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by tim333 519 days ago
Gold seemed an interesting character - I was just reading his Wikipedia.

The WaPo article on him is good

>As an astronomer and geophysicist, he says, "it always seemed absurd to me to see petroleum hydrocarbons on other planets, where there was obviously never any vegetation, even as we insist that on Earth they must be biological in origin." https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/features/daily/h...