
Earth is a energetic planet, home for over 7 billion people, with tens of millions and dying each year. Our existence leaves traces in the air, water, soil and even space, but these signs are fleeting. Buildings, monuments and even the remains of catastrophic events, such as nuclear precipitation, will eventually disappear in oblivion. This raises the question: if advanced civilization existed millions of years ago or do we know? The Silurian hypothesis, proposed by scientists Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt, deals with this question, suggesting that detecting such civilizations is much more convoluted than we could assume …
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