Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

• Episode: Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past
• Website: Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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• Duration: 00:30:22
• Published: 2025-08-17 15:00

The silence of the stars might be hiding more than an absence of life — it might conceal ancient machines, monuments, and traps from civilizations long vanished. Today, we explore these eerie cosmic echoes and the risks of unearthing them.

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Credits:

Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Script Editor: Lukas Konecny

Graphics: Sergio Botero, Udo Schroeter

Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images 

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:42 The Cosmic Junkyard

3:56 What Survives When Civilizations Don’t

9:31 Dangerous by Design

12:04 False Gifts and Poisoned Knowledge

15:37 We Might Already Be Inside One

19:21 Detecting the Undetectable

21:34 The Human Reaction

23:31 The Million-Year Message

24:55 Galactic Cemeteries

26:53 The Ghosts We Might Meet

28:43 The Next Artifacts

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