A new study of the human genome has discovered evidence that humanity nearly went extinct nearly 900,000 years ago, due to the species having dwindled to less than 1,300 reproductively-capable individuals, quite probably from a climate-related disruption. This genetic bottleneck persisted for over 100,000 years, and would explain a gapread more
Archeologists studying a site in the lower Jordan Valley have discovered that a major Bronze Age city shows evidence of having been destroyed by a Tunguska-like asteroid impact 3,600 years ago, an impact that may have devastated the entire region at that time. There is also the contention amongst someread more
The scientific likelihood of Humanity being the only technologically advanced species in the universe continues to become more and more remote, as recently illustrated by a tweaking of the Drake Equation by two researchers that posit that the odds of us being alone are 1 in 60 billion.
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We might well be part of a much larger and older supercivilization that has reasons of its own not to explain itself to us, or perhaps cannot explain itself to us, in the same sense that we could never, without massive and fundamental re-education, explain radio to an ancient Roman. Or explain it at all to a chimpanzee, but let’s hope that the gulf between us isn’t that great!
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