much compared to the methane in all the deepsea clathrates around the world. Methane clathrates contain about as much methane as the oceans do water. Plus there's all that methane being vented out of melting permafrost.

So this might cause a short burst of global warming, but by itself the Deep Horizons spill probably won't add much to the long-term problem.

>> No.1376219

Whoa, this is stupid.

Then again, I stopped reading at biblical proportions.

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Ok for the non-believers of this event in sci, disprove any of this articles facts.

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>>1376214

Correction: methane clathrates + all the methane in fossil fuel deposits could potentially be equal in volume to the world's oceans

Articles w.r.t. climate change:

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116532&org=NSF&from=news

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5970/1246

In any case, this reinforced the point that there's so much damn methane around that the Deep Horizons spill by itself probably doesn't add much

>> No.1376239

>>1376235
This post and all its responses are part of a government disinformation campaign. THINK FOR YOURSELVES

>> No.1376242

If it makes you feel better, a benzene/methane death is either long and painful (cancer) or short and painful (suffocation and asphyxiation).


Don't worry OP, it will be A GAS!

>> No.1376247

>>1376242

that doesn't make ME feel much better.

>> No.1376254

>>1375970
at least until Stargate Universe gets canned

>> No.1376260

>>1375957

Wow.

If, or WHEN yahoo gets a hold of this story...people will go crazy. There are many god-fearing Christians (sorry, technically creationists) on yahoo, and after every 3.5 magnitude earthquake in mongolia, they go CRAZY telling people the end is near, and to repent. Now, if they have a reason to panic, they will. They will go nuts.

Also, anyone notice the site name is helium.com?

>> No.1376267

>>1375970


TURTICLOPS NUTRICELI (sp)

4EVAR

>> No.1376273

>>1376260
No, it's okay, mankind made this catastrophe. The world can't end unless God does it.

>> No.1376293

i'm scared too, i just read it and was going to post

>> No.1376301

>>1376273
>God
>Real

>> No.1376303

Why do people say methane causes cancer? don't humans produce methane?

>> No.1376307

>>1376301
Yeah, creationists are dumb, aren't they? And some other people, too.

>> No.1376316

>>1376303

no, benzene. Benzene is known to cause cancer. Benzene and methane are often together.

>> No.1376318

>>1376316
oh i see, my mistake

>> No.1376320

Sorry pal. You're stuck with humanity for a long ass time. Damned human ingenuity and adaptation... fuckin'... surviving...

>> No.1376330

you guys know the permian extinction happened over millions of years....

>> No.1376334

>>1376330

Oh really?

>> No.1376339

>>1376330

if you catastrophically remove one link from a food chain then there can be various die-offs as new species form a new equilibrium.

>> No.1376348

>>1376334
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian_extinction
enlighten yourself.

>> No.1376353

>>1376330

According to Peter Ward it happened in recurring "bites," and combined with the lack of iridium layer suggested a non-asteroid impact-related kill mechanism

themoreyouknow.png.zip.tar.gz

>> No.1376360

While I'm here from /sp/, do you guys actually believe in the 2012 shit?

>> No.1376362

>>1376360
No, but our opinions are fucking worthless because the uninformed stupid majority does, and they're gonna go crazy because of it.

>> No.1376364

>>1376360
No, asshole. Jesus.

>> No.1376369

>>1376364
>>1376362
Good enough for me

>> No.1376377

>>1376360
No. It's going to be Y2K all over again. A couple of cults will off themselves, a shitload of people will dump thousands on fallout shelters and bottled water and 'patented 2012 survival kits'. And the rational folks will grab some popcorn and watch the show.
Then the next day will arrive and all those idiots will pretend like they never fell for it.

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>>1376377
This. This this this.
Pic related.

>> No.1376397

>>1376377
Y2K was awesome. I was playing Sonic Adventure. Fuck yeah

>> No.1376401

>>1376396
Just because someone is called a scientist doesn't mean they are.

>> No.1376410

>>1376396
I don't get it

>> No.1376426

>>1376410

people are paranoid.

>>1376396

did you misspell scientist cred, just to see how much street cred you get for being a scientist?

>> No.1376429

Lol@end

Itll be pretty cool if this happens cause I can live out fallout 3

>> No.1376455

>>1376172

okay, there are like 1,700,000 named species, I'd say around a half (or more?) are aquatic. who needs 'em.

Now the other, well let's say 900,000 to make it easier, are terrestrial.

Now there are 5,00 species of ants, 3,000 species of flies, 9,000 reptiles (terrestrial), over 37,000 deciduous and conifer trees, 33,000 birds, and 17,000 mammals (terrestrial,) The rest (about 800,000) are lower plants, vertebrae, invertabrae and bacteria. so maybe all those 800,000 would die. I say who needs em

>> No.1376886

>>1376455

EXTREME BUMP

Fast-breeding, quick-maturing, generalists tend to survive in a world undergoing mass extinction. Slowly-maturing, niche-specific species tend to die out. (Humans count among the latter, but our populations grow as if we were the former)

So assuming something like a P-T mass extinction event were to occur starting now, we'd end up with a world of rats, locusts, jellyfish and flies. Ignoring the fact that we probably needed most of the extinct species to sustain our own existence, I'd think that such a world would be dull and lonely.

>> No.1377719

buuuuuuuuuuuuuump

>> No.1377761

>They will be the first exposed to poisonous, cancer causing chemical gases.

Stopped reading here. Methane, dihydrogen sulfide, and carbon dioxide are not carcinogens.

>> No.1377920

Can anyone verify this stuff?

>> No.1377923

>>1377761
Those are the main gases. There are minor, more harmful ones.

>> No.1377940

my folder of pictures got deleted, but if i still had it I would have posted the comic about how routers emit radiation and eat babies just to prove that load of shit is a load of shit.

>> No.1378075

>>1377761

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos#The_1986_disaster

>> No.1378093

>>1377923
the only major carcinogen that occurs in oil wells is benzine, benzine is only present in liquid form in the oil itself and can only be a threat once the refining process begins. bullshit of this article remains.

>> No.1378101

>>1378075
NONE OF THE PEOPLE GOT CANCER? WHAT DO YOU KNOW, THAT MUST MEAN METHANE IS A CARCINOGEN

>> No.1378127

>>1378101

I should've clarified. I meant only that CO2 is deadly enough without it being a carcinogen.

>> No.1378126

>>1378093
benzene, fuck I meant benzene.

>> No.1378137

>>1378127
it can be deadly, but it sure as hell will not give you cancer.

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>>1378137

I KNOW.

>> No.1378147

I would like to point out that Helium is a website in which people may publish almost whatever they like.

>> No.1378153

>>1378141
YOU OBVIOUSLY DO NOT SIR, SO I WILL ATTEMPT TO EDUCATE YOU.

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>>1378153

Well, bedtime.

>> No.1378180

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2G0P-g1P5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2G0P-g1P5k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2G0P-g1P5k

>> No.1378250

Oh wow, ignorance /sci/tards ignoring a catastrophe because they are warm and secure in their parent's basements, what a surprise!

Try to picture this you apelike pseudo-intellectuals: BP gas explosion + global warming. 2012 is set to be a fun year after all.

>> No.1378255

>>1378250
>2012

and we're the ignorant ones...

>> No.1378256

>>1378250
Yeah... all these fancy scifags with their fancy edumacations thinkin' they know better! I hear tell that nice Phelps feller from Kansas reckons God's gonna whip up a tornay'da, send it through dat der oil spillamagigger and then light it on fire ta clense the sinners and such!

>> No.1378357

Hey 2012 faggots: The Gregorian calendar (which we use) is based on the idea that Jesus was born in the year AD 1, but research has shown it is extremely likely he was actually born in 4 BC.

2012 was technically 2 years ago.

>> No.1378365

You can you can put your fears to rest. It's pure bullshit.

>> No.1378375

>>1378256
that was pretty good

>> No.1378392

>>1378357
the 2 are unrelated.

2012 is based on relitive dates. AKA 2012 = 2 years from now.

>> No.1378399

that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard

>> No.1378445

>>1375981
Why so mad at Britain? I can't understand this, it was an American built rig run by an American branch of a global corporation (BP hasn't stood for British Petroleum for some years now), and appear to have accidentally exploded it a bit.

>> No.1378477

What are all of you dismissive jerks going to say when this thing explodes? You're going to look as ignorant as the alarmists you mock. Let's get some facts in this thread.

>> No.1378542

>>1378477

Well, I guess I better get started building that End of the Whole Fuckin' World bunker complex, then. I'll stock it with beer and pr0nz, shit'll be so cash.

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>>1378542
I requested facts, not more flippancy.

>> No.1378556

>>1378548

Sure thing. I was actually gonna stock it with Newcastle and the entire Dr. Fellatio series of DVD's. I thought I might carry some stuff from /d/ in a laptop for trade purposes, too.

>> No.1378559

>>1378556
/sci/ - Failed Comedy

>> No.1378584

>>1378548

Helium is a a site full of cranks. At least one of the guys cited in the article is a crank, too. Sure, we could have a ginormous methane burp in the Gulf. But I'm betting no. I could be wrong, but I think there's a million things that are more likely to kill me.

Of course, if it DID happen, bend over, pucker up and prepare to kiss your ass goodbye. There's nothing to be done about it now and nowhere on Earth you can hide. Spending your last days alive trying to turn your basement into a fortress is a waste of time you could be spending doing whatever it is you want to do before you shuffle off to cosmic oneness with the dodo.

>> No.1378599

>>1378584
I think the bubble is there but the effects it could have are debatable.

>> No.1378614

>>1378599

Indeed.

The dawning of the sun tells me I've played on 4chan for way too long. Perhaps we'll continue some other time. Time to retire.

Night all. 'S been fun.

>> No.1378668

Methane? Don't gas masks filter that?

Also didn't this happen millions of years ago? I heard information that it would take some 5 to 20 years to fully affect the world. That or it would take that long to kill everything. I also heard it could take some 40000 years.

Guess people just don't know yet.

>> No.1378723

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17479-mystery-methane-belched-out-by-megacities.html?DCMP=OTC-
rss&nsref=climate-change

It's going to take a hell of a lot more then what's here to cause any REAL problems it appears... Although it's not like we've been producing this kind of "increase" for more then a decade so who knows? If we don't make ourselves go poof, we'll have to leave it up to some rock falling out of the sky... Lets speed things up a bit eh, only get 1 lifetime.

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>>1378614