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  • Desktop Background From the Deep

    I snagged this gem from the Deep Horizons spillcam site a while back; it’s a screen grab at 1600×1200 with all the extraneous junk cropped off. Scaling it back to fit a 4:3 screen doesn’t do it a bit of damage: it looks just as weird.

    Something from Alien, perhaps?

    Deepwater Horizon capping - manipulator arm
    Deepwater Horizon capping – manipulator arm

    I’m pretty sure that’s Sweet Babby Jeebus™ floating over there in the background…

    [Update: Some “best of” the ROV video feeds, speeded up by a factor of 7, are there.]