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a tar pit as in the ones formed from petroleum, as in when crude oil rises to the earth's surface? as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from

a tar pit as in the ones formed from petroleum, as in when crude oil rises to the earth's surface? as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago? its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time. if you're trying to say those could have been locations where those rituals might have taken place, i suppose its fair enough to ask that, to test it you could check the locations and crude grade of all currently known oil locations, and if you manage to find similar grades on land as you find in the middle of the sea, especially in locations that were never land to begin with or weren't land during those time periods, then that would disprove the idea because they wouldn't have made tar pits in the ocean. there probably other ways to test this idea but this is what i have off the top of my head.

thfuran 3y ago
>as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago? Oil is not primarily made of dinosaurs but rather of plankton and algae. >its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time. You're talking about 100 million years ago as if that's a tremendously long gap but glossing over a span of about 400 million years as if it were a single instant. At any rate a tar pit was just an example of an environment that is conducive to fossil formation.
9dev 3y ago
You’re picking out what was obviously an example of a burial rite that involves permanently destroying remains. And I agree, it’s quite anthropomorphic to assume another intelligent species would place as much emotional value on graves as humans do. There’s really no reason for it other than some historical/superstitious customs. If you think about how strange and hard to comprehend even fungi or octopuses are, I don’t think we can make any assumptions about the culture of a non-human intelligence. Going as far as claiming they would bodies their deceased is borderline ridiculous.

thfuran 3y ago

>as in the crude oil made from all the extinct dinosaurs from hundreds of millions of years ago? Oil is not primarily made of dinosaurs but rather of plankton and algae. >its a nice idea, but its technically putting the cart before the horse as those pits wouldn't have been around due to them being formed from decaying organic matter from that time. You're talking about 100 million years ago as if that's a tremendously long gap but glossing over a span of about 400 million years as if it were a single instant. At any rate a tar pit was just an example of an environment that is conducive to fossil formation.

9dev 3y ago

You’re picking out what was obviously an example of a burial rite that involves permanently destroying remains. And I agree, it’s quite anthropomorphic to assume another intelligent species would place as much emotional value on graves as humans do. There’s really no reason for it other than some historical/superstitious customs. If you think about how strange and hard to comprehend even fungi or octopuses are, I don’t think we can make any assumptions about the culture of a non-human intelligence. Going as far as claiming they would bodies their deceased is borderline ridiculous.