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When we think about alien civilizations we tend to look into the vastness of space, to far away planets. But there is another incredibly vast dimension that we might be giving too little thought to: time.
Could it be that over the last hundreds of millions of years, other civilizations existed on earth? Indigenous technological species that rose and died out? And that they or their artifacts are buried beneath our feet? What does science have to say about this and what are the implications for us?

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Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?

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Anonymous

"Just assuming a thing happened because we don't have evidence against it is a trap we should avoid." #subtle burn

Anonymous

Love this video. Everyone should watch Kurzgesagt and world would be more enlightened. I share these with my year 10 tutor group in school. They really enjoy them and often have plenty of comments and questions. Most are confused as to why I write the date as 12,022…

Anonymous

Best part of my day, is getting a Kurzgesagt email

Anonymous

I was wondering if, when discussing civilizations similar to our own, they were going to cover moon trash and for how long that would persist.

Anonymous

Love Kurzgesagt!

Anonymous

Interesting thought experiment. I like the thinking through of what would be left behind of us if we disappeared. And it’s interesting to note that we would not necessarily detect a pretty advanced ancient civilization, but I don’t know about this title selection. Putting low likelihood stuff that we have no evidence for (like advanced ancient civilizations) out with click bait titles (calling them “aliens”) might do more harm than good. A portion of the population will just see the title or, even if they watch the video, mis-interpret the open minded “we don’t know” stance as a much higher probability than there really is. My mother in law will mentally skip the “there’s no evidence of this” part and the definition of the term aliens and run around saying that space aliens visited ancient civilizations here on Earth, and I like to think of Kurzgesagt as something that reduces such nonsense rather than risk encouraging it.

Anonymous

Oh look, a NordVPN ad that isn't egregiously misleading. Though, I think everyone knows their reputation for fear mongering by now. I had a higher opinion of Kurzgesagt than that. Shame.

ghostman

Another fantastic episode.