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comment by historyarch
historyarch  ·  2168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Doing science right: Have there been previous human civilizations on Earth?

If there was a previous society, they must not have produced plastic or chewing gum which will probably outlast the human race by billions of years.





goobster  ·  2166 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Except that all of the land masses a previous society would have existed/built upon, have been recycled since then. Even a plastic water bottle can't withstand continental pressures and magma.

historyarch  ·  2165 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was sort of kidding, I thought adding the reference to chewing gum would make that apparent. Oh well, humor is tough to get across in a comment sometimes.