Apocalypse Now

From May 4th

UPDATE POST, this is my first follow up post.  It's so exciting, but seriously this story has me really interested because it's the first major "oil spill" I can really remember.  Now, I really couldn't resist with the heading.  Such absurdity coming from any educated person's mouth?  Calling this a possible apocalypse?  Okay first of all using the world apocalypse in a situation involving a generally small area of the world is not proper.  An apocalypse is when everything dies, not a couple of fish and some marshlands. (a little follow up joke!) 
Now that I'm done criticizing one word in the article it's time to branch out.  I'm so happy someone has finally come up with a solution to this problem.  How long did it take for them to think of that solution though?  More importantly who is them, who are the one's responsible for coming up with this solution?  Because about a week ago I had thought of the exact same solution.  Block the leak?!  We have the technology to send robots to Mars and crawl around while digging up soil samples.  We can obviously plug up a hole in the sea.  And look at the suggestion from people who say that blocking the hole will hurt undersea pipes.  Do you really think we can't fix pipes?  We invented pipes, we can fix them.  This is an entire eco-system as danger here but because we can't fix some undersea pipes we are being cautious?  This is making me so hot right now, we should have fixed this problem days ago already, I won't say anymore.