ABC animates the oil spill for better understanding

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Monday, May 3rd, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt.swf

People, let’s remember as we bicker over iPad nonsense and 3D movies, there’s an oil bloom larger than some states quickly growing in the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the ABC newscast above is the normal story, but click through to 1:30 mark for a quick time-lapse animation showing the scale of this disaster. It kind of puts it all in perspective.

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