This is truly bizarre:  “experts” can’t find where the oil went in the Gulf.

Years ago, one of us freelance project managed something for the City of Chicago involving water that was mysteriously appearing and killing trees in one of the parks.  He had to call in hydrologists and plant experts and the like, and one of the most interesting aspects of all of it was discovering a whole field of people who do nothing else all day but think about where water goes, and how it moves as a predictable system based on various factors they could input into their computers.

Do “experts” really not know all that much about the oceans if they can’t determine where all the oil from the Gulf deepwater leak went?

Humans have been working with oil for a fair amount of time now, and they’ve been studying the oceans for much, much longer.  We remember the nuns back in Catholic School teaching us about the various currents, in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific, etc.  They had colorful maps and charts that illustrated where these currents went.  Perhaps someone should send these to the “experts”.  If any of those nuns are still around, they should be consulted on this, too, because it seemed like if we followed the currents, then something that was in the Gulf would be carried away along those currents and end up at a fairly predictable place.

Since oil is not a solid, but a liquid, like water, predicting where it ends up might be more complicated than looking for rubber ducks that were dumped off a large freighter (which happened in the 80s…and provided scientists will all sorts of data on how the currents worked and where detris in the oceans ends up). But, we just think it’s bizarre the “experts” are stumped on where all this oil is.

“It disappeared” or “something drank it” are not good enough answers.

Though, we’ve always said that eventually SOMETHING would evolve to eat petroleum products that are supposedly accumulating into a giant garbaged dump in the middle of the Pacific.  We saw a special once about this place that plastics supposedly go, that traps all sorts of animals who are too stupid to get out of the way.  That’s where all of those plastic rings from soda packs are strangling all sorts of things, apparently.  With all of that material out there, it just seems obvious that some kind of bacteria or critter would evolve to feast on all of it as a food source in due time.  That’s what seems to happen to everything else in the ecosystem.  Looking at the course of life on this planet, that’s happened time and time again where some pressure forced organisms to adapt, survive, and thrive.

Some animals we have today won’t survive this or that event, but new animals will emerge that will do just fine.

Has something really slurped up all that oil?

Where’s Oprah?  Did she think it was chocolate syrup?  Have scientists finally found a use for that woman to equal her Media hype?

Or, are “experts” just in dire need of nuns to whip out the maps and graphs and explain ocean currents well enough to find all the oil?

What do you think is going on?