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1385736 No.1385736 [Reply] [Original]

so is it true the oil leak will result in a 20 mile wide methane bubble releasing and wiping out over 90% of all life on the planet?

Picture unrelated, its tofu.

>> No.1385738

yes

>> No.1385741

Yes.

>> No.1385744

yes, and the only way to save yourself is to accept our one and the only one true divine over lord
The F.S.M.

>> No.1385750

>>1385736
hopefully

>> No.1385751

>>1385736

Tofu gives you man boobs.

>> No.1385754

Yes.

>> No.1385757

Unfortunatly, yes. The govt. is trying to keep quiet in order to not cause an uproar.

The only thing you can do is cherish your remaining time.

>> No.1385758
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>>1385744

He boiled for our sins.

>> No.1385768

Yep. It happened before when the oilspill larger than the current one occurred.

>> No.1385787

I smell some bullshit

>> No.1385789

If everyone is convinced of this, why aren't you more afraid? After all it's gonna be the fucking apocalypse.

>> No.1385792

>>1385787
The idea is the rapid venting of all that oil will somehow do something that causes all that frozen methane to unfreeze causing another mass extinction. Methane has done it before apparently.

>> No.1385793

>>1385789
Cant be helped.

I was looking forward to a zombie apocalypse or something else more fun than just suffocation though.

>> No.1385808

>>1385789
Most people know they die eventually and aren't scared of that fact much are they?

>> No.1385814

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>> No.1385823

>>1385808
Well knowing you are going to die is one thing. Knowing that everyone's going to die all at once is another thing entirely.

>> No.1385829

Yes, except it's 200,000 miles wide and the splashing mud will extinguish the Sun and paint Jupiter dark brown.

Also, there's a possibility the flying partially rotted seaweed will plug up the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, which will lead to the flooding of the rest of the galaxy when the water can't drain away anymore.

>> No.1385832

hahhahahahaha
guys - you are doomed.

>> No.1385834

>>1385829
you do realize the permian extinction was caused by a huge methane bubble, right?

>> No.1385839

>>1385834
The extinction of antimatter was caused by the same. And the galactic drift is caused by the hole left in the seabottom.

And the coming collision of Andromeda and Milky Way caused my diabetes.

>> No.1385851

Explain this bullshit to me. I won't habeeb it

>> No.1385854

>>1385834
it took a very long time though

>> No.1385857

>>1385851
someone confused a sci-fantasy catastrophe-movie plot for science news

>> No.1385870

>>1385834
it's one of many hypotheses

>> No.1385877

read it in a news article

come to sci to ask about it

everyone shoots it down automatically because its just unthinkable to people used to living in relatively stable unchanging times.

nobody provides any data actually illustrating the situation.

i figure we are fucked.

>> No.1385921

The last extinction event took place over several million years. I don't do SCIENCE, but doesn't that mean it'll just get hotter faster? Not ROCKS FALL, EVERYBODY DIES?

>> No.1385917

Why would some shitty oil leak release methane? As far as I know, oil doesn't magically turn into methane. And methane doesn't simply wipe out everyone on the planet. Shit will go into the atmosphere and that's it.

>> No.1385925

If my experience of watching movies serves me right there is only one thing we can do... NUKE THE GULF OF MEXICO!!!!

>> No.1385924 [DELETED] 

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>> No.1385930

>>1385921
Well, considering that the oil is about 500 degrees hot and that the methane is frozen, I do see the possibility of the methane unfreezing and making the earth fart..

>>1385917
Yes, it will cause an incredible increase in heat and possibly a new ice age further on...

>> No.1385937

Don't worry guys, the oil shouldn't finish spilling until 2012 at least. Surely we can devise a plan by then. Some sort of large metal bell to cover the leak perhaps...

>> No.1385944

>>1385937
Don't tell my you got that idea from Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 Tara's Adventure/Coby's Journey -.-'

>> No.1385947

Methane clathrates, the main source of underwater methane, have only been scientifically been shown to act as a positive feedback to global warming, ie they'll warm the planet. That's about it. Yes, there's been some work done to show that explosive melting of these buggers could cause some underwater disturbances, but these theories are only experimental and there hasn't been any plausible proof that something doomsday-ish could even occur. I mean, hell, methane gas in water usually just dissolves and fucks over the ocean ecology.

Basically, yeah, something COULD happen, but it's not going to be doomsday. We may see a great increase in the ocean dead zone in the area, like a huge one, we may see some odd oceanic activity if there's any rapid, sudden generation of methane gas. But the chance that a giant doom fart is going to rise up, shooting tidal waves in all directions, only to ignite and cover the earth in the greatest flaming fart known to man, is about as likely as Planet X coming and causing the poles to shift.

>> No.1385958

>>1385736

no.

/thread

>> No.1387187

>>1385958
Why does everyone say yes anyway?

>> No.1387200

>>1385917
Define everyone,

>> No.1387211

tofu gives me 20-mile-wide methane bubbles.

>> No.1387217

>>1387200
of the people that said something, all of them!

>> No.1387263

>WWW.HYDROGEN.COM

AAAAH-HAHAHAHAHAA!

>> No.1387311

Er do you have any idea how much methane is released daily?

>> No.1387368

I'm going to debunk this quick for you guys

This is a list of the biggest oil spills in history
http://www.envirowonk.com/content/view/68/1/
they range for 40 to 520 million gallons of oil spilled

Here's wikipedia on the deepwater spill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico_Oil_Spill#Volume_and_extent_of_oil_spill
Worst case scenario, we've spilled 6.8 million gallons.

It's still a huge environmental disaster, and we should take over BP and execute everybody who works for the MMS, but there will be no methane super death ray any time soon.

>> No.1387385

>>1387368
how does that debunk anything? its not the oil spill thats supposed to release the huge bubble, its the destabilization of the area that has all that frozen methane that is supposed to cause it.

>> No.1387391

Guys, I just woke up, what's happening?

>> No.1387397

>>1387391
conspiracies, and nothing to back them up

>> No.1387415

>>1387385
i don't understand though. they are worried about the high pressure, but the oil leak is lowering pressure. So isn't this making an explosion less likely, not more likely?

>> No.1387446

>>1387415
As my understanding what happens is

1. Oil is removed, lowering pressure
2. The stuff that was under the oil now moves upwards some
3. The stuff that deep down is hotter than the oil was
4. This melts the frozen methane, causing it to expand
5. Huge methane bubble

>> No.1387462

>>1387446
but i thought hot+frozen methane=oil

not hot+frozen methane=boom

>> No.1387468

>>1387462
hot+frozen methane = methane gas

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>> No.1387480

>>1387468
so what is it that turns methane into oil then?

>> No.1387487

>>1387480
nothing they are separate products of the same process

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>> No.1387513

>>1387487
I must be mistaken then