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I'm excited to see all the nutty takes about oil prices from the same people who don't belive in vaccines. I kinda hope they bring back the old idea that oil i

I'm excited to see all the nutty takes about oil prices from the same people who don't belive in vaccines. I kinda hope they bring back the old idea that oil is actually formed out of non-biological matter and so that means its just basically infinitly seeping up from the earth, we just have to drill a bit deeper. But I think that's a little too nerdy for them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

ButlerianJihad 19d ago
When I was a kid in the 1980s, the scientific shows and authors all agreed that petroleum was made of dinosaurs. Triceratops and Brontosaurus had died ?? MYA and got compressed into the oil we're drilling for today. It was only about 3 years ago when I learned that petroleum comes from almost anything organic. So, ferns and trees and moss, in addition to Velociraptor and Triceratops, I guess?
- alyeska2 19d ago
  Perhaps the more accurate description would be that as a kid, you misunderstood descriptions that petroleum was from decayed organic material from long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
  - ButlerianJihad 19d ago
    Yeah, that is what we get for reading headlines and pictures and magazines, rather than books and scholarly articles and paying attention in class. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=c...
  - disgruntledphd2 18d ago
    Yeah, because I was told that it was mostly trilobites, around the same time (mid late 80s).
    - ButlerianJihad 14d ago
      Metacarcinization https://m.xkcd.com/2418/ https://m.xkcd.com/2418/
what 19d ago
You realize that vaccine hesitancy isn’t new and wasn’t a right wing thing? The right wing only has a disbelief about the covid vaccine and probably rightfully so. It went from: you can’t get it if youre vaccinated; okay you can get it but you can’t spread it; okay okay you can get it and spread but maybe the severity is reduced.
- samudrijan 19d ago
  Measles was eliminated in the US by 2020. Texas had an outbreak last year with 2289 confirmed cases. They’re up to 2900 cases this year. The right-wing readily laps up all the misinformation it spews.
- Refreeze5224 19d ago
  "Hesitancy" about heliocentricity isn't new either, and yet we've sent out a solar probe. Willfully ignoring science will never get old, it seems.
- khriss 19d ago
  Wow, it's almost as if science works by gathering data and then forming an informed opinion. Crazy, I know!
LargoLasskhyfv 18d ago
Capturing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate s instead before they off-gas would be sufficient, I think?

ButlerianJihad 19d ago

When I was a kid in the 1980s, the scientific shows and authors all agreed that petroleum was made of dinosaurs. Triceratops and Brontosaurus had died ?? MYA and got compressed into the oil we're drilling for today. It was only about 3 years ago when I learned that petroleum comes from almost anything organic. So, ferns and trees and moss, in addition to Velociraptor and Triceratops, I guess?

alyeska2 19d ago
Perhaps the more accurate description would be that as a kid, you misunderstood descriptions that petroleum was from decayed organic material from long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- ButlerianJihad 19d ago
  Yeah, that is what we get for reading headlines and pictures and magazines, rather than books and scholarly articles and paying attention in class. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343791.pdf?utm_source=c...
- disgruntledphd2 18d ago
  Yeah, because I was told that it was mostly trilobites, around the same time (mid late 80s).
  - ButlerianJihad 14d ago
    Metacarcinization https://m.xkcd.com/2418/ https://m.xkcd.com/2418/

what 19d ago

You realize that vaccine hesitancy isn’t new and wasn’t a right wing thing? The right wing only has a disbelief about the covid vaccine and probably rightfully so. It went from: you can’t get it if youre vaccinated; okay you can get it but you can’t spread it; okay okay you can get it and spread but maybe the severity is reduced.

samudrijan 19d ago
Measles was eliminated in the US by 2020. Texas had an outbreak last year with 2289 confirmed cases. They’re up to 2900 cases this year. The right-wing readily laps up all the misinformation it spews.
Refreeze5224 19d ago
"Hesitancy" about heliocentricity isn't new either, and yet we've sent out a solar probe. Willfully ignoring science will never get old, it seems.
khriss 19d ago
Wow, it's almost as if science works by gathering data and then forming an informed opinion. Crazy, I know!

LargoLasskhyfv 18d ago

Capturing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate s instead before they off-gas would be sufficient, I think?