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By: Perspective on Engironmental Disasters » TeachEng.us

Perspective on Engironmental Disasters » TeachEng.us — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:27:50 +0000

[...] when it’s not actually happening to you. When the BP oil spill was in full force we saw this simple mashup that placed the oil blob over your area. In the natural iteration to that, BBC Dimensions maps the [...]

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:35:48 +0000

you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time ….. welcome to the black sea ….. let freedom of speech live **********************
June 10, 12:32 AM

By: RufusTheGreat

RufusTheGreat — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:35:33 +0000

It’s certainly big, but somewhat misleading. It doesn’t show oil density.
When it puts it over my house, it gives the impression that most of the surrounding land would be covered in black muck, but in reality a large percentage of the area of it would be pretty thin with oil and perhaps not even noticeable. The diesel soot in the air around here is probably thicker than the oil density in much of this spill.

There’s also a 2-D vs. 3-D thing going on, with the spill in the water ranging throughout the depth of the water and not just over a surface. Having thought about it, I think I am less clear about the size of this spill. Any other ideas for showing the size of this? The news seems to like Olympic sized swimming pools as it if was a standard unit of measure, and the use of barrels works, it seems to get lost. This should be great fodder for new visualization ideas, of which I have none.

And is it really a “spill”? That word has been bothering me, but I cannot think of a better one.

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By: Poly

Poly — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:23:17 +0000

“..greater than the area of some states.” Make that Greater than the area of some European countries!

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By: William J McKibbin

William J McKibbin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:40:21 +0000

I have been considering the probabilities of a catastrophic financial meltdown being followed immediately by a catastrophic environmental disaster, and the results are troubling. More at:

http://wjmc.blogspot.com/2010/.....ophic.html

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