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http://www.helium.com/items/1882339...ster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

The warning signs of an impending planetary catastrophe—of such great magnitude that the human mind has difficulty grasping it-would be the appearance of large fissures or rifts splitting open the ocean floor, a rise in the elevation of the seabed, and the massive venting of methane and other gases into the surrounding water.

Such occurrences can lead to the rupture of the methane bubble containment—it can then permit the methane to breach the subterranean depths and undergo an explosive decompression as it catapults into the Gulf waters. [6]

All three warning signs are documented to be occurring in the Gulf.

If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation will die instantly.

Next, the ocean bottom will collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland. Like a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives.

When the roaring tsunami does arrive it will scrub away all that is left.

I've had a really good evening - more on that later - but this news was enough to kill my buzz. Time for a walk.

 

[_Bro]

Glad I'm on a mountain.

Let's hope this doesn't happen.

 

[jdogmoney]

Way to go, BP...

 

[GaimeGuy]

D:

 

[Escape Goat]

the core of the earth has stopped spinning

 

[Blader]

Quickly, someone explain why this is bullshit and can't actually happen.

Please!

 

[DarkKyo]

ABANDON SHIP

 

[Salazar]

GAF to Coast Guard: DO NOT READ INTERNETS

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Welp it pays to live in Spokane, WA after all...

Edit: Oh, nevermind

 

[wenis]

the core of the earth has stopped spinning

I think we know who to call....

 

[Dresden]

...would moving to Korea or Europe help? Or going to Canada and/or central America?

O_O

 

[layzie1989]

Way to ruin my fucking night :|

 

[peppermints]

At least I got to see the end of LOST.

 

[grumble]

Have to say, that article was written to be so sensationalistic it was kind of a self-parody.

 

[kassatsu]

the core of the earth has stopped spinning

only one thing to do.

 

[Ashes]

...would moving to Korea or Europe help? Or going to Canada and/or central America?

O_O

Well at least your balloon bursts again.

Spoiler

I almost said: quick, change the channel!

 

[Replicant]

2012, here we come!

 

[BananaBomb]

son of a bitch

 

[Verano]

I can't think of any good thing to say other than they're fucked. :/
thanx BP.

 

[Green Biker Dude]

shit. that's a prank right?

 

[C4Lukins]

Lets hope it is all bull shit and alarmist propaganda. I have never even heard this theory as the cause of previous mass extinctions, has anyone else? I thought the prevailing theory was a massive meteorite . I live in Destin Florida so you can all laugh at me if I am wrong, because I will be one of the first to go.

 

[wenis]

This is going to be so exciting

 

[AVclub]

That is seriously scary as hell. I don't even want to read the whole article because I'm afraid I won't get any sleep.

 

[Gouty]

Causes cancer? :lol Who gives a shit, nobody would live long enough to be killed by it.

 

[Raging Spaniard]

It is pretty depressing, only thing that makes me feel better is that this is a theory built on top of a few other theories ... so its hardly fact.

Depressed regardless, how could you not?

 

[ant_]

So the earth basically farts and eliminates all life?


Awesome.

 

[DarkKyo]

That is seriously scary as hell. I don't even want to read the whole article because I'm afraid I won't get any sleep.

It's worse than you think. You aren't safe anywhere.

 

[Slavik81]

I'm a solid kilometer above sea level. Good luck hitting me, bastards.

 

[Koodo]

I'm rarely glad, for geographic reasons, to live in latitude 51 N (and well inland). I am now glad.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

If you do some research, you will find scientist after scientist that calls this total bunk. Here is one

http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2010/07/09/methane-bubble-induced-tsunami-highly-unlikely/

 

[_Bro]

That is seriously scary as hell. I don't even want to read the whole article because I'm afraid I won't get any sleep.

Reading the article helps. It comes off as crazy internet news.

Not that we're all not going to die or anything..

 

[sans_pants]

least its a cool way to go out, better than growing old and shitting your pants

 

[Blader]

If you do some research, you will find scientist after scientist that calls this total bunk. Here is one

http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2010/07/09/methane-bubble-induced-tsunami-highly-unlikely/

God bless you for posting this.

 

[brandonh83]

Damn this will be one bad fucking ass way to go.

 

[methane47]

its on

 

[Pancakes]

Should probably get working on that moon base...

 

[GaimeGuy]

I just want to say that I love you all ;_;

 

[Weenerz]

I guess the entire world got into the Cataclysm beta.

 

[dark_chris]

I will LOL hard if it happened the day the Mayans predicted.

 

[ZealousD]

drill baby drill

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Seriously folks, this is ONE persons THEORY of the worst case possible. We may as well freak out if all of the cows in the world farted at one time and lightning struck.

 

[mre]

The author is a total dick: "Terrence Aym is proud to announce that his article, "Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a 'world-killing' event" is being featured on the website, "Trends and Forecasts," that is a Gerald Celente channel." :lol

That and his bio lists him as a former financial analyst with no background in science...

 

[wenis]

Damn this will be one bad fucking ass way to go.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.

When you get to heaven remind the rest of the angels who died of natural causes or something..."I died in the,FUCKING A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E!"

 

[Maximus.]

Not only has BP destroyed an ecosystem and the lives of so many, but now they threaten to have actually done permanent irreversible damage to the world and literally fuck everything up. I cant even form words to describe my position right now. Fucking make the people responsible for this shit suffer and disband this retarded company.

edit: may have freaked out over nothing :lol

 

[The Felo]

If the methane bubble—a bubble that could be as big as 20 miles wide—erupts with titanic force from the seabed into the Gulf, every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will immediately sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists participating in the salvage operation will die instantly.

Phew, good thing I'm nowhere near the region!

Next, the ocean bottom will collapse, instantaneously displacing up to a trillion cubic feet of water or more and creating a towering supersonic tsunami annihilating everything along the coast and well inland.

...ok, I'll just move the hell away from the coast...

Like a thermonuclear blast, a high pressure atmospheric wave could precede the tidal wave flattening everything in its path before the water arrives.

...um...

When the roaring tsunami does arrive it will scrub away all that is left.

...fuck.

 

[Gouty]

Seriously folks, this is ONE persons THEORY of the worst case possible. We may as well freak out if all of the cows in the world farted at one time and lightning struck.

NO HE LINKED TO OTHER SCIENTISTS WE ARE GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Combichristoffersen]

So the earth basically farts and eliminates all life?


Awesome.

That's one smelly fart

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

People! Please. You may as well take someone who works for Goldman Sachs word on why we don't need financial regulation reform. This guy is one person. Do some more research before you get all caught in a tizzy of paranoia.

 

[ProudClod]

So, remember how I made a thread about wanting to see the end of the world? I was so fucking wrong.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

At least I got to see the end of LOST.

Yes, we did.


Also, will this cause zombies?