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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I still think most of our history is under water, where humans used to live before the glaciers melted, and anything written on paper definitely won't survive that.

:-(

31 posted on 06/10/2009 5:52:27 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan
Probably.

If they were using fired clay tablets then from a historical point of view we would have a much better chance of finding legible records.

Vegetable matter tends to decay relatively rapidly in the damp.

Of course they could have a writing system like the Inca had with the quipu. In which case our chances of ever reading it, even if it survived, are somewhere between slim and none.

42 posted on 06/10/2009 6:17:26 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When you're spinning round, things come undone. Welcome to Earth 3rd rock from the Sun!)
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