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guym
03-06-2010, 10:00 PM
This puts it into perspective:
http://bit.ly/cYXzOy

Just change the location, and voila! :(
_Ragnar_
03-06-2010, 10:21 PM
Holy crap!!
Talo
03-06-2010, 10:34 PM
Looks like the same size as Ireland.
Dragon1911
03-06-2010, 10:43 PM
Yikes
Aaron_37
03-06-2010, 11:49 PM
If you rotate it, you can cover Victoria, Vancouver, AND Seattle.
Devolishangel
03-06-2010, 11:54 PM
Oh my god thats bigger than my homecountry!
guym
04-06-2010, 12:01 AM
If you rotate it, you can cover Victoria, Vancouver, AND Seattle.

Easily...
evoke
04-06-2010, 12:23 AM
damn-its huge
faller
04-06-2010, 02:43 AM
Oh my!!
natenator
04-06-2010, 07:25 AM
impressive but are people really surprised? It's been spilling 5000+ barrels of oil a day for close to 7 weeks now. I'm shocked it's not bigger!
Big D
04-06-2010, 08:49 AM
unbelievable :(
Winnipeg Muscle
04-06-2010, 10:41 AM
So tell me how we have the technology to put people in space, fix satellites, Hubble, etc with high tech tools , equipment and training but somehow can't stop this? Unfrigging believable!
Boomer
04-06-2010, 11:39 AM
So tell me how we have the technology to put people in space, fix satellites, Hubble, etc with high tech tools , equipment and training but somehow can't stop this? Unfrigging believable!

Its because its such a money generating well....they could have done that top-down push they were speaking of early in the leak and capped it....but once you mud and concrete a hole, its become very near impossible to go back in the same way....either way, they'd have to drill a whole new well....which cost BIG $$$$$$$$!!!!
look at how much it has leaked and it STILL going...I haven't seen the barrel prediction on it, but I imagine its quiet significant.....hence the reluctance to "kill the hole" as they say