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Scientists Find Mega-Oil Field ... 1,300 Light Years Away
Oil price. ^ | 06 December 2012 | James Burgess

Posted on 12/13/2012 3:48:44 PM PST by george76

Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth.

Time to wave peak oil goodbye forever … but before you do I should probably inform you of the tiny hiccup in any plan to develop this oil field.

It is around 1,300 light years away.

The scientists work at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and using the 30m-telescope of the Institute for Radio Astronomy they discovered a vast cloud of hydrocarbons within the Horse Head Nebula galaxy in the Orion constellation.

(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; energy; galaxy; gas; globalwarming; hydrocarbons; nebula; oil; thomasgold; xplanets
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1 posted on 12/13/2012 3:48:48 PM PST by george76
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No wonder Obama wants NASA out of business.


2 posted on 12/13/2012 3:51:22 PM PST by annieokie
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s already being mined.


3 posted on 12/13/2012 3:52:05 PM PST by wastedyears (I don't want to live on this planet anymore.)
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No wonder Obama wants NASA out of business.

LOL!!

And Conservatives say "fire up the flux capacitor!"

4 posted on 12/13/2012 3:53:21 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: george76
Celestial dinosaurs?

The science has been done.

5 posted on 12/13/2012 3:53:44 PM PST by cruise_missile
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To: george76

Dead space dinosaurs.


6 posted on 12/13/2012 3:54:13 PM PST by DManA
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And the Obama EPA rushed to finalize anti-outer-space drilling regulations as soon as this was announced.


7 posted on 12/13/2012 3:56:03 PM PST by Ironfocus
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Cloud of hydrocarbons...a disintegrated planet? The oceans and life now floating in space?


8 posted on 12/13/2012 3:56:13 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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...within the Horse Head Nebula galaxy...

So, is it a nebula or a galaxy?

-PJ

9 posted on 12/13/2012 3:57:57 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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10 posted on 12/13/2012 3:58:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
I got a Texas buddy who will pay 1/8 royalty and 6% severance tax to get a lease on this thing. It may take a while to work out but I think he can do it. I'm in for a 3% override on the remaining 87.5% working interest.
Which direction is this field from Texas?
TWB
11 posted on 12/13/2012 3:58:50 PM PST by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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To: george76

How long would it take it to get there at warp 9?


12 posted on 12/13/2012 3:58:50 PM PST by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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There is no "Horse Head Nebula" galaxy ... typical "science" journalism.
13 posted on 12/13/2012 4:01:57 PM PST by mikrofon (NO WARP FOR OIL!)
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And Conservatives say "fire up the flux capacitor!"

LOL right back at ya. lol

That OIL could just as well be in the GRAND CANYON, we ain't gettin it.

14 posted on 12/13/2012 4:03:39 PM PST by annieokie
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To: george76

The only limits of hydrocarbons here on earth are technology and money.Maybe half we will never harvest.


15 posted on 12/13/2012 4:06:05 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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Eddore???


16 posted on 12/13/2012 4:07:34 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: george76

Paging Algore

This is what is causing Global Warming, TAX THEM

TT

Carbon Credits for all Earthlings!


17 posted on 12/13/2012 4:09:50 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: george76

Acrew that, oil is the past, what you want is He3.

Helium 3.


18 posted on 12/13/2012 4:10:34 PM PST by Eye of Unk (A Civil Cold War in America is here, its already been declared.)
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I’ll wait.


19 posted on 12/13/2012 4:13:42 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: george76

I am a bit skeptical of this report...


20 posted on 12/13/2012 4:19:09 PM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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