Strange science 😦

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Fossils. We should have found fossils by now.

Boru

Maybe, maybe not. It'd depend on the nature of the critter and any odd behaviors that they might have. That said, burial of your dead to prevent disease is a near-universal and a great way to make people into fossils. What we should have found long ago is fossilized structures. Any advanced society is going to need permanent structures, and we'd expect some part of those to survive, especially along the coast and at the mouths of rivers. Any civilization coming after us is going to find some very strange hydrocarbon deposits that are 2 inches thick, 20 feet wide, and 200 miles long.

Given that we’ve found individual fossils ranging in size from one ten thousandths of a metre to 2.5 meters, it hard to imagine that an ancient society didn’t leave at least some fossilized remains. Even if they were clever enough to avoid burying their dead (burning or recycling the remains, for example), it beggars belief to imagine that none of them were buried by avalanches or mudslides and not recovered.

But, since we’re in the realm of speculative fantasy, we might as well posit that they were beings of pure energy, so there were no remains to be fossilized.

Boru