Catastrophe! - A Scale Model of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster

[xvp40virus]

what is the beat playing?

[indianajoneszilla]

BP is gonna go Bankrupt after this...

[UponInfinity]

@indianajoneszilla Don't count on it.

[jpatton1989]

My question is: They have such a huge project going on. Why would they have absolutely no plan in case of a problem?

[baihbalm]

I'm a registered redneck, and I say we should nuke em. It worked in WW2, it can work now. After we're done nukin, we can watch nascar drives crash into walls and hope to start another war with Iran. Then we'll forget this ever happen cause I don't live near yall, and it if it don't stop me from having kids with my sister, or take away my guns, I don't care.

[burntonion05]

We should rename the oil rig to The Sarah Palin Drill Baby Drill Horizon. That way she can go down in history as the woman that destroyed the gulf coast of America like she should.

[RandomTrollAccount]

@burntonion05

umm, i'm no fan of palin but what the FUCK does she have to do with this disaster? christ, what a god damn moron... ANYWAY, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the domino that starts mass extinctions. We're going out solyent green stylee :\

[burntonion05]

@RandomTrollAccount She is the queen of oil exploration in America, and Alaska too. As for the mass extinction, yes I agree but to an extent. I think this is the beginning of the end of the southern states that border the gulf. They will no longer be fishing, restaurant, and tourism destinations and will only be useful for robbing the soil of oil and minerals. We now have a middle east right hear in America and what a fitting place where people are just like the people in Iran (religious nuts)

[astigpinoy03]

fuck that robot shit!!!!!!!!!!

[Krunkolishes]

People say it's not so deep. Why don't you swim down there. If you ever make it, let me know.

[Ra1d3rs4lif3]

Totally official

[Y109News]

I got bored watching the robot go down XD

[Imagineartsone]

@Y109News

Think if I did the dive in Real-Time!! I wonder how long it takes for these guys to actually get to the bottom?

[UnderseaCaveman]

@Imagineartsone In real time, an ROV can descend only descend at "free fall speed"... in water (and shape/drag of ROV Trailer) about 2 KNOTS or 3 feet/sec.

So, to 5,000 feet....it would take at least 27 minutes....about 18 times longer than this video (under ideal circumstances)....but they are probably only going 1-2 feet per second....so more like 45 minutes.

[Imagineartsone]

@UnderseaCaveman Hey thanks for the info!!!

[UnderseaCaveman]

@Imagineartsone great work on the animation....gives a sense....like "How freakin' long is this gonna take.....wow, that's deep"...

What would it be like to be a mile above Earth in a Zeplin and dangle 8-inch pipe all the way to the ground??? Oh, then pump fuel up the pipe to Zep to unload to other Zeps, after drilling a couple miles horizontally (to the STADIUM FULL OF PETROL) ...Freakin' insane!! Nice work. We must desperate for OIL.

[BALLlSLlFE]

a double rainbow!!!

[mycrickethighlights2]

WOW.. I thought it was DEEPER!! its OKay its not So Deep!!

[brittanykathlyn]

I don't understand why we couldn't think of a way to fix this problem BEFORE it happened... Meaning they should of known a way to fix it IF it did happen, and it did. Dumb. Now our waters are disgusting.

[bestelectronicreview]

@brittanykathlyn eaiser said then done

[dnlzmd]

that aint so deep :D

[Marybelshitax]

WTH-?

[00x98pd]

thats how deep it is and that is why they can't stop the leak it's to farrrrrr downnnnn,,,,,,,,,,,,

[NorwayLove]

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

[PickleProds]

@NorwayLove it means that spongebob is fucked

[thatGUYfromSKWL]

FUCK

[DjGalm]

I call the Vuvuzela on this one!

[datchick360]

why the fuck does that shit have to be underwater who in the fuck builded that shit there wtf!!!!

[sarok17]

@datchick360 .... That is where the oil is Dumbass.

[pillageNplunder1]

Obama's Katrina.

[DjGalm]

@pillageNplunder1 Yep! Obama pushed that rig off its columns and caused the oil spill and is refusing to clean it up. Good thinking yo!

[bradsabeast]

@riyusVids69 your just a fucking retard if you think this oil spill is because of "karma" its a fucking mechanical problem of BPs not some gay superstition

[dougdmelo]

so the most interesting part where you can actually see the damage, is the final part and it lasts 1 second, so this video pretty much fail right now (re-cut it)

[Imagineartsone]

@dougdmelo

so you missed the whole point of this. We all know what the damage looks like. It's streaming live right now, go look. The point is the amount of water above the damage is never shown in scale. All the graphics look like the well is in a lake somewhere. The scale here is 1mm to 1ft.

[dougdmelo]

@Imagineartsone it is boring to watch the robot go down for 1 minute withouth zooming out to see how far did it actually go... this animation has a lot of potential, but was edited in the wrong way... (unless you really don't care about catching people's attention, then you should just show a black and white grafic, would be less boring cause you dont have to wait it to end) I had to replay and go straight no the end, pause it only to have an idea of the scale with the empire states building

[Imagineartsone]

@dougdmelo Yes but during that minute did you ask, "Geez when is this going to end?" That's the point, it really deep, the pay-off is at the end when you DO zoom out. I understand your point and that's why this is really about the poster located here: .tonytaj.com/poster-catastroph­e-a-scale-model-of-the-deepw

A high resolution version wil be posted soon, we just need to work on server capacity since the file is 100mb at full size. The full scale poster is 18ft tall.

[iBorderBum]

its wierd how the event started right on the smoke weed holiday

[Aliendear]

interesting model.

[goofoomoo]

SONG???

[Imagineartsone]

@goofoomoo

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[brynjar77]

just nuke the fucking ting.

[DjGalm]

@brynjar77 I guess this defies the saying "With a little duct tape, anything can be fixed!"

[mutiplevitamins]

@brynjar77 Yes, let's nuke the giant ball of oil. What harm could possibly come of that? lmao

They should do it just to see what happens. If this was the fifties they would've done that already

[TheHolySpirit]

That's almost as deep as the debt we're in!

See

watch?v=yREOUxo6Qdc

Buy gold and silver!

[Imaducklol]

Fuck BP.

[Peon546]

nice video

[somejackball]

crush depth

[riyusVids69]

us goes to a country takes over gets their oil. dont u think this is karma?

[Vinnydoz007]

@riyusVids69 No I think its a natural disaster. Karma doesnt apply to nations. It applies to people. How could it be Karma when their are plenty of innocent good people suffering from this disaster? I know it always fun to say Americans deserve what they get, but its additudes like that, that lead to ideas of hatred an genocide. No country is all bad. Nor is any country all good. Whatever country your from? Im sure theyve done terrible things too. ITs just not as publicized.

[riyusVids69]

@Vinnydoz007 its karma man innocent people suffered when america tried to take oil from the middle east. weither americans will see it that way i dont know. but thanks for the very intelligently replying to my comment and not go for the old U SPELT ......... WRONG u retard.

[Vinnydoz007]

@riyusVids69 your not adressing my point. karma is for people. not countries. Dont write off an entire people for the acts of some. i appreciate you replaying. but honestly your initial comments are very inciteful

[JayDOgden]

Great work, very cool vid, really puts a scope on how f'd up this thing is. Hope this goes viral soon.

[Derail07]

I hope this gets seen by the world

[bateragabriel]

WOW thats really deep

[riteguard22]

@bateragabriel that's what she said