July 2010
5 posts
All That Oil: Two Hundred Olympic Swimming Pools
If you want to do something with all the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico so far this year, you could consider storing it in several regulation Olympic swimming pools—two hundred, to be precise, but let’s start with just one.
Obviously, you’ll need an empty regulation Olympic swimming pool. Such a pool will be fifty meters long, twenty-five meters wide, and two meters deep...
