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jetdawgg
04-29-10, 11:03 AM
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Snapshot of disaster: Four hundred miles out in space, Nasa's Aqua satellite has taken pictures of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. In this image from Sunday, the centre of it is about even with the mouth of the Mississippi River

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The mirror-like sheen of the oil slick is seen in this image taken from space by NASA's Aquatic satellite

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jetdawgg
04-29-10, 11:05 AM
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The spill source is a well on the sea floor which is leaking an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day

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Crew boats controlling robot submersibles monitor the leaking pipeline caused by the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig

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Fishermen on the Louisiana coast fear the slick could harm their livelihoods as it advances

micarr57
04-29-10, 09:45 PM
no **** drill baby drill

Komenko
04-29-10, 09:51 PM
I'm betting Terrorism, Chavez, Iran, Castro, North Korea had something to do with it!!! j/k maybe somebody had a smoke where they should have been smoking!