Plan 9 From Outer Space

While the companies involved drag their feet and play the blame game over the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, BP has made enough profits in the last 4 days to pay for the present estimated cost of the spill, but latest reports hint that they may try to file for bankruptcy to evade the fiscal responsibility that they claim they are committed to.

Now, it is common knowlege that at the time of the explosion, BP execs were on the rig celebrating the safety record. They all made it off safely and there are no details of how they were evacuated. Workers who survived and were evacuated, found that they were herded into a makeshift drug testing facility before they were even allowed to tell their families they had survived.

Here's a report from the May 10th New Orleans Times-Picayune, a report that a particularly intense burst of natural gas caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to be shut down over fears of an explosion "just weeks before a similar release succeeded in destroying and sinking the platform and sent millions of gallons of oil on a collision course with Louisiana and the rest of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico."

As BP scrambles from Plan B to System D...collecting golfballs and tires to plug the well, they might as well take a lesson from the Russians. As long as we are hell bent on systematically destroying our planet,

Here's an idea! Let's nuke the Gulf oil spill!  Yes! It's so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities. The first happened in Uzbekistan, on September 30, 1966 with a blast 1.5 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb and at a depth of 1.5 kilometers. In fact, subterranean nuclear blasts were used as much as 169 times in the Soviet Union to accomplish fairly mundane tasks like creating underground storage spaces for gas or building canals."