It was in elementary school that I recall learning in my science class that oil was made from dead dinosaurs. I simply accepted it when I was seven but later I started to think, there must have been a lot of dinosaurs the way we keep sucking this stuff up from under the ground. To be fair, vegetation too.
Fossil fuel from dead dinosaurs (and vegetation) was something I believed until recently and now there’s news that oil replenishes itself by a mysterious process within the mantle of the earth. If true, this may set the quest for gravity control on the back burner. But maybe it’ll stop the panic and give rise to a whole lot of new thinking.
