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re: Do you think it's possible an advanced civilization existed billions of years ago on earth
Posted on 1/24/26 at 9:14 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 1/24/26 at 9:14 am to SlowFlowPro
Yea it’s all semantics but I think point is that things we are told about history aren’t necessarily accurate. But yes, relative to their contemporaries is what I think most of these discussions revolve around. Even within that concept, there may have been some technologies or know-how that would impress or leave even modern humans in awe similar to Roman concrete until recently or the “how” behind the placement and transportation for some of these massive stones found throughout the world.
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Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:01 am to sidewalkside
I don’t think any advanced civilization has ever existed here, including now.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:03 am to Captain Rumbeard
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they
Give me (3) specific names of people who are part of ‘they’.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:10 am to Captain Rumbeard
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Take a look at all these massive stones on these huge sites in Peru and Egypt and Syria. We couldn't do that to this day. And we obviously built on top of them.
When you consider that it took multiple generations to construct those things, and people had nothing but time on their hands, it doesn't seem so far-fetched to me, even if it was all done with manual labor and primitive tools.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:32 am to sidewalkside
I highly doubt it.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:37 am to Jake88
As another person already posted, Sacsayhuamán. It’s pretty incredible, as long as you have an open mind.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:37 am to sidewalkside
Sure. Maybe God just recycles the place every few 100,000 years.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:42 am to sidewalkside
Science: Civilization is only about 10,000 years old
People: We found megastructure architecture projects completed ~12,000 years ago
Science: Yes, sir. . .10,000 years
People: We found water erosion on the Sphinx dating back to 12-15,000 years
Science: You hear something?. . .me neither. Just love the sound of civilization starting 10,000 years ago.
People: We found megastructure architecture projects completed ~12,000 years ago
Science: Yes, sir. . .10,000 years
People: We found water erosion on the Sphinx dating back to 12-15,000 years
Science: You hear something?. . .me neither. Just love the sound of civilization starting 10,000 years ago.
This post was edited on 1/24/26 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:52 am to bignuss18
quote:An open mind that the Incas were able to do it.
As another person already posted, Sacsayhuamán. It’s pretty incredible, as long as you have an open mind.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:55 am to SlowFlowPro
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Stones are a good way to build stuff if you're not advanced.
They are not a good material for advanced civilizations. We have a history that we know and can verify 100% to show why stone building is inefficient and not optimal for advancing, industrialized societies. This isn't some mystery that we are speculating about.
You say that based on our technology vs stone. Now consider possibilities that those stones indicate. They look like they were liquified to get those perfect custom connections between them that has no space. The way the walls in some of these places in Peru look like they're randomly put together but you see the same patterns in walls in other places around the world. We've never really looked at these massive megalithic sites as connected but they sure look alike. The Inca told the Spanish that they didn't build those locations. They built on them. But the science to this day says that was all them. When they said straight up it wasn't and nothing in their history indicates it was.
Stone seems odd for an advanced society but so does wood right? How about oriented strand carbon fiber? Yeah, that's wood.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 10:59 am to Jake88
Possibly, but please detail how they would be able to do so given their technology. It doesn’t really seem like the most plausible explanation. It fascinates modern engineers and historians, and their fascination holds weight.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:02 am to sidewalkside
Damn I didn’t realize Earth was 4.5 billion years old.
I guess possibly extraterrestrial life. But it would depend on how they built their societies’ infrastructure. Even stuff like plastics might break down and disappear from the geologic record over that much time, but an uncharacteristic spike in a couple of elements would tip us off to some unnatural presence. (Imagine a lot of iron for steel buildings for example.) There would probably be some hints still.
Humans specifically? No way IMO. You’d basically need us to evolve to what we are now, go extinct, then somehow reemerge from the evolutionary record a second time. Mathematically possible I guess but not realistic.
I guess possibly extraterrestrial life. But it would depend on how they built their societies’ infrastructure. Even stuff like plastics might break down and disappear from the geologic record over that much time, but an uncharacteristic spike in a couple of elements would tip us off to some unnatural presence. (Imagine a lot of iron for steel buildings for example.) There would probably be some hints still.
Humans specifically? No way IMO. You’d basically need us to evolve to what we are now, go extinct, then somehow reemerge from the evolutionary record a second time. Mathematically possible I guess but not realistic.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:02 am to bignuss18
It has been mentioned earlier. They had time on their hands. It's just moving stones and they can keep at it until they get it correct. They are well constructed but not perfect. Neither are the pyramids.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:08 am to Captain Rumbeard
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Stone seems odd for an advanced society but so does wood right?
No, not right. Wood is amazing.
Without wood, humans would have never developed like we have.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:09 am to Jake88
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They had time on their hands. It's just moving stones and they can keep at it until they get it correct. They are well constructed but not perfect. Neither are the pyramids.
Also thousands of years of erosion, weight, and friction will make things naturally flow together better.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:30 am to OKBoomerSooner
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Humans specifically? No way IMO. You’d basically need us to evolve to what we are now, go extinct, then somehow reemerge from the evolutionary record a second time. Mathematically possible I guess but not realistic.
Or humans could’ve survived an asteroid or ice melting flood event in very tiny numbers. Only a few hundred survive and that could be enough for a reboot.
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:30 am to Roaad
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Science: Civilization is only about 10,000 years old
People: We found megastructure architecture projects completed ~12,000 years ago
Science: Yes, sir. . .10,000 years
People: We found water erosion on the Sphinx dating back to 12-15,000 years
Science: You hear something?. . .me neither. Just love the sound of civilization starting 10,000 years ago.
How do you differentiate between "science" and "people" here?
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:32 am to ATrillionaire
quote:Mainstream Academia
How do you differentiate between "science" and "people" here?
People=Everything else
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:40 am to Roaad
So academia didn't make those "people" discoveries?
Posted on 1/24/26 at 11:47 am to DarthRebel
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The problem is no evidence that they existed
No hard evidence true. But there are a LOT of myths all over the world about a great civilization that existed in the ancient times that was wiped out and whose survivors went out and helped rekindled civilization.
Also, if you consider the destruction that took place during and at the end of the last ice age AND that any cities near sea level during the last ice age or the thousands of years during would’ve been wiped out and covered by rising oceans, this isn’t a stretch.
ETA: not billions of years ago but 100’s of thousands? Very possible.
This post was edited on 1/24/26 at 11:51 am
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