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[Rob Graham]

harold aptroot wrote:

Against unclickable links?

that one deserves to remain un-clickable.

[Mark_Wallace]

It all sounds perfectly plausible. .. Except for the small fact that the Mohorovicic discontinuity is at about 50km depth, and they're only drilling to 30,000 feet (give or take 9km). And that, dear friends, is how you write good hard-core science fiction. You just ignore one little detail, and pile real science into the rest.

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[Lost User]

I find two sufficient.

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[Andrew Rissing]

This reads like a horrible SciFi Channel Movie. The quote at the end is great:

Perhaps if humanity is very, very lucky, some may find a way to avoid the mass extinction that follows and carry on the human race. Perhaps.

:omg: If it was indeed an issue, I would think they would have ended it on a little more imperative tone that something needs to be done. Not the nail biting cliffhanger of 'Perhaps'. :-D

[Lost User]

Well, cool! That certainly simplifies my efforts to sell the house... :-D

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[Dan Neely]

Not that it's anything but blather, but what does the moho have to do with methane escaping from the oilbed?

3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

[Marc Clifton]

Nothing a little homeopathy added to the ocean waters can't cure. ;) Marc

[Marc Clifton]

So... (ok, now I read the article): Whereas pure methane is lighter than air, methane loaded with water droplets is much heavier, and thus spreads over the land, mixing with air in the process (and losing water as rain). So: methane is lighter than air. methane mixed with water is heavier. methane mixes with air this mixture then loses water as rain so, now you have methane again, sans water, which is lighter than air. So, what's the problem??? Marc

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[Steve Mayfield]

that means I won't have to worry about meeting my deadines :cool:

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[Tomz_KV]

Run & hide.

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[Mark_Wallace]

The Mohorovicic discontinuity is where huge reserves of methane (enough to cause global catastrophe) are. Sure, there might be a lot of methane where oil is found, because it's a by-product of the oil's fermentation, but the article is (probably intentionally) confusing that comparatively tiny amount with the real thing, that's five times deeper.

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[Mark_Wallace]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Nothing a little homeopathy added to the ocean waters can't cure.

Brilliant! All we need is someone who can cut a drop of Fairy liquid in half!

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[Mark_Wallace]

Marc Clifton wrote:

so, now you have methane again, sans water, which is lighter than air. So, what's the problem???

Because it's a cycle that reoccurs, during which it's being breathed in by creatures that breathe, absorbed by plants and other stuff that can absorb it, and generally mixed in with everything else (through zillions of different chemical reactions). And if you thought the weather was bad without all the additional compression/decompression, temperature fluctuations from massive chemical reactions, and the variation in solar absorption...

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[Lost User]

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