Gulf Oil Slick

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Originally Posted by dreadgeek

If that example exists in history, I have yet to see it. I wonder if it has occurred to some of the conspiracy folks that part of the government's silence is that they simply don't know. We throw around words like 'unprecedented' but this event is truly something unlike anything that has happened before.

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Aj
(Proud member of the reality-based community)

Seems to me that there are quite a few unknowns going on with this situation. From the start, I have been amazed at how so many people think that answers were going to just fall from the sky in stopping the spill as well as cleaning it up. Sure, I wanted that too- and yesterday- but the reality is that the technology is sorely lacking along with all of the other contributing factors.

My major concern is- given this crisis and finding out what we do not know and need to find out- will the resources and political will get behind doing so? Will we appropriately fund the engineers, chemists, physicists, environmental scientists, biologists, etc., to build a safety net against this in the future? Will we bring bright people into this loop and pay them well for their expertise? Or, will magical thinking continue allowing the profit-motive to prevail? And it seems to me that a global effort needs to be at the core of advancing this knowledge... yanno, planet earth. There appears to be some countries that have much better know-how than the US or the UK in all of this.

Oh, yes, reality-based thinking is in order!!