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Put a balloon under water. Pop it. You see a wave on the surface.

But a straw into a bubble of oil that's billions of gallons thick, under 100,000+ lbs of pressure, and control it's flow, and you'll see the straw bend and blow under the effects of cavitation. These are effects bound by the laws of Physics.

What happens as it drains, relentlessly? The crust of the many strata supports the pressure equalized for millions of years of decaying pressurized crude oil now begins supporting your mile and a half of sea water above. Oil, we know, goes hand in hand with natural gas. Like a soda, natural gas remains compressed into liquid by the pressure of it's container.

What happens when you pop open a bottle of soda that's sat in your hot car? It fizzes, explodes, and goes everywhere.

As the oil drains from this massive pocket on the floor of the Gulf, natural gas is fizzing up to the top of the pocket. This is creating a void of gas; much less dense than the oil beneath it; and much less able to support the strata of sea floor above it, not to mention the mile or so of sea water above it too.

So what happens next? Within 10 mos, the floor may collapse, sinking a number of remaining rigs, and send a wave of water at the gulf coast traveling at 350 miles per hour.

What do we do? Evacuate. Stop listening to the noise from Washington. Turn our signal to alternative energy, and responsible, sustainable business, and social change.

Step one, sign this petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/letter_to_barack_obama/

Alternative currency projects sound interesting.

The way I look at it Savings is the immediate factor in inflationary systems. Savings meaning the un-appropriated portion of cash flowing through a banking system. People hold cash which means that more cash has to be made so the people who need cash are getting it while those with cash refuse to spend it.

Additionally, the production of disposable technologies is acting as value loss capital, capital that is obsolete in 4 quarters is the bane of our long term growth. Investors in private equity markets are dumping cash into 3-5 year projects that hope to increase wealth and produce disposable technologies. The entire tech industry reflects the disposability of code throughout the systems that support it.

Think of Apple, the worlds largest growing tangible tech corporation. Read. OS X, iPhone 4. What versions of code and toys will we be on in 100 years?

We can do better in my opinion.

We're using consumerism to exchange cash flow, but would do better imparting currency of diminishing returns. So a person holding cash will experience the loss of value the longer their cash is held, encouraging expenditure on capital toward educating or producing longer lasting projects, and products designed to outlast our attention spans for shiny things. This will encourage our economy to produce more efficient systems of energy, infrastructure, and over the long run, effect a tremendous technological leap in what we are able to achieve (space travel, planetary food supplies, and growth of resources beyond imagination).

In the current system, smart engineers are attracted to low hanging fruit, eating green apples off the lowest branches because they don't mind the bitter taste of a quick harvest. The clever ones are learning working together to build the tools to grow the tallest trees of life, knowledge and pick the ripest fruits in the basking light of the Sun.

WE have this within our reach.

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

Dear President Obama,

I appreciate the effort to be diplomatic, but we know you can do better because we are already doing better on our own.

How about we go for the gold??? How about we get the spirit of the great country to lift its sights to a day when we are no longer dependent on OIL for the overwhelming majority of our infrastructure???

That is a site worth working for at all levels. We have ALL the tools necessary for inventing a limitless future of energy and transportation that is not reliant upon the limited resources that the OIL industry has wrought in to the fabric of our experience. Our blind greed and need for dangerous disposable plastic items has created this for us, and our consumption is the primary factor in this saga.

Here's what WE can do with our pocketbook. This is what we are organizing since it obviously can't come from an administration controlled by the interests of lobbyists with unlimited financial resources. These people obviously don't communicate in terms of self-respect for the Natural world that produced their species, so we will communicate with their favorite and universal language. Currency, money, cash.

1. Criminalize the use of plastic bags, disposable plastic products, diapers, toys, straws, lids, and everything being found churning in the tonnes of waste floating in the Gyres around the world. We are killing our species, and every species with our plastic addiction.
2. Phase out the use of the Internal Combustion Engine, especially those used in automobiles and/or mandate the use of hybrid technologies in ALL CARS by the year 2015.
3. Make the oil companies pay for the clean up. Not just $69 million, but a place a moratorium on a large percentage of the profits earned from sales of OIL in the United States.
4. STOP FIGHTING WARS. It's 2010. When are we going to learn that WE ARE ALL ONE? ALL HUMANS!! WE ARE ONE. I would think this is obvious to you as president who understands life in Hawaii, where ohana is the word of the land and the source. Your war needs OIL. Stop fighting yourself. We armed those countries to begin with. For what? To then fight them with the weapons we gave them? Absurd. Stop making weapons to kill. Make weapons to invent new energy.
5. Our military is one of the most well trained and compassionate forces of creative power on Earth. Why are we using it to fight? Why not use it to create??? To spread the type of condition that precedes all need for violence at the source? To help people, yes PEOPLE, establish a quality of life worldwide where they can live sustainably and peacefully with good old fashioned food grown around communities, peacefully.

If we took these five steps toward fulfilling our potential, we would be able to live peacefully and wholly for generations as one balanced human organism capable of all that's imagined and believed to be inconceivable by today's cultural standards.

We will vote with our pocketbooks, we'll stop buying plastics, we'll make every effort to make engines, and our dependency upon oil obsolete. Either the companies will turn to invent the forms of energy we are buying and inventing on our own (such as the bloom box), we'll run out of oil, or we'll choke on all the money that won't have any value when we're facing mass extinction just as we begin to rediscover we are not above Nature, but a part of it since the dawn of Creation.

Please listen, and don't take us to be pessimistic. We're organizing to include everyone in this transformation. We're highly tuned to the ancient ways of being, we are the ones that built this incredibly beautiful world of man, and the ones that will continue to help it evolve. Help us architect a new dawn.

With love,
bARTosz

Bartosz --

Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana -- one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle's Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners.

Folks like Floyd Lasseigne, a fourth-generation oyster fisherman. This is the time of year when he ordinarily earns a lot of his income. But his oyster bed has likely been destroyed by the spill.

Terry Vegas had a similar story. He quit the 8th grade to become a shrimper with his grandfather. Ever since, he's earned his living during shrimping season -- working long, grueling days so that he could earn enough money to support himself year-round. But today, the waters where he has worked are closed. And every day, as the spill worsens, he loses hope that he will be able to return to the life he built.

Here, this spill has not just damaged livelihoods. It has upended whole communities. And the fury people feel is not just about the money they have lost. It is about the wrenching recognition that this time their lives may never be the same.

These people work hard. They meet their responsibilities. But now because of a manmade catastrophe -- one that is not their fault and beyond their control -- their lives have been thrown into turmoil. It is brutally unfair. And what I told these men and women is that I will stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are again made whole.

That is why, from the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal to respond to this crisis. Today, there are more than 20,000 people working around the clock to contain and clean up this spill. I have authorized 17,500 National Guard troops to participate in the response. More than 1,900 vessels are aiding in the containment and cleanup effort. We have convened hundreds of top scientists and engineers from around the world. This is the largest response to an environmental disaster of this kind in the history of our country.

We have also ordered BP to pay economic injury claims, and this week, the federal government sent BP a preliminary bill for $69 million to pay back American taxpayers for some of the costs of the response so far. In addition, after an emergency safety review, we are putting in place aggressive new operating standards for offshore drilling. And I have appointed a bipartisan commission to look into the causes of this spill. If laws are inadequate, they will be changed. If oversight was lacking, it will be strengthened. And if laws were broken, those responsible will be brought to justice.

These are hard times in Louisiana and across the Gulf Coast, an area that has already seen more than its fair share of troubles. The people of this region have met this terrible catastrophe with seemingly boundless strength and character in defense of their way of life. What we owe them is a commitment by our nation to match the resilience they have shown. That is our mission. And it is one we will fulfill.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama