So there’s those movies like “Independence Day” where the world unites and fights off evil aliens to help save mankind. It’s when all else fails people realize - “hey, we’d better do something about this or we’re all screwed…”

That’s the situation in the Gulf of Mexico right now. It’s not the time to be formulating special committees, drafting new bills in congress, imposing fines, threats or levies or pointing fingers.

Now is the time we need to get the biggest brains on earth together no matter where they’re from to help stop this oil leak. The U.S. Government needs to suck it up and admit they need help on this. BP needs to reach out to anyone and everyone with experience in deep-sea engineering.

With 240,000 barrels of oil a day leaking into one of the largest wildlife centers of North America (both on-land and under-sea), the impact on wildlife will be unrecoverable. Yes I said it….I’ll be telling my grand-children 30 years from now there used to be things in the ocean called fish…and things that flew in the air called birds. It’ll be as surreal for them as us trying to imagine Dinosaurs roaming the earth.

Forget space-missions, Hadron-colliders and all that other useless shit going on in Science and Engineering right now. Any type of Engineer worth their salt needs to figure out how to stop a 7-inch hole at the bottom of the ocean from leaking enough oil to wipe out sea-life as we know it.

Like a friend of mine said: “We can put a man on the fricken moon, but we can’t plug a damn hole?”