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A comment on Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coast of Oregon.

Re:Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coa... by klmadfejno on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:56PM (#24193257)
That's... not that much, is it? I'm trying to find a good mental model for water volume. Best I got is an olympic pool contains 500,000 gallons. So, around 1% of an olympic pool.

Or around 160 oil barrels worth.

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Re:Facebook left 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid off the coa... by jtsiskin on Monday August 17, 2020 @11:13PM (#24194876)
A 9.5 foot cube
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