How is oil made?

[john9001]

if you put the bottomless barrel on a treadmill..........

[Donzo]

Originally posted by john9001
if you put the bottomless barrel on a treadmill..........

and frictionless one at that.......

[Meatwad]

Originally posted by Donzo
and frictionless one at that.......

Will it roll backwards evenly keeping up with the treadmill or slowly fall behind for some reason

[mensa180]

Is the treadmill level, and is there air resistance?

[moot]

Originally posted by KONG1
It is arrogant of humans to believe that they can do anything to damage "the planet".

Cough Nuclear world war cough

The article misleads anyone who doesn't know any better.  Any wording would have fooled a good number of people, e.g. "organic compounds", etc.
The best way to say it, if a link needs to be made to oil or exploitable materials, is to say that Titan has immense amounts of energy stored in that volume of compounds.

[TheDudeDVant]

Oil is the result of billions and billions of generations of green algae that absorbed energy from the sun that died and sank to the bottom of the ocean to be cooked over millions of years to just the right recipe...

Our oldest bio-fuel..  If we could just speed up the process abit  8)

[MotleyCH]

Originally posted by wrag

The point was that the latest research is pointing at oil being something that our planet creates normally and many of the old oil deposits that were depleted should be refilling?

hmmmm....................

But it'll take another 100 million years to refill them.

[KONG1]

Originally posted by moot
Cough Nuclear world war cough

The earth is around 4.5 billion years and the sun middle aged. The combined destruction and fall out of every nuclear warhead on the planet plus the ensuing nuclear winter would effect the earth about as much and for as long as it takes a fart to flap your butt cheeks together.

[moot]

Sounds a bit relativistic.  What's the criteria for "damage"?

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by moot
Cough Nuclear world war cough

That's just theory.  Nobody has ever tested it.

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by rpm
Cut and paste job lolz?

How about just this rpm:

[trax1]

I don't think anyone is trying to say that no living things on this planet have ever disappeared, theres millions of species that have gone extinct.

[trax1]

Originally posted by moot
Sounds a bit relativistic.  What's the criteria for "damage"?

Exactly, I think the only damage were(i.e humans) are worried about is the damage that would effect us, ofcourse anything humans could do to the planet could and would eventually be repaired on its own over millions of years.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by lazs2
Name one thing that we have ever run out of?

lazs

I ran out of Bourbon.

****.

-Sik

[rpm]

I'm just wondering why my #1, 2 & 3 wells quit producing anything but saltwater. Lazs tells me they are refilling, but the petroleum engineers at Devon say the wells are depleted.

Hmm, who should I believe, a several guys with a degrees in petroleum engineering or some nutbag on the intardweb?

Say Lazs, just how many oil wells have you mapped and drilled?