The Stained Earth, Courtesy Of BP

The beautiful and crystalline Blue Marble is now the Stained Blue Marble, created using NASA’s spectacular view of Earth and one of the scenarios for the spreading of BP’s oil, as simulated by the US National centre for Atmospheric Research.

While the NCAR says that their computer simulation shows one of the potential scenarios for the oilpocalypse spread—applying sea currents and typical weather on a neutral dye, not on actual oil—I couldn’t resist overlaying it over the complete image of the Earth. Seeing what could be the extension of this catastrophe in relation to our entire home planet—only 132 days after the start of the deadly flood—gives the whole disaster a complete new dimension.

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