Earth After Humanity (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
The Silerian Hypothesis and the Future of Earth
Earth isn't a great place to build a digital society and represents such a minuscule portion of available resources even in the solar system let alone the galaxy that Earth might be left behind. There may or may not be any active ecological care taking at that point but you could actually have a scenario where new species arose to intelligence only to later find that lots of their mountains or icy regions were huge data stacks containing a trillion or so super intelligent ancient digital minds. The aftermath of a dominant species being removed and revamping things to a new restored equilibrium minus their artifacts could potentially pass for an extinction event too for future investigators of geological strata and ice cores. That leads the door open to a cycle
