Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico for weeks, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. Here is a long list of methods that have been floated for how to stop the plague of oil.

• Robot carrying a giant box (failed)
• Robot carrying a giant top hat (failed)
• Human hair
• Hay blower
• Alpaca fleece
• Nuclear bomb
• Holocaust of birds
• Methanol
• Underwater robots with a tube
• Ice
• Pantyhose
• Peat moss
• Siphon
• Corral
• Build an island to block it
• Soak it up with garbage
• Plug the hole up with garbage
• Golf balls
• Pelt it with mud
• Woodchips
• Fire
• Dish soap
• Kevin Costner
• Centrifuges
• Vacuum-sealed underwater dome
• Ignore (failed)

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