Based upon what??? bacteria suddenly exposed to a relatively limitless supply of energy? They could be voracious little things.
Leftists look at that and think “imagine the carbon taxes on that!”
“DEEP HOT BIOSPHERE: The Myth of Fossil Fuel” By Thomas Gold... or not (he also suggested a “garbage theory” for the origin of life which was an accidental panspermia; the theory says that life on Earth might have spread from a pile of waste products accidentally dumped on Earth long ago by extraterrestrials.)
YMMV
KYPD
I remember Pat Boone was on an expedition to explore carbon residual or something deep inside the earth. I’m really hazy on the details of that adventure.
ETL,
Thanks for another fascinating post!
BTW, were you already familar with Cornell Dr. Thomas Gold book:
Deep Hot Biosphere?
He took so much harrassent from science community peers over his contention that oil & natural gas result from petro-hydrocarbons produced from deep subterrain microbes, and Not originating from ancient composed forests and animals.
Russian and Swede petro-geologists had long observed oil & nat gas deposits deep within massive solid granite domes that could have never hosted prehistoric forests and animal life.
Hmmm, sounds like the black oil from X-files.
If this time period was substantial, then there might have been an era in our universe's past where huge amounts of organic material spanned vast spaces between the planets.
As meteors and asteroids plummeted through this goo, then the goo would have gotten smeared on their surfaces and then ended up in planets as the rocks coalesced.
This is one version of the panspermia hypothesis. I think it is plausible. It also might make for a good premise for a SF novel if one could imagine intelligent beings alive during such an epoch.
Even with this exploration we are barely scratching the surface.
I can't say I understand all of this, other than that it shows there is an urgent need for more government regulation to save these threatened life forms.
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Throws a wrinkle in the peak oil myth, eh?
I had a petroleum engineering prof that told us to keep our minds open to what may seem doubtful at the time. He was a brilliant old fart, yet lived on the cutting edge of technology.
How do they know? Did they go down there and measure it all?