[Milsurplus] OT: Response. Re: Things you find while looking for something else

[KD7JYK DM09]

"they quantified the number of rounds obtained by saying you could fire 
20 round every minute, of every hour, of every day, all year long and 
you would not run out for 40 centuries, yes 4000 years.  That's a lot of 
ammo."

Crazy numbers!

That reminds me of a Geophysical convention I went to in 1995.  A 
professor friend managed to get us seats with the CEOs of several big 
oil companies.  I asked them about oil production, supplies, how there's 
always a "shortage" around the corner (as mentioned by my7 Father since 
the 1940's, et cetera.  The answer was, in a way, shocking, but not 
entirely.  One fellow, from Chevron, I believe said, "The US oil fields 
can currently provide triple the world consumption for a minimum of 
10,000 years, with no foreseeable diminishment in availability beyond 
that".  When I asked for further details, some of the information he 
provided was, "Because as the Chinese discovered thirty years ago 
(1960's, I heard about that), it's a replenishing resource, only limited 
by amount easily obtained per site", and, "It's essentially everywhere 
on the planet, much like water", along with, "Oil that was created so 
many years ago, we are pulling out of the ground now, however, oil that 
was created forty years after that, we will pull from the ground forty 
years from now".  He also added that like water, it has a habit of 
replenishing an area it was removed from, although MUCH more slowly, 
following with how many sites that went "dry", again produce massive 
amounts years, to decades later.

Always interesting to have things quantified...

Kurt