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Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_oil_spill_lingers

Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.

I don't know about you, but this does not surprise me in the least.

If I review the last thread on this, I'd bet I was saying this all along. Imagining the size of the gulf as compared to the size of a research submarine, I think there is more to the story. I like to think in mathematics at times and this is one of them. If we catch a mouse and dispose of it we really have eliminated thousands of mice due to thier high rate of reproduction. So a seabed full of dead dead critters that can no longer reproduce impacts the population forever. The gulf may recover, but mathematicly speaking the population of sea life is much less.