Gulf Oil Disaster "Looks Very Scary," "Heartbreaking", Says Cosmonaut

[onehandle]

The dramatic flood of oil in the Gulf of Mexico is an alarming sight from space, cosmonauts and astronauts on the International Space Station said Tuesday.

The huge oil slick off the Louisiana began April 20 when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig operated by British Petroleum exploded and later sank. The devastating oil flow has caused untold damage to the environment and wildlife, and it is still leaking. It is a heartbreaking sight from space, station astronauts said.

"Just 30 minutes ago we passed over the Mexican Gulf and we took a lot of pictures of this oil spot," space station commander Oleg Kotov, a Russian cosmonaut, told reporters on Earth via a video link.

"It looks very scary," Kotov said. "It's not good. I really feel ... not good about that."

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/gulf-oil-slick-scary-from-space-100518.html

[DividedWeAre]

1. heartbroken

My heart broke the day that i stood on the beach at South Beach for the first time and looked out onto the ocean and saw a drilling platform. I have not been back.

[Junkdrawer]

2. And only 10% is on the surface....

The rest is underwater and will appear God-knows-when

[Catherina]

3. It does look scary

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. K & R

:scared:

[BlueKitteh]

5. If only the oil platform

Sank to the bottom and suffocated the pipe, ....

My only request now is to transplant fish gills on all conspiraring BP personal and plunge them into the black gulf depths

[glitch]

6. Worse than catastrophe. Worse than heartbreaking. No words.