All the Weird Things That Are Supposed to Fix the Oil Spill
Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico for weeks, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. Here is a long list of methods that have been floated for how to stop the plague of oil.
• Robot carrying a giant box (failed)
• Robot carrying a giant top hat (failed)
• Human hair
• Hay blower
• Alpaca fleece
• Nuclear bomb
• Holocaust of birds
• Methanol
• Underwater robots with a tube
• Ice
• Pantyhose
• Peat moss
• Siphon
• Corral
• Build an island to block it
• Soak it up with garbage
• Plug the hole up with garbage
• Golf balls
• Pelt it with mud
• Woodchips
• Fire
• Dish soap
• Kevin Costner
• Centrifuges
• Vacuum-sealed underwater dome
• Ignore (failed)
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