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Get a taste of what awaits from this compelling excerpt from the National Geographic.
Below more than a mile of ocean and three more of mud and rock, the prize is waiting.
At the surface a massive drilling vessel called the Discoverer Enterprise strains to reach it. It's the spring of 2003, and for more than two months now the Enterprise has been holding steady over a spot 120 miles (200 kilometers) southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship is driving a well toward an estimated one billion barrels of oil below the seafloor—the biggest oil field discovered in United States territory in three decades.
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you like tomatoes ? how 'bout music ? have both today,
either way .... cause you never know at prexactly ~
