nostr:npub198zzdmvkla20jw4aghk5a3ykmkeex97fgpreysc7wuq0r4hsa8jsjjnquz Maybe, but I wonder how far you'd get if you couldn't even make fire?
nostr:npub1dgc20rwct3mfd884e2240pqpzhzlz6xm7laky670vnd5um3xxkzsaj4yrt If the oxygen is close rather than not in a million years, maybe with bellows or another handtool. And isn't it quite possible to build on just a part of a planet? As in, keep working on the challenge of the cold climates.
Do Technological Civilizations Depend on Atmospheric Oxygen?
Our modern technological civilization wouldn't have been possible without open-air combustion, which can only happen when atmospheric oxygen levels reach at least 18%. A new study asks if this could be a bottleneck for developing other advanced civilizations. Without at least 18% oxygen, fires won't easily burn, so technologies like steam power and combustion engines wouldn't be possible. Earth has only reached that level of atmospheric composition in the last 500 million years.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01160
nostr:npub1dgc20rwct3mfd884e2240pqpzhzlz6xm7laky670vnd5um3xxkzsaj4yrt Wouldn't they have a better chance of powering up sensibly: the technologies would be constrained to experiments at first, mass production could be more challenging (more advances required) and overusing combustion just would not be a thing.