# CNN story: Blimp arrives to track oil spill

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**Created:** [July 9, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-story-blimp-arrives-to-track-oil-spill/546064 "2010-07-09T04:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-story-blimp-arrives-to-track-oil-spill/546064/1 "2010-07-09T04:18:17Z")

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The clip was just on the [CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/07/08/vos.oil.navy.blimp.lands.cnn?hpt=C2) home page. I didn’t watch the video. CNN seems to be going down faster than the oil is coming up. What I picture the story says behind the shitty video:

“So how does it look?”

“It’s really big… like a blimp.”

“Like a blimp? But you’re in a blimp.”

“Well… like a blimp that was really big… like an ocean.”

“But you’re over an ocean… in a blimp…”

“Well, it’s really big,… it’s traveling really fast, too. I don’t think this blimp’ll keep up.”

Please caption it better than this hack (we all need a laugh out of this tragedy).