| Only nerds...

Only on Slashdot would you find a calculation on how long it would lake the BP oil leak to fill a volume equal to the estimated volume of the entire library of congress book collection:

Well, lets see...

The Library of Congress contains roughly 1,199 kilometers of books. Assume that each shelf is roughly 30cm by 30cm, you get a volume of roughly 107,910 m3. To fill that volume with barrels of oil...

A barrel of oil is 42 US Gallons, or 0.158987294928 m3. So, you need 6.29 barrels to get 1 m3.

So we should need about 678,753 barrels of oil to constitute one library of congress.

So, at a rate of 4 barrels per second, there is a library of congress worth of oil being dumped into the Gulf about every 47 hours.

Also, Ry, the Transformer get up is pretty hilarious.

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