What if tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago a civilisation

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>>18645727
What you just said basically sums up into great filters of extinction. There has probably been planets with life as culturally and technologically significant as us with the number of possible planets to contain life. They probably reached a point where we are at, and when they moved forward. Something happened that didn't allow them to push forward, most likely cultural society claims. These things will happen to us also, but the real contender is that how many intelligent life forms out there survive their great filters, and the possibility that we maybe truly alone, therefore the arbiters of life. In which case we better hope we're closer to advancing past these filters, as if we aren't we're closer to extinction just like the rest. That's why it's so important for us to eventually colonize other solar systems and galaxies, because if we are alone, there's no one else to take on this great task.

>>18645752
But If it has happened to other species and we are still around, surely if we became extinct another species could spring up over the next millions and billions of years and get to our stage, if we are alone that means before us there was nothing, yet we still came about, surely the same can happen for other planets

>>18645727
Apparently this has happened several times throughout history on earth. Civilizations go through ages of growth, decay, and ascension. When a civilization processes through ascension, the earth's magnetic poles flip and a host of violent, physical, and metaphysical changes occur on the planet.

Places like stone hedge, although primitive looking, are ancient ritual areas meant to anchor civilizations during the ascension process.

When the civilizations ascend, material objects start to dematerialize as the civilizations shifts between dimensions and into higher consciousness.

This is why there aren't many artifacts or actual technologies left over from advanced civilizations.

>>18645727
many catastrophes kid, according to the mayans we are on our fifth sun (fifth reboot of life)

>>18645831
As civilization approaches ascension, energy bombards the collective consciousness of mankind and the electromagnetic grid of earth.

A torrent of energies sweeps through the earth, this causes a release of pent of energies of the past ages and leads to high tension between people, casts, and nations.

This is why the closer to ascension a civilization gets, the higher the risk for a global catastrophe such as world war or nuclear war.

If a civilization can avert the energies and mitigate the tension long enough to reach the ascension point, then the earth and humanity will collective evolve into the next phase of evolution.

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>>18645727
"Solon, all you Greeks are but children. There is not an old man among you, or a science that is a hoary with age. You remember but one Deluge, though there have been many."

>>18645822
It could, the building blocks of life can be very different from ours, that's kind of why we have expanded our search to accommodate for that.

However, these very simple cell organisms can meet the same great filters, it has happened before on our own planet, when bacteria started pumping oxygen into the atmosphere in the earliest stages of life, causing most life to rust from the inside out in the first great extinction.

If we are alone however this does not mean nothing came before, it just means nothing withstood the great filter that came before it. We could be the only surviving intelligent life to speak of in the entire known universe that has yet to hit one of these filters, we have survived so far, and if we continue to make the right choices we will continue to survive, however it is still up to us to eventually leave from where we originate and populate the stars. After all the what if of life couldn't be if life doesn't push forward, we just so happen to be the intelligent species still around to do that. We can't really depend on the what if other life exist, because we must assume that we are alone if we are to survive our great filters to push forward.

>>18645727
If that had happened we'd be digging up their tires and styrofoam cups and shit.

>>18646114
Why?

Why an advanced civilization wouldn't have evolved into biodegradable technology.

Too liberal for you?

>>18646121
>Too liberal for you?
Grand prize for stupid?
Even if they were more advanced to eventually go full biodegradable, every civilization is going to leave a footprint of what they did before then. Usually in the form of Carbon. However I believe there hasn't been another intelligent life form to ever populate Earth on the equal we have it now or even beyond that, and if they did we would find evidence very easily of it.

One of the fundamental ways we look for life elsewhere in the universe is in the form of emissions like heat, more particularly we are looking for waste energy that is being given off at a rate that looks similar or greater to Earth.

We have to kind of use ourselves as the map to find other life, as we are pretty big spot light in the galaxy we reside right now.

>>18646114
See my post above about dematerialization of artifacts due to magnetic pole shifts.

I'd think there'd be clear evidence of their existence. That's what.

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>>18645727
Looks like someone is an HP Lovecraft wannabe here

>>18646344
Depending on how they where wiped out maybe not

>>18645727
Prob more advanced than us and many times.