Earth to explode soon!

[Dorothy Wood]

http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event

omg.

what's your plan?

[milleson]

My god, I hate the internet. That article had so much misinformation, I think I'm gonna cry.

[Laserface]

My god, I hate the internet. That article had so much misinformation, I think I'm gonna cry.

like what?

[Audio.]

I'm gonna make sandwich.

[jabumbo]

i preferred the "save the whales" video that played as soon as i loaded the page


whale sushi? gross.

[Dorothy Wood]

My god, I hate the internet. That article had so much misinformation, I think I'm gonna cry.


I am interested in your debunking!

Honestly, I think the article is kinda alarmist, but some of the stuff sounds like it makes sense so it's a bit scary/exciting.

So why won't the earth explode? :(

[Knuckles]

click (http://io9.com/5585294/methane-bubble-doomsday-story-debunked)

[HAL 9000]

I hope the Earth waits until 2012 before it explodes. Stupid Earth.

[jabumbo]

click (http://io9.com/5585294/methane-bubble-doomsday-story-debunked)


TAL must have been asleep



on a related note, i think this one (http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/02/the_structure_of_calderas.php) is what we should be looking at!

[jackrock]

And I'm going to eat that sandwich!

[Echewta]

I'm going to duck and cover. I should be ok.

[Fern]

My god, I hate the internet. That article had so much misinformation, I think I'm gonna cry.

the oil spill is a media fabrication purpetrated by the jews to create more resort and recreational space on the gulf coast

[milleson]

"251 million years ago a mammoth undersea methane bubble caused massive explosions, poisoned the atmosphere and destroyed more than 96 percent of all life on Earth. [1] Experts agree that what is known as the Permian extinction event was the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the world. [2]



55 million years later another methane bubble ruptured causing more mass extinctions during the Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum (LPTM).

The LPTM lasted 100,000 years. [3]"

Permian-Triassic boundary = ~251 million years ago
LPTM = ~55 million years ago

Doesn't take a scientist to be able to subtract.

And methane bubbles are retarded. They are not pockets of gas just waiting to be burst. Methane clathrates are deposits in which methane is trapped within the crystal structure of water. Exposure of these deposits can lead to dramatic releases of methane, but most likely they are not going to "cause the ocean bottom to collapse."

The article only cited one peer-reviewed reference. Figure 4 of that reference illustrates the methane hydrate dissociation process. In the text they describe the process as "massive, brief, and probably localized." No earth-shattering explosive bubbles were mentioned.

[Dorothy Wood]

aww, nutz! I guess I better pay my utility bills then. :(

[Myu-to]

I <3 milleson!

[abcdefz]

...so... don't cancel my magazine subscriptions, then?

[Mr. Boomin'Granny]

December 13, 2012 is going to be an interesting day.

[yeahwho]

Weeds starts up again on Aug. 15 and I think my pants are gonna explode.