Where to watch live oil spill ?

[sudoer541]

I heard there is a live cam stream that shows you the oil spill LIVE!!!. So does anyone know here to watch it.

Looks fun, Ill prepare some pop corn!!!:popcorn:

[NightwishFan]

The whole event leaves a bad taste in my mouth, I hope that the spill will be solved soon, though I suspect the damage has been done.

[wilee-nilee]

There is actually a thread with a bunch of links, but here is one, that I can't seem to get working in Mavarick, but worked in Lucid.
ROV (http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html)

[new_tolinux]

I heard there is a live cam stream that shows you the oil spill LIVE!!!. So does anyone know here to watch it.

Looks fun, Ill prepare some pop corn!!!:popcorn:
:confused:
I'll guess i'm not doing enough sudoing to get the enjoyable or fun part of it.

[kevin11951]

There is actually a thread with a bunch of links, but here is one, that I can't seem to get working in Mavarick, but worked in Lucid.
ROV (http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html)

It works in VLC on Maverick, or at least it works in debian testing which is similar

[MindSz]

If you go to the BP homepage you can click your way into a live stream.

However, this is very far away from my notion of 'fun'

[sudoer541]

It works in VLC on Maverick, or at least it works in debian testing which is similar

Not working here!!!! I am using the latest version of VLC and I get this message:

Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'mms://a246.l9789246245.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/246/97892/v0001/REFlector:46245'. Check the log for details.

I get the ~same~ message when I open it With Windows media player 11!!!

[wilee-nilee]

It works in VLC on Maverick, or at least it works in debian testing which is similar

I have just about every possible codec installed, along with the medibuntu set and get this now.

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[elliotbeken]

i have this which i found on the forum that might be some interest to other people

thank you to the original poster on the thread

just add the code to a .pls file and open with VLC


[playlist]
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Length2=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File3=mms://a839.l9789244838.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/839/97892/v0001/reflector:44838
Title3=Oceaneering International III
Length3=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
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Length4=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File5=mms://a1031.l9789255030.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1031/97892/v0001/reflector:55030
Title5=Viking Poseidon
Length5=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File6=mms://a1236.l9789237235.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1236/97892/v0001/reflector:37235
Title6=Canyon
Length6=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File7=mms://a459.l9789222458.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/459/97892/v0001/reflector:22458
Title7=Oceaneering
Length7=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File8=mms://a1176.l9789247175.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1176/97892/v0001/reflector:47175
Title8=Oceaneering International
Length8=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
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Title9=Osprey-230
Length9=-2147483648
NumberOfEntries=10
Version=2
File10=mms://a1524.l9789235523.c97892.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1524/97892/v0001/reflector:35523
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[themarker0]

I love that channel. Not even.

[wilee-nilee]

@ellioltbeken, that worked just stuck it in a gedit in home and named it ROV.pls, you rock.;)

I have never had problems with media I was stumped.

[Cavsfan]

This is far from being funny! This is killing a whole lot of people's livelihoods let alone the birds, fish, oysters, dolphins, etc. etc.

Please do not make this out to be humorous because it is NOT!

The devastation is going to be Biblical if it is not already...

When I see those pelicans and other birds covered in oil and many of them dying it just makes me want to cry...

[proggy]

I heard there is a live cam stream that shows you the oil spill LIVE!!!. So does anyone know here to watch it.

Looks fun, Ill prepare some pop corn!!!:popcorn:
it isn`t fun to watch but here it is http://www.livestream.com/webcams

[mocha]

I put together that playlist. Here is my orginal post.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1507855

[sudoer541]

i have this which i found on the forum that might be some interest to other people

thank you to the original poster on the thread

just add the code to a .pls file and open with VLC

Thanks it worked!!!


Love ya!!!!:lolflag::p):P

But seriously, no worries I mean the ocean is big so the oil will take at least 2 - 3 years to completely cover NA and SA. People will have time to close the hole and everything will be fine.
btw, why arent they closing it right now?
Does that mean that the US will lose millions of $ cuz of this ? How will they recover? Will the US increase gas,food and mortgage prices?
[panicking!!!]And before I start panicking... does that mean that the recession will get worse??? [panicking!!!]
...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkk!!!!!:eek:

[sharathpaps]

when these people lay such huge pipes...dont they have some kind of lever or some other mechanism that can cut the flow of oil through that pipe? if they don't..then the engineers must be rather short-sighted.

[Cavsfan]

They side stepped all of the safety procedures in order to speed things up so they could make more money.
This caused the lives of 11 people and the lives of untold aquatic sea creatures in the gulf.
If they do not get it stopped somehow very shortly, it will get into the gulf stream and go
down the Florida coast and up the Atlantic Florida coast and the entire east coast of America and then start heading towards Europe.

sudoer541, DO NOT make this into a joke as I already stated: it IS NOT FUNNY!

I consider all of your comments to be very inconsiderate.......................

Maybe you don't live anywhere near the spill, but that doesn't give you the right to belittle this tragedy.

If it were stopped yesterday, it would still be TRAGIC, but it has not and I do not see a way that anyone
can stop the oil flowing out of the sea 5,000 feet down. So, it is only going to get worse.........................

[sdowney717]

oil degrades in the water, the bacteria will eat it, This is a disaster in many ways, the lost livelihoods, the marine life, the lost oil, the ANIMOSITY between oil business and government.

BUT, the earth cleans itself up, read up on bacteria and oil and you will see that the bacteria consumes oil like it is icecream to them.
So this will eventually pass away.

[Cavsfan]

oil degrades in the water, the bacteria will eat it, This is a disaster in many ways, the lost livelihoods, the marine life, the lost oil, the ANIMOSITY between oil business and government.

BUT, the earth cleans itself up, read up on bacteria and oil and you will see that the bacteria consumes oil like it is icecream to them.
So this will eventually pass away.

I hope so, if they can ever stop the oil gushing out of the bottom of the sea.
The site in Alaska where the Exxon Valdez spilled that oil back in 1989 still has oil all over the rocks on the
coastline and that was 21 years ago. I just hope some one can find a way to stop the oil gushing from the hole.
That has to be done before anything can even begin to return to normal and so far nada.

[sdowney717]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18971-bacteria-help-to-clean-up-deepwater-horizon-spill.html

gulf is warm and bacteria grow faster


Zoom in on the Deepwater Horizon oil slick and you will find a motley community of critters hard at work breaking down the oil: bacteria.

At the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego, California, this week, Jay Grimes of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg reported that over the past few years, researchers have found that dozens of different kinds of marine bacteria have a healthy appetite for oil.

He said that water samples from the Gulf of Mexico are showing signs that marine bacteria are already pitching in to help with clean-up efforts, and that populations of these bacteria in this area are likely to boom as they feast on the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

I'll add this, the gulf itself slowly leaks a LOT of oil naturally and continually by itself. these bacteria have been eating and degrading this for millenia.
So its not like we have to do anything except plug the current leak and nature will do this work on its own.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=20863


Scientists find that tons of oil seep into the Gulf of Mexico each year

Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, according to a new study that will be presented January 27 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

[Cavsfan]

I hope so, but the oil that has gotten into or is getting into the New Orleans marshes and other marshes is not good.

And if a hurricane comes into the gulf in the next several months, who knows what will happen...

There are going to be, if there are not already, people committing suicide over this. This is a tragedy of Biblical proportions...

[sharathpaps]

Thinking logically, this pipe has to run into the sea from the land right? why not intercept it on land where we can control the flow of oil and maybe just seal off the pipe? I do not know how all this works but i find it pointless that we have ROV's watching the pipe spilling millions of barrels of oil and that nothing is being done to stop it. Somebody...somewhere...please stop this disaster..:frown:

[purelinuxuser]

Thinking logically, this pipe has to run into the sea from the land right? why not intercept it on land where we can control the flow of oil and maybe just seal off the pipe? I do not know how all this works but i find it pointless that we have ROV's watching the pipe spilling millions of barrels of oil and that nothing is being done to stop it. Somebody...somewhere...please stop this disaster..:frown:

Unfortunately, the pipe goes from the seabed to the rig (which is gone). So there is no way to cut it off without using underwater ROVs. :(