hehehe...
In my recent post, I almost used those words verbatim, but changed them before hitting send--and I'm glad I did! (At the time I was composing my post, I hadn't seen yours, but it would have seemed like plagiarism! :-)
Posted on 08/02/2008 11:40:34 PM PDT by Libloather
Am I off by much?
The average IQ is 100. This means that much of humanity can’t understand science or even care about science. You can cast your pearls before swine but sometimes it is just < 100.
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Yes.
Let's just say that can last another 100,000 years. I'm kinda jazzed about drilling. Meanwhile, San Fran Gran Nan is out to "save the planet"
You throw your hat into the ring with THAT? You better come up with some really good backup, Gomer. What you got?
The Sinclair logo and Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding, dinosaurs got nuttin' to do with oil.
... but on a related note:
Da Vinci rejected the notion that fossils were just "sports of nature," understanding instead that they belonged to once-living organisms. He noted that fossil shells appeared in several different horizons in the mountains, meaning they could not have all been deposited in a single deluge, nor could slow-moving mollusks reach the mountains in the biblical flood's short duration. He devoted years to studying the behavior of water and identified the sedimentary rocks that water deposits. He even anticipated the 20th-century theory of plate tectonics by considering the possibility of uplift in mountain building.
So, I assume you believe fossil fuel comes from actual dinosaur fossils.
Am I off by much - again?
So if they are claiming sample bias has resulted in an illusion of a Cretaceous boom, to what are they attributing the bias? Is it the scale of the Cretaceous dinos versus Triassic and Jurassic ones? Is it the interest in Cretaceous ones? Is it the available producing rock mass?
Did it occur to you that I wasn’t talking about you but the gomers that think oil comes from dinosaur poop?
Headline commentary means adding your own words to the title of the article. Leave off means quit.
Nope. (And that 'Gomer' crack was meant with the best intentions.)
If I did that, would you, or the rest of the planet, have read it?
Despite the lameness, thanks again for the feedback.
Yes.
As was stated above, most of the petroleum being extracted for commercial exploitation is Paleozoic, not Mesozoic. But even Mesozoic systems are not from dinosaurs...though I do happen to love Sinclair's mascot.
Petroleum comes predominantly from marine plankton, though some fields are from lake algae, for example.
Wow - I haven't seen that much spew since the *Crintons were busted with the FBI files.
DNA tests should prove your theory - whatever that is - no?
hehehe...
In my recent post, I almost used those words verbatim, but changed them before hitting send--and I'm glad I did! (At the time I was composing my post, I hadn't seen yours, but it would have seemed like plagiarism! :-)
DNA tests?!? On what?!?
Uh, oh. Damn near EVERYTHING has a DNA pattern. That means whenever you fill up your Hummer with oil, it contains dinosaur DNA. That way, you get to find out which family of our past is in your tank!
A Scientist Says He Has Isolated Dinosaur DNA
Published: November 18, 1994
After two years of painstaking analysis and hundreds of unsuccessful attempts, a scientist at Brigham Young University has extracted the genetic material DNA from what he thinks are bone fragments of 80-million-year-old dinosaurs.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C00EFD61331F93BA25752C1A962958260
LOL...are you serious, or just had a bit too much fun on your Friday night?
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