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Dinosaur killer may have struck oil
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^
| May 07, 2008
| Larry O'Hanlon
Posted on 05/08/2008 12:11:16 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I may not be the brightest bulb but didn't the stuff that was there 65 million years ago *become* the oil we burn today?
At any rate, I suppose the dinosaurs are the lucky ones. At least they never got stuck in traffic on the way to/from work.
To: Berlin_Freeper
Oil deposits are allegedly largely from the Carboniferous era and predates dinosaur be a lot of millions of years.
Or so I have read...
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:15:08 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
To: Berlin_Freeper
How long until we read about the dinosaur's industrial age which caused global warming and their own extinction?
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:16:25 PM PDT
by
In veno, veritas
(Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Stupid meteor. Wasting our oil.
To: Berlin_Freeper
Maybe the meteorite was made of oil.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:17:15 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:20:05 PM PDT
by
Tigercap
(McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
At least they never got stuck in traffic on the way to/from work. Being EATEN on the way to/from work was a different matter. ;)
/johnny
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:20:16 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Damn.
Thats gonna drive up oil prices again.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:24:34 PM PDT
by
kennyboy509
(Ha! I kill me!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
It's all a conspiracy man!! A lie from big tobacco.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:24:51 PM PDT
by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
65 million years ago...that’s when oil was only $97 a barrel.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:32:22 PM PDT
by
pke
To: Berlin_Freeper
"In many places the presence of such material is taken as evidence as the presence of human activities," says Brassell.I'm not going to push this, since I'm sure I'm over-reaching, but ...
When they find material which is often taken as evidence of human activities, and when that evidence seems to be from 65 million years ago, does that suggest in anyway that the dating methods may be off?
One of the classic retorts against Creationism or ID is "If we find homo sapiens in a coal bed, maybe we'll rethink the dating, but that has never happened."
Well ...
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:34:40 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Et si omnes ego non)
To: Berlin_Freeper
There is a theory pursued by the Russians that oil is not a fossil fuel at all but is generated deep under the crust my microbes. As evidence some oil wells in the gulf which were thought depleted have resurged.
To: Berlin_Freeper
OH No.So they’re telling us that oil has been polluting the earth since time before the Dinasaurs went extinct.
I wonder if big oil had anything to do with that.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:42:30 PM PDT
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Waitaminit........ so, according to this theory, there was massive burning of fossil fuels — which, according to today’s enviro-whackos, causes global warming. But the evolutionists also say that the dinosaurs were wiped out because the earth cooled because of a global dust cloud from the meteor, don’t they?
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:45:38 PM PDT
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: Berlin_Freeper
but didn't the stuff that was there 65 million years ago *become* the oil we burn today That was conventional wisdom for a while. Not so sure anymore as Titan Has More Oil Than Earth is a little hard to explain by dead dinos and plants.
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posted on
05/08/2008 12:52:34 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: CougarGA7
This is what really happened to the last dinosaur.
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posted on
05/08/2008 1:02:46 PM PDT
by
skimask
(Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
To: Berlin_Freeper
The dinosaur-killing Chicxulub meteor might have ignited an oilfield rather than forests when it slammed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago... I guess that stupid theory that dinosaurs and the plants they ate didn't turn into oil after all.
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posted on
05/08/2008 1:05:59 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: SunkenCiv
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
05/08/2008 1:49:54 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: pke
I bet there was only 40 years of oil left, too.
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posted on
05/08/2008 1:58:27 PM PDT
by
In veno, veritas
(Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
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