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post #1 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:10am
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http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-...-killing-event
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post #2 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:41am
I generally dismiss these sorts of things as hysteria and headline-hogging, but this:

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Most disturbing of all: Methane levels in the water are now calculated as being almost one million times higher than normal
is kinda scary.
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post #3 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:42am
So some of us could be living in the world from the Road in six months, yippee.
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post #4 of 32
7/11/10 at 11:01am
My prediction is 29 months and one day from today that this actually comes to pass.
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post #5 of 32
7/11/10 at 12:32pm
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Originally Posted by Nexus-7 View Post
So some of us could be living in the world from the Road in six months, yippee.
Well, if they're right, we're talking total shaking-the-Etch-a-Sketch. Done. Not with a whimper but with a bang.
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post #6 of 32
7/11/10 at 12:38pm
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I don't know, there's just something about this theory that sounds right to me. It's weird. You ever just read or hear something and feel really strongly that it's true, or that it would happen? And I live in Alabama, so I would be one of the first.
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post #7 of 32
7/11/10 at 12:43pm
Oh, well. We had a nice run.
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post #8 of 32
7/11/10 at 12:59pm
Then again, it's written in the scientific language of "might." For all we know it could also lead to unicorns and free pizza and the complete works of Monte Hellman on Blu-ray for Phil.

This, incidentally, is tongue-in-cheek and not typical Limbaughian "it ain't so bad." In case a clarification was in order.
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post #9 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:22pm
That settles it, I'm befriending John Cusack and a labrador, the only two lifeforms known to outrun gigantic fireballs.
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post #10 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:26pm
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That settles it, I'm befriending John Cusack and a labrador, the only two lifeforms known to outrun gigantic fireballs.
I'll be hitting up Elijah Wood for a higher-elevation ride on his mini-bike.
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post #11 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:31pm
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Dennis Quaid.

Sorry I'm too scared to make any more of a joke than that.
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post #12 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:33pm
They should send a team of the world's best sommeliers to put a giant cork in the fissure
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post #13 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:54pm
It smells like bullshit to me. The guy writing it starts off with info from credible sources but then mixes it in with a ton of scaremongering apocalyptic imagery based on what seems to be nothing more than his own conjecture. A google search of the author suggests that he's no authority, just some nobody. At one point he says:

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Most experts in the know, however, agree that if the world-changing event does occur it will happen suddenly and within the next 6 months.
If that's true, and these enigmatic 'experts in the know' are able to talk about the danger of this without falling back on over-excited Roland Emmerichisms like the article author, then maybe I'll start taking this stuff seriously. But I sort of doubt that it is. I mean, why must it happen in the next 6 months? Will everything suddenly be fine and dandy after then?
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post #14 of 32
7/11/10 at 1:57pm
I'm sorry, but this is a bunch of paranoid, poorly researched nonsense on a website for self-publishing hacks. The author's other contributions to the site are lousy poetry. We've got enough to worry about without getting ourselves all knotted up over worst-case-scenario garment-rending. Like an alligator-filled wall of flame.

eta - Hai Paul C. Jinx.
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post #15 of 32
7/11/10 at 2:06pm
Haha if I'd seen his poetry I wouldn't have even paid as much attention to this as I did.
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post #16 of 32
7/11/10 at 2:10pm
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Haha if I'd seen his poetry I wouldn't have even paid as much attention to this as I did.
Step one when evaluating a website - click on the author's name if it's hyperlinked. In instances such as these, it very often leads to sweet, sweet comedy gold.
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post #17 of 32
7/11/10 at 2:15pm
After reading that I had to put on some Al Green!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYY185idw-M
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post #18 of 32
7/11/10 at 5:09pm
Everyone in here needs to stop their bitching as I have a solution:

Abandoned missile bases for sale.

Anyone wanna go halfsies?

This one in Kansas has all four original blast doors, so that's good right?

ETA This attractive offering in New York seems like it has everything we would need. I figure if we get enough of us together we could not only make the mortgage payments (who gives out mortgages for missile bases, by the way?) but also purchase a small aircraft so that the runway doesn't go to waste.

I like the granite in the kitchen, too.
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post #19 of 32
7/11/10 at 5:38pm
I thought the article was hyperbolic too until I saw a photo of the author...

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post #20 of 32
7/11/10 at 6:16pm
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The subterranean methane is pressurized at 100,000 pounds psi. According to Matt Simmons, an oil industry expert, the methane pressure at the wellhead has now skyrocketed to a terrifying 40,000 pounds psi.

HOLY SHIT POUNDS²! 10 billion PSI and 1.6 billion PSI, respectively. Enough to compress the core of the Earth into a black hole! We're in for it now.


Semi-seriously, though, if we take the author's word on the situation verbatim (which is where the "semi-" prefix comes in) that there is a huge bubble of methane gas building beneath the ocean floor, and it will one day erupt cataclysmically as has happened twice before, then venting the gas would delay and perhaps prevent the explosion. Therefor BP may have just saved the planet.
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post #21 of 32
7/11/10 at 6:31pm
Jesus, Dahlia. Do not get that thought out there.
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post #22 of 32
7/11/10 at 6:32pm
One point twenty one gigaPSI?!
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post #23 of 32
7/11/10 at 6:42pm
This is scary and depressing and not totally impossible. I've heard warnings for years now about the methane frozen in permafrost on the ocean floor, and now it seems like the whole earth could be in for the last 50 pages of UNDER THE DOME

THE ROAD really shook me up and this article is terrifying in a very unfunny way

I am glad I changed the old proverb in my signature, because otherwise I'd feel totally
powerless in the face of all this doom and gloom
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post #24 of 32
7/11/10 at 7:16pm
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I'm sorry, but this is a bunch of paranoid, poorly researched nonsense on a website for self-publishing hacks. The author's other contributions to the site are lousy poetry. We've got enough to worry about without getting ourselves all knotted up over worst-case-scenario garment-rending. Like an alligator-filled wall of flame.

eta - Hai Paul C. Jinx.
I was literally freaking out about this article and getting all up in my head about it all day.

Thanks, Z.
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post #25 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:04pm
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I was literally freaking out about this article and getting all up in my head about it all day.

Thanks, Z.
Yeah same here.

I don't see this happening, but at the same time, the ramifications from this disaster are going to be way larger than what most people are talking about.
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post #26 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:49pm
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Yeah same here.

I don't see this happening, but at the same time, the ramifications from this disaster are going to be way larger than what most people are talking about.
You're welcome, both of you. Shall I make some cocoa? We can watch Looney Tunes.

And definitely, Nexus. I think it would be a better use of our collective time to try and determine the actual ramifications, as fun as assuming we're going to get to witness the end of humanity might be.
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post #27 of 32
7/11/10 at 9:59pm
"Guess what, guys! It's time to embrace the horror! Look, we got front-row tickets to the end of the Earth!"

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post #28 of 32
7/11/10 at 10:45pm
So is this going to happen before or after the entire seabed around the leak collapses?
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post #29 of 32
7/12/10 at 6:39pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
When I read the first post, this comic went through my head.
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post #30 of 32
7/13/10 at 12:38am
So essentially Mankind will be destroyed by the Earth emitting a massive fart. Seems appropriate
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post #31 of 32
7/13/10 at 2:55am
Io9 has an article bursting this bubble of death nonsense....from real scientists! (not batman)

Its okay people, earth will be ok; just a whole lotta ocean life is fucked.
The worst case scenario is the beginning of the Human/atlantean war.
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post #32 of 32
7/13/10 at 3:00am
Good bye student loan payments! Good luck finding me in the charred wasteland, Sallie Mae!
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