Fringe sites on the Internet have taken up a new mantra--this time that BP is up in Canada secretly testing a “Flux Compression EMP generator” device to create a massive pulse to seal the well. The Canadian “troops” that were supposed to be heading to the Gulf last week to control the population have, (according to these rumors), now been sent to northern Canada to test the weapon instead. Authors of these articles now cite USGS earthquake records in Canada to back up the claim that the device was tested...though the USGS shows no earthquakes occurred in Canada in the last 7 days. This is the sort of nonsense that is now reaching a fever pitch on the web.
There is a segment of the public that slavers for these end of the world saved by Bruce Willis stories. The internet is like a collective mind, and these stories stand as worried thoughts in that matrix. There are now over 800 references to this story on the Internet, as fear seems to breed an alarmingly creative speculation. Though not a single article that I have read on the subject provided any credible evidence that any of this was true. Of course, it's all "secret."
Enough said.
