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[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.

Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and... just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Now consider wild fires during that period.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fire hadn't been invented yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

they said "wild fires"

just like wild horses, wild fires existed long before they were domesticated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You just ruined the song.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Was the world turning though?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not the song I mean, but thanks for the ear worm.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

they must have been wild

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