The oil is not going to stay contained in the gulf much longer. According to researchers working at Intel's Rio Rancho campus, home to one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, once the oil moves past Florida it could spread up to 3,000 miles per month:
"From these simulations we can say with a high degree of certainty that it is very likely sometime in the next six months that oil from this spill will get into the Atlantic," said oceanographer Synte Peacock of the NCAR, who is running the project. "We can say that when it happens, it will be fast, much faster than anything we have seen so far," she said.
After globalizing our financial losses during the recent crisis, it seems that we are now globalizing the damage from the BP oil spill disaster as well. Hope you like oil in your sand!
[Gizmodo]
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