Ohhhhhhh, what a story this could have been if we would have had:

1) one more hour, and;

2) perhaps a few more plot twists.

An oil drilling crew somewhere around western Colorado has been toiling on a certain spot for several days. Their parent company is getting restless because there's been lots of work and no oil found. A young, hotshot geologist is convinced that there's an incredible amount of petroleum to be discovered...the drilling rig boss tells the driller to try and go down 50 more feet, difficult because the drill bit is 4 miles underneath the surface. All of a sudden the drill operator says they appear to have hit an air pocket...oil must be near! Then he stops and gets extremely nervous. The manager and geologist arrive and he tells them red powder started coming out of the hole...power which they learn mysteriously disappears shortly after contact with air.

The geologist links up with one of his favorite college professors and arranges for the dust to be tested. It appears to be a substance unknown to any recorded primitive culture, subsequent tests show it's 12 billion years old.

The professor says an abandoned silver mine he's aware of nearby may have a deep shaft that can lead to a passageway to the vicinity of the finding. The geologist and the drill operator, armed with explosives, venture down to it, then detonate a hole through the rock into the precise area.

They find: a ranch house, looking almost exactly like a home in their era (1998) would appear. Everything's intact, even the windows. The faucets, when turned on, dispense pure crude oil. They also find adjacent to the basement (the floor of which is covered with crude) a library, filled with books by Shakespeare and all the great novelists. Astounded (and filled with glee because the oil is where he predicted it) the geologist finds a set of books that are apparently a set of nine, but only eight volumes are there. Their title: "A history of the world, by D.V. (the "V" stands for "Vladimir" Davis). The ninth volume, which would cover all history past Y2K, is missing.

The geologist is convinced this was a civilization just like ours that lived billions of years ago, and if he can find that ninth volume we'll learn what's going to happen to  us.

This is an interesting episode to listen to, but I do think there is so much that could also have happened within...but that's JMO, as we say in webspeak...