NASA satellite image shows horrific scale of Hungary toxic sludge disaster

On October 9, 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured natural-color image of the toxic spill area in Hungary. Heavy machinery was put to work in the sludge affected village of Kolontar, Hungary, as construction continued on a containment wall to protect the area in case of a new toxic flood. The town was the worst affected of three villages flooded when a damaged storage pool dumped 700-thousand cubic metres (184 million gallons) of toxic red sludge over the area, killing at least eight people last week. The wall - 620 metres long (2-thousand foot) and an average of 2.7 metres (8.8 feet) high - was being built with dolomite rock and clay. The damaged reservoir still contains 2.5 million cubic metres of sludge, but it no longer has a large layer of water on top, so any new spills are expected to move slower and travel less distance, probably no more than 1 kilometre (0.62 miles), than the first one did.
Image courtesy: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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[ModerateNachos]

@killerkatfilms If you think this then you are an idiot. I can't be apologetic or less rude here, and I hope you are joking.

[turtleclam]

thats a lot of sludge

[oOboobviolatorOo]

blame Team Rocket... they like using Grimmer :)

[1Norseth]

@mcap52 why?

[WrecklessRecluse]

I thought it was a wall of death metal.

[otaku000000005]

in memoriam Kolontár, Devecser, and the ten people, who died in the red sludge catastrophe in 10.04.

[borivoje76]

@mcap52 Blame it on boogie :)

[mattmatt115]

@mcap52 And the Zionists can blame Iran!! Iran wants to wipe Hungary off the face of the GALAXY!!! no no.. they entire UNIVERSE!!!!!!!

Then, the CIA can blame Al'Cia-da

The Irish can blame the Brits

The Germans can blame the Poles

The Russians can blame the Mongols

The Chinese can blame the Taiwanese

BTW Your comment was really gay

[GuppieLove]

satellite lol chopper maybe



[shanferg1]

Blame it on Israel? really???

[L4mb3rt101]

Muk used Sludge attack. It was super effective.