the twitter age. was that a factor? i think we saw this starting to build during hurricane katrina, but you re right. we ll never have a event that won t have public participation. peopling agate to produce sociat isn t subject to social media. we tried to put as much information as we could on the website so people would have access to it. 5 million barrels of oil released into the ocean. nearly 2 million barrels of chemical disbersmentes. 8,000 birds tail kilned, maybe more. but much of the media seems to have disbersed. anybody can tell you with virtual certainty what happened in the gulf don t know. in my view. it s going to take a long time a lot of science. one part of the gulf did receive the same amount of oil and maybe