Michael Button
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And the crazy thing is...
Joe, do you know how many homo sapiens sites we have from more than 100,000 years ago?
We have nine sites, nine glimpses, nine snapshots into over 200,000 years of history.
And we use that to extrapolate out what every single human was doing.
It's usually caves and it's usually just, you know, remains of fire pits and stone tools.
And that's kind of it.
And so we see that and we think, okay, they just lived in caves and used stone tools.
But it's nine sites, nine moments in time for 200,000 years.
Humans can do so many different things.
And as you say, right now we're sending rockets to space and people are living in very traditional ways of life.
And just because we find traditional ways of life in, I repeat, nine sites to cover 200,000 years, in my view, that's just what we can see.
That kind of points to my point regarding what would possibly survive.
Because if you think of all the human lives, stories, cultures that have...