THE VIDEO SHELF · human fossil record
What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years?
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points to it in discussions of whether a past industrial civilization would leave detectable evidence.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Curious Droid
- Topic
- human fossil record
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2021
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From the original HN conversations
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this youtube channel i like "Curious Droid" made not long ago a video on the subject [VIDEO] What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years? 65 million years ago the dinosaurs died out, we only know of their existence because of the few …
resheku on Hacker News · 2020-01
In If we weren’t the first industrial civilization on Earth, would we ever know?Not just subduction but also erosion. Outside of dedicated digging efforts like deep mines or such, the fossils we find today are the ones close to the surface that are almost eroded and will be gone soon (on geologic timescales). There is a nice curious …
est31 on Hacker News · 2021-05
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