[muawiyah]

It's a typical "progress piece" ~ generally there's no need to provide a complete who-struck-john scenario when your audience is only interested in what happened today.

If I've been following this story in other science journals, why shouldn't the folks reading that be doing the same.

Why is it you didn't already know about this?

[Dog Gone]

I don't follow goofy 2000 foot wells drilled by government grants by scientists researchers without a plan.

I'm glad you do, and you have full confidence in them even in the face of articles which says they don't know what to do next.