Creative Speculation

Xipe Totec

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3. Scariest shit I've read in a long time.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Original post)

Sat Apr 14, 2018, 11:36 AM

Apr 2018

In addition, our work also opened up the speculative possibility that some planets might have fossil-fuel-driven cycles of civilization building and collapse. If a civilization uses fossil fuels, the climate change they trigger can lead to a large decrease in ocean oxygen levels. These low oxygen levels (called ocean anoxia) help trigger the conditions needed for making fossil fuels like oil and coal in the first place. In this way, a civilization and its demise might sow the seed for new civilizations in the future.

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Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (The Atlantic magazine) [View all] Binkie The Clown Apr 2018 OP

Given the current state of human affairs I am not sure humans qualify. gordianot Apr 2018 #1

There are many esoteric accounts of prior civilizations RandomAccess Apr 2018 #2

Those accounts are not based on anything factual. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2018 #6

Scariest shit I've read in a long time. Xipe Totec Apr 2018 #3

What a FASCINATING article RandomAccess Apr 2018 #4

If there were such a civilization, we'd probably find evidence of their mines. Salviati Apr 2018 #5

Yeah, they don't address that zipplewrath Sep 2018 #11

if a ufo landed on earth today and asked a member of the dominant civilization rampartc Oct 2018 #13

hammer found embedded in 500 million year old rock ........ rampartc Oct 2018 #12

Hmmmm ... an H. P. Lovecraft fan, perhaps ? nt eppur_se_muova Apr 2018 #7

I wish I could bring myself to believe this. It would be fun to believe. Binkie The Clown Apr 2018 #8

I believe so. Crutchez_CuiBono May 2018 #9

My father believes Separation Sep 2018 #10

Genesis 6:4 OxQQme Nov 2019 #14