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What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?

Curious Droid · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Geology & earth scienceEvolution & geneticsFuturism & technology and society

What it is

Curious Droid asks what traces human civilization would leave in the geological record 65 million years from now. It considers how thin the fossil record of humanity might be.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it in discussions of whether a past industrial civilization would leave detectable evidence.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “this youtube channel i like "Curious Droid" made not long ago a video on the subject”

    Explores what remains of human civilization after 65 million years

    resheku, 2020-01 · Recommendation · in “If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?”

  2. “There is a nice curious droid video on the topic”

    Explains why humans would leave a thin fossil record

    est31, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: fossils, anthropocene, deep time, human extinction, geology

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