"The Fossils of the 21st Century" Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Dec 2018 10:21 p.m. PST |
"In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly. Or, more optimistically, we overcame the myriad challenges of the 21st century, took to the stars and evolved into new species on alien worlds. Either way, what you and I consider humans will have long since vanished, our memories lost to the grinding colossus of time. The Earth, however, doesn't forget so easily. Whatever eschatological fate awaits us, some of the marks we've left on our planet's surface will last for eons. We've flattened mountaintops; bored holes deep into Earth's crust to extract precious fuels; drained lakes and re-routed rivers. And then there's all the stuff we've churned out—trillions upon trillions of tons of it, from cell phones to skyscrapers to chickens—some of which will become part of the geologic record, too….."
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 Legion 4   | 20 Dec 2018 8:32 a.m. PST |
I thought you meant anyone over 60 …  |
| Tango01 | 20 Dec 2018 11:18 a.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 31 Dec 2018 8:22 p.m. PST |
I think some of those muffins I made last month may still be around. |
| Legion 4 | 01 Jan 2019 9:21 a.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure those prepackaged pastries like Twinkies and Zingers, etc., will be available for a very long time as well ! |
| 14Bore | 01 Jan 2019 9:28 a.m. PST |
My serious guess is all those fun toys we have will all go back to their original state in millions of years, oil. |
| von Schwartz | 01 Jan 2019 11:39 a.m. PST |
Like the old Woody Allen movie "Sleeper" after several hundred years he found a VW Bug in running condition as well as some still eatable Twinkies. |
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