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.
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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.