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Based on the torah, this is what the earth looks like (infosec.pub)

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That's just extraction from shale, we've been using ground seeps for most of human history. Sumerians were using oil and oil products and that's like around 1000 years before the talmud.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I didn't say no uses, the Natives near where I live liked to seal canoes that way, but without further processing crude oil isn't a particularly great fuel, for example.

What were the Arabs doing with it? At least in the European empires, lamps weren't a big use until after the whale oil era.