Ancient Civilizations may have perished from too much Progress

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https://www.wionews.com/science/aliens-in-our-galaxy-may-have-perished-due-to-too-much-progress-study-suggests-351849

Expecting to find alien life soon? Well, we hate it to break to you but that may not be possible, at least that’s what a study suggests. The study claims that aliens in our galaxy may have caused their own down fall by progressing too much, a study posits.

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology earlier claimed that the scientific and technological progress of a civilization would cause its downfall.

The research added it “will inevitably lead to complete destruction and biological degeneration”. Based on this, they extrapolated that all life in the Milky Way Galaxy may have been obliterated by now, not by external sources, but by its own devices - development.

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https://climate.nasa.gov/news/1010/climate-change-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-civilizations/

January 2014

Once surrounded by mighty towers that eventually sunk into the sand, Ubar is just one in a growing list of ancient sites that are emerging with help from satellite imagery. Also known as “remote sensing data”, images taken from high above the surface of the Earth can show subtle signs of long-lost societies that are impossible to see from the ground.

As scientists dig in to these sites, they are turning up evidence that changes in climate – both large and small – are at least partly responsible for the rise and fall of many ancient civilizations. Even though Ubar is now located in one of the driest places on Earth, the region was once much wetter and underground water sources were plentiful. Ubar disappeared when water levels dipped so low that a sinkhole formed and enveloped the outpost.

An Egyptian kingdom, likewise, collapsed during an extended drought 4,200 years ago. Droughts have also been linked to the fall of the Maya around 900 AD and the demise of the spectacular Cambodian city of Angkor in the early 1400s.



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https://climaterealityproject.org/blog/climate-adaptation-vs-mitigation-why-does-it-matter

As Harvard archaeologist Dr. Jason Ur told NASA, “When we excavate the remains of past civilizations, we very rarely find any evidence that they as a whole society made any attempts to change in the face of a drying climate, a warming atmosphere or other changes… I view this inflexibility as the real reason for collapse.”



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Modern roads and ancient tracks in Oman, as seen from space by the Landsat satellite. Credit: NASA/USGS.








Dr. Jason A. Ur is with the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. His areas of specialization are landscape archaeology, ancient urbanism, Mesopotamian and Near Eastern archaeology, and GIS and remote sensing applications in archaeology. His current field work includes surveys in NE Syria (Tell Brak), SE Turkey (Upper Tigris Vally), and NW Iran (Mughan Steppe); he has also done field work in Jordan, Egypt and Israel.

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1. It would appear that nothing fails like success . . .

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2. The Ultimate Darwin award

Except in this case being fittest means being able to change swiftly.