Image of the day - covered
Sometimes we need to put things to scale to realize just how bad it is.
This isn't one of those times. If you don't realize how bad the oil spill in the Gulf is, you live under a rock. That said, play around with these interactive maps and think.... "how in the hell did we let this happen?"
Use a Google Earth plug-in to get a true sense of how big the spill is?
And here's another interactive feature to play with from Google.
Just how big is it?