The silurian hypothesis raises a bigger question, what kind of society do we want to be? We can ten very brightly for a short time, but we can't sustain that. And when we think about when the universe is likely gong to end, we're not even half way there. There's more than enough room for our civilization to disappear and for tons of future ones to come around not knowing we were ever even here. This episode was reported, produced and scored by noa hassenfeld. The unexplainable team includes bird pinkerton and mandi nwen. To read more about some of the to we cover on our show, check out our sight at vox