Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by samstave on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:49PM
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"But how would you know? So my friend, as part of his research, went taking samples of his cenospheres from around the globe. What he found was interesting: namely, the further one gets from the Yucatan (where scientists had already validated there was an asteroid strike), the cenospheres get smaller. The big heavy ones precipitated out of the air closest to the Yucatan asteroid strike. Hardly likely to be coincidence."
I am reminded of the famous talk by Richard about "where does fire come from, where does. plant get Carbon, well it gets it from the AIR, and it grabs water from the earth, and the flame that you see in fire is the energy from the sun being released!" (Paraphrasing, [0] )
so my point is, that if you look at Plant Life distribution and look at all of South America, with their dense rain-forest plant biome - you have a crap ton of plants which may have had the ability to absorb more carbon based on the Yucatan crater (gulf of Mexico) and thus thrive based on the abundance of the carbon flood that happened during this impact.
This is the best explanation of fire/plants/atmosphere that I have ever heard.
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Question:
Why would oil concentrations happen in the places they do over many billions of years?
So why would the seemingly devoid-of-water places on earth (Middle East) be oil rich, where, at the same time, South America also has oil rich deposits?
The idea being that they are carbon-rich underlayments that become oil under pressure.
Or, how "soluble" (for lack of a better term) is carbon in Magma. i.e. how can carbon be dealt with in a magma stream other than heat and pressure which results in oil deposits over time?
So, any geologists who can educate me would be appreciated.
estimate the amount of carbon trapped in Earth's upper mantle. Scientists suggest there's as much as 100 trillion metric tons of CO2 stored there.*
So based on this data point and the comments from Richard, I think that life is a function much like the sodium-potassium pump, and oil is a function of the subduction plate tectonics which converts carbon to oil over millennia....
We will always have oil. Just how fast can we consume vs. how fast can earth produce. Supply and demand is a. universal constant.
I am reminded of the famous talk by Richard about "where does fire come from, where does. plant get Carbon, well it gets it from the AIR, and it grabs water from the earth, and the flame that you see in fire is the energy from the sun being released!" (Paraphrasing, [0] )
so my point is, that if you look at Plant Life distribution and look at all of South America, with their dense rain-forest plant biome - you have a crap ton of plants which may have had the ability to absorb more carbon based on the Yucatan crater (gulf of Mexico) and thus thrive based on the abundance of the carbon flood that happened during this impact.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk6iuLQk28
This is the best explanation of fire/plants/atmosphere that I have ever heard.
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Question:
Why would oil concentrations happen in the places they do over many billions of years?
So why would the seemingly devoid-of-water places on earth (Middle East) be oil rich, where, at the same time, South America also has oil rich deposits?
The idea being that they are carbon-rich underlayments that become oil under pressure.
Or, how "soluble" (for lack of a better term) is carbon in Magma. i.e. how can carbon be dealt with in a magma stream other than heat and pressure which results in oil deposits over time?
So, any geologists who can educate me would be appreciated.
This article is beginning to convince me:
https://www.upi.com/Vast-expanse-of-melting-carbon-found-ben...
estimate the amount of carbon trapped in Earth's upper mantle. Scientists suggest there's as much as 100 trillion metric tons of CO2 stored there.*
So based on this data point and the comments from Richard, I think that life is a function much like the sodium-potassium pump, and oil is a function of the subduction plate tectonics which converts carbon to oil over millennia....
We will always have oil. Just how fast can we consume vs. how fast can earth produce. Supply and demand is a. universal constant.
/speculation.