Was There An Advanced Civilization Before Humans? | Answers With Joe

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It took humans 10,000 years to go from hunter-gatherers to world domination. Considering the vastness of time that humans and life have been on Earth, could this have happened once before?
This question was put forth by Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt in their paper titled The Silurian Hypothesis, where they tried to figure out what in the geologic record would be a sign of a previous industrial civilization. It brings up a lot of questions and makes you deal with the weight of deep time, as well as the fleeting nature of history.
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[@danbojtor]

We'll probably be extinct in few million years, but Queen Elizabeth will be there to tell our stories.

[@teachmeguitar4149]

👏👏👏👏👏 hilarious

[@basementdwellercosplay]

Good for her

[@verify6329]

I doubt it we are about to become interplanetary, in a few million years we are sure to have moved to other solar systems so I think it would be quite hard to go extinct

[@OswaldBeef]

@@verify6329 WE are not about to become interplanetary not even close. Perhaps like 0.1% of us are but you realize you and I cant afford those tickets.... the space race is literally an escape plan for people with so much money...they'd have to have raped our planets resources to achieve it....and they did.

[@aureavita8653]

@@OswaldBeef and after all that... Queen Elizabeth will still be Long live our Gracious Queen!

[@sverrg]

Humans: build all their first cities on fertile floodplains that get wiped out in flash floods every few decades Also humans: "Why were our ancestors obsessed with floods?!"

[@mephistophelescountcaglios1489]

An easy way to clean the streets?

[@Skitdora2010]

The most expensive and coveted land today are the beach front property along coasts. They get hit with hurricanes and it is theorized that they will be lost due to global warming and rising ocean waters over the next few decades. Today: Billionaires fight for houses on the coastline which only go up in value.

[@Calligraphybooster]

We expect better results from planting our nuclear reactors there😄

[@diannawilson1329]

@@Skitdora2010 "replacement cost" insurance. Guaranteed pay off.

[@keithbender6382]

Exactly. The sea has some weirdly preserved artifacts that should not exist..

[@primeral]

There is evidence that there was once an extremely advanced civilization eons before us. It's covered in a documentary called Battlestar Galactica.

[@bunkertons]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@smnkm4ehfer]

Lol

[@steeldriver1776]

The first sentence read very differently than the second. Very.

[@mzr5165]

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica

[@williestroker3404]

The "historical documents" - Mathazar, Galaxy Quest

[@SaintPhoenixx]

I think the idea of a future human civilisation discovering Mount Rushmore and how they'd interpret it is a fascinating one. Makes you think about whether we've misinterpreted discoveries of ancient civilisations or even just historical artefacts. Who's to say we got it all right? We probably haven't, we can only assume. It's an interesting idea.

[@YETTheShow]

You should check out Petra.

[@MSB-sn1md]

It’s largely accepted that the vast majority of history is lost to us. What we have discovered is largely regarded as minimal compared to what actually happened.

[@StefanieReamer]

As an archaeologist, we joke about it all the time. Especially when something is labelled a “ritual object”. We’re well aware, and a lot of the time debating it.

[@vivianloney8826]

@@StefanieReamer I remember when I learned about archaeology in middle school the first thing we did was read a description some future archaeologist would've written describing the toilet as a ritual object of extreme religious importance.. "a shrine of durable, expensive porcelain in the center of every home"

[@davidbowman2001]

They’d probably think damn this looks like shit.

[@carlosmontgomery4178]

This is my favorite definition: Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Margaret Mead’s summary: helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts.

[@Confuseddave]

Fun fact: the only source for this anecdote is from a creationist, and in the original telling she (supposedly) refers to "savage societies" rather than "the animal kingdom".

[@chriswiber7121]

I've seen this reply on so many videos

[@GBart]

That's beautiful

[@GBart]

@@Confuseddave well no reason we can't correct her, she was close

[@AtlasCompleXtheProd]

So civilization has an expiration. We're getting close now

[@facetiousmonkey5322]

Joe: nothing today will be around in 10,000 years Twinkies: challenge accepted

[@Cybernaut551]

I hope Homo sapiens are remembered for their accomplishments and legacies.

[@facetiousmonkey5322]

@@Cybernaut551 Joey: Did Homo Sapiens go extinct because they were "Homo" Sapiens? Ross: Homo Sapiens are PEOPLE! Joey: Hey! I'm not Judging!

[@cometrider2000]

@@facetiousmonkey5322 Soylent Green is people !

[@iainmair485]

Hotdogs would win hands down.

[@bomat761]

Stainless Steel says, “hold my beer”.

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

Joe is way too addictive. I can’t watch in the mornings because I end up watching the whole day.

[@adamarmstrong5780]

All fax. No phone

[@despacitodaniel801]

Big air-conditioning. Not a fan.

[@GnarledSage]

@@adamarmstrong5780no job

[@stephaniehowell1109]

Nothing like a cup of Morning Joe...❤

[@jenniferwong4530]

Could you do a video on the number of rivers around the world that have dried up? Even the Euphrates and the Mississippi Rivers have dried significantly. China has 66 majors rivers that have dried up. Shanghai, a massive city, is having power issues because of the lack of hydroelectric power levels dropping off. Kinda scary😬

[@carlrobison6065]

Me: "Yay! It's time for some Answers" Joe: "Every thing is doomed to fail" Me: "Yay! Answers!"

[@RRSmurf]

🤣

[@wrinkyscarnagecrew]

Lmao.....answers!

[@abhisheksharma-sb3er]

U forget about underwear 😂

[@OslerWannabe]

Oh, cool - another faux KZbin dialog. Y' know, if you ever tire of being derivative and tiresome, you might try a direct declarative statement of your thoughts. People would be more likely to take you seriously.

[@wrinkyscarnagecrew]

@@OslerWannabe you know every video he ever makes is one of the best so maybe you should shut your blabber keyboard mouth that is all...... I got you Joe my boxing gloves are on and it's his mama not yours this time🤣

[@ElfMaidWithInternet]

The age of elves has long since passed, only a few of us remain, and even then only in hidden places long forgotten. There is still Internet access though.

[@szithaanu9934]

I read that as 'The Age of Elvis'. It still made sense.

[@chironOwlglass]

@@szithaanu9934 Luckily, the Age of Elvis has almost passed.

[@ElfMaidWithInternet]

@nonya business I am born of those Avari among the Wood-elves who chose to live many an age in the land of the former Mirkwood. Though most have now departed, faded into wraiths and haunts, or else departed across beyond the bending sea, I and a few of mine kin have discovered a passage to the Faewild. By occasionally flickering in between, we are able to refresh our physical forms, but not without risk of encountering nameless things.

[@Krisjennewein]

@nonya business Albia; na-chaered palan diriel, o-nef aear, si nef aeraon, O aglar Elenath.

[@nikolaikorpachenkopv7761]

@nonya business what books are you referring to here?

[@M4TCH3SM4L0N3]

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

[@mikewarbin5776]

I try to watch your channel whenever I can. Really enjoy this one. Thank you for taking the time to explain!!

[@TheUnatuber]

"Homo Erectus lasted nine times longer than us." Gotta admire men like that!

[@danielesquivel5621]

9 seconds isn't that impressive either

[@chrsmcfrln]

Giggity.

[@srgreeniii]

LMFAO

[@jacquelinebrunder2384]

Homo Erectus was an ape with 48 chromosomes and humans have 46 so they weren't men but were apes.

[@samyim3365]

@@jacquelinebrunder2384 he is hinting at his bedroom stamina. lol, very nice!!!

[@AA_21861]

There's a probable reason why so many cultures have flood myths. Floods fall into a sort of Goldilocks zone when it comes to disasters. Unlike volcanoes and earthquakes, they are relatively common. They are more common than plagues (present situation notwithstanding) and they leave enough survivors to pass on tales to the next generation. Yet they cause enough hardship to leave significant trauma behind. Unlike fires, they cannot be fought or controlled too easily. To ancient people, floods must have been the most terrifying common disaster they'd encounter in their lifetimes. Let's not forget that their cosmologies were different from ours -- deep waters like seas were usually the limits of their world and smacked strongly of the unknown ("Here be monsters"). Enough people would have been familiar with floods for cultures to frame myths and stories around them. Not very different from how we have so many stories of nuclear armageddon in the 60s and 70s when the cold war was at its height and nuclear arms race rampant. For many cultures, floods must have been like their ultimate armageddon.

[@TheMarioMen1]

“Here be monsters”

[@kaizarchan]

@@TheMarioMen1 This... is Monsters.

[@marcelor.rodrigues9584]

Floods and plagues are very related. also with famine. the greats famine on bangladesh are cause by floods. the birthplace of black death is a flood area(wuhan china, yes all plagues originated from there).

[@nigelholland1714]

People were sailing the world way before us

[@fuwad84]

Also, let's not forget that all civilizations started near bodies of water and often built up near and around them, which explains why floods were so common, consequential and deadly.

[@visassess8607]

I'd like to see archaeological evidence from places currently underwater.

[@ericlipps9459]

That first creature looks more like a Sleestak from the original "Land of the Lost" TV show than like a Silurian.

[@ColdHawk]

“And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Gotta love Shelley

[@joescott]

It's a classic.

[@SofaKingShit]

You maybe gotta love Shelly but l prefer Sandy.

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

@John Jones could be because of watchmen? Or they just actually know the poem from the primary source

[@veritasvalere88]

Yup great

[@burningb2439]

Thanks for that Im now going to look up Shelley , but thanks to You I will remember that.. an this is the 2nd time this week Ah just went 66 on your likes an a few days ago I went 666 else where..Hmmm?..but I did luv your comment..

[@ravenlord4]

I'm on board with this, as there was plenty of time to start and end. Consider: T-Rex is closer to us in time than it was to Stegosaurus.

[@heavymeddle28]

That is... Pretty cool and scary 🐸🦕

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

How long?

[@lendog420]

Really wow didn't know that

[@ravenlord4]

@@CrazyFunnyCats When T-Rex came on the scene, Stegosaurus was already about 86 million years dead and extinct. But for Humans, T-Rex itself is only about 66 million years extinct. It's wild to think about.

[@janeaparis]

Did you know T-Rex is just a big chicken? We eat them every day.

[@unstanic]

There have been new studies recently that point towards a flood at around 12,000 BC, due to a meteorite hit in Greenland. I think they found the crate very recently. Maybe a good topic to touch on…

[@kcck7588]

Exactly when God said it happened.

[@HOLDENPOPE]

"When the Earth starts to settle, God throws a stone at it. And believe me, he's winding up..."@@kcck7588

[@Byronic19134]

Younger Dryas. It’s a scientific fact there was a global flood 12,000 years ago. It is also fact that every culture around the world has a creation story involving beings from the sky saving them from a flood. Make of that what you will. BTW Turkey government officially acknowledges Noah’s Ark has been found in their mountains.

[@davideverling753]

@@Byronic19134 A global flood is physically impossible given the Earths topography in relation to its total quantity of water. According to the bible the water level was several meters above the highest point of land, which would have asphyxiated and frozen to death anything on Noah’s Arc. Also considering the immense number of different species, from radically different ecosystems, and predators who would necessarily have to eat other animals on the boat, the fact that anyone could take such a story for historical fact is insanity. There’s nothing wrong with believing in God but people need to stop acting like these stories aren’t fictitious

[@joyfulzero853]

It came in a crate? UPS?

[@wasteland70]

I've been watching your videos for the last two days. I just subscribed. So much interesting material. Thanks.

[@janakaone]

Since Mt. Rushmore will be the only thing left after 20k years, future civilizations will think of us as a stone age civilization

[@jacobarendt3727]

that’s wild to think about

[@carpdog42]

This realization bothers me deeply and makes me want to start a campaign to have better faces put up. The future civilizations may not know they are gazing on the face of slavers and war pigs; but I would prefer they not know they are gazing on the faces of truely great minds.

[@drinkbread6086]

@@carpdog42 Teddy didn't do anything wrong

[@carpdog42]

@@drinkbread6086 He intentionally signed up to participate in a war. We can find someone better.

[@dallyh.2960]

@@carpdog42 man I would hate to take you on a vacation to Europe. "Look at these cool Roman statues!" "Oh you mean the statues of slavers and war pigs? Wish the ancients could have left us better people to look at."

[@adamhoward7277]

“Imagine the deep future, long after we’re long and forgotten and nobody even knows we were here” like damn 2100 isn’t even that long away

[@jasonross9212]

Can we just get through 2020 1st 🙄

[@jbirdmax]

You might just be about right friend.

[@Aconitum_napellus]

@@jasonross9212 Actually, no! We really need to sort out all the carbon emissions because you can't self-isolate your way out of cataclysmic climate change.

[@ARockyRock]

I think well make it until 2112.

[@SHDUStudios]

At least we’ll be remembered in some way.

[@coconutcore]

To anyone vaguely interested in anthropology, I HIGHLY recommend the book Sapiens. You’ll look more sceptically at the statement “and you were born here! Look how lucky you are!” To put it shortly, we weren’t made for the way we made ourselves live. Prehistoric humans didn’t quite live in the hellscape we imagine, even if it was far less comfortable. We strive for convenience and comfort, thinking it brings us happiness. Things are more complicated than that. In fact, is brings us problems. Some we know of, some we never even think about. We also can’t go back on any inventions with negative consequences, and we’re advancing faster than we or the earth can adapt to. Also, crops domesticated us more than we domesticated them, even if it was our idea (hard to explain, that one). So basically, those people who first started doing agriculture, they opened Pandora’s Box, and we can never go back. Again, I recommend the book, especially if you think I’m going insane.

[@Greg__K]

I don’t like when people act like tribes had no idea what they were doing. Humans can have more leisure time then a lot of other species. We weren’t constantly scrambling to gather and hunt nonstop in “survival mode”. I’ll have to checkout that book. Thanks for your comment.

[@coconutcore]

@@Greg__K Glad I could recommend it to someone else who might like it. It’s totally true by the way. It’s that typical mentality of “people in the past didn’t know what I know, so they were dumb.” Whilst people in the past knew a ton of stuff that we don’t know that we don’t know, things that might be less useful to us now, or maybe stuff that we just forgot to care about over the generations. Stuff like inner peace, because it’s kinda us that live closest to a constant state of survival.

[@BrookeReamsthephoenix]

Thank you, you have inspired a science curiosity in my I haven't felt since I was a child! Truly, thank you. I have officially started my blog. Here's to another year where we knew more than we did last year!

[@ryantwombly720]

The Doctor once complained that the Silurians had, in fact, been named after the wrong era. They should have been called the Eocenes. Coincidence? Yes. Also, we’re one singing frog in a time capsule from proving today’s hypothesis. Call back!

[@maciek_k.cichon]

Time capsule is cheap tick with an hat frog, I would only buy a few million yo space ship with dinosaurs on it

[@sneeringimperialist6667]

I just noticed the little Tardis model on the shelf behind him before I read your comment.

[@DanJMW]

The interesting thing about the models discussed here is that they leave plenty of room for pre-industrial civilizations to rise and fall without trace.

[@timhallas4275]

Without a trace? We have a complete record of hominid evolution dating back 7million years. People who built cities would be easy to find.

[@DanJMW]

@@timhallas4275 Complete? you may want to check that. Along with how much we know about the very earliest civilizations (besides evolution and civilization are different things). Or even just watch the video again and pay attention to what Joe says about erosion. And then there's what we can define as a "city" when it comes to bronze-age technology or earlier. Then it gets really fun if we consider pre-hominid species that may have reached, say stone age or "bamboo-age" technology. As Joe says, even a few million years back would completely erase any trace.

[@timhallas4275]

@@DanJMW We have 5, 7, 10, 30, even 300 million year old fossils. YES, we know there were no advanced civilizations before the end of the last glaciation period. We have detailed records of the oldest civilizations, and none of them were more than 10,000 years ago.

[@timhallas4275]

@@DanJMW You have too much time on your hands. I concede. Bye.

[@DanJMW]

I enjoy reading about this kind of stuff, so it was actually a very pleasant 20 minutes. No worries.

[@billstapleton1084]

Just as you said, in 20,000 years all that would be left of us would be Mt Rushmore. Isn't that what we find with the Pyramids?

[@MckieDs595]

The problem with the Seuss effect is that the assumption is that the way we use/create energy is the same as civilizations of the past. There is so much technology that has been lost and we have no idea how certain things happened.

[@ericlipps9459]

We don't actually _know_ that "so much technology . . .has been lost."

[@somethinunameit637]

"Rome wasn't built in a day, in fact it took hundreds of years to steal all those ideas from the greeks." -Joe This is my new favorite quote. I'm gonna use it forever now.

[@georgekovacs4278]

Although the Romans stole the majority for the basis of their civilization from the Etruscans.

[@Gaga682]

It is called lending other nation culture and ideas until lender manage to produce its own culture.

[@BooDamnHoo]

At least he didn't go with "steal those ideas from Africa" or "Wakanda".

[@uomunumerous2350]

@@Gaga682 Syncretism

[@paulsmith-gi5vm]

Don't forget the Carthaginians from whom the romans took a western mediterranean empire.as well as agricultural, commercial and naval technology and science. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2fOemypeKp3rLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnXRiYlsh5WhnpI

[@danielabrahams4061]

This is actually a great perspective to be aware of. As a side note I have always wondered if the tectonic plates would eventually (over enough time) have completely changed their original surface - meaning everything that was once on the earth would end up being recycled within it leaving no trace of what there was.

[@Zaradorian]

I remember learning about how the plates shift and that being something I asked myself, if the plate that doesn't "win" I guess and ends up getting crushed under another one, if it gets pushed down far enough to get heated and melt into the deeper layers of the earth.

[@veramae4098]

Yes.

[@FalkFlak]

Yes. For example the canadian shield contains the oldest rocks reaching back 4 billion years. Everything else is lost to us. But the time of earth is limited so it can't repeat any number of times.

[@anthonynicholson5523]

Subduction. And yes ...it does and that's what it's called.

[@CorePathway]

No trace in 10k years? Pfft, you have no clue. Who is going to fill in all the massive open pit mines all over the damn world? Do you know anything of metallurgy or ceramics? We are making alloys that can withstand re-entry. We have geosynchronous satellites that will still be in orbit in 10k years. So just staaaaaahp it already, Kemosabe.

[@slawck9635]

Wait a second?! No mention of gobekli tepe in this episode of all episodes 🧐

[@ashkirsch2109]

Joe, you are an amazing speaker!! You really draw your watchers in!!

[@mikedrop4421]

"Imagine the deep future, long after we're all gone" So next Thursday?

[@Jackofafewtrades]

If this isn’t a Douglas Adams reference, imma be disappointed.

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

Must be tuesday. I never could get the hang of tuesdays

[@codename495]

I trust this statement to the end of the earth.

[@ColdHawk]

D614G has entered the chat

[@aureavita8653]

@Yevhenii Diomidov thursday is a timeless cycle of the universe. it only ends because we need friday, the best day of the week.

[@thedorkages9789]

Millions of years from now, historians will say that the faces on mount rushmore were former hokages.

[@7R15M3G1]

Ahh a man of culture

[@peterpayne2219]

*Moefist* (owner of J-List here)

[@jasonking1284]

Whats a hokage. Never heard that word before. Why not just use plain English words.

[@7R15M3G1]

@@jasonking1284 because it's not an english word?

[@jasonking1284]

@@7R15M3G1 Yeh? and how many people use that word every day? Very few. Most people will have to Google it to find out its meaning. Why do ppl like OP like to send others on goose chases?

[@christinetracy4829]

Super interesting as always.

[@seanbeukman9563]

Great Channel! U da man brother! U know your stuff. Plus you just give us the facts supported by graphics. Plus Your delivery proves that you are well read and confident of your knowledge. Thanks bro! So cool.🙌💪👊

[@troglodyte01]

"Will he wonder what happened to us? Or will it be obvious?" We're maniacs. We blew it up.

[@1MarkKeller]

“You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

[@squirlmy]

@@1MarkKeller I know you're quoting Planet of the Apes kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYHFm4OFnLenr6M but, I've always thought when seeing this scene, "eh, kinda late for that".

[@rotlara8618]

"You finally did it!!! YOU MANIACS!!! DAMN YOU!! Damn you all to hell!!!" Charleton Heston predicted it.

[@brucetucker4847]

Still left the giant statue. And all the stuff in the apes' archaeological dig. Dr. Zaius knew about it the whole time, there was a conspiracy to cover it up.

[@goldenager59]

I rather imagine that by the time of this hypothetical future archaeologist that we will be quite far beyond caring one way or the other. 😏 🧐

[@BooDamnHoo]

Yes, Silurians existed. I saw it on the show, "Land of the Lost" when I was a child every Saturday morning. They couldn't and wouldn't lie to CHILDREN!

[@chris7brook]

Sleestacks!

[@SunRabbit]

That was a great show. Saw it in the 70s as a kid and recently watched the whole thing, all available on KZbin I should add.

[@MichaelHolmgaard]

And they even made a full-length movie in 2009! They wouldn't do that without valid evidence of Sleestacks

[@BarackBananabama]

I still have Holly in my heart.

[@BooDamnHoo]

@@MichaelHolmgaard They made a movie? Where have I been?

[@Sebastian-ms9lw]

I’d love to take a one semester history class from this guy.

[@butterfacemcgillicutty]

You used on of my favorite words ever - jagoff! Love it!

[@jq747]

Hunter gatherer: "I can't find any game or berries, I'll starve". Modern human: "I've only got three kinds of cheese in the fridge, I'll starve"

[@E2O10]

Yeah, the use of the word "starve" is silly in modern times (in developed countries). "Ohmahgaah, i haven't eaten in 4 hours, i'm starving".. I wonder how quickly our species would die out if all the people who say those kinds of things with sincerity were thrust into the hunter-gatherer period of our past. Oh, you want food? Go chase that deer that runs ~48km/h for food..

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😂😂😂

[@cfv1984]

more like "OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO DIE ITS SO COLD I'M GOING TO DIE I'M GOING TO DIE I'M SO HUNGRohlookagiganticbearDIE MOTHERFUCKER! DADDY NEEDS SOME BBQ"

[@thomasrebotier1741]

Post-COVID human : ...

[@RC-pz7tg]

You all must live in big cities lol come out to the country and we will take care of you 👍🏻we still hunt, garden, burn wood to keep warm...

[@LordPhobos6502]

"It's not like I'm saying it's aliens or something..." No; you gotta have *the hairstyle* to talk about aliens.

[@lokixthor4eva587]

Why?

[@jenniferwilliams5430]

Come on darlin'....it won't take much to get ya up to speed

[@noobhero6661]

Either that or a time traveling spaceship that was grown, a British accent, and an eccentric personality with love for the human race.

[@The_Rude_French_Canadian]

@@lokixthor4eva587 New to the internets are we eh? Just look up “ancient aliens meme” you’ll get it.

[@augustuscaesar8287]

All he's got to do is stick a fork in an electrical outlet.

[@kevintorrico2723]

Absolutely entertaining and informative, got me hooked; thank you! I should of been subscribed..

[@AntonBrowne]

Nicely done. thanks.

[@TechnicolorDojo]

JMG had Jason Wright on Event Horizon last week and they discussed this same topic. My favorite takeaway from it was the idea that we could discover a prior technological species by recovering their derelict space probes just outside the solar system.

[@sertaki]

That is an idea I have not thought about.

[@NuclearTopSpot]

''just outside the solar system'' We didn't even have clear pictures of pluto until a few years ago.(which is like a million billion times more massive than a tiny space probe) Now mutiply the distance the voyager probes have travelt times a few hundred/thousand years and good luck finding that thing in an undefined sphere around the solar system

[@rsdna9698]

We have spacecraft sitting in Lagrange points that will be there forever.

[@josephburchanowski4636]

@@NuclearTopSpot Well luckily if we ever get somewhat space fairing, we'd have some truly gigantic telescopes.

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

@@rsdna9698 Not quite "forever": solar wind plus gamma rays and Xrays will slowly erode these things until all that remains of them in a few hundred thousand years are blackened pieces of metal which just barely resemble their original selves. After a few million years, they will be almost undistinguishable from a natural meteorite. Same will happen to Elon's Tesla.

[@chaffychaffinch]

When I was a lot younger, I played Half-Life 2 for the first time and was just messing around in the starting level while listening to Dr. Breen give his whole speech about how humanity willingly subjugating themselves to their alien overlords was a good thing, and at one point he says: "Are all the accomplishments of humanity fated to be nothing more than a layer of broken plastic shards thinley strewn across a fossil bed, sandwiched between the Burgess shale and an eon's worth of mud?" The moment he said this line I got goosebumps, it always stuck with me because of its implications, it's a rhetorical question that we all know the answer to. The Earth will greatly outlive us and anything we have built will eventually be lost to time, and if something ever did uncover our remains, all they'd find is some plastic, our legacy for the ages.

[@paulsletten8985]

Humanity: we're so important Gaia: barely noticing us intensifies

[@Monsieurlemon2]

ooh 2 deep 4 u

[@Sashazur]

Considering how much plastic is and will be around as a potential energy source, given enough time I’m 100% sure that bacteria and/or fungus will evolve to eat it, so not much of it will be left after humans are gone.

[@leoirias3506]

Man im glad the youtube algorythm put this channel in my recommended today, i subscribed after watching the first video. Really interesting topics, a great way of explaining them and the cherry on top is this guy humor sense.

[@liningtheclouds]

i have enjoyed this videp much more than most and you have done so many entertaining and educational videos i love your channels.

[@infidelcastro5129]

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it”. Harry Stottle.

[@miketheburns]

Harry Stottle and the Philosophy of Being Stoned

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@miketheburns “Potter, young man, you are destined for greatness”. “Yeah? Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man” 😝

[@pennyrobinson9772]

Huh? It's the mark of basic intelligence.

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@pennyrobinson9772 It should be, yes.

[@Ralphieboy]

I make a large and conscious effort to try to see things through other people's viewpoints. I rarely come to accept that point of view but it often leads to amend my own.

[@dougzartman2494]

Consider the fact that Homo Erectus developed a stone tool, the triangular double-edged handaxe, which was a wonderful complex tool, great for all kinds of chopping tasks, and they made it the same way with no innovation, for 1M years. These are people who mastered fire, and left Africa to spread around the globe - never changed the design of the handaxe. To us it is astonishing that a fundamental technology could be static that long, but it was.

[@TigerLily61811]

yet ironically - we still use the same thing. Our axes and knives are made of metal now, yet basically the same design.

[@NarwahlGaming]

If it ain't broke...?

[@richardreinertson1335]

Taking your thought further: Homo sapiens discovered metallurgy within around 300,000 years. This indicates to me that Homo erectus was simply not intelligent nor innovative enough to develop civilization. Smart though, by all evolutionary precedents up to that time. REALLY smart. But still: Not smart enough. And consider the fact that it took OUR species 300,000 years to discover metallurgy. So: How smart are WE, really? Well, okay, you can't go from ignorance to knowledge without a lot of serendipity and lucky accidents. To be fair. Sitll, tho: Why were our ancestors not examining their environment with more curiosity and intentional inventiveness? Well, there are always more questions than answers. And as @Narwahl Gaming astutely observed: If it ain't broke...

[@thewildcardperson]

@@richardreinertson1335 mass creativity is a very new thing

[@sacredfire536]

@@richardreinertson1335 there’s no such thing as a lucky accident or a coincidence it is simply just your perception of these events that has led you to believe that. Are WE smart? No. Are SOME people more than smart? Absofuckinglutely. Throughout history a small group of people have made inventions and dragged the rest of us almost literally kicking and screaming into innovation. Humans in general and en masse are a susperstitious backward lot.

[@TheShattenjager]

At 7:00 you mentioned the oldest tools found. I actually know the archaeologist who first spotted them on that dig! Could have been a different one but similar, but I think that's the very one. So amazing.

[@tippyzuk1]

I think an update might be due, lots of new theories based on good evidence. Great videos Joe!

[@LenMarten]

I've always had issues with this huge assumption that progress is some sort of linear graph that heads upwards over time. What if it was a lot more "bumpy"? Good video, well explained and suitably caveated throughout! ...but it was Aliens right?

[@solgato5186]

We haven't had a good bump since th Bronze Age collapse, but that was practically yesterday :D

[@MatthewHolevinski]

Too be fair, defining time is becoming somewhat more tricky as we get better at it, or lack thereof. Apparently we are revising a ton of assumptions on geologic time because the radio carbon dating thing isn't working out all that well.

[@robertsteinbach7325]

Progress is not linear nor assured. For example, our Justice system went backwards on accommodating the mental ill when it comes to crime thanks to the Conservative political action after John Hinckley's insanity defense put him in a mental institution instead of prison for the attempted murder of President Reagan. That is just but one example. Our advanced civilization can be taken down by a solar event aimed right at Earth, frying out 98% of the electronic equipment we have here on Earth and much of what we have in space. Called the Carrington effect, first documented in 1859, it destroyed and altered telegraph systems worldwide. Or taken down by a lost Russian bomber accidently bombing Poland and starting World War 3. Either will plunge us into a new dark age. Or an election of a dictator in America that trashed the Constitution, destroying the decades of progress in making Democratic principles real in America in a matter of days. Progress can be rolled back or shattered at any point.

[@MatthewHolevinski]

@@robertsteinbach7325 and hopefully it will, how the hell else are you going to get over 70,000pages off the federal register

[@tmo4330]

After the flood man had to start all over again. That was the great setback that confuses the masses.

[@brianfarley2388]

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again"

[@frankgesuele6298]

And again & again.

[@neatlife8049]

given Penrose's CCC, there may be infinite big bangs going back and forward in time and each of us has occurred an infinite number of times going forwards and backwards in time

[@seeingeyegod]

Starbuck was a crazy intense biatch of an angel

[@tuncayzafer6775]

So say we all

[@heavnnnsent]

No wonder I keep having deja vu over and over again Make it stop!

[@kevingreen3781]

This is the best video so far for me and time for an update

[@FlamingGuitar123]

It could be that flood myths are so widespread because most advanced agricultural human civilizations formed near rivers, lakes, and seas as opposed to drier inland areas. Once you are close to shore, events like tsunamis or storms could really affect you, and then those small localized floods inspire myth and legend worldwide.

[@greggwallace8178]

Australian aboriginals have flood, volcano and mega fauna stories orally handed down for thounds of years. Academics have dated the oldest of these stories to the end of the last ice age when huge tracts of the Australian continental shelf were submerged under the rising sea levels. It shows that oral histories based upon observed events can survive for at least 10 thousand years (and possibly longer). The flood stories first written down by bronze age middle eastern peoples are probably based on older orally passed on stories.

[@carlrs15]

bingo

[@wendigo2442]

China river

[@AlbertaGamer]

The Bible is truth.

[@cyrkielnetwork]

Flood stories are one of the easiest to made up. And people always made up catastrophic stories, becouse we like them.

[@gregbrown4009]

Ah. . . the Lizard People episode. Finally.

[@PatRiot-]

Dang you beat me by 1 min haha clearly it’s advanced lizard people- with LAZERS

[@i.r_297]

Damn this is my favourite comment in this video 😂😝

[@nosuchthing8]

I guess

[@i.r_297]

@@nosuchthing8 well yes it I'm assuming that this was for me 😛

[@pipsqeak7104]

Sleestack, that's what I call Them.

[@carlosrsolrac]

On your comments, regarding what would be found in the future. When you said Mt Rushmore, I was also thinking about the seed and oreo "vaults" that are claimed to be build into mountains. Generally speaking wouldn't other human structures built into stone or cave systems likely survive in some capacity? Albeit maybe weathered.

[@ChroniclesOfEnigma]

One of my favorite episodes!❤

[@Psych0technic]

As all things die eventually, it looks like the time has come for Joe's microphone. That constant hiss must be it's death knell!

[@MrBizteck]

Lol just as I read your comment I noticed the hiss....now I cant unhear ut!!

[@Psych0technic]

@@MrBizteck Yeah, it's pretty bad. Guess he noticed it too late in production of the video to change anything.

[@mustafar]

It’s still removable since it’s constant but he’d have to reup

[@Xeno7Agon]

I like the hiss.

[@runedrejer8094]

"And the award for best transition to sponsor goes to...." 😂😂😂😂

[@RoboticEditing]

LTT has nothing on that transition. .

[@aymanebelmamoune2919]

LTTSTORE.COM

[@MrBizteck]

Lol I got wiplash from that change!

[@ShadowDeus]

Linus

[@anothrdude]

Bballbreakdown

[@jnort95]

Great Video!

[@Bell_the_Cat]

Your half-hearted joke at 2:45 was pure genius!

[@SaltyMaltyMo]

The ancient civilization in question are called The Voth and they're currently located in the Delta Quadrant. According to the Doctor on Star Trek Voyager.

[@zacharyharris5074]

Seriously tho lmao

[@KidTreky]

🤣

[@UFOCULTVHS1]

I'm pretty sure those are sleestaks

[@orcasin112]

Loved that episode. Wish they would bring them back their one of the most advanced races in the series.

[@CountScarlioni]

The Silurians in Doctor Who were so named because the human character who discovered them wrongly labelled the era he thought they lived in. The Doctor later reflects in a 1973 story that they should have been called "Eocenes" which is indeed the era of the thermal maximum. The Silurians show us a sculpture of their globe as having a Pangaea landmass and that hasn't existed for 175 million years. So god only knows when they're supposed to be from?! As a species the "Silurians" and their aquatic "Sea Devil" cousins were obsessively eco-conscious. They built their whole civilisation around a concept of harmony with nature. Their technology took on a grown, organic appearance, and they went out of their way not to damage the ecosystem. They were also big on using solar and geothermal energy sources. That would probably have worked to minimise their environmental footprint. However in real life it's almost inconceivable any intelligent civilisation could develop so cleanly. The Silurians were invented for a 1969 story of Doctor Who when the real world Earth Sciences were rather more primitive than they are today. The Silurians supposedly went into their hibernation chambers because they thought a wandering planetoid passing the Earth would severely disrupt the atmosphere. Instead that planetoid was captured into Earth orbit and became the Moon. Today that's a ludicrous tale, but in the 60s that was still a valid hypothesis for the origins of the Moon. It took the Apollo mission and the return of lunar samples to understand the shared origins of the Earth-Moon system. Despite the woeful mess of misunderstood science in the creation of the Silurians, what still bugs me most of all is that in newer Doctor Who stories, the reptilian Silurians are depicted as having boobs. What the actual &%£!? Someone clearly doesn't know what the word "mammal" means!!

[@originaluddite]

The original Silurians were awesome. I think they could have maintained that in the revived series just by keeping those masks rather than showing they had overly human faces. If anything they become _too_ easy to relate to which I feel undermines the message of the story that relating to something very different from ourselves is challenging. I'm okay with them having sexual dimorphism however - we technical never see 'boobs' on those thoroughly dressed creatures - and the notion they segregate into warrior and civilian authority groups was interesting. But I should try and get back to the topic of the video. Would a reptilian race be more likely to go for renewable resources than we have? Maybe if you are cold-blooded and recognize the value of sunning yourself on a rock then you would have a greater sense that the Sun provides power. Or is burning stuff just initially too convenient a thing to do?

[@originaluddite]

@ShaunDoesMusic both neat and bleak. :) I guess if the Silurians had in fact been from the Silurian period then definitely they would have lacked fossil fuels. But like you I cannot say how long it takes for such deposits to develop - would they have been useful by the Mesozoic? All this is definitely fun to think about.

[@judewarner1536]

It is a common misconception that before agriculture the hunter-gatherers struggled from day-to-day to get food to survive. Game of all descriptions abounded, trees, bushes and plants covered the lands where these peoples dwelled, bearing fruits and nuts. Roots and tubers of every description grew under the earth. For most people it was a time of plenty interspersed with extreme natural disasters that wiped out whole tribes: volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, meteor impacts, AND tribal warfare. This was the period when Gobekli Tepe was built by hunter-gatherers 11,000 years ago: no farming, no domesticated animals. Another historical booboo was the Roman time-line. The Roman Empire lasted 500 years but it was preceded by the Roman Republic, which lasted 500-700 years until Julius Caesar became Emperor. That was a continuous period of development and civilisation in which the GOVERNMENT changed halfway through. Interesting as it was, this video was a compilation of outdated, outmoded ideas and information with barely supportable speculation.

[@sewaside6663]

That ''isth-MUS'' bit got me dying, totally did not expect that lmao Honestly I'm so glad I recently discovered this channel

[@justincase4812]

Some graffiti on the moon's surface would be the perfect "Idiots were here, and there, before you".

[@ob2249]

justincase Gene Cernan wrote his daughter`s initials on the moon in 1972

[@ClandestineMerkaba]

The moon actually experiences quite the constant battering from Solar particles and forces. Would have to be some real hearty "graffiti."

[@ob2249]

@@ClandestineMerkaba It dont get more hearty than writing the name of your daughter

[@jozefkovac6858]

@@ClandestineMerkaba Like.. a nuclear graffiti?

[@ClandestineMerkaba]

@@jozefkovac6858 Something large, metal, angular, and highly reflective.

[@squilliam9805]

"When that fictional, future archeologist finds that layer, will he wonder what happened to us, or will it be obvious." One of the most powerful lines I've ever heard

[@SuperLusername]

Future archeologists will still probably be us - humans. We're less than 300 years away from becoming a multi-planet civilization. Once we achieve that first step, the second planet (or body), as a civilization we will be almost immortal - save the end of universe itself. With the second planet the probability of one event wiping us out is negligible.

[@squilliam9805]

@@SuperLusername 300 years into the future we will probably have learned to clone living organisms, so colonizing other planets and preserving the future of humanity will be incredibly easy, however that is 300 years from now. Humans right now are like babies driving cars. We have no idea what these buttons do or how they work, and we cant even reach the gas pedals much less control the steering wheel. Humans can pretty easily wipe themselves out before we even have another chance to colonize other planets.

[@elisabethbuchet-deak1795]

@@SuperLusernameGood of you to assume we'll be around much longer

[@aikenodubitan5256]

Indeed!

[@paavobergmann4920]

@@SuperLusername It will still take about 26 000 years to reach the very next star system, and we are nowhere near sure we can actually settle there....Space might be too big for interstellar colonization. Reaching the average next star system in meaningful numbers (from a genetic point of view, you should settle for a couple hundred individuals to ensure sufficient diversity) might actually require more ressources than an average star system can provide. Yeah, I am fun at parties.

[@enrac]

For that 3 million year old tool, wouldn’t Carbon dating just tell us the rock was 3 million years old, not that it was made into a tool 3 million years ago?

[@CarrosVeio]

Better than the whole series on Netflix. And way shorter. Great video man!

[@crcurran]

A civilization could have gotten to the 18th century tech level without likely leaving evidence behind.

[@ancientbuilds3764]

Ask the Greeks... Their gearing systems were far, far more advanced than those of the 18th century. They had the worlds first computers, (Antikythera mechanism) vending machines, steam engines, automations, (Heron of Alexandria) railways... (Only one that we know of, used to pull ships over a land bridge). In many ways we already know this as a fact. Then the Romans came along.

[@quinnherden]

This assumes that technology is discovered / created linearly

[@crcurran]

@@quinnherden That assumption does not have to be made. Industrialization pools resources in large enough batches in places that do not naturally form those resources revealing relatively advanced civilizations. Most everything else will break down after ~30,000 years, leaving not very much of anything but raw material. Unusual pooling of those materials in unnatural places would be the evidence. The order of discovery isn't necessary although it generally builds on prefor discovery but the order of application of a discovery generally is. We couldn't split the atom before harnessing fossil fuels for instance.

[@WhiteChocolate74]

​@ancientbuilds3764 well saying the Greeks had the first steam engines is a stretch. They were little gizmos that didn't do any work

[@Trustworthy_McLegitimate]

"Unlike you people, I have no illusion as to my usefulness in an actual apocalypse, and believe me, death holds no fear in a world without cappuccinos. No, the most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists." - Yahtzee Croshaw

[@haha-lj5sq]

Did they invent Yahtzee?

[@matthiasnagorski8411]

What is this from? I love it's bleak hilarity.

[@chosenone6158]

@@matthiasnagorski8411 he's the host of zero punctuation game reviews , one of the best reviewers and the video essays are hilarious

[@efu2046]

Yahtzee is great lmao

[@pelinoregeryon6593]

I find the averred preference for death before a de-cappuccino'd existence frivolous in the extreme, but the hoped for pose in death an inspirational suggestion of pure genius .. some special equipage carried at all times against the possibility of adequate notice of ones death to allow deployment may be required to make best use of the idea :)

[@kingtheband8]

Great videos

[@aadiden]

One problem with carbon emission to measure advancement, is that the less population might not ever emit as much on the first place! All in all, great talk! Very thought provoking!

[@Wolfie54545]

“Most historians don’t believe Atlantis actually existed.” Space Shuttle Atlantis: :(

[@duyle-ej6ty]

I thought they already found the atlantis city on land, not under water. Like most things, it was hyped. But I guess it was the kool place back in the day.

[@The_Rude_French_Canadian]

@@duyle-ej6ty Atlantis might be exactly where Solon said it was…there’s a landmass right where they say it was…that’s coinciding with the dates of the younger dryas and is now underwater at exactly the depths it would need be to have been an island 12600 yrs ago…which again coincides with the dates Plato gave in his Atlantis report

[@duyle-ej6ty]

@@The_Rude_French_Canadian Or actually it may be still right there in Africa. With 2 rings around the center.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

@@duyle-ej6ty Atlantis appears to have been in what is now the Sahara Desert, centered on Mt. Tahat in southern Algeria. The Atlantes were a group on the island of Cerne off of what was until recently the Rio del Oro, currently under Moroccan occupation. The Atlantes were conquered by the African Amazons, and the historical part of Plato's tale appears to refer to the Amazon Empire. "Atlantis" fell when it stopped raining and the weather systems shifted into Ethiopia, leading to the Nile flood (the Flood of Deucalion or Noah's flood). This was in 2949±2 BC. The Sahara region first became fertile _circa_ 7450 BC. neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterEight.htm neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterTen.htm

[@duyle-ej6ty]

@@stefanfrankel8157 Um... close. But I thought atlantis would be close to the sea. So it couldn't be south of algeria. Well, they are hypothesizing that West of Mauritania is the location of 3 ring atlantis city.

[@AlecBrady]

"But....how could you know?" "I'm an archaeologist from the future. I dug you up."

[@shadowbrosstudios]

River song noises

[@TheMyrmo]

I am you from the future! There's NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!

[@johnstone9396]

Good channel, reminds me a little of the why files, looks like I got some binging to do

[@WeyounSix]

I lost it when you used your deadpan face lmfaoo

[@mouthpiece806]

I’m expecting Graham Hancock to kick his way through the wall and tear a hole in the shelves behind you at some point. If he doesn’t, I’ll be very upset.

[@sculpture_9498]

I don't know how you can talk about this topic without bringing him up.

[@ferouihamza]

same

[@connorman1993]

This ^

[@crownandguillotine6645]

I was worried that I'd have to bring him up.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

yeh joe only starts 5500 bc... not on grahams billions of year pyramid spaceship / stargate etc hypothesis..

[@sidviscous5959]

As Faulkner once wrote: "Time, the mausoleum of all hope and desire . . . "

[@lindamaemullins5151]

Yep 🤔

[@zanderwhitcroft]

Bro, you were right... New Evidence Humans Were Cooking Fish 700,000+ Years AGO!! I now believe humans are older than we know.

[@wpriddy]

You know what I cant unsee? Pharoahs being credited with the creation of engineering marvels that rival anything we could create, today, because they told someone to scratch their name into something they found. It is much like seeing a spray paint tag on the side of a building and assuming that the building belongs to the graffiti artist.

[@tombystander]

I feel like we know 5% of human history.

[@ashemgold]

Less than 1% if you believe half of what Joe just said. I don't know if you caught it, but most of it was guesses.

[@malkavianloner8808]

Well I hear that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.... So everything tracks

[@malkavianloner8808]

I feel like we know less about human history than we do about oceans and space

[@tannerps2004]

@@malkavianloner8808 What do the polluters know or care about the oceans?

[@tannerps2004]

@Grimsby Reapers You on the meth again?

[@MrClobbertime]

"Was there and advanced civilization before humans?" Ancient Alien theorists say...yes. But then, they always say yes.

[@wadeepperson6906]

because aliens. lol

[@jameso1447]

Everything we associate with civilization gets recycled very rapidly (geologically speaking). Watch how fast it begins kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4LKlY2KnNWWsK8 . There is no evidence that man's existence on Earth began recently. Read books by Michael Cremo for comprehensive documented evidences. Man's been here over 300 million years.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

Secret untold secret about civilizations to be shared far and wide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boG0ZaasqaaZo6s

[@johnny5139]

And the Religious Right always says no..

[@tacitus539]

If you want to get technical about it, they always ask, "*Could there have been* an advanced blah blah blah?" So when the theorists say yes, they are just saying that it *could* have happened, not that they actually believe it.

[@kats9755]

Shout out to the aboriginal folks in Australia, whose stories stretch back some 60,000 years (several of which have been scientifically confirmed through geology). Super cool to have a continuous oral tradition that old.

[@amehak1922]

Hunters and gatherers took turns getting food. We struggle for food more than the did. The kings fear time, but time fears the pyramids.

[@James-hj5ov]

I find it interesting that the end of the younger dryas event, when temperatures rose and glaciers started melting, happened about the time Atlantis is said to have been lost in a flood. I don't know that I buy into this theory (not my theory, I'm not that smart), but I do find it interesting.

[@EJD339]

Me too man. I think it would change a lot Of what we know about civilization. I want to believe it’s real so much but there just isn’t concrete evidence.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

@@EJD339 There is some evidence, just not much. So long ago, all fragments.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

It's true! The Younger Dryas caused a whole lot of Wet Ass.

[@scottjensen4801]

Let's all try to get Joe to cover the Younger Dryas. It is a very interesting thing that we know happened in in modern/definitely anatomically current human times

[@nicksalvatore5717]

There was an impact crater found in 2018 that roughly dates to the Younger Dryas period. Don't think it wiped out any lost advanced civilization but an impact of this size would have destroyed any coastal inhabitants and endanger many species.

[@vondbee7091]

" soon all things will be forgotten, and All things will have forgotten you" Marcus Aurelius

[@Fusso]

Said the man being quoted 2000 years later

[@paavobergmann4920]

@@Fusso alongside Publius Ovidius Naso, who wrote in the very last paragraph of "Metamorphoses": " And so I conclude my work, that neither fire nor sword nor Jupiter himself can destroy, [...] and if there is anything to the prophecies, will be read by people throughout all the centuries" And you read that, and think " Whoa, whoa, whoa, that´s a pretty bold claim, mate!"...until you realize you are sitting in a classroom in the year 1997.....*gulp* that was kinda scary.

[@paavobergmann4920]

that guy had some serious understanding of a lot of things. His "Reflections to myself" are just amazing.

[@thepainefultruth]

Forgotten by archaeological methods and the like, yeah. But the universe is a giant quantum computer, recording everything, including every firing of every synapse in every brain--and which can be played back, but only watched.

[@paavobergmann4920]

@@thepainefultruth I am afrid, not. It would be a pleasant thought, but, I have my doubts.

[@CristinaF210]

and the crazy part is that mount rushmore has nothing to do with the REST of civilization, being from portugal i didnt know what mount rush was

[@jevinday]

Bro, I see your Dune book in the background. I'm reading it right now, most amazing story I've ever found. I just started watching your channel a week ago. Coincidence?

[@garrycowan4394]

There's a cottage in my tiny wee village in Scotland that's older than the USA

[@jezzaus2124]

Lots of things are older than the USA

[@Leon1904ffhhsus]

And the USA Isn't a civilisation so that doesn't count haha

[@donkeyslayer4661]

That's nothing. There are houses in Danbury, Ct that are older than the USA. Danbury, on the other hand, is over 500 years old.

[@crazybrit-nasafan]

Here in Doncaster there is a wall near the town centre that dates to roman times. That even pre-dates most of my jokes. 😂

[@Leon1904ffhhsus]

I was in Athens once. Most da city older than Jesus.

[@bielbonanygil9168]

Your narrative structure is actually supreme. These videos feel just right. Congratulations. And thank you.

[@marcellinechoisne5627]

i agree!

[@mylocus1013]

@@marcellinechoisne5627 I disagree!

[@marcellinechoisne5627]

@@mylocus1013 I agree the disagrement,lol

[@OnixMint]

KZbin is filled with so much false information, believing something because it “feels” right is not the way to go…

[@hamzapetridis206]

Rome lasted from the foundation of the city in 753 BC to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. That’s actually 2205 years.

[@AlanEmmons-qw6bg]

Your stories are interesting about history like Neil Degasse Tyson tales of space. I love it!

[@princessbuttercup8954]

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero" -Narrorator, Fight Club Was my senior yearbook quote. Class of 2001. Damn, I feel so old now.

[@debralucas2224]

Praise be!

[@RehabProjectSRCB]

Mine was “Daylight Steals The Magic Of The Night” class 03

[@daniluchison]

Mine was: ‘You already have the no, you are just going for the girl’s yes.’

[@firstjayjay]

@@RehabProjectSRCB Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth. Dr. Soran

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“The further one goes, the less one knows.” ― Lao Tzu

[@aussiegardener1773]

Absolutely! The more I learn the less I get it ...

[@andrasbeke3012]

"Gus, don't be this crevice in my arm" --Shawn Spencer

[@djstona5284]

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted --- Sun Tzu

[@ghost2coast296]

"Would you like to make it a meal?" -- McDonald's Drive-Thru Girl

[@lordofelectrons4513]

Not so sure Lao was actually watching where he was going.

[@TheArtistKiki]

Look into Charles Hapgood's theories on crustal displacement and the research done by Mark Carlotto on ancient sites and pole alignments

[@charles2521]

Roman culture is descended from Etruscan culture, which is descended from Phoenician culture. The Phoenicians also influenced the Greeks directly (in fact, many Greeks like Thales of Miletus were actually Phoenician). And no, I'm not a “Lebanese nationalist”, but the Phoenicians were overshadowed by the philhellenisits who changed history in the 19th century to classify the ancient Greeks in the false “Western ethnicity” (until then, they were considered just another “Middle Eastern” people). Phoenician culture, in turn, is descended from Mesopotamian culture, one of the independent cradles of civilization. Along with the Andes, Mesoamerica, the Indus Valley and China. I particularly believe that Mesopotamians also influenced the Egyptians and the peoples of the Indus Valley, but that's another topic.

[@andymouse]

I am old, I remember the episodes with the Silurians, I remember Jo Grant and the brigadier and UNIT...I am indeed old.

[@leelawrence3379]

Your not alone

[@roccov3614]

I remember.

[@Dwarficus]

I blame UK Gold during the 90's, still old, but not so old to remember the original airing. And now I have a need to watch classic Who =D