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* ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'': [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] astronaut discovers that the Moon is actually an AI-controlled disguised warship from a now-defunct human polity from 50,000 years ago called the Fourth Imperium. Escapees from the ship after a failed mutiny were the progenitors of humanity as Earth thinks it knows it, and some of the still-alive mutineers have been living amongst us, biding their time.
* ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'': [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] astronaut discovers that the Moon is actually an AI-controlled disguised warship from a now-defunct human polity from 50,000 years ago called the Fourth Imperium. Escapees from the ship after a failed mutiny were the progenitors of humanity as Earth thinks it knows it, and some of the still-alive mutineers have been living amongst us, biding their time.
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Genesis'': Humans had become technologically advanced on Mars, but were faced with extinction as the planet dried up. They managed to start a colony on Earth, but their technology and history were lost to [[Finagle's Law]].
* [[H. Beam Piper]]'s ''Genesis'': Humans had become technologically advanced on Mars, but were faced with extinction as the planet dried up. They managed to start a colony on Earth, but their technology and history were lost to [[Finagle's Law]].
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* ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'': Modern humans are revealed to be descended from the most useless members of an ancient extra-terrestrial race. {{Spoiler|Turns out they weren't all useless, the rest of the race [[Death by Irony| died without them]].}}


== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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== [[Radio]] ==
== [[Radio]] ==
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* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': Modern humans are revealed to be descended from the most useless members of an ancient extra-terrestrial race. {{Spoiler|Turns out they weren't all useless, the rest of the race [[Death by Irony| died without them]].}}


== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
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