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Originally Posted by arschloch
that's an inaccurate experiment. there are too many microbes and other organisms living in seawater. there are a lot of other factors too.
not to say that i'm instantly going to believe what i hear on the news. it would be nice if that oil just went away, though..
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Okay, obviously that idea was far too complex for GFY, so let me try again:
We can make a reasonably accurate scale model of the Earth's oceans. This is done all the time for tsunami modeling and other various studies. We can get the most widely accepted estimates of the volume of water that is in the oceans, and simply reduce it to scale. Then, we'll put an equal ratio of actual seawater to crude oil mixture within it, made from the actual Gulf of Mexico seawater sampling, and crude from the actual well. This will be done in one of the top labs in the country, not the garage, where in a controlled environment, an approximation of area sealife can be introduced and mock current & wave action can be applied in accordance to the scale as well as other random events that can be duplicated within the laboratory environment such as rain, wind, surface burning, atmospheric pressures, etc. This should only run a few billion.
There. More GFY appropriate.