The Silurian Hypothesis

By Lorenzo Tanos

The thought of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures having proper names, working jobs to feed their families, and enjoying the trappings of technology is one that’s fueled many a children’s cartoon or fantasy story through the years. But with the proof of an intelligent civilization bound to get destroyed forever after millions of years, there might be an outside chance that humans were not the first intelligent, industrialized civilization in Earth’s history. That’s the gist of the so-called “Silurian Hypothesis,” which was explored by a pair of researchers in a recent thought experiment.

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