Website lets you superimpose oil spill area over the map of any region.....

[marmar]

...... to help you get a sense of how big it is:


http://www.beowulfe.com/oil/

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. It almost covers Denmark

Put the spill in Europe and you might get a shock.

Thanks great link

[marmar]

2. Yep. I put it over Brussels......it covers the entire Benelux, plus part of France and Germany.

nt

[RT Atlanta]

3. Amazing perspective

When placed on Columbia, South Carolina, the slick stretches almost to Atlanta GA - that's 220 miles.

[Uncle Joe]

4. That's a good website.

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

[Soylent Brice]

5. insane.

K&R

[likesmountains 52]

6. kick, more people should get to see this

[Saphire]

7. try the great lakes

[amborin]

8. k&R

[TommyO]

9. The contaminated area is bigger than all of New Jersey

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. It's too bad it doesn't adjust for the distortion caused by the mercator projection

Would be interesting to see it done realistically.