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There Might Have Been Another Civilization Before Us
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December 14, 2025
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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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