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Originally Posted by privateer
The technology to use Oil as drilled from the Earth.
Had We not found this? We would be in a whole different playing field.
The lack of this major step in mans evolution may have negated Wars and A-Bombs.
There would be no conflicts in the middle east over oil today.
There would have been no conflicts in the 30's about oil.
There many have been actual improvements in other energy sources
long ago.
But hindsight is always 20/20
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Because there were no weapons designed to be powered by burning coal...
Although if we had discovered fission earlier (Uranium was discovered all the way back in 1789, 150 years before fission was discovered!) we might have skipped oil and went strait from coal to nuclear power.