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With you until the last sentence. Why would the "third try" not just be dinosaurs again? Same for the 4th, 5th an subsequent "attempts". The fact that the secon
by WJW 3y ago
With you until the last sentence. Why would the "third try" not just be dinosaurs again? Same for the 4th, 5th an subsequent "attempts". The fact that the second try got further than the first does not mean that the 3rd will get further than the second.
In fact, given that most of the easily accessible coal and oil deposits will have been used up it might even be much more difficult for a subsequent species to get as far as humanity has. (Although that might be balanced a bit by lots of the metal ore being pre-mined and near the surface)
- jagged-chisel 3y ago> ... most of the easily accessible coal and oil deposits will have been used up . There'll be plenty of time for nature to compact and bury much of the biomass from the previous sentience attempts.
- WJW 3y agoDepends. Most of the current coal deposits were from before fungi and bacteria evolved the ability to digest lignins and similar compounds. Now that they can do that, no more (or at least much less) coal deposits are being created.