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fingsSo I'm reading The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin, and one of the things mentioned is some ancient floating obelisks, which the characters just accept/ignore -- they are remnants of some long disappeared society (it's a violent planet, with society-ending earthquakes/volcanic eruptions).
And it got me thinking. What if there were seriously ancient civilization stuff hanging around our planet, but we completely missed the artificiality of it, because it was just there, "a part of nature". Like what if the ancestor of modern stone fruit (peaches, etc) happened not by random selection, but by careful artificial breeding by some ancient intelligent species that never made it beyond farming before getting wiped out.
Just a thought.
And it got me thinking. What if there were seriously ancient civilization stuff hanging around our planet, but we completely missed the artificiality of it, because it was just there, "a part of nature". Like what if the ancestor of modern stone fruit (peaches, etc) happened not by random selection, but by careful artificial breeding by some ancient intelligent species that never made it beyond farming before getting wiped out.
Just a thought.
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