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The “oxygen bottleneck” may leave aliens stuck with primitive technology (bigthink.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So there could still be things like flowing lava, geysers and other hot spots, just no oxygen powered fire. While it would severely curtail progress there could still be viable alternatives to open air fire. A species that's close to nautally occurring heat features may still evolve.