Eric Chomko wrote:


: Earth mach 1 could have had life, intelligent life and technology but it was
: all wiped with the moon creating collision and resulting earth mach 2.
: Just like wiping the harddrive and starting over.

And the fossil record indicates this? NO!
Are you going to claim that every single remnant of this previous
civilization has been wiped out?



I think he meant Earth _mark_ 1 BTW -also known as Proteus.
There has been some speculation that the thing (at least one of the two
objects that collided) might have developed life - though probably
nothing very sophisticated - before the big collision, but that whatever
evidence there was of it vanished as the two planets congealed into a
single molten ball of rock, with the Moon as leftovers.
If mammel-like reptiles hadn't been supplanted by the small brained
dinosaurs, you might have had an intelligent species evolve on Earth
around 150-200 million years ago.

Pat