Ant Sinclair

Good points Strange!

Strange You're an Engineer yes? What is Your take on Post No.8 of this thread, in particular the CBS findings on the failure of the Blow Out Preventer?

Below is the only material I could find as regards the DNA testing, the geneticist is alledgedly from Texas. Is this true that a full DNA analysis would cost $100 000? With the help of interested individuals over the last two years, Foerster has so far raised $7,000 (£4,260, 5,120) to do the initial DNA testing, but a full genome study to completely verify the theory would cost at least $100,000, so he is hoping that geneticists will be willing to volunteer their services and equipment "for the good of humanity". http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/are-paracas-elongated-skulls-new-species-aliens-or-hoax-1435980 Geneticist won't come forward, for now According to Foerster, the geneticist in question, who apparently does contract work for the US government, is willing to go public, but does not want to come forward until the tests prove the theory conclusively.

Info/disinfo - no one knows what to believe any more! Please take a look at this Strange, more to follow. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/fukushima-radiation-something-else-causing-mass-die-wildlife-pacific-ocean.html Sorry gents, thanks Moontanman and Strange for Your replies!

Through various media outlets there appears to be a lot of damage to the pacifics eco-system. Are there any on-going studies to marine life including phytoplankton affected by the on-going leakage of radio-active materials?

Your correct phi for all, I'll start another thread concerning Fukushima and its' radioactive fall-out into the Pacific!

How far would You think the crude/dispersant mix could have travelled north up the atlantic?

Wouldn't that be dependent on its' specific gravity and whether it floated on the surface?

How much would it be reduced?

Are YOU not worried about Fukushima and its' on-going radioactive fall-out swansont? ???

Have You not anything of scientific value to add? ??? In fact for making a "funny" comment you'll probably receive many reputation points!!! !

Thanks for Your replies StringJunky & pavelcherepan. I read yesterday that nearly one and a quarter million gallons of dispersant was used on the resulting slick from the Deepwater incident and that the dispersant was even more toxic to the phytoplankton than the crude and BP was ordered to stop using it because of its' enviromental impact! As You will probably appreciate this slick and dispersants would have spread north with the gulf stream into colder and more productive areas phytoplankton wise!!! ! Deepwater Rig There were several safety systems on the Blow-Out-Preventer(B.O.P.). The CBS investigation said that in the BOP were separate donut shaped rubber seals called Annular Preventers, Annular Rams(of metalic construction) and Blind-Shear-Rams. When a problem was first detected the operations staff closed the upper annular preventer which failed to stop the flow of gas & oil up the riser towards the rig, next the operators closed a metal annular pipe ram which appeared to work but only lasted temporarily as the drill pipe was filling with oil & gas at high pressure, this high pressure buckled the pipe causing the annular preventers and annular metal rams to fail. Gas & oil continued up to the rig and caused explosions, these explosions would have cut communications and power to the BOP causing the two AMF Dead-Man systems to operate. The two AMF Dead-Man sytems were called the Yellow Pod and the Blue Pod creating a redundancy system to improve safety in an Emergency Situation. The systems comprised of 9V batteries for the computers and 27V batteries for the solenoids within the Pods, these control the Blind-Shear-Rams. The Blue Pod had been wrongly wired causing the 27V battery to drain and thus preventing Its' Blind-Shear-Ram Solenoid from Operating! The Yellow Pods' Solenoid had been wrongly wired also preventing Its' Blind-Shear-Ram from Operating! Thus preventing the most important and "Last-Chance" system from being able to work! I was recently involved in one of Europes most expensive engineering up-grades at close to a billion euros in cost. The control system for this up-grade was built in eastern europe and a team of about six engineers were sent over to perform Factory-Acceptance-Tests, before this the control system was tested by the manufacturers themselves using simulation software. Once the system had been installed on-site, live tests of all its' functions were carried out again ie inputs and outputs and more importantly alarms, inter-locks and trips! !!! From My knowledge of industrial systems I find the Deepwater list of failures ABSOLUTELY staggering!!! ! Below is the link to the CBS Findings on the Deepwater Incident; http://www.csb.gov/csb-releases-new-computer-animation-of-2010-deepwater-horizon-blowout/ Below is a picture of gulf/atlantic currents and the web page it came from; http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/gulf-stream.html

Thanks for Your reply overtone, would that higher than average productivity be due It's higher temperature?

I've earned Myself -9 Rep points yesterday/today conversing with You Strange and I only had 8 to start with. I have three young daughters and Iam worried about their future! !!!

Thanks for Your reply Strange! , Again I'm no expert except in My Own field but doesn't the phytoplankton also absorb CO2? And if the phytoplankton dies, and the CO2 output continues at present levels the reulting mix of reduced O2 & and higher levels of CO2 wouldn't be very good would they??? ?

+2 Rep points for the post above to Me is laughable, is this a Science Forum? Lets start awarding Rep points for telling jokes eh! !!!

Thanks for Your reply Strange.

Thank You both for Your replies. Would You know of any monitoring being done on the altitude levels Oxygen is at presently, and over the last few decades, or any other indications of the amount of atmospheric Oxygen from a few decades ago up-to the present day?

And so if Earths atmospheric Oxygen levels were decreasing would it lead to less Ozone being generated and more UV Rays reaching The Earths Surface?

Below is a link, the part Iam referring to is the section on possible side effects of geo-engineering. If I have read this correctly, as Ozone is reduced more UV Rays can penetrate into earths atmosphere creating new Ozone from our Breathable O2 making O3. How much Breathable Oxygen could Earth be losing each Year due to this process? ??? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfate_aerosols_(geoengineering)

Below are two links to the Gulf Oil Spill, the National Geographical Article describes How the Oil Spill and the dispersants used aftetwards have killed phytoplankton. The second link says it could be decades for the phytoplankton to recover. How much Oxygen being produced into the Earths' Atmosphere could have been lost due to this Incident? ??? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100916-sea-snot-gulf-bp-oil-spill-marine-snow-science-environment/

I WILL be returning to this thread after several more new threads on this Forum have been started and replied to!!! !

Oh well ..................

Word-Play & Word-Play & More Word-Play! !!! Seeing as You don't know the answer Strange to the effects of a die-off of the Pacifics phytoplankton lets see if the Forum can answer this! !!! http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/88102-the-pacific-ocean/

If the phytoplankton on the Pacifics' Surface All dies off, would this cause negative consequences for Man-Kind because of less Oxygen production into Earths' Atmosphere?