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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (75349)	5/20/2010 12:37:37 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 149317

Is this what you are saying is not measuring and bullshit? Purdue research exposes error in BP video "...Once Wereley used particle image velocimetry to create freeze-frame shots of the video, he used a computer code he developed to estimate how many pixels the diameter of the pipe was. BP said that the diameter was 21 inches, which Wereley estimated is equivalent to 400 garden hoses. Wereley created a conversion from pixels to inches to compute how fast the oil was coming out of the pipe. He used the area of the pipe and the speed of the oil, which he concluded was 2 feet per second, to compute the volume of oil being released. It was through these calculations that Wereley deduced 70,000 barrels of oil had been leaked..." purdueexponent.org

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