Idea Bank: "What If" In A Game

What If ?

 * Looking to cutting-edge Tech & Scientific Theory for inspiration in: Story Premises, Gameplay Mechanics & wherever a robust imagination can conjure with versimiltude, engageing the "willing suspension of disbelief.

Hot Deep Biosphere Theory

 * Oil on Mars ? A Real Possibility.....


 * Professor Thomas Gold at Cornell University has a theory.


 * So called "Fossil Fuels" may NOT have been formed from decayed prehistoric plants & critters.


 * Rather "Hydrocarbons" formed deep within the planets interior long BEFORE life formed on the Earth's surface.


 * There is much more to the theory & it has yet to be validated experimentally but it does lead to some postulations which go contrary to convention.


 * And one of those postulations is that MARS could very well have Oil Deposits. Sounds heretical, doesn't it ?


 * So much for all my postings about the need to create "Hydrogen Fuel" & "GeoThermal" Tech. Course that could still be done.... But the Oil Derricks could just be modded to pump "Mars Oil".


 * Interested:


 * Research & Projects Around the World


 * About Professor T. Gold & his Credentials


 * Prof. Gold's facinating book:


 * The Deep Hot Biosphere