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The Silurian Hypothesis

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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I Am the Grass, Let Me Work

Human urban centers make up about 1% of earth's entire surface area. Without constant maintenance, those few structures that do exist will be eaten by nature and it won't take a thousand years. The best we could hope to find then, from their perspective, is minor anomalies in sedimentary layers. It'd be super cool to find long buried ancient technology. But the odds just aren't there.

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