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To: mistermj who wrote (52912)10/18/2002 1:54:09 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 281500
 
That's a good article. Who came up with the dead dinosaur theory anyway. Thomas Gold's theory seems far more plausible. The possibility of unlimited oil reserves changes everything. Astronomer Thomas Gold of Cornell University has long been dissatisfied with the dead dinosaur theory of oil's origins. He argues that oil and gas are in fact the remains of methane left over from the Earth's origin. Methane, he points out, is one of the most common minerals in the universe. When the stars and planets were formed eons ago, it was one of the central building blocks from which matter formed.