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3181633 No.3181633 [Reply] [Original]

you are now realizing that every sentient race in the universe that lives on a rocky planet and is carbon based will have fossil fuels.
it's all hydrocarbons once you heat and compress it for a few million years
and you can bet those sentient species will not be the "first wave" of creatures on their planet

and let's face it, carbon based life forms are probably pretty damn common

>> No.3181815

and?

>> No.3182311

>>3181815
u r faget

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>> No.3182606

How old is the universe? And how old is our planet?

>> No.3182609

I think the race has just begun folks!

>> No.3182613

Too bad we're wasting so much of our fossils for bullshit purposes.

>> No.3182965

>>3181633

when you say "first wave" of creatures so you mean sentient creatures or not?

If not, there doesn't neccesarily have to have been mass extinctions on other planets so you might not be able to classify creatures into "waves".

If you're talking about "the first wave of sentient beings", then i think you are incorrect. The species' after the extinction of the first sentient beings will not have the huge hydrocarbon reserves as the first sentient beings depleted them all. They probably won't have a chance to advance as far as we did.

But i do agree with some of you post. Perhaps global warming and fossil fuel depletion is a problem that has faced every advanced carbon-based civilisation in the universe.

>> No.3182975

>carbon based life forms are probably pretty damn common
I think every other form of life is pretty unlikely. Nearly impossible

>> No.3183541

>>3182965
first wave as in first wave of macro organisms on that planet

similar to how we're something like the fourth wave on our planet, each wave being reset by a mass extinction event, the last wave before the current one being the Jurassic period

>> No.3183572

>Phd in astrogeology
>Any oil in the universe

>> No.3183578

So every civilization has the dilemma of using fossil fuels for self-gratification or to prepare for when fossil fuels and other resources are depleted so that industrial civilization can continue and does not revert to a medieval state until the sun bellows up into a red giant.