What if Humans Are NOT Earth’s First Civilization? (The Silurian Hypothesis)
Don’t worry, PBS Space Time isn’t going all “Chariots of the Gods” on us. This is an interesting exploration of a very speculative hypothesis.
We’re almost certainly the first technological civilization on Earth. But what if we’re not? We are. Although how sure are we, really? The Silurian hypothesis, which asks whether pre-human industrial civilizations might have existed.
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