Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by 36bydesignBL on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:36AM
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Then how would we have dinosaur bones from 65 million years ago +?
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Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by ianai on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:49AM
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Fossils represent a very tiny portion of whatever was there at that time.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by ceejayoz on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:07PM
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Yes, but the point is the 1.7 M number for total crust turnover can't be valid, as none of that tiny portion would still exist.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by aalleavitch on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:14PM
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I find it hard to believe that there won't be at least some human fossils lying around 60 million years from now.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by lostlogin on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:34PM
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It’s an angle that a funeral directors could use as a selling point -
Fossilisation.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by kabdib on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:56PM
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In Gene Wolfe's SF/fantasy tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, set very far in the future, he refers to corpses preserved by extreme means and rendered essentially indestructible and basically just cluttering up the world.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by ahakki on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:28PM
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see Ancient Egypt
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by danielsju6 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:49AM
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We don't have bones, we have fossils.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by ceejayoz on Saturday April 14, 2018 @01:06PM
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Fossilized bones (plus the occasional feather/tissue), and way to miss the point.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by danielsju6 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @02:14PM
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Not trying to be pedantic but the devil is in the details.
Bones are common, fossils are formed by a relatively rare geologic process. Fossilization supplants slow to rot organic material with stone, embedding it in the strata, in just the right conditions. It's unclear to me what (if any) industrial rememants would become fossilized and if they'd be recognizable as such.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by wycx on Saturday April 14, 2018 @03:30PM
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Given that pillow lavas can be recognised in some eclogite facies rocks, I think a porcelain toilet would stand a good chance of remaining recognisable at all the way to granulite or eclogite facies, as long as it is not too deformed.
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by Udik on Saturday April 14, 2018 @04:55PM
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Pyramids? Statues? Stuff that is already made of stone to start with?
Re:Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
by tytytytytytytyt on Sunday April 15, 2018 @12:51AM
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How long has it taken the pyramids to decay to their current status?