@HigherPlanes But not for long. The ocean is pretty resilient. Note: That glacier in Greenland just last week calved enough fresh water to keep the US going for days. Was it in response to that oil slick? Who knows?
Great talk, even if I'm not convinced the project can reach it's full potential. If we're going to abandon manned space exploration, let's at least sink some effort into exploring and researching our oceans.
@smkymcnugget420 I guess the experts are confused when they say the oil has been "reabsorbed into the environment." That could be inaccurate but I think mother nature has a way of dealing with things like this since oil seeps into the ocean all the time, of coarse not of this magnitude.
@Kargoneth To be accurate, our 'industrial' efforts are often the cause of damage to ecosystems. But rarely are our 'research' efforts. I'm in favour of careful research activity in the oceans; I'm afraid this will instead lead to major industrial exploitation of resources at the ocean bottom.
@123backinyerface You know the reason why BP cut corners is because of OUR materialistic attitudes. If we didn't demand it as much as we do at the price we do, we wouldn't need to use offshore drilling.
@Th3Wab3 I can separate the two, yes. One, "research", is the result of curiosity and educational exploration - to know ourselves and our surroundings. The other, "major industrial exploitation", is the result of careless and profit-driven capitalization of our surroundings.
@Higher Planes . The "blow out preventer" is made by "Cameron International", a company based in Houston, Texas!!!. American engineering is responsible!, look it up!!.
@Kargoneth You're right. Well-intentioned people can cause great harm. But I DO know how to fix it: there are too many people requiring too many resources. Curbing the population growth and the gradual shift towards 1st-world lifestyles is the only way to resolve this. I'm in favour of taking drastic measures (by means of 'education' and governmental 'regulation') to severely reduce our world's population by 30% within the next hundred years. I don't mean mass killings. I mean birth control.
@teapot55 What Hayward was doing is completely irrelevant. You can't possibly have one man oversee 20,000 employees. As much as it is his job to oversee the whole company, you can't fire a guy for that. It has nothing to even do with the cars we drive either. We use electronics, have dry homes, eat chips, all of which is from BP plastics. Though, yeah, they didn't take care of the accident well.
=OoO= From that Right Wing CNBC:- "If the Gulf of Mexico - the 7th largest body of water in the world, containing approximately 660 quadrillion gallons of water (that's 660 with 15 zeros) - was represented by Cowboys Stadium in Dallas - the largest domed stadium in the world - how would the spill stack up?" "In this example, the amount of oil spilled - if the Gulf of Mexico was the size of Cowboys Stadium - would be about the size of a 24 ounce can of beer." How about DEM "Notches"??!!
@adj789 All of it. Come on man. Have you flown over the gulf and saw with your own eyes that the spill is almost gone? Most of it is under water. But what's funny about your comment is that even when the oil is visibly gone, it's impact on the environment will last for decades. Some animals might go extinct because of it, and coral reef that has been forming for 1000's of years will be wiped out completely when all said and done. The damage hasn't even begun yet.
@hwnzero don't knock it till you try it :P and i didnt actually say anything about normal perception enhancement, infact you would enjoy the experience better with your two eyes closed! its the 3rd eye aka the pineal gland that i was referring to, ofcourse if you have been drinking fluoridated water for a long while it would be calcified. sounds like you have been consuming too many drugs in your food (additives) your real aggresive towards a neutral comment! lighten up my friend :)
I don't like the sound of this. With all those equipments, noises, lights etc. going under the deep ocean, it's going to disturb its wild life a lot more.
@BBQPeanut Word. Although Hayward going yacht racing with his son during this didn't really help BP's image. Buy yeah, I agree, we're so hungry for oil n oil products what did we all expect? of course oil companies will rush to do things. I don't believe either Obama or BP took care of the accident correctly, but it was still an accident that we are all responsible for. Meaning...... if we are to massively demand nuclear, wind, (even fusion) or whatever energy, we should learn from this mistake.
it the talk about the new life forms around the vents. . how like each vent, geyser, fumerole and mudhole, all having their own bacteria . . . this where earth's biodiversity stems from? much thought needs be give to this as yet. . . is life organic ,with its origins in earth, sun merry-ly activate life's sprouting from earth on being watered by a touch of light.
So, he wants to fill the ocean with small TV stations full of metal and plastic parts so people can see the ocean and learn more about it? I dont like the idea of disrupting on a semi-permanent way the ocean life. I got the point but I think the implementation is poor.
@THISNAMEOWNS me on a TedTalk? Ha ha, the world will never be the same. . not, that its ever been that. They'd better hurry cause this officially illiterate grannie, won't be long for life. . educate kids by drawing their brilliance out of them the way a mother brings out a baby's smile? in tween time, playfully yours, pARTicularly with ENGlish
