[amsat-bb] Re: BP Spill

[Trevor .]

Live web cams from the drill site:

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html 

73 Trevor M5AKA

--- On Thu, 3/6/10, Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net> wrote:

> From: Edward R Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: BP Spill
> To: "Clint Bradford" <clintbradford at mac.com>, "AMSAT BB" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> Date: Thursday, 3 June, 2010, 21:05
> At 10:23 AM 6/3/2010, Clint Bradford
> wrote:
> >Two visuals that really put the depth and breadth of
> the Gulf oil 
> >disaster in perspective for me -
> >
> >A widget that converts "barrels" into gallons as it
> maintains a 
> >running total of the spill - http://tinyurl.com/bp-widget
> >
> >And a site where you can "overlay" onto Google maps the
> size of the 
> >spill - http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
> >
> >Clint "Off Topic Again" Bradford, K6LCS
> >
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> We in Alaska, who experienced the Exxon-Valdez Spill (many,
> like me, 
> worked on the cleanup), are sympathetic.  I am,
> however amused, when 
> with media statements like "there is 100-miles of shoreline
> 
> impacted".  Exxon-Valdez spill contaminated 1100 miles
> of Alaska 
> shoreline from Cordova to beyond Kodiak Island.
> 
> In time, the impact of the Gulf spill will easily eclipse
> that of the 
> AK spill.  Alaska shore is almost entirely wilderness,
> while the Gulf 
> and Atlantic coasts are mostly inhabited - fishing or
> resort 
> industries.  Much more impact.
> 
> 
> 
> 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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