On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:20:53 GMT, "Mark R. Whittington"
wrote:

Clarence Page has been watching too many episodes of the X Files:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...an18,1,3078959.
column?coll=chi-news-col

Of course, even if this were true, then so what? If we can make money and
create jobs while exploring the universe, then so much the better.



Actually, there really is oil in space. There is oil on
some asteriods that comes very close to Pennsylvania crude
in composition. Do a google on "Oil in Space!" and you can
get the details.

And I suppose, since there is oil on asteriods, and
asteriods crash into the Moon, there's probably a chance
there is oil on the Moon.


TA


Later. Don't waste your time doing a google search. I
just tried it and came up with nothing. I know I posted
this information more than once on sci.space.policy but I
haven't been able to find it yet.


TA

Even later! Well, I finally found what I was looking for.
It was posted back in April 1996, under the title, High
Frontier:


Here's an interesting item from
Space Studies Institute"s "Update,Jan/Feb 1995, p. 3:

Organic Element Composition of Celestial and Terrestrial
Sources (from J. Lewis, "Resources of Near-Earth Space,"
p552).

The composition of (astroidal) meteorites is remarkably
similar to fossil fuel sources on Earth. The resources
available to humanity in non-planetary space are
enormous compared to our knowledge base at the beginning of
the space age.


COMPOSITION BY WEIGHT (Percent)


C1 Meteorite: carbon= 74, hydrogen= 5, oxygen=10,
Nitrogen= 2, sulphur= 7.

C2 Meteorite: carbon= 78, hydrogen= 3, oxygen=13,
nitrogen= 2, sulphur= 4.

Oil Shale, KY: carbon= 82 hydrogen= 7, oxygen= 6,
nitrogen= 2, sulphur= 2.

Bituminous,PA: carbon= 82, hydrogen= 6, oxygen= 9,
nitrogen= 2, sulphur=1.

Anthracite: carbon= 89, hydrogen= 4, oxygen= 5,
nitrogen= 1, sulphur= 1.

Petroleum: carbon= 85, hydrogen= 11, oxygen= 1,
nitrogen= 1, sulphur= 3.



TA