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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, and I get that there are other forms of intelligent life. I more meant if we are dealing with one that can develop an advanced enough society to have transporters, we aren't talking about porpoises.
So if we assume having opposable thumbs, living on land, probably walking upright etc, we'd see some evidence before or after, of a possibility of that somewhere on the tree. We can trace the origins of humans back to mammals alive at the time of the dinosaurs, so where would this other advanced species fit in?
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Who says? Maybe porpoises are driving the tictac.
I think the best of NEs points here is that intelligent life or advanced society doesn't have to exist exactly as we believe it to.
In my own mind, a civilization developed enough to be considered advanced in the ways that we consider it would HAVE to have existed prior to the PT Event, or we would likely have seen more geological evidence. Even then we would still likely have found some evidence.
At these ages we're not talking about the ancestors to only mammals but the ancestors to land walking animals in general.
This is a long rabbit hole- advanced civilizations in Earth's historical past are exceptionally unlikely.