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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?
ScienceDaily ^
| October 5, 2008
| University of Leicester
Posted on 10/20/2008 10:23:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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10/20/2008 10:23:55 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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10/20/2008 10:25:19 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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10/20/2008 10:27:00 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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10/20/2008 10:28:34 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
*sheesh*
If, as is prophesied, the earth will be destroyed by fire, the plastics, metals, road, buildings and so fort will be ashes.
Why worry? It won’t happen in our lifetime!
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:28:38 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.)
To: SunkenCiv
I once thought about writing a short story on a subject similar to this.
It started out seeming as if it were our race discovering another inhabited planet, commenting on different phenomena they were observing.
It ended with, "The inhabitants call it, "Earth".
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:29:34 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: SunkenCiv
Plastic bags, styrofoam and a layer of really nasty disposable diapers
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:30:34 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule" - Mencken)
To: Just another Joe
Some advice from an editor from years ago: “Never do that.”
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10/20/2008 10:31:42 AM PDT
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Tanniker Smith
(Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
To: tx_eggman
To: SunkenCiv
Unless man intervenes with science and technology, there's a high probability the planet won't be around that long. Right now we're in an arm of our galaxy that isn't that crowded with stars and other cosmic stuff. Due to our solar system's rotation and other systems doing the same in about fifty thousand years we will be in a heavy traffic area.
So if man does nothing, the author's theories are crap.
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:38:13 AM PDT
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Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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10/20/2008 10:39:14 AM PDT
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Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I remember someone famous saying that someday, we’d be digging up landfills for the valuable metals and other resources they contain.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
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10/20/2008 10:40:33 AM PDT
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null and void
(Socialism doesn't work because of people./People don't work because of socialism...)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
*blush* Someone remembered!
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10/20/2008 10:42:08 AM PDT
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null and void
(Socialism doesn't work because of people./People don't work because of socialism...)
To: Tanniker Smith
Some advice from an editor from years ago: Never do that.Yeh, well, I never did it so I guess I knew that already.
But it really was sort of humorous.
Things like the observation that the ruling race must have been the metal denizens because they took their slaves to their work every day and then they just sat there enjoying the view, the fact that the prevailing mode of communication was radio waves because that's all the observers ever observed, etc.
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10/20/2008 10:42:15 AM PDT
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Just another Joe
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To: SunkenCiv
Cher will be working on yet another comeback.
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Unless man intervenes with science and technology, there's a high probability the planet won't be around that long. Right now we're in an arm of our galaxy that isn't that crowded with stars and other cosmic stuff. Due to our solar system's rotation and other systems doing the same in about fifty thousand years we will be in a heavy traffic area. Can you provide a reference? What are the implications for life in general in a denser region?
I've read that life could not exist in the core of our galaxy, but am not familiar with similar arguments (assuming they are similar) for intermediate regions of density outside the core. And extrapolating backward, how long would it be in conventional timescales since we last emerged from such a region? 50kya is a drop in the buck of deep time.
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10/20/2008 10:47:09 AM PDT
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Liberty1970
(Mainstream media is not mainstream. Call it what it is: Hate Media.)
To: Liberty1970
*shrug* we’ve been through it before. End of the Permian, end of the Cambrian, end of the Cretaceous.
No biggie...
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posted on
10/20/2008 10:54:55 AM PDT
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null and void
(Socialism doesn't work because of people./People don't work because of socialism...)
To: SunkenCiv
An alien studying the remains of our culture would conclude that dogs and cats ruled the planet, and raised a group of primates as their slaves.
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10/20/2008 10:59:24 AM PDT
by
G-Bear
(Obama 08-- Change you'll regret!)
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