Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8613)	1/11/2008 9:07:26 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Indeed, when Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift the oil industry sponsored a special symposium on November 15, 1926 by American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) specifically in opposition to the continental drift hypothesis. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The oil industry was funding 'Continental Drift Deniers' in 1926 just as they have more recently 'Global Warming Deniers' in order to avoid their culpability for it. >> I will not mention the San Andreas fault which of course is also propelled by the process. << Chevron starts drilling in 1879 in Pico Canyon, California and bang, a few years later the San Andreas fault slips causing the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. When will Chevron be made to pay?