What if the a past civilazation obliterated themselves?

Let me elaborate on what I mean. What if people very long ago on Earth were as "far along" (*cough*) as we were, and they destroyed themselves? Assuming they left no evidence and that the Earth regenerated itself.

I highly doubt this is possible and I'm sure it's been thought of before. But beyond that, what do you think?

 

This is not a new idea . Some people think that when we create the bombs to destroy our selvs , we do . Some think that the people of Alantis destroyed them selvs . After a few thound years nothing is left of the buildings , ect. desert rat

 

Well if you highly doubt it, what are we doing here? XD

I'll chime in. I've thought about this. It insinuates that civilized and educated man are on a set similar course no matter what. I would suppose, with more time on the table....it wouldn't surprise me I'll put it that way. I think of it kind of as the epilogue to An Origin of Species.

It seems inevitable with the greed and aggression not working itself out of the gene pool now or anytime soon. The final destruction anyways. We might be on a one way course to start a fight in which we either can't finish or over run the finish line with nuclear fallout in hand.

We're stupid enough to do it too. We both know this.

 

Yep.

Yeah I don't think that most people today (or even long ago) are very intelligent in the way think about things. Is it a good idea to keep nuclear weapons? Is it a good idea to start wars? I don't think I even need to answer this. Quite frankly I'm sick of a lot of things. Why can the government regulate what I put in my body? If I want to be a psychonaut, I'm should be able to be a psychonaut. (And I'm going be one if I want to be, regardless of legality!) It's like they're just trying to annoy us by having alcohol legalized. If they banned other drugs for "moral reasons" then why is alcohol and tobacco legalized? Sorry to get off on a tangent, but our government, and just humanity in general, is so corrupt.

 

Not a new idea at all, actually a very,very ancient one.

Many civilizations/religions believe that the Earth has gone through many "ages" where man progressed and for whatever reason got knocked back to the stone age.
Whether through self destruction or natural events, who knows ???

I believe a lot of native American religions ascribe to this theory and that we are currently at the end of the fifth age.

I personally see no reason why this couldn't be possible and it would explain some of the odd ancient shit that has been discovered here and there.


We do know for a fact that entire civilizations have been obliterated by natural events, Mt. Vesuvius, while not wiping out the entire civilization, it did bring Pompeii to an abrupt end.

The Etruscans were another civilization thought to have possibly been wiped out by a natural disaster, possibly a tsunami.

After seeing the destruction the tsunami that hit Japan did, is it that hard to imagine an entire population being erased overnight due to such an event?

How many other island civilizations existed that we will never know about because they got washed into the ocean?

Disease has also done it share of erasing civilizations.


So no, imagining that there were other civilizations that progressed and then got wiped out is very possible and I'm sure it has happened.

As far as them destroying themselves, not likely, natural disasters are much more probable, then and now.

 

We're talking about the inevitability of our violent peak and its effect(s) on the population. Don't let everything its caused by cause a trainwreck in your head, we'll get through this...together...xD

Corrupt how? People have done what they can to set them selves up better than everyone else. Aside from the money and the smiles and all the promises broken...we're no different from any other animal really. We just have intricate barks, the ability to weep to one another, the bombs to destroy us and all we share the land with. That's the worst of it for me. We view ourselves to be sacred, yet we may one day destroy ALL of life that exists. Most of it would have nothing to do with our problems. I'd think that makes us less than sacred.

Sure its all gonna end some time man, for each of us individually and for all of us inevitably. The odds of all of us getting destroyed climbs a little every day it doesn't happen. Just sit back, smoke something, and calm down.

 

Do you mean obliterated their technology and every regarding their life and society (buildings etc) and not themselves? I'm not sure how that could be done.

 

We've been down this path before... We will go down this path again.

 

Look at the variety of culture today. There are still hunter gatherer indigenous peoples in the world. Perhaps this uneven distribution of levels of civilization provides seed stocks for new development.

 

....sigh....


You can't conceive of some type of disaster, man made or natural, that could wipe out a civilization yet NOT kill all the people?

You do know there are still Aztecs alive today don't you.
The Etruscans left evidence of remnants of their culture throughout the Mediterranean, yet the Etruscan civilization itself was gone.

I'm sure there are many other examples in history of a culture or civilization being wiped out, yet the people survived.


Your not a very bright individual are you OdonII ?

 

I am going to rescue this position.

Our emotional demeanor is in intricately intertwined with our proclamations.

The sigh and eye rolling response is a direct reaction to the premise that odonII is not a very bright individual.

 

I would say no. My reason being that, even with some sort of cataclysm, the chances are very good that at least some of the people who had the sort of knowledge discussed here would have survived, and the advancement after a cataclysm would have been fairly rapid.

 

i've played several video games based on this general concept.

 

Yep, I think about this from time to time.

 

Here's some fun stuff to look at... ancient artifacts that challenge modern archaeology

 

Totally missed this personal attack on my intelligence

The way I read the OP was that the entire population of the planet was obliterated and left no evidence of being here.
Or the entire planets technological progression was wiped from the planet.
I was trying to get some clarification.

Perhaps my response was not adequately worded like the OP.

Yes I do know about the particular civilisations that you mention.

 

A previous society is one theory of the Oklo natural reactor. But it seems there is nothing to validate the theory. IIRC no remnants of an actual design are present.

 

Hello there, I found your phorum via Google while looking for a related topic, your site came up, it looks great. I have bookmarked it in my google bookmarks. Wonderful!

 

Some cool stuff there. Although I thought they disproved the Hammer one.

They are missing the weird "map spheres" of central america, and also some other little oddities like the bronze bell which was made before bronze was supposedly discovered.

Oh, and some other things.. There was that door on the bottom of the ocean... Whatever happened to that anyway....

Oh, and of course the "Spaceship" they found... It wasn't a spaceship of course, but still the architecture was interesting, and it was supposedly somewhere in the vicinity of 50,000 years old!

On the bottom of the ocean.. 50,000 years... Seems odd to me... Oh well...

Only time will tell...

:afro:

 

that was quite fun and very interesting to read