From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> No not next to... go live **under** the sea. The North Sea Oil wells are
not
> next to the sea they are way down under it.
>
> What is more you'd be living under a cold rough sea.

I still maintain that it's totally different. As just one example, bring up
a drillbit from the ocean floor and nobody is worried about getting
contaminated by touching it.

> OK but relative to the real economy it was  2 buildings coming down & a
> small number of firms stopping trading (most only temporarily)

If you have a well cared for lawn, and right in the middle of a drought you
stop watering it for a couple weeks or a month, what happens? Forget the
buildings, they are easily replaced, it's the people lost that made the
difference.

Geo.

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