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I’ll second that, rather insightful.  Thanks timerover51.

TallPall, thanks for the invite, very generous of you, I really appreciate it.  It looks like I need to get my US entry waiver in order to enter the US.  Seems I was a bad boy in my youth with that stuff a few of your states just legalized.  Made the mistake of getting caught crossing the border (to get gas……) before I goy my Canadian pardon 20 years ago.

As for the long name, Mal is fine…Maladjusted, Malady, Malachi…  Got the nickname playing the axis in the original Nova version.  The Malachi brothers were from Happy Days and did the Malachi Crunch between the two of them.  Myself it was Germany then Japan against Russia.

So, current estimates of oil leaking in the gulf range from 35K-60K barrels per day, lets say 45K, so that is roughly a large WWII US tanker sinking every 3 days with its entire contents leaking out over 3 days in the exact same spot and repeat this for 20 tankers sinking and counting.  The average tanker sinking in the Pacific occured every 5-6 days and was on average smaller then the average WW II US tanker cited in my example.  So easily 2-3 times the daily average of oil spilled in the gulf of mexico compared to the oil lost during entire pacific campaign during WW II and all in one location.

Many WW II tankers sunk still contain much of their cargo and are cause for concern even now as they rot away and get ready to spew their cargo.

The United states did not threated to stop sending oil to Japan……They DID stop sending oil to Japan in august 1041 over Japan’s invovlement in China and the seizure of Indochina.  Since the US supplied 80% of Japan’s oil it forced Japan to choose between rolling over and dying or fighting.  Many Japanese militiary officers viewed this as an undeclared act of war.  You’d think the US would have anticipated a negative and probable military response.

I’d image most of the oil taken from the ground in WWII would have been of high quality light sweet texas crude and therefore less toxic.  After some initial tanker losses to u-boats an continental pipeline was created to pipe the oil from texas to the east coast thus eliminating much of the tanker targets.  When tankers were sunk, often the oil burned, and since the oil was concentrated it could burn most of it.  When oil floats up from a mile under and is acted on with dispersents at the source it is much harder to burn or collect.

Typical American WWII tankers held about 140,000 barrels cargo.  In the entire Pacific during the entire WWII period, only 333 oil tankers were sunk, 85% or so of them Japanese and most likely with a smaller average capacity.  http://www.sprep.org/publication/webpage/004ship_waste_ww2/WWII_Strategy/_private/Strategy_Report_May_03.doc

Here we go again with my text box screen jumping up and down with every key stroke…ugh

Last I checked there was lots of life around the Chernobyl reactor, well except for human life.  Just cause there is life somewhere does not imply its a great place for human life.

About as much as I think of the legend of carrots being good for your eyes.  A fun story to tell people as a segway to the battle of Britain and the importance of radar to that event.  As for the science behind it……67 years is a long time for special technology to NOT be independently rediscovered.  Computers being about a ten trillion times more powerful today compared to 1945 make anything that required calculations back then to be trivial today.