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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by tyingq on Saturday August 03, 2019 @07:43PM (#20603445)
Sans fossil fuels, wouldn't we just have figured out how to scale something else? Ethanol maybe?
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Re:What If We Haven’t Met Aliens yet Because They’ve Messed ... by api on Saturday August 03, 2019 @08:28PM (#20603677)
I think maybe we would have had slow industrialization until we figured out fission, solar PV, and good batteries.
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