Flew over the Gulf 6 hours ago, just as the sun was setting.

[mn9driver]

I was at 30,000 feet, and the oil was everywhere as far as I could see. There are about 60 boats at the mouth of Mobile Bay and many others further out, but the size of this thing makes a joke of them. There could be 100,000 boats cleaning this thing up, and it would be nothing at all compared to what is out there.

There is no way to describe how big this is. There is no picture that can begin to show the immensity of it. The slicks are gigantic and the boats are tiny pinpricks scattered thinly in just a few critical areas. At the altitudes I fly at, I can see for 250 miles sometimes. In the Gulf, I can see nothing but oil slicks from Panama City to New Orleans.

This can't be cleaned up. There are not enough boats and booms in the entire world to do it.

[Cetacea]

1. Thank you.

K&R

[Selatius]

2. My state governor has hundreds of ships and planes patrolling, but this is bigger than the armada.

The best we could do with that many ships and planes is simply pinpoint the area where the oil is moving into. We can slow it down by concentrating skimming ships in the area, but ultimately, this is like stopping an object the size of Texas. It's an impossible task. We are simply forestalling the inevitable.

[aquart]

3. "If seven maids with seven mops swept it for half a year"

"Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "that they could get it clear?"

"I doubt it," said the Carpenter, "And shed a bitter tear."

Who knew it was prophecy?

[LawnKorn]

4. K&R

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

:kick:

[Lorien]

6. And more gushes into the Gulf every day. Why? because we're told

"there's nothing we can do." If they really believed that then they wouldn't have made three half assed attempts to stop it to begin with. We can put a guy on the moon but we can't plug a hole? Please!

[B2G]

7. Has the A Whale left Norfolk yet?

Last I heard it was supposed to leave on Friday but the EPA hadn't given their approval yet.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Have you got any super secret ideas to stop the hole?

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[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. I disagree with the legitimacy of the observation.

Frankly, it sounded like some sort of backseat driving/conspiracy theory.

[Mojorabbit]

12. I saw a video yesterday

taken last week from a plane which reinforces the op. It is huge, absolutely huge.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. I have no doubt.

But I wasn't replying to the OP.

[berni_mccoy]

19. Can we stop a volcano from erupting? No?

That's what it is more than a mile below at the bottom of the deep ocean.

[City Lights]

8. K&R

:-(

[GlennWRECK]

13. Thanks for the share

Sad but I feel your post does do it some amount of justice as I did feel the pictures didn't do enough.

[Poboy]

14. The video BP doesn't want you to see-

This is the interview Kindra Arnesen referred to when she spoke at the NOLA Gulf Emergency Summit.
She first begins appearing just after the 3:10 min. mark in part 1

AU 60 Minutes BP Oil Spill Video, 13 June 2010, Removed by BP Demand



Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcvzkrPL9C4

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-tYZ7tbYM


If removed, get this Zipped file:
http://cryptome.org/bp-axed-video.zip (9.8MB)

[femrap]

16. I wish there

were solutions to the massive destruction and death caused by the oil boyz.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, mn9driver.

[Saphire]

18. One of our local news men said the same thing, said it looked like a

city unto itself down there and oil as far as he could see.

[truedelphi]

20. Yes, there really are not enough boats in the world to make this right.