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'The Silurian hypothesis': would it be possible to detect an advanced civilization in Earth's geological record?

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Cambridge scientists name their paper The Silurian hypothesis: would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? The paper does not argue that there was a technologically advanced species long before humanity.

The longer a civilization lasts, the larger the signal one would expect in the record, the team write.