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Mining Asteroids@Home

Posted by Hemos on from the pulled-down-from-space dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Like the lively discussion on mediation strategies for exterminating asteroids, a six-person expert panel is debating today whether humans exist because of big collisions or in spite of them. Interestingly Mexico's oil (and most of the rest of the world's resources) seem to have arisen from later mining of these byproducts: the luck of geography or the price at the pump for dead dinosaurs."

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  1. What kind of ignorance is this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    the price at the pump for dead dinosaurs

    Ok, I'm sick enough of hearing this repeated by morons, but on slashdot?

    Oil does not come from dead dinosaurs!

    Modern prevailing theories implicate either preexisting( i.e. non-biological )hydrocarbon sources or algaes as the primary source of oil.

    Jesus Fucking Christ.

  2. Obligatory Paraphrase by lucasw · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Asteroids are the cause of - and solution to - all our lives existence!

  3. To Asteroids! by lucasw · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The cause of - and solution to - all our lives existence!