[brightsize]

PBS Space Time just did an episode on this topic: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vyEWLhOfLgQ

[godd2]

I'm somewhat surprised he didn't talk about evidence of space-faring ancient civilizations. If humans perish and a new intelligent species comes around in millions of years, they would be able to find stuff we've left on the moon, provided we pepper it all over its surface so as to survive any future meteor impacts.

[xgkickt]

Just think of all theories about the bags of mammalian feces left there.

[mr_toad]

Over millions of years micrometeor impacts, the solar wind and sublimation would erase anything that wasn’t a large monolithic structure.

[jimhefferon]

It is the drizzle of tiny particles that wears away.

[robbomacrae]

Kurzgesagt also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ

And just like the paper, it acknowledges the challenges in detecting such evidence due to the limited and complex nature of the geological record.