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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by moomoo11 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:14PM (#40384469)
Someone told me that an ancient civilization got to nuclear power and destroyed the planet resetting civilization.

I guess with enough mind altering (diminishing) drugs anything is possible.

Idk why it’s always these wacko types who are into this kind of ancient history. It’s annoying.

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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by cultofmetatron on Friday May 17, 2024 @05:13AM (#40387934)
> got to nuclear power and destroyed the planet resetting civilization

don't even know why they need to get that far. we already know the younger dryas was a time period of extreme climate swings and natural disasters with purely natural causes. a civilization existing before that time could have been advanced without needing to have achieved nuclear. plus its pretty trivial to prove that no prexisting civilization made it to the fossil fuel era. never-mind NUCLEAR age.

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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by zirgs on Friday May 17, 2024 @08:12AM (#40389043)
If that was true then we would still be living like in the 18th century. They would have pumped out all the easily accessible oil. It's not possible to access current oil fields with 19th century tech.

So yeah - if this civilization falls - the next one won't be able to have their own industrial revolution.

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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by dredmorbius on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:20PM (#40403157)
The Silurian hypothesis:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis>

(Largely debunked.)

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