Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

When it comes to Lake Palin, the greatest engineering minds of the Twenty-First century have a Plan B, folks:

If using a massive dome to cover the source of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico doesn't work, crews are preparing for another option: clogging it.

Engineers are examining whether they can close a failed blowout preventer by stuffing it with trash, said Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard. The 48-foot-tall, 450-ton device sits atop the well at the heart of the Gulf oil spill and is designed to stop leaks, but it has not been working properly since the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20 and later sank.

"The next tactic is going to be something they call a junk shot," Allen told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "They'll take a bunch of debris -- shredded up tires, golf balls and things like that -- and under very high pressure, shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up and stop the leak."

We're pretty much screwed to the point of this being a Mel Brooks film, folks.  Honestly, was Aquaman not available to help with Giant Concrete Box Thingy?  Now we're using Junk Shot.

What plans did they turn down to go with Junk Shot?