The Earth After Us:
What Legacy Will Humans
Leave in the Rocks?
by Jan Zalasiewicz
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Austrian Times | October 15, 2008
Posted on 10/20/2008 5:35:35 AM PDT by Schnucki
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The Earth After Us:
What Legacy Will Humans
Leave in the Rocks?
by Jan Zalasiewicz
It ended with, "The inhabitants call it, "Earth".
Plastic bags, styrofoam and a layer of really nasty disposable diapers
So if man does nothing, the author's theories are crap.
I remember someone famous saying that someday, we’d be digging up landfills for the valuable metals and other resources they contain.
Cher will be working on yet another comeback.
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.
The human legacy left in the rock is the rock that is missing. As you travel Eastern Kentucky and to a lesser extent SW Virginia, there are massive cuts through the solid rock. These cuts are often several hundred feet deep and wide enough to accommodate a 4 lane hiway and often a major cloverleaf intersection.
The geology is there for easy viewing. The multihued strata tell the tale of the eons required fot the sedimentary rock to be laid down.
One spectacular cut is on US 23 after you cross the mountain from Pound Virginia and head down to Jenkins Kentucky. The rock removal in this massive cut and intersection is mind bobbling.
Nearby, whole mountains have been sheared and truncated by stripmine operations. Future geologists will be amazed by these huge operations. They will also stumble on the mine shafts and coal mines that go on and on and on.
The human legacy left in the rock is the rock that is missing. As you travel Eastern Kentucky and to a lesser extent SW Virginia, there are massive cuts through the solid rock. These cuts are often several hundred feet deep and wide enough to accommodate a 4 lane hiway and often a major cloverleaf intersection.
The geology is there for easy viewing. The multihued strata tell the tale of the eons required fot the sedimentary rock to be laid down.
One spectacular cut is on US 23 after you cross the mountain from Pound Virginia and head down to Jenkins Kentucky. The rock removal in this massive cut and intersection is mind bobbling.
Nearby, whole mountains have been sheared and truncated by stripmine operations. Future geologists will be amazed by these huge operations. They will also stumble on the mine shafts and coal mines that go on and on and on.
Our species can survive in the middle of the desert and the in the frozen north. I think we would be kind of hard to wipe out. Sure, changing conditions could wipe out a great deal of us, but we don’t need that many survivors to start all over again.
And they'd still be fresh.
According to the History Channel, about the only thing we will leave behind are the Egyptian pyramids and Mt. Rushmore. Everything else (buildings included) are totally wiped in less than 5,000 years.
Future archaeologists will find boxes of unsold books on what the future will be like and put them in the humor/fiction section of their libraries.
They’d find a picture of a bunch of enviro-wackos smiling from ear to ear.
It won’t make any difference if there are no humans (or other intelligent species) to record it.
