Yes.

I don't watch news, read newspapers or listen to the radio.

Neither do I. :laugh: It's BP man...

Uh, how many of you don't pump your own gas?

Agreed. It's like those people who go on about the impending catyclsm that will occur in 2012.
" Oh noes, misinterpreted and nonexistant data prove that the world will end!"

KILL IT WITH FI- Oh... wait a minute.

Getting ice cores from the poles? Not to say that the article is right but it isn't far fetched that they know what the atmosphere was like millions of years ago.

UNLESS I DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT! Muahahahahahahahahahaha!

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

Finally! An enlightened one!

Pitiful mon'keigh, and their tiny minds.

I also just learned something...a lot of those fires they have going on down there, while also burning up oil, are also being used to burn the excess methane that is escaping. Kinda interesting.

Now, if only we can harness this supposed methane bubble this article postulates.

Has anyone consulted Kevin Costner about this?

Bubble Popper!

But where are we going to get all the brisket and sausages...

Could be just me but, when this has happened at least twice without humans causing it, wouldn't it be more logical to think that BP actually prevented a large doomsday disaster by revealing the pressure prematurely?

Which would give us the option of killing ourselves slowly by keeping on using oil as an source of power as opposed to using greener sources of power which increases the chance of getting killed in some doomsday disaster because of the buildup of excess of oil/methane ect. erupting in one go.


In short, please tell me that I'm misinformed and completely incorrect..

But you're on the internet! :facepalm:

Meh, I've seen so many end of the world theories now that they won't scare me unless irrefutable proof that the time has come is right before my eyes. It seems to me that people are so obsessed with the notion of the end of the world that they'll jump onto any possible scenario they can find and say that it's going to bring about the apocalypse, and when there's no actual basis for their theories they instead look to nonsense that has no basis in any sort of logic. Just look at 1012. You'd almost get the impression that people are looking forward to dying.

Besides, if what the article says is true and there's nothing modern technology can do to stop it, what's the point in worrying about it? At least some doomsday theories leave room for people to take action before it's too late.

wow...first they ruin my fishing trips....then they ruin possible vacations....and now they're going to kill us....thanks BP.

Never trust the British :whistling:

yeah haha, i just hope that it doesnt actually end up like that though, that would really really svck.

EDIT: woo hoo rank up! :celebration:

...except the oldest ice core sample ever recovered dates as far back as 800'000 years ago, that's somewhat far from the 250 million years they claim they know facts from.

Well, it has to happen some time.

There are other indirect methods, such as oxygen isotopes. Can extrapolate the Milankovitch cycles backwards, too, and build global climate models based on landmass distribution. :grad:

Yeah, we've already tried that one.

I don' see how that applies, the only time I ever read any news is when an article is posted here...

Who comes up with all this stuff? How many times has the world ended in the past decade? Millenium bug, 6/6/06, various virus "outbreaks", LHC, various things I haven't even heard of, and now a giant bubble of doom? Next year we'll all be dead anyway, so if the bubble doesn't hurry up, it'll lose it's chance. :shrug:

The only time I'll believe that the world is ending is when it's something awesome. Perhaps a zombie outbreak? :laugh: