Friday, June 11, 2010

SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY THIS WON’T HAPPEN


WILL THE OCEAN FLOOR COLLAPSE?

My limited knowledge of physics and hydraulics tell me that this could be a possibility. Considering the extraordinary pressures that are present under those conditions, the bottom of the ocean is heavy on the ocean floor. If you have a vacuum situation there must be a suction present and the solids and liquid above will eventually give away to the pressure and invade the vacuum. If you doubt this theory just think what happens when you are drinking a soda, you take a gulp and a suction situation happens, you take your mouth away and the air goes into the bottle to replace the liquid.

The oil reservoir should act pretty much the same way. The reason the oil is spewing is because the extraordinary pressures that are beneath at those depths…but when the reservoir empties out, that vacuum has to be replaced…I suspect it will be replaced with whatever ocean floor is above it and with sea water.

I am thinking about what happens when a volcano erupts; the pressure makes it spew out lava and debris, then when the pressure has subsided the caldera collapses often creating a crater.

Does that make sense? If I am wrong, somebody please correct me.

CAN YOU SAY GREASY TSUNAMI?

1 comments:

  1. Found the question on yahoo, with some answers (no way to know the quality of the respondents).

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100526063545AAuC9nT

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