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analog31 on July 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Could an industrial civilization have predated hum...

Any such civilization would have to have been configured to leave no traces for us to discover. Russell's Teapot comes to mind.

thrashh on July 15, 2023 [–]

That species would have to be completely united and able to collude without a single disagreement.

Not only that, they would have had to achieve complete perfection because we haven’t found a single trace.

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