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If you entertain the notion that 55M years ago the PETM was caused by the Silurian civilization then geologically you have to realize that it was only 40M years
by lamontcg 3y ago
If you entertain the notion that 55M years ago the PETM was caused by the Silurian civilization then geologically you have to realize that it was only 40M years ago that the Indian plate slammed into the Eurasian plate and caused the uplift of the Himalayas. Mt Everest just didn't exist at all back then. And shield glaciers have carved the continents on a 100k year cycle for at least the past 1M years which would have destroyed all of the surface mining evidence at northern latitudes. A lot changes geologically over those kinds of time periods.
Of course most of our oil reserves come from the Mesozoic age (66-252 million years ago) so either the Silurians quickly transitioned away from fossil fuels, or blew themselves up and went extinct before they could extract all of it.
- dividedbyzero 3y agoThere could have been a much larger amount of fossil fuels in the ground that was almost used up by the Silurians and now we believe what they left us with is all there ever was.
- creatonez 3y agoThis makes me wonder: which methods of resource extraction lead to the complete destruction of evidence that resource existed, and which methods lead to a preservation of evidence? If you insert a deep well into a fossil water aquifer, and only use 10% of it, will it all have evaporated after 5 million years due to exposure to the elements?