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The concept of prior industrial civilizations was explored in a 2018 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748. If you exclude ind
by lumost 2y ago
The concept of prior industrial civilizations was explored in a 2018 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748. If you exclude industry, it could be exceedingly improbable that we would find fossil evidence of such creatures unless the species existed for several million years.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI would think that they would have discovered and burned all the hydrocarbons, just as our civilization is in the process of doing.
- lumost 2y agoThe paper explores this, mass burning of hydrocarbons tends to create ocean anoxic events which sequester carbon. They cite a few papers which suggest the PETM and similar events were due to volcanic intrusion on hydrocarbon deposits.