Amazing and scary post.
I think I got a C in geology at UCLA. Can you explain A) the worst case scenario, and B) what you think would be the BEST possible solution to stop it from happening?
The whole sea floor coming up, billions of BARRELS of oil spilling into the ocean... I am officially freaked out.
From what I have read, it’s not the oil that is the problem. The problem is that the Gulf Sea Floor has the largest deposit of methane hydrates under the oil deposits. The same methane hydrates underneath the Gulf of Mexico where a crater larger than the Grand Canyon was caused by a meteor and released the methane hydrates that caused the dinosaur extinction.
Not to mention that the oil rig is right smack on top of the New Madrid fault. Imagine that area creating a sinkhole. Lord help us all.
You can go to this FReeper thread and take a look at some of the comments there, too ...
imagine a huge meteror hitting in the gulf...around the dinosaur era....
this has happened before...just no recorded history
I'm starting to freak out some too...
And people believe that????
I think the pay zone is 13,000 feet below the ocean bottom...
One little hole is going to allow the whole sea floor to come up???