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		animal_spirits on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high... Yeah we shouldn't say we "know" that advanced civilizations existed, but there's nothing wrong with hypothesizing that they did. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

donkeybeer on April 18, 2022 [–]

But we must also be careful not to get into Russel's teapot territory in the course of our hypothesizing.

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