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Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?

Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?

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1 HN recommenders · discussed 2023–2024
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Kurzgesagt asks whether advanced civilizations could have existed on Earth in the deep past and left little evidence. It looks at time as a dimension for searching for alien civilizations and the limits of the geological record.

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HN brings it up in threads on ancient civilizations and detecting past technology in geology.

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Nzen · 2024-01 · rec

Along the same lines as the pbs video, I enjoyed Kurzgesagt's video [0] about our ability to sense ancient aliens. [0] [VIDEO] 12 minutes

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robbomacrae · 2023-12 · reference

Kurzgesagt also: [VIDEO] And just like the paper, it acknowledges the challenges in detecting such evidence due to the limited and complex nature of the geological record.

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berniedurfee · 2024-05 · reference

Kurzgesagt did a video on this. Though they discuss how advanced civilizations could have existed on Earth and we might not even know it because there wouldn’t be much left and what was left might be so unusual that we might chalk it up to natural phenomena. [VIDEO]

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