X-Message-Number: 30419
From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Re: Off Topic: hydrocarbons are not fossil fuels, they are re...
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:58:44 -0800

John de Rivaz writes,


>Since the threat of oil shortages are being used in a propaganda effort to 
concentrate cryonicists in one place, this article may have some slight 
relevance to cryonet as it supports an old theory that the Earth is constantly 
generating hydrocarbons. They are not decayed organic matter. This theory was 
once regarded as cranky, in rather the same way that theories about continental 
drift were regarded as the work of a lunatic when it first appeared.


It doesn't matter where oil comes from, but how fast natural processes replace 
what we've squandered like proverbial drunken sailors in the past 150 years. 
Groundwater ultimately comes from rainfall, but if you pump it out faster than 
natural processes can replenish it, then pointing to all the rain on the planet 
doesn't change the fact that heavily used aquifers around the world that sustain
human life have reached crisis levels of depletion. (For example, Saudi 
groundwater "production," which supports local agriculture, peaked in the early 
1990's and has fallen to half that level since then. However, that hasn't 
stopped Saudi women from having about 4 babies on average each instead of living
within their country's reduced carrying capacity.)

>http://worldnetdaily.com:80/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59991


>This is supported by the fact that hydrocarbons are found on moons and planets 
in the solar system that are highly unlikely to have had sufficient organic 
matter to produce them by decomposition or fermentation, in the quantities that 
have been observed.


When you have to postulate the existence on oil on other planets to manage your 
terror, John, you've really outdone yourself in the denial department.


"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).

Mark Plus

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