[Old Student]

200 years? That’s an eyeblink! I’m talking 10,000 years from now. Will there still be a United States? Will we even be a legend?

If we can get the rest of the world squared away, maybe they’ll at least remember that we existed, once upon a time.

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That’s closer to the time frame I’m thinking, too. Actually I was thinking more in terms of ice ages.

BlueLancers’s original post was on a different topic (note the date) and I liked it so much then, that I quote it whenever it vaguely fits.

Ratboy and I have discussed deep history many times, last night chimera in a Harry Potter book brought the subject up again. How would our 100 generation hence descendants describe our current lab animals, like the hu-mouse?

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If we can get the rest of the world squared away, maybe they’ll at least remember that we existed, once upon a time.

One can hope.

If we fail, they might remember us as the bad guys, history being written by the victors, or when there are no winners, by the survivors.