Comment by kergonath
6 hours ago
> Petroleum could be the byproduct of a previous civilization.
How so? We know how it forms, there is no real gap in understanding there. What could lead to the kind of distribution of oil and gas fields we can observe?
Just fun to think about and base fiction on
I mean, would an ant walking on a highway be able to tell that it's artificial?
Probably not, but an ant cannot do any kind of isotope analysis.
hah
but again, would someone a million in the future be able to tell that today's bananas, corn, watermelons, cattle, dogs etc. were the result of selective breeding by an intelligent species? (with no human records for reference)
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