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cstanleytech

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15. One major flaw people overlook though with speculation of past advanced civilizations from millions

Reply to myccrider (Reply #13)

Wed Oct 28, 2020, 09:59 AM

Oct 2020

of years ago is the lack of trash dumps.
After all if there were such past civilizations the odds are they would probably have had alot of garbage as well so you would logically think that we would find atleast evidence of their garbage especially because the odds are that they would have generated alot of it before they became advanced.

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Sounds like click bait based on the blurb as the picture looks like its simply a snow capped peak cstanleytech Oct 2020 #11

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Call me skeptical. myccrider Oct 2020 #13

One major flaw people overlook though with speculation of past advanced civilizations from millions cstanleytech Oct 2020 #15

Good point! myccrider Oct 2020 #16

Even then I doubt it would have wiped out every single spec of trash so you would think we cstanleytech Oct 2020 #17

You're probably right, myccrider Oct 2020 #18

But WHO would have been the wnylib Oct 2020 #19

Such a civilization wouldn't have been from any homo species. myccrider Oct 2020 #20

Of course there weren't any apes that far back. wnylib Oct 2020 #21