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NASA Scientists Theory: What If We Aren't First Advanced Civilization on Earth?

https://www.zmescience.com/science/a-provocative-theory-by-nasa-scientists-asks-what-if-we-werent-the-first-advanced-civilization-on-earth/
7•bookofjoe•17h ago

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PaulHoule•17h ago
See

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/gary-larson-why-dinosaurs-beca...

Sometimes I tell Mormon missionaries that Quetzalcoatl came to the Middle East after teaching Mexicans how to grow corn and that he's actually from a population of dinosaurs that crashed a space colony into the Earth like they did in the first Gundam series and departed for the Oort cloud.

bediger4000•14h ago
I told the last missionaries at my door that I'd read "Under the banner of heaven" by John n Krakauer. Haven't seen one since.
andsoitis•16h ago
> The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

A hypothesis is a tentative explanation for an observation or phenomenon that is based on prior knowledge and can be tested by gathering and analyzing data.

Given that, is there something that we're unable to explain properly without invoking the Silurian Hypothesis? Asked another way: what does this hypothesis help with that is otherwise hard to explain?

drweevil•15h ago
It helps by providing some context to how we think about detecting alien life, for one thing. The big question in that field is the Fermi paradox: If there is a high likelihood of extra-terrestrial life, why haven't we detected any signs of it yet? Understanding the evolution, characteristics, and lifespan of the only instance we know of could explain the paradox.
ahazred8ta•14h ago
The Sahara desert is carpeted with stone tools made by prehumans. Those tools are still going to exist a billion years from now. There are mines and tunnels that will still be detectable. If someone made stone tools a billion years ago, we would be finding them now.

Ask HN: Do you ever wish you could code from your phone?

2•mattaliev•4m ago•0 comments

Very Simple LLM

https://verysimplellm.aitida.com/
1•howthisends•8m ago•0 comments

Bluesky Backlash Misses the Point

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/bluesky-backlash-misses-the-point/
1•PretzelFisch•9m ago•0 comments

Framework Is Showing

https://dbushell.com/2025/06/13/your-framework-is-showing-nextjs-error/
2•rpgbr•19m ago•0 comments

A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Between Non-Coordinating Agents [pdf]

https://paperclipmaximizer.ai/Unaware_Adversaries.pdf
1•ycombiredd•20m ago•1 comments

Designing Smart Objects to Support Affording Situations

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5857560/
1•squircle•23m ago•0 comments

Proofs Without Words

https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Proofs_without_words
1•squircle•24m ago•0 comments

Why Superintelligent AI Isn't Taking over Anytime Soon

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/artificial-superintelligence-overestimation-3f954065
4•markgavalda•26m ago•0 comments

Mossad set up drone base in Iran

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/mossad-set-up-a-drone-base-in-iran-uavs-were-activated-overnight-to-strike-surface-to-surface-missile-launchers-aimed-at-israel/
2•myth_drannon•27m ago•0 comments

Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-mechanics-random-demand.html
1•bookofjoe•30m ago•0 comments

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Publisher Says Fans Would Never Guess Its Budget

https://kotaku.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-kepler-gta-6-budget-1851783026
1•PaulHoule•32m ago•0 comments

Lisp-stat: Lisp environment for statistical computing

https://lisp-stat.dev/about/
1•oumua_don17•32m ago•0 comments

Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

https://www.theverge.com/news/687123/23andme-anne-wojcicki-acquisition
3•maxweylandt•34m ago•0 comments

You can now search for Steam games by adjustable difficulty

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-now-search-for-steam-games-by-adjustable-difficulty-mouse-only-options-and-other-accessibility-tags
2•Tomte•36m ago•0 comments

Kernel Memory Safety: Mission Accomplished

https://asterinas.github.io/2025/06/04/kernel-memory-safety-mission-accomplished.html
1•thunderbong•36m ago•0 comments

Emotional Invoicing

https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/emotional-invoicing-pricing-for-creative-labor-with-heart-and-sense/
1•indiantinker•36m ago•0 comments

Shot by His Father and Left Blind–Now He's a Hardcore Gamer

https://www.wired.com/story/ross-minor-the-blind-leading-the-gamers/
1•Tomte•37m ago•0 comments

Artifice and Intelligence (2022)

https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/artifice-and-intelligence%C2%B9-f00da128d3cd
1•squircle•43m ago•0 comments

Built an AI that brutally roasts your website designs

https://ugh.design
6•jayantrao94•44m ago•10 comments

Show HN: Memolect – AI bot that joins meetings and updates Jira/Linear

https://main.d2c3g4nhjo2ipq.amplifyapp.com/
1•ainewelectr2001•45m ago•1 comments

Despite arrests, online monkey torture rings keep on torturing

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/06/despite-arrests-online-monkey-torture-rings-keep-on-torturing/
3•pseudolus•48m ago•2 comments

Introducing premium accounts to fund the matrix.org homeserver

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/06/funding-homeserver-premium/
5•sanqui•49m ago•0 comments

Mysterious link between Earth's magnetism and oxygen baffles scientists

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01862-x
2•geox•50m ago•0 comments

Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix

https://netflixtechblog.com/uda-unified-data-architecture-6a6aee261d8d
2•Bogdanp•59m ago•0 comments

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-sides-of-erik-satie/
1•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

How to Build Conscious Machines

https://osf.io/preprints/thesiscommons/wehmg_v1
2•hardmaru•1h ago•0 comments

Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-strange-radio-pulses-ice-antarctica.html
2•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

https://futurism.com/man-killed-police-chatgpt
5•sizzle•1h ago•0 comments

Politics and Polarization on Bluesky

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443
1•Kye•1h ago•0 comments

Laser-Based Compute Promises to Light the Way to Faster Physics Sims

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/06/13/laser-based-compute-promises-to-light-the-way-to-faster-physics-sims/
1•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments