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How have experts estimated the amount of oil that was shooting out of that pipe in the Gulf? I bet there's some neat math or physics involved here, and some interesting assumptions considering how little concrete data are available.

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    Probably much better suited for http://stats.stackexchange.com/2010-07-30
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    @Blue really? Seems fine here to me :/2010-07-30
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    A cursory Google search brought this up: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html2010-07-30
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    I'm not sure it belongs on stats, either -- but it does not belong here. Numerical estimation could be its own stackexchange, but it's not mathematics.2010-08-07
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    @Heath: I think that is a question for the meta. However questions about the modelling of this phenomenon are certainly appropriate here.2010-08-12

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