provocative comment on mass graves, war
Why do they bury war victims in mass graves?
So that in a million years from now when another species has taken over for humans, who by then are long extinct, all those people who were buried a million years ago during the war will have turned into oil and then the new species can pump out that oil and they’ll have something to fight about and start wars over.
The cycle of life.
#sardonic #war #violence #life #death #avarice
(Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pump_Jack.jpg, by Sanjay Acharya, CC-BY-SA-3.0)
provocative comment on mass graves, war
@Pat I would hope that in a million years they'd have developed a better energy source than oil!
provocative comment on mass graves, war
Earliest evidence for humans using fire date back to nearly two million years ago, so we've been using energy at least that long and we're still using fire to power our cars.
provocative comment on mass graves, war
@Pat I thought the modern human evolved about 300k years ago? Neanderthalers a bit earlier, a little over 400k years? We're definitely not millions of years old! And last I checked, dinosaurs didn't use fire!
provocative comment on mass graves, war
We split off from the chimpanzees about seven million years ago. There is evidence that we began to use fire at least 1.7 million years ago.
So even though we weren't technically "human", we were using energy. (I should have used the term "hominidae" instead of "humans" in my previous toot.
provocative comment on mass graves, war
@trinsec
>"And last I checked, dinosaurs didn't use fire!"
I know of no evidence that any dinosaurs used fire, however, it's not out of the realm of possibility. It is believed that some dinosuars were relatively intelligent and some had hands or feet that could grasp things, so it's possible that there was some dinosuar that could grab a burning stick leftover from a wildfire and move it somewhere else more convenient to them, which would techinically be "using fire".