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We need more "eyes" on the Gulf/BP disaster

The media in this country is failing to show us what is really happening in the Gulf.

Here is a video made almost 1 month ago by John Wathen and the Waterkeeper Alliance--it shows clearly that even a month ago this was a disaster of epic proportions!

The government is failing us too...we need to get some surveillance drones up over the gulf recording the oil slick all day--hell throw 1000 (or ten-thousand) luminescent ping pong balls out in the gulf and record their travel at night to get 24/7 data on the spill and the gulf currents.
NASA? you put how many autonomous rovers up on Mars...MARS! What would it take to outfit a few for air/land/sea rover operations in the Gulf?

Why are we forced to look at a half dozen camera angles provided (and edited) by BP?

We need a small armada of 1000 toy boats with cellphones attached that snap and send pictures of the sea surface and below (a glass bottom toy boat?) every few minutes.

Even our environmental groups are letting us down (although they have gotten some footage of the spill showing it was way bigger than estimates weeks ago--many thanks Waterkeeper Alliance!) by not getting more cameras on and under the waters of the gulf.

Considering how many tens of thousands of peoples livelihoods are being destroyed by this apparently unstoppable oil-ruption why are we stuck looking at one video feed?

Say a toy boat costs $30 and a cell phone w/ camera costs $50 (this is just a guess--a bulk buyer of 1000 units should get much better pricing!) the cost to put 1000 toy-camera monitoring stations into the gulf would be less than $1 million!

Come on Sierra Club, NDRC, Greenpeace and others...band together and show us the truth!

Hell Greenpeace should setup a news bureau where the drilling platform used to sit! Considering all the dumb gimmicks Greenpeace tries to get media attention--the greens should be spoon feeding the media around the clock updates on this!

posted by Daniel @ 10:17 AM