Comments on: Sea snot explodes near BP spill disaster site, threatening marine ecosystem

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeez, and I thought that recent BP funded study showed that most of the oil disappeared via hungry, hungry microbes.

Could it be that study was mostly full of shit?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Gesundheit!

By: imipak

imipak — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Cowicide Considering that essentially every other BB post on the DWH blowout has been proved by the passage of time to be based on uninformed scaremongering, my money’s on the science. (And no, the report you refer to was not “BP funded”. Too bored of this nonsense to waste any more time Googling up refutations, but once again I strongly recommend TheOilDrum.com as a great place to see various hypothesis and suggestions being thrashed out in the open by some knowledgeable, well-informed posters.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, just wait for the sneeze.

By: krische

krische — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s only the base of the food chain. How bad can it be?

By: robulus

robulus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We’re all terribly sorry to have wasted your time, and won’t detain you further.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

lol

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess ‘sea snot’ is better than ‘sea spooge’.

By: ahankinson

ahankinson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sea snot.
Sea snot blow.
Blow, snot, blow!

By: hassenpfeffer

hassenpfeffer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

BP has announced plans to dump 120 metric tons of Sudafed into the Gulf.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

lol good one.

By: mdh

mdh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the clumps of mucus may have temporarily wiped out the base of the food chain in the spill region.

…in areas where the heavier fractions of oil hadn’t already done so.

By: jrhd

jrhd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had no problems w/ going into the ocean before, but this cuts it. Sea snot! I am never going in the ocean again. Disgusting! I fell like I need to take a shower after reading this story, or at least sanitize my hands.

By: mwiik

mwiik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Please join my campaign to use ‘snautillus’ as the term for such sea spooge creatures.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is that snot I sea?

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And no, the report you refer to was not “BP funded”. Too bored of this nonsense to waste any more time Googling up refutations

Too bored to be bothered, huh? But, you still took time out of your busy schedule to write your little misinformed comment thar, I see.

Here, I’ll go through the arduous, time-consuming trouble for ya:
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/take-it-with-a-grain-of-sea-salt-gulf-microbe-study-was-funded-by-bp

But, ah… oh, that’s right… $500 million never influences anybody anyway, correct?

my money’s on the science.

Yeah, and BP’s money is on the science too… in a boot on its neck sort of way.

If you are so invested in science, then why not interrupt your busy schedule for this science (by the way, ironically it was published in the journal Science):

Bacteria in the gulf mostly digested gas, not oil, study finds

And, in between snacks, try these out:

BPâ€™s “Missing Oil” Washes Up in St. Maryâ€™s Parish, LA

WHOI finds Gulf of Mexico oil plume

[cow sprints out door; goes on to continue busy schedule]