Random thought of the day:
The first vertebrates, what we colloquially think of as complex life, appeared on earth roughly 500 million years ago.
The human agricultural revolution, and the beginning of what we think of as civilization, started roughly 10,000 years ago.
In other words, the entire span of human civilization could have occurred 50,000 times since complex life first appeared.
That's enough time for at least one flourishing civilization of intelligent non-human animals to have emerged, developed, peaked, collapsed, and disappeared. That's enough time for more than one.
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