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secondvariety

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4. Not to be a downer

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:32 AM

Feb 2012

But didn't they use like 60 tons of "lubricant" in the drilling process? It would be a shame (but not totally surprising) if a 20 million year old lake became polluted with petroleum products on the first contact with humans.

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