Sometimes ideas of the paleo - future tense not only draw out a chuckle for their scientific improbableness but , in the case of “ Polar Oil Wells , ” political improbableness . sister penguins find out their home ground melt would n’t be a very democratic image today .
ThisCloser Than We Think!strip flow in the January 17 , 1960 version of the Chicago Tribune .
Valuable rock oil deposits thousands of feet under Arctic and Antarctic ice caps may one day be brought within reach , thanks to plan now being developed .
Gallic Navy engineer Camille Rougeron has an thought for using jumbo thermonuclear pumps to draw up water from under the ice-skating rink . Such water , which is 7 degrees above freezing temperature because of the insistency on it , would in act begin to melt the ice .
Constant stirring would keep the warmer pee come to the Earth’s surface . The crank in a denominate field would gradually evaporate . The way would then be readable for formal crude derricks to go to work .
See also : Closer Than We Think ! ( 1958 - 1963)Closer Than We recollect ! Polar City ( 1959 )
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