NzenJan 2024Recommends
Along the same lines as the pbs video, I enjoyed Kurzgesagt's video [0] about our ability to sense ancient aliens. [0] ▶ this video 12 minutes
in “Pushing It Back” · View on HN
Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past? on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2023–2024.
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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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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“I enjoyed Kurzgesagt's video [0] about our ability to sense ancient aliens.”
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berniedurfeeMay 2024Cites it
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. ▶ this video
in “New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars” · View on HN
robbomacraeDec 2023Cites it
Kurzgesagt also: ▶ this 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.
in “Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?” · View on HN
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Geology & earth scienceCosmology & astrophysicssilurian hypothesisgeological recordfermi paradoxkurzgesagt