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Posted on 03/04/2005 6:47:53 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
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To: djf
500,000 years from now, even if man is wiped out in the next 20 years, the evidence of man having been here will still be unmistakable and irrefutable.Yup. Our toilets will last almost forever.
To: Luis Gonzalez
That's untrue. The evidence of man having been here will still be unmistakable and irrefutable in 2 to 3 billion years, it'll just be more dispersed and slightly harder to dig up.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:11:30 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: The Loan Arranger
All your history are belong to us.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:12:49 PM PST
by
DixieOklahoma
(Since 2004: real American voters = 1, dead democrats = 0)
To: The Loan Arranger
![](http://msad.msfc.nasa.gov/glovebox/images/MSG3_SUBSA_ops.jpg)
MSG in full operation with its first experiment Solidification Using a Baffle in a Sealed Ampoule. (SUBSA)
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:15:53 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: ModelBreaker
LOL! ROTFLMAO!
Future treasure hunters:
"Do we have any idea what they looked like?"
"No. But we figure they were bipedal, and we have a good idea how big their asses were."
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:20:16 PM PST
by
djf
To: AntiGuv
And you know this because?
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:23:16 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
To: djf
"No. But we figure they were bipedal, and we have a good idea how big their asses were."The possibilities are endless . . . I started going down that path and then decided on this post instead ;)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Because our space age civilization has fashioned innumerable items that we know should retain their basic form (sufficiently enough to establish their origin) longer than 2-3 billion years. Moreover, I can deduce this from reviewing what has in fact survived from 2-3 billion years ago, and comparing the resilience of that to the resilience of items that would evidence our civilization is not a difficult exercise.
PS. Unless a meteor strikes it, the flag on the moon will be enough.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:27:40 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: sonofatpatcher2
If we had had that World War Three that everyone half expected, I wonder what traces of us would still be around after a few million years?Motel of the Mysteries. By: David McCauley I think... Illustrated. Cool book.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:36:03 PM PST
by
abner
(Looking for a new tagline- Next outrage please!- I found it! FEC trying to control the internet!)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Somewhere in the depths of my magazine piles, I actually have a quasi sci-fi description of what should still be around to evidence the passing of our civilization depending on how many eons had passed. If I remember it correctly (it's been over a decade since I read it) I believe that the final item that basically goes when the sun in its death throes burns up the earth was the remnants of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Naturally that is just chosen for effect, but the basic point is that something would still be around - even then.
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03/04/2005 9:36:50 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
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To: MHGinTN
3 Billion Years old.
Must of dated it from the Strata.
Indeed, the worlds oldest rocks are 3.8 Billion years old.
Most likely Archean.
It would be contemporanous with the oldest known fossils.
I would suggest that
one of the following must be true...
- Someone is lying. These were not found where they said they were found.
- They were found as an aggregate of 3 billion year old stone and the dating is correct, but they were made by a natural process.
- The dating is correct, but they were made by someone or something, and are artificial in origin.
- Our methods of dating stone and rock are incorrect.
- Our understanding of time and space is incorrect, and these items have materialized in this location from a different time or space.
There isn't much of any other option.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:39:54 PM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: ModelBreaker
Honestly, I wasn't thinking ceramics, I was thinking more like road structures, bridge abuttments, even if a dam was to fail (which all eventually will) the standing parts of the dam could last one heck of a long time.
Good call!
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:39:58 PM PST
by
djf
To: SirChas
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:45:25 PM PST
by
JSteff
To: Heisenberg
But there is another dynamic.
If it were obvious, we would have found them already, and their presence would probably be relatively recent(geologically) in the time record.
The older in time that they were here, the harder it is to find evidence.
So finding evidence in very old strata only means they were here... a very, very long time ago.
But why don't we find something more utilitarian? A crescent wrench designed for a guy with 6 fingers?
Something they cooked their food in? An intergalactic Slurpie cup? Or even a portable toilet?
Something?
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:47:28 PM PST
by
djf
To: GeronL; VadeRetro
Yeah....I laughed my fanny off when I first saw it.
Thanks for making it big.
I thought it was a badger or something, but now that I see it's a cat, the gals are all gonna go squishy and love me when I put it on the next ZOT thread. :o)
To: JasonC
You hush. This is my beer and bean money.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:50:15 PM PST
by
dread78645
(Sarcasm tags are for wusses.)
To: MarkL
' not a brickmason!'
not a bricklayer
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:52:01 PM PST
by
xone
To: AntiGuv
Because our space age civilization has fashioned innumerable items that we know should retain their basic form (sufficiently enough to establish their origin) longer than 2-3 billion years. Moreover, I can deduce this from reviewing what has in fact survived from 2-3 billion years ago, and comparing the resilience of that to the resilience of items that would evidence our civilization is not a difficult exercise.
I've always wondered about things like that myself, like if we got nuked, how long will the buildings in the cities last (assuming they survived the nukes or were not targeted), the Interstate Highway system, and so forth. I'm currently in a "play by e-mail" Morrow Project role playing game and I remember the referee giving descriptions like "you're driving the V-150 (armored car) down the crumbling remains of I-64."
The Morrow Project is a post nuclear war/apocalyptic role playing game where the characters are frozen in order to wake up 3 to 5 years after the nuke war (or any other civilization busting catastrophe) in order to rebuild the United States. Things have gone wrong and you wake up to a changed world 150 +/- years later.
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posted on
03/04/2005 9:52:16 PM PST
by
Nowhere Man
("Liberalism is a mental disorder." - Michael Savage)
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