"...and so we can surmise from this that millions of years ago space alien dinosaurs came to visit here on Earth and that's why our oil comes from a far away galaxy....."
More things in heaven and earth ping.
The universe eh, why not start small and just say our galaxy.
Coal and petroleum are NOT from ancient life.
That's the theory for almost 200 years, but it may be incorrect. The Ruskis have a theory about abiotic oil. It seems valid.
And last I heard, Titan (moon of Saturn) had hydrocarbon lakes, and was sadly lacking in dinosaurs.
/johnny
As if we didn’t have enough Petroleum on our planet to justify dumping the whole “green energy” scam, now we find that we could just toodle around the galaxy collecting what we need.
I bet the MMGW nutsos knew about this too. There is oil everywhere we look. Oceans, deserts, icefields and now in space. We should have somebody check the moon. We could do a pipeline from the moon to Al Gore’s house. Then there might be enough oil to produce energy for the rest of us pleebs.
(Sarcasm/Cynicism/facetiousism)
I know that there is ethanol in interstellar space, pointing to the essentially spiritual nature of existence.
That is actually debatable, and this article is further proof that it is not necessarily true.
"Peak oil" zealots are deeply saddened.
What's that? PETROLEUM isn't a result of ancient life? but can be produced by normal non organic processes???? Hmmm... funny, I've been saying that for years... explains why old "dry" oil wells, have been found to refill themselves... Sort of puts the question to the statement oil is a finite resource.
Not so sure about that - maybe coal, but probably not oil.
Just think for a minute the massive quantities of organic matter required for pools of oil MILES deep - I'm not buyin' it.
They concluded that it is definitely female.
Let’s just hope it’s not too complex.
This kind of blanket statement is almost as annoying as the usual "Human induced Climate Change is going to kill us all" tripe. Organic compounds are being found to be fairly common throughout our solar system (and now the universe beyond), and the amount of coal and oil on our little planet seems far greater than plankton, dinosaurs, and fern swamps can account for. It's time to drop the word "fossil" when describing fuel.
This is great news for the abiotic theory of oil generation. If the stars can create petroleum, why can’t the earth. The theory that oil can only come from millions of years of decayed biomass seems to be weakening with time. Of course even if we learn that oil is abiotic, it does not mean it replenishes quickly in the earth. But still great news for us gas hogs.
bflr
An ever-regenerating oil supply...mo more “peak oil” worries.
"...and so we can surmise from this that millions of years ago space alien dinosaurs came to visit here on Earth and that's why our oil comes from a far away galaxy....."
I do this every day by going outside.
The detections of discrete and broad aliphatic spectral features suggest that the carrier of the unidentified infrared emission features cannot be a pure aromatic compound. Here we report an analysis of archival spectroscopic observations and demonstrate that the data are most consistent with the carriers being amorphous organic solids with a mixed aromatic–aliphatic structure. This structure is similar to that of the organic materials found in meteorites, as would be expected if the Solar System had inherited these organic materials from interstellar sources.
So they are saying that they are like the stuff we already know about in meteorites. Now we have evidence that the compounds are not just local.