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can anyone explain why it is so fiant?

So how much Oil was actuallly spilled, and how much collected?

It's continually counted and posted here measured in gallons, (and measured in soda cans, hummers, swimming pools, etc.)!

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/spillmeter/index.html?SITE=FLFNW

LIVE FEED VIDEO video of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Please be aware, this is a live stream and may freeze or be unavailable from time to time.
Additionally footage may be off-line due to ROVs being out of service due to maintenance and/or operational task-specific breaks. There are 12 cameras total.
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/articles/feed-29363-live-oil.html

NEW ORLEANS — Scientists are reporting early signs that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and spurring the growth of others more suited to a fouled environment.

Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes — cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.

Along the coast, droplets of oil are being found inside the shells of young crabs that are a mainstay in the diet of fish, turtles and shorebirds.

And at the base of the food web, tiny organisms that consume oil and gas are proliferating.

If such impacts continue, the scientists warn of a grim reshuffling of sealife that could over time cascade through the ecosystem and imperil the region’s multibillion-dollar fishing industry.

Read more here...

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/photos-30947-altering-say.html

there are 275 earthquakes. the dates are from july 10-july 17. you almost can not see the aleutian islands. my sister-in-law, lives and works, on kodiak island, and never experienced an earthquake. she's from korea. she siad she's been sleeping on the floor. she got tired of being knocked to the floor. j&j.

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July 15, 2010: NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.

"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19th issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). "It's a Space Age record."

The collapse happened during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009—a fact which comes as little surprise to researchers. The thermosphere always cools and contracts when solar activity is low. In this case, however, the magnitude of the collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.

"Something is going on that we do not understand,"...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/15jul_thermosphere/