New! Gulf Oil Spill Tracker: Live from the Ocean Floor!

StuDaBaker =8= · 06-04-2010, 11:50 AM

From PBS.org

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OIL SPILL -- May 21, 2010
Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features 'Spillcam'

By: Hari Sreenivasan

BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean.

Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had stood by their early estimate -- produced April 29, a week after the Deepwater Horizon rig sank -- that about 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) were leaking per day from the damaged well, although they had acknowledged that the estimate was not precise.

And after the world first witnessed the 30-second video clip that BP released on May 12, scientists began to wonder more loudly how the estimate could be that low.

Now, thanks in part to congressional pressure, we have a way to watch the environmental crisis unfold in real time via a live video feed. We modified our original Gulf Leak Meter because the video takes our sliding scale out of the abstract and into reality.

See it in action on our homepage www.factor8guild.com.

finch9 =8= · 06-04-2010, 03:38 PM

What a slick post.

finch9 =8= · 06-05-2010, 09:05 AM

Every few hours i come back and the camera is at a different angle. Now this morning it is just all black. Looks like it is directly in the center of the flow

Juggalo =8= · 06-06-2010, 07:48 PM

I moved it to the center, it was expanding the left column and squishing the center one. Cool?

StuDaBaker =8= · 06-07-2010, 03:51 PM

It only slightly expanded the left column on the screens on my pc's. I guess it depends on your rez and if you have widescreen or not. With it in the center it leaves a large black field to the right of the vid.

Maybe we should have another poll?

finch9 =8= · 06-07-2010, 04:57 PM

wow today this thing had the robot swimming around, clinching cables and doing all types of stuff.

kool

finch9 =8= · 07-19-2010, 05:21 PM

lol i vote we remove the link now. They sorta plugged it. So no more kool plumes of junk spurting out of it.

Juggalo =8= · 07-19-2010, 07:31 PM

Werd.

06-04-2010, 03:38 PM	#2
finch9 =8= Private First Class Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 440	What a slick post. __________________

06-05-2010, 09:05 AM	#3
finch9 =8= Private First Class Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 440	Every few hours i come back and the camera is at a different angle. Now this morning it is just all black. Looks like it is directly in the center of the flow __________________

06-06-2010, 07:48 PM	#4
Juggalo =8= Round Table Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stacy, MN Posts: 2,856	I moved it to the center, it was expanding the left column and squishing the center one. Cool? __________________

06-07-2010, 04:57 PM	#6
finch9 =8= Private First Class Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 440	wow today this thing had the robot swimming around, clinching cables and doing all types of stuff. kool __________________

07-19-2010, 05:21 PM	#7
finch9 =8= Private First Class Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 440	lol i vote we remove the link now. They sorta plugged it. So no more kool plumes of junk spurting out of it. __________________

06-07-2010, 03:51 PM	#5
StuDaBaker =8= Round Table Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 2,515	It only slightly expanded the left column on the screens on my pc's. I guess it depends on your rez and if you have widescreen or not. With it in the center it leaves a large black field to the right of the vid. Maybe we should have another poll?

07-19-2010, 07:31 PM	#8
Juggalo =8= Round Table Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stacy, MN Posts: 2,856	Werd. __________________

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