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Translation: we discovered vast amounts of oil on Mars.
by pferde 10y ago
Translation: we discovered vast amounts of oil on Mars.
- JBReefer 10y agoThe USA is the world's largest oil producer [0]. This is an antiquated opinion that ignores the complexity of the reasons we went into the Middle East, and is needlessly dismissive. A large amount of the crisis in the ME today is actually because fracking has driven down the price of oil so much. [0] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26352 http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=26352
- Scirra_Tom 10y agoWasn't one of the main reasons US went to ME because Saddam was threatening the petro dollar?
- jandrese 10y agoThat was before the fracking and tar sands boom. Also, the Iraq war was probably the least well justified war in modern history.
- orly_bookz 10y agoIt's not one of the reasons you'll read about in the news, no.
- throwaway729 10y agoThat would be an absolutely fantastic reason to go to mars, because it almost certainly indicate the existence of large quantities of life on mars at some point in the past.
- JackFr 10y agoOr evidence for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
- throwaway729 10y agoInteresting, thanks! I get the impression from the wiki article that, so far, these are well-studied but rejected theories re: sources of petro and gas on earth. It's unclear to me, though, whether that's because of essential reasons that would apply to other systems, or just a historical happenstance specific to earth.
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- pferde 10y agoThat's true, and an awesome way to turn my snarky comment on its head. Kudos, have an upvote! :)