-archimedes-

"Scare quotes" ?? If you're referring to my use of quotation marks to encase certain words or sentences, I do so as I'm actually quoting the words or sentences from the links I've posted, in a sense providing the viewer with excerpts of what they are to expect to find when they click on the links, a preview of things to come if you will, in a sense, pre-validating whatever assertions/claims/perspectives that I may be forwarding here on the cover page. In otherwords, I make use of quotation marks as "quotation marks", what I believe their "function in writing is." Please though, do correct me if I am wrong.

Yeah, I'm doing my part to try to get the word out there to help ease some of this sorta mass hysteria thing I've seen going around (largely in part/wholely fueled by the fluctuating fuel prices)..., pass it along.

In support of those here with like understanding of the oil industry/available supply, I'd like to submit that we've no real/immediate concern over oil shortage/the myth of "peak oil" as all that it is is a myth. There's actually some "trillions" of barrels/like "140 years of oil, at current rates of consumption", available. As such, industry insiders are not concerned, nor should we buy into the propaganda fed to us through the media. I got tired of that crap and decided to get the actual "word" on the situation from the metapnorical "horses mouth"..., sketch this>> http://radford.edu/~wkovaric/oil/ Pay no real mind to the title page, as the arthor was merely using it as a vehicle to collect and redistribute the data, though I would give the numerous links to readily recognizable, credible sources scattered all over the site a click and cross reference all of the 411 to see if you reach the same conclusion..., enjoy!

Though I really don't see oil shortage being an issue anywhere within the near future, there is, has, and likely will always be the alternative fuel resource of "coal". http://energy.usgs.gov/factsheets/nca/nca.html And while that may be there for us to readily fall back on, I'm more so inclined towards a somewhat "cleaner" rationale, i.e., http://www.teslamotors.com

If I may beg to differ with the opinions/perspectives forwarded here so far in order to clarify a few misconceptions/understandings/deliberate media misdirection, of the factual content of the information found to date about "Mars" &/or "life" thereon. As I understand it, while it's been determined that there is evidence on the surface of the planet that there may once have been liquid/"water" there, I also understand that it's pretty much common knowledge that Mars' atmosphere is made solely up of "CO2"/H2CO3, a carbonic chemical more so commonly known as "carbon monoxide", a gas which can be reduced to either solid, or liquid form, i.e., "water", by the application of "intense presure". http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm Also, what "life" that there has been determined to be on/from Mars has actually been "microbial" in nature, as was discovered in a meteorite recovered from Antarctica in 1984 (1 of some 12 found here) believed to have originated on Mars, and all of the indications for the potential of "life" could just as well be nothing more than perhaps some slightly modified (given the intense pressure and chemical composition of the Mars' atmosphere) "dust grains" that just so happen to be typical to all meteorites discovered so far. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marslife.html But it is both nice and beneficial to dream and imagine the unknown. p.s. If the second link I've given you directs you to a multi-selection page, you'll want the first listed link there that'll exactly match the address as posted.