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What if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis

2023-12-07 Education
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Enjoy 10% OFF and free worldwide shipping on all Hoverpens with code PBS: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/pbs_novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/pbs_noviumeu To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime 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. Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: https://search.pbsspacetime.com/ Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Christopher Pollack & Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini & Stephanie Faria Directed by Andrew Kornhaber Associate Producer: Bahar Gholipour Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Spacetime is produced by Kornhaber Brown for PBS Digital Studios. This program is produced by Kornhaber Brown, which is solely responsible for its content. © 2023 PBS. All rights reserved. End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiDroideka Space Time Was Made Possible In Part By: Big Bang Sponsors Bryce Fort Peter Barrett David Neumann Sean Maddox Alexander Tamas Morgan Hough Juan Benet Vinnie Falco Fabrice Eap Mark Rosenthal Quasar Sponsors Glenn Sugden Alex Kern Ethan Cohen Stephen Wilcox Mark Heising Hypernova Sponsors Stephen Spidle Chris Webb David Giltinan Ivari Tölp Zachary Wilson Kenneth See Gregory Forfa Bradley Voorhees Scott Gorlick Paul Stehr-Green Ben Delo Scott Gray Антон Кочков Robert Ilardi John R. Slavik Donal Botkin Edmund Fokschaner Chuck Zegar Jordan Young Daniel Muzquiz Gamma Ray Burst Sponsors Robert DeChellis Tomaz Lovsin Anthony Leon Billy Holland Leonardo Schulthais Senna Lori Ferris Dennis Van Hoof Koen Wilde Nicolas Katsantonis Piotr Sarnicki Massimiliano Pala Thomas Nielson Joe Pavlovic Justin Lloyd Chuck Lukaszewski Cole B Combs Andrea Galvagni Jerry Thomas Nikhil Sharma Ryan Moser John Anderson Bradley Ulis Craig Falls Kane Holbrook Ross Story teng guo Mason Dillon Harsh Khandhadia Susan Albee Matt Quinn Michael Lev Terje Vold James Trimmier Jeremy Soller Paul Wood Joe Moreira Kent Durham jim bartosh Ramon Nogueira The Mad Mechanic John H. Austin, Jr. Diana S Poljar Faraz Khan Almog Cohen Daniel Jennings Russ Creech Jeremy Reed David Johnston Michael Barton Isaac Suttell Oliver Flanagan Bleys Goodson Mark Delagasse Mark Daniel Cohen Shane Calimlim Tybie Fitzhugh Eric Kiebler Craig Stonaha Frederic Simon John Robinson Jim Hudson Alex Gan David Barnholdt John Funai Bradley Jenkins Vlad Shipulin Cody Brumfield Thomas Dougherty King Zeckendorff Dan Warren Joseph Salomone Patrick Sutton

Top Comments (10)

@enotdetcelfer 2023-12-07

This is why we need to build a pyramid on the moon... you know future civilizations will be like, pyramids or it didn't happen.

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@sethmaki1333 2023-12-08

Reminds me of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Distant Origin" where the hero ship happens upon an ancient civilization on the other side of the galaxy that descended from hadrosaurs that left Earth 70 million years ago.

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@jeffk3746 2023-12-07

This is the proper way to debunk a conspiracy. Don’t strawman the argument or attack the proponents, steelman the argument and actually try to take it seriously, while looking for contradictions that imply falsehood

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@BoyoLoco-rd2fi 2024-04-24

Youtube comments can be weirdly confident about what happened an unimaginable timescale ago

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@pugofwarbr 2023-12-09

this reminds me of the Lovecraft's stories, basically Earth was invaded by different civilizations on the course of millions of years, all them sooner of later became extincts, or devolved, or literally just ghosts remains.

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@OCOregon 2024-02-09

"The Brain Eaters," a 1958 horror film had a plot that revolved around an insect civilization from the Carboniferous creating a capsule to escape their refuge from deep underground. Also notable for featuring a pre-Trek Leonard Nimoy.

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@Gnomezonbacon 2023-12-13

There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager about this. A dinosaur civ escaped before the asteroid hit and drifted around the galaxy for millions of years until a ship from the same homeworld stumbled into them on the other side of the galaxy.

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@paulão-72 2023-12-08

This whole episode sounds like a bar conversation after a scientific conference. A lot of fun!

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@barkasz6066 2023-12-12

Nothing like a bit of existential dread in the morning. This puts the 9 to 5 daily grind in perspective.

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@ThingsICantFindOtherwise 2025-02-17

2:18 who doesn't need some time to re-solidify after a pounding?

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