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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Investigations => Topic started by: BB on March 02, 2019, 03:06:47 AM
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I have seen a number of theories in flat earth state that there were no dinosaurs. While fossil fuels are not dinosaurs per se, they are vegetation that existed during the same time that has been stored in a very certain way over thousands of years. There is a very easy way to carbon date something, where you can get the age of it.
How is this explained?
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Carbon dating is also refuted by those who do not believe in dinos, there is an interesting debate between Bill Nye (the science person) and Ken Ham (owner of the creation museum) that has more info on refuting carbon dating.
I think most, if not all, of the folks here know dinos existed and agrees that they are cool.
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You can go to certain clay beaches and dig up your own dino fossils. Fossil fuels are not dinosaurs though that is a common misconception.
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I have seen a number of theories in flat earth state that there were no dinosaurs.
I doubt you'll find anyone who believes that here, and in my 9 years of FE advocacy I've never encountered anything like this.
It might be a good idea to ask your question to whoever said it in the first place.
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I have seen a number of theories in flat earth state that there were no dinosaurs.
I doubt you'll find anyone who believes that here, and in my 9 years of FE advocacy I've never encountered anything like this.
It might be a good idea to ask your question to whoever said it in the first place.
What's your theory on the dinosaur extinction?
Wouldn't both the meteor and volcanic therories be a bit hard to explain in a flat earth scenario?
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I have seen a number of theories in flat earth state that there were no dinosaurs.
I doubt you'll find anyone who believes that here, and in my 9 years of FE advocacy I've never encountered anything like this.
It might be a good idea to ask your question to whoever said it in the first place.
What's your theory on the dinosaur extinction?
Wouldn't both the meteor and volcanic therories be a bit hard to explain in a flat earth scenario?
If you are asking why something that was alive 65 million years ago is not alive today, I'd recommend looking into average lifespans of literally every known creature because you seem to be mistaken about how long things live. If you are instead suggesting that modern birds are not evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs, I would ask for your evidence that flies in the face of the current scientific consensus because otherwise, I believe you are mistaken. And if you are suggesting that the only reason a species can die out is because of meteors and/or volcanoes, again I submit that I think you are mistaken.
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No, I am just ASKING how FEs would explain these two therories that are the consensus of why most non-avian dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago. I'm not saying anything. I am asking.
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No, I am just ASKING how FEs would explain these two therories that are the consensus of why most non-avian dinosaurs were extinct about 65 million years ago. I'm not saying anything. I am asking.
There are multiple theories, I like the ‘it got cold’ one. Dinos are fine on a flat or round earth.
Volcanoes and such, though. That gets a bit messier on a flat plane. I brought it up months ago with little traction. I’ll try and find a link...
https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=10984.msg168986#msg168986 (https://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=10984.msg168986#msg168986)
In summary, there is a toothpaste problem (volcanoes) and brittle biscuit problem (tectonic plates). I have not thought of fixes for em yet.
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Fossil fuels are a joke. If they came from plants then how did the plants grow under a thousand feet of earth? in the 70's they claimed we will run out of oil. since then the world has burned more oil then ever before and yet it is cheap per barrel. No shortage because it is like water.
it goes from a solid to vapour back to solid.
If you boiled a gallon of water and then the pot is empty does that mean the water is gone for ever?
No it forms clouds and then get redistributed.
Why would any other vapour do it differently?
I had a friend that had a job testing oil well heads for pressure.
One day he tested a well that was not on his list to check and the well was marked as dried up.
The well was full. he told his boss what he did and got in major shit for testing it when he was not suppose to.
Two weeks later they fired him.
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I see dinosaurs every day. In fact, just yesterday I installed a dinosaur house on a nearby tree. I'm not sure why anyone would claim dinosaurs don't exist when most people in the world see them on a daily basis, some even consider them pests.
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Fossil fuels are a joke. If they came from plants then how did the plants grow under a thousand feet of earth?
Lol, you're not serious are you? http://www.google.lmgtfy.com/?q=How+is+oil+formed%3F
(http://www.google.lmgtfy.com/?q=How+is+oil+formed%3F)
No shortage because it is like water.
it goes from a solid to vapour back to solid.
If you boiled a gallon of water and then the pot is empty does that mean the water is gone for ever?
No it forms clouds and then get redistributed.
Why would any other vapour do it differently?
I'm guessing you never passed Chemistry.
I had a friend that had a job testing oil well heads for pressure.
One day he tested a well that was not on his list to check and the well was marked as dried up.
The well was full. he told his boss what he did and got in major shit for testing it when he was not suppose to.
Two weeks later they fired him.
What does this have to do with anything? Guy does his job incorrectly, he gets fired.
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Fossil fuels are a joke. If they came from plants then how did the plants grow under a thousand feet of earth? in the 70's they claimed we will run out of oil. since then the world has burned more oil then ever before and yet it is cheap per barrel. No shortage because it is like water.
it goes from a solid to vapour back to solid.
If you boiled a gallon of water and then the pot is empty does that mean the water is gone for ever?
No it forms clouds and then get redistributed.
Why would any other vapour do it differently?
I had a friend that had a job testing oil well heads for pressure.
One day he tested a well that was not on his list to check and the well was marked as dried up.
The well was full. he told his boss what he did and got in major shit for testing it when he was not suppose to.
Two weeks later they fired him.
because stuff dies and gets buried in layers of earth over time, we can see this effect with sedimentary cliffs without any effort. The plants did not grow all the way down there then turn to oil...
Also burning fuel isn’t vapour, its a chemical change caused by whatever form of energy needed to cause the reaction. Fuel isn’t evaporating to make your car move. Your car is (probably) not a steam engine.
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How many tons of dead plants does it take to make one barrel?
About 9.33 million barrels per day are consumed in the USA every day. (2017)
As of 2016, the world-wide daily rate of oil extraction and consumption was approximately 96 million barrels per day.
Do the math. If its not renewable then we would have run out decades ago.
If we are running out then why is a barrel so cheap?
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If we are running out then why is a barrel so cheap?
Because we still have about 50 years supply left.
https://jalopnik.com/bp-says-the-world-only-has-53-years-of-oil-left-should-1602354842
So yeah, of course it's running out as is ever resource we use. There isn't an infinite supply of anything on earth, when we burn oil what do you think happens, do you think somewhere it rains oil and goes in a cycle?
Seriously, dude, I'm not great at chemistry but even I know you're not making any sense here.
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There isn't an infinite supply of anything on earth, when we burn oil what do you think happens, do you think somewhere it rains oil and goes in a cycle?
Seriously, dude, I'm not great at chemistry but even I know you're not making any sense here.
Yes that is exactly what I am saying.
Some of the gold we wear today as jewelry could have been mined thousands of years ago and it just get remelted down and used again.
I eat food and drink water and when I die its back to ash's to ash's dust to dust. the very same thing that made me and kept me alive I become.
Its the circle of life and we are on a closed loop system here on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPog7W7J5ps
Take fracking for natural gas.
It destroys underground water systems right?
The water is unusable because of contamination.
The water is not gone anywhere. It is just been render to unusable.
If left undisturbed the nature density property's of the elements will separate out in time and start to flow in there separate forms again.
Just take some oil and water in a jar and shake. Over time they separate to the point where one can be removed from the other.
Just because I through out a beer can doesn't mean that the elements that made that beer can has vanished.
Its all here and its staying here.
just changes forms.
Take acid rain. It is the very definition of revolution of the recycle.
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There isn't an infinite supply of anything on earth, when we burn oil what do you think happens, do you think somewhere it rains oil and goes in a cycle?
Seriously, dude, I'm not great at chemistry but even I know you're not making any sense here.
Yes that is exactly what I am saying.
Some of the gold we wear today as jewelry could have been mined thousands of years ago and it just get remelted down and used again.
I eat food and drink water and when I die its back to ash's to ash's dust to dust. the very same thing that made me and kept me alive I become.
Its the circle of life and we are on a closed loop system here on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPog7W7J5ps
Take fracking for natural gas.
It destroys underground water systems right?
The water is unusable because of contamination.
The water is not gone anywhere. It is just been render to unusable.
If left undisturbed the nature density property's of the elements will separate out in time and start to flow in there separate forms again.
Just take some oil and water in a jar and shake. Over time they separate to the point where one can be removed from the other.
Just because I through out a beer can doesn't mean that the elements that made that beer can has vanished.
Its all here and its staying here.
just changes forms.
Take acid rain. It is the very definition of revolution of the recycle.
What's the point you're trying to make? I'm lost.
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Everything is a cycle and recycled including petroleum.
Closed loop system.
Nothing more coming in and nothing more can leave.
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When people say oil is not a renewable resource, they're not claiming that it is impossible for nature to create more oil. They're simply pointing out that waiting millions of years for nature to do so is unrealistic on a human timescale.
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When people say oil is not a renewable resource, they're not claiming that it is impossible for nature to create more oil. They're simply pointing out that waiting millions of years for nature to do so is unrealistic on a human timescale.
That, coupled with the fact that the rate we are using it is much faster than the rate at which new oil is being created.
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When people say oil is not a renewable resource, they're not claiming that it is impossible for nature to create more oil. They're simply pointing out that waiting millions of years for nature to do so is unrealistic on a human timescale.
That, coupled with the fact that the rate we are using it is much faster than the rate at which new oil is being created.
I think i happens faster then a million years.
I have a water well and if I pump it dry i have a device that shuts it down because the pump will burn out if it runs dry.
Just because the pump stops pumping doesn't mean I ran out of water. After i let it sit the water table builds back up then I am good to go again.
I think a lot of oil wells will refill after pumped out.
And i don't think we will run out of oil in 50 years.
We were told in the 70's the same thing.
Its kind off like all the billionaire promising the pubic space flights then they disappear until the next one comes along.
Every generation there is another snake oil sales man pushing the same idea.
Oh just thought of something. How can the billionaire send the public to space when there isn't going to be any fuel? lol
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I have seen a number of theories in flat earth state that there were no dinosaurs.
I'll infer that "a number of" means several; say, 15 or 17. Can you please provide a minimum of 15 flat Earth theories/conjectures that purport a denial of dinosaurs?
While fossil fuels are not dinosaurs per se, they are vegetation that existed during the same time that has been stored in a very certain way over thousands of years. There is a very easy way to carbon date something, where you can get the age of it.
I'm comfortable with carbon dating. The dinosaurs roamed the Earth once, and they were cool.
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When people say oil is not a renewable resource, they're not claiming that it is impossible for nature to create more oil. They're simply pointing out that waiting millions of years for nature to do so is unrealistic on a human timescale.
That, coupled with the fact that the rate we are using it is much faster than the rate at which new oil is being created.
I think i happens faster then a million years.
I have a water well and if I pump it dry i have a device that shuts it down because the pump will burn out if it runs dry.
Just because the pump stops pumping doesn't mean I ran out of water. After i let it sit the water table builds back up then I am good to go again.
I think a lot of oil wells will refill after pumped out.
And i don't think we will run out of oil in 50 years.
We were told in the 70's the same thing.
Its kind off like all the billionaire promising the pubic space flights then they disappear until the next one comes along.
Every generation there is another snake oil sales man pushing the same idea.
Oh just thought of something. How can the billionaire send the public to space when there isn't going to be any fuel? lol
So what's your point? According to your calculations, we have more in-earth oil reserves than we're being told? And...?
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When people say oil is not a renewable resource, they're not claiming that it is impossible for nature to create more oil. They're simply pointing out that waiting millions of years for nature to do so is unrealistic on a human timescale.
That, coupled with the fact that the rate we are using it is much faster than the rate at which new oil is being created.
I think i happens faster then a million years.
I have a water well and if I pump it dry i have a device that shuts it down because the pump will burn out if it runs dry.
Just because the pump stops pumping doesn't mean I ran out of water. After i let it sit the water table builds back up then I am good to go again.
I think a lot of oil wells will refill after pumped out.
And i don't think we will run out of oil in 50 years.
We were told in the 70's the same thing.
Its kind off like all the billionaire promising the pubic space flights then they disappear until the next one comes along.
Every generation there is another snake oil sales man pushing the same idea.
Oh just thought of something. How can the billionaire send the public to space when there isn't going to be any fuel? lol
more oil is discovered throughout the years, it isn’t refilling. Again it is a chemical change.
Come back to us when you’ve managed to burn wood and form more wood from the smoke it creates.
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Come back to us when you’ve managed to burn wood and form more wood from the smoke it creates.
Already done.
Burning wood creates CO2 and plants die with out it so the more CO2 the more trees grow.
The cycle is a perfect creation of intelligent design.
Many tree including the ponderosa pine needs fire to reseed itself.
No fire no trees.
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Come back to us when you’ve managed to burn wood and form more wood from the smoke it creates.
Already done.
Burning wood creates CO2 and plants die with out it so the more CO2 the more trees grow.
It's a little bit more complicated than that although by accident you have sort of stumbled upon something approaching truth.
But consider this. Can you burn a tree more quickly than a tree can grow?
(I'll help you out here, yes - yes you can)
So if you keep burning trees new ones aren't going to keep popping up to replace them. It's the same with oil. When you burn oil it's a chemical process, it doesn't just turn into oil vapour and later it rains more oil. So while the natural processes which led to oil being created will keep happening, those processes are very slow. We burn oil very quickly. It's not a stable cycle and the oil will run out. When it runs out depends on how much there is, and there's always possibilities for more to be discovered. But if you keep using a resource more quickly than the resource is replenished then it will run out.
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Totally understandable.
If I want to eat a chicken I have to feed it for 6 weeks first.
There is a much bigger problem then just losing gasoline. Gasoline is a by product of the chemical industry and we pay them to get rid of their contaminated waste product. All gasoline has different make up depending what other chemicals the factory was making that day. If we the people didn't burn it then the big corps will have to pay to get rid of it and that would not be in their best interests. One liter of pesticide sells much higher then a liter of gasoline.
Take a look at the list of what oil brings us.
https://www.innovativewealth.com/inflation-monitor/what-products-made-from-petroleum-outside-of-gasoline/
Oil brought us from killing whales to hi tech.
Without it humanity is going to regress.
So why is oil so cheap if it is the building bock of life in modern times when they say its only a few decades left of it?
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So why is oil so cheap if it is the building bock of life in modern times when they say its only a few decades left of it?
It's debatable whether it's cheap, countries made rich by oil have built things like Dubai. Have you been to Dubai? There's a LOT of money sploshing around.
And while there's decades left the economy isn't going to factor that in, they're banking on new reserves being found and it's too long term a problem to be considering now.
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USSR's abiotic oil:
https://rense.com/general63/staline.htm
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This video is worth 8 mins of your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_R3gp84TY
Why do oil companies hire geologists to find oil, and not archaeologists? Why do they look for rocks like olivine and garnet and not for dinosaur bones and ancient forests? The answer is on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
You'd have to be some idiot to think oil comes from dinosaurs. Take a hampster, use any chemical process you like and see if you can squeeze one drop of oil out of it. But squeeze olivine and ... wow ... oil. Don't believe me ... check the chemistry ... its called the serpentinite mechanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin#Serpentinite_mechanism
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This video is worth 8 mins of your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu_R3gp84TY
Why do oil companies hire geologists to find oil, and not archaeologists? Why do they look for rocks like olivine and garnet and not for dinosaur bones and ancient forests? The answer is on wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
You'd have to be some idiot to think oil comes from dinosaurs. Take a hampster, use any chemical process you like and see if you can squeeze on drop of oil out of it. But squeeze olivine and ... wow ... oil. Don't believe me ... check the chemistry ... its called the serpentinite mechanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin#Serpentinite_mechanism
All this falls into the "maybe/maybe not" realm. Undoubtedly worth exploring. But I wouldn't go running in the streets with my hair on fire about it. It's pretty much common knowledge that supplies for many goods and resources are tightly controlled to buoy pricing. DeBeers and diamonds are probably the easiest example. Oil is no different. Same for wheat and soybeans. Commodities are a complicated business. And very tightly controlled at the highest levels.
Seems like the Norwegians may have the lock on Olivine deposits. If they start distilling oil from it, awesome. Maybe they should get on that.
All in all, is there a fossil fuel conspiracy afoot, maybe. But it's commerce at the end of the day. So disrupt it. Find a better way. If enough sympathetic people know of your disruption, the black helicopters will stop circling above your house.
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Obviously the source of oil is abiogenic.
What about peak oil? This refers to the "conventional" oil production.
To reach the abiotic oil would require hundreds of billions/trillion of dollars of investment. Rigs would have to be created to reach at depths of 30-40 km. There is a huge problem of retrieval.
The main problem with peak oil/"conventional" oil production is the ENERGY RETURNS ON ENERGY INVESTED (EROEI) and deliverability (a term invented by Dr. Tim Morgan).
Another way to look at the
deliverability issue is that reserves
need to be quality-weighted. We may
have used up much less than half
of the world’s originally-recoverable
reserves of oil, but we have, necessarily,
resorted first to those reserves which
are most readily and cheaply recovered.
The reserves that remain are certain to
be more difficult and costlier to extract.
https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
An absolute decline in available energy
volumes, serious though that would
be, is not the immediate concern. The
truly critical issue is the relationship
between energy extracted and the
amount of energy consumed in the
extraction process. Known as the
Energy Return on Energy Invested
(EROEI), this is the ‘killer equation’
where the viability of the economy is
concerned. Put very simply, there is
no point whatsoever in producing
100 barrels of oil (or its equivalent in
other forms of energy) if 100 barrels
(or more) are consumed in the
extraction process.
Believers in peak oil have seen this
progression as an indication of evergrowing reserves stress, which indeed
it is. But the real economic significance
of this progression lies in a rapid
deterioration in EROEIs rather than in
an exhaustion of absolute reserves. The
overall EROEI of the North Sea today
may be no higher than about 5:1, a
far cry from ratios in excess of 100:1
yielded by the pioneering discoveries
in the sands of Arabia.
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Obviously the source of oil is abiogenic.
What about peak oil? This refers to the "conventional" oil production.
To reach the abiotic oil would require hundreds of billions/trillion of dollars of investment. Rigs would have to be created to reach at depths of 30-40 km. There is a huge problem of retrieval.
The main problem with peak oil/"conventional" oil production is the ENERGY RETURNS ON ENERGY INVESTED (EROEI) and deliverability (a term invented by Dr. Tim Morgan).
Another way to look at the
deliverability issue is that reserves
need to be quality-weighted. We may
have used up much less than half
of the world’s originally-recoverable
reserves of oil, but we have, necessarily,
resorted first to those reserves which
are most readily and cheaply recovered.
The reserves that remain are certain to
be more difficult and costlier to extract.
https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
An absolute decline in available energy
volumes, serious though that would
be, is not the immediate concern. The
truly critical issue is the relationship
between energy extracted and the
amount of energy consumed in the
extraction process. Known as the
Energy Return on Energy Invested
(EROEI), this is the ‘killer equation’
where the viability of the economy is
concerned. Put very simply, there is
no point whatsoever in producing
100 barrels of oil (or its equivalent in
other forms of energy) if 100 barrels
(or more) are consumed in the
extraction process.
Believers in peak oil have seen this
progression as an indication of evergrowing reserves stress, which indeed
it is. But the real economic significance
of this progression lies in a rapid
deterioration in EROEIs rather than in
an exhaustion of absolute reserves. The
overall EROEI of the North Sea today
may be no higher than about 5:1, a
far cry from ratios in excess of 100:1
yielded by the pioneering discoveries
in the sands of Arabia.
There is quite a bit more to consider when adjusting for the impact on economic models than just EROEI. For example, natural gas simultaneously extracted can artificially deflate its value if not considered. Morever, renewable sources of energy suffer lower inherent EROEIs, but create fewer pollutants, which reduces costs on back-end production. Hence, while it’s true that lower EROEIs have a negative economic impact, the situation is more complicated than just employing a one-to-one analysis.