There Might Have Been Another Civilization Before Us

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:10:50 +0000

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In 2018, Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt published a paper titled: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?

They weren’t asking “Did an ancient, advanced civilisation exist?” They were asking – if one did exist... how would we actually know about it?

This question has been dubbed The Silurian Hypothesis - and it's more sincere than you might expect...

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