This picture showed up in our Twitter feed, bless the Internet. @YatPundit tweeted: "they've killed #failwhale! #BP bastards! http://bit.ly/apymW7 (@enderfp design) :-)"
Instant folk art for BP, cont'd
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Wed Jun 9, 2010 2:42 PM EDT
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Nice
Thanks I'll pass it on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VfypUzx1tI
this should solve all the problems if they are aloud to work
Microbes do work - no doubt about it - but they use up oxygen which kills off marine life while they eat the oil. The Microbes themselves stop working when the oxygen levels drop low enough. NOAA has found the natural Microbes in the Gulf have almost depleted the oxygen beyond the capacity of other marine life to live, so adding more microbes won't work. Packaged microbes wil only work where there are plenty of sub-surface currents to bring fresh oxygen into the water column, which just isn't the case in the Gulf where this oil has accumulated.
Thanks Larry - that is a helpful explanation.
Yes I have researched that microbes decrease the O2 content in the water. So let's try a Capture and Remove approach. Take the oily sheen off the top of the water and the gas exchange problem is then either eliminated or drastically reduced.
Use the bees wax based powder shown in clip below dusted over the top of the water. And then put all those who need jobs and have or can get access to a boat (All Paid for by BP of course) out on the gulf to retrieve the solidified beeswax absorbent and then the O2 problem as well as the sheen problem on the top will be cleaned up. Of course this effort will have to be on going until BP gets that well head shut off.
Maybe NASA with it's many engineers should be brought in to succeed where BP is failing. After all they got Apollo 13 back safe and sound with all it's damage.
http://www.oilspillrem.com/oil_remediation_videos.html
That. Is. Brilliant.
There is a monster bigger than the whale -- the heartless multinational corporation. You've heard of MD, Mobey Dick. This is BP, Biggy Prick.
@DAN-1874763: "allowed"
Nice.. looks similar to a design I did on Cafe press. Is This a Cafe Press design?
I'll pass it on
I would like to begin a discussion about how this fiasco could’ve been avoided—and it easily and cheaply could have. 51 days and 500+k barrels of oil later, it is obscene that British Petroleum, BP, has allowed and facilitated the environmental holocaust this rig explosion has engendered. BP needs to pay, be put out of business entirely, and prosecuted criminally. I say this because I recently read a 4/28/10 Wall Street Journal article (Gold, R. et. al.)—follow this link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html
about a device called an "acoustic trigger". It effectively is a remote-controlled, last-resort shutoff mechanism [Norway has been using them on ALL of their oil rigs since 1993] that is triggered in the event of catastrophic failure of an oil rig--like a "dead man" switch on a train. Worst of all, still, BP decided to forego their use on grounds of cost and effectiveness. The devices cost only $500,000 (five hundred thousand) per well. To think now that this disgusting disaster could have been avoided for only $500,000 magnifies my anger and swells my contempt.
This didn't have to happen at all and, regrettably, it appears that things will get worse before they will get better. Somebody needs to do something to end this and prevent it from EVER happening again. Read the article, come back and voice your informed opinion, and forward the link to as many people as you can!!!
Yeah, well if BP thinks they can shave a some cost for the smallest of gains, they'll do it. In fact, any large corporation will do its best to cut corners and shave off 'unnecessary' costs if it means the corporation will make a greater profit.
MMS originally considered requiring acoustic triggers on US off shore wells but it was vetoed by Dick Cheney and others during the Bush years with the flimsy excuse that it would increase the cost of drilling beyond what "Mom and Pop" drilling operations could afford and price small companies out of the off shore business. As if "Mom and Pop" drillers ever had a chance of getting into offshore drilling, which requires multi-hundred-million capital equipment investment just to get started. Any company that can afford to sink a well offshore can afford an acoustic trigger.
>>>shaking my head<<< How do they have the unmitigated nerve to stand up and claim something so inane and wrong? That's a rhetorical question.
They were worried about "Mom and Pop drilling operations"?? Fu*king pigs.
Classic!! lol
Has anyone heard whether the Queen, whom I've heard is a BP stockholder, has tendered her regrets for our disaster? Be nice to know if the press is as negative over there. Moreover, it'd be nice to know if royalty has noticed.
Wow - glad you liked it. Like many, I'm more than a little disgusted with BP and this entire disaster. A friend from New Orleans mentioned yesterday that when she saw the FailWhale on Twitter, she was somehow surprised there was no oil on it. The spill has so permeated everything folks in southern Louisiana know, the smell, the feel of it in the air, the sight ... it's just despicable.
Congrats hon! Your talent is being recognized in a fantastic way! YAY!
This was quite brilliant.
What do you think the reaction of the citizens of the U.K. would be if Chevron had created the same calamity off of the shores of England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales? There would be bloodshed. And lots of it!
Yes I have researched that microbes decrease the O2 content in the water. So let's try a Capture and Remove approach. Take the oily sheen off the top of the water and the gas exchange problem is then either eliminated or drastically reduced.
Use the bees wax based powder shown in clip below dusted over the top of the water. And then put all those who need jobs and have or can get access to a boat (All Paid for by BP of course) out on the gulf to retrieve the solidified beeswax absorbent and then the O2 problem as well as the sheen problem on the top will be cleaned up. Of course this effort will have to be on going until BP gets that well head shut off.
Maybe NASA with it's many engineers should be brought in to succeed where BP is failing. After all they got Apollo 13 back safe and sound with all it's damage.
http://www.oilspillrem.com/oil_remediation_videos.html
Now, all I'm hearing today is Obama should quit picking on BP cuz the British pensioners are getting offended. Seriously???
Are we all SO surprised??? C'mon, it's bloody BRITISH PETROLEUM for fuc*sake!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16h2cywhZI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X16h2cywhZI