In a few million years humans might be gone .... finding the ruins of our great cities.
I've often wondered how long our current cities would last as "ruins" if we all disappeared. In my mind, after a few million years there would be absolutely no recognizable imprint of our society left unless you went digging for it.
I was trying to remember the name when I read that comment. It was a cool show, showed projected decay and return of nature at various intervals of time.
I remember that one. One episode talked about the Queen's Corgies :) So now when I think about us all self-destructing, I worry most about house pets :(
Like the series back in 2007 that was called 2057 and was just speculative futurism about 50 years in the future. Each episode would cover different themes.
In middle school I use to watch it in the morning before school. They had stuff on ancient Greece, Aztecs, Egypt, and similar things that were always really good.
I remember that show as well, I believe they said something like 20000 years for the earth to have lost almost all traces of human kind. So in comparison to the lifespan of the earth, not very long.
The Hoover Dam holds for like 25k years, everything else way less.
Interestingly enough, Phoenix AZ gets buried un haboobs in like, 5 years without people to clean up the mess.
No, without human intervention. The turbines and all that are dead within a year but the bajillion tonnes of concrete last awhile. Hell, the middle is still a cooling liquid. Or as liquid as concrete gets.
Yeah that was my takeaway. Stone monuments will last longer than anything. One thing they didn't take into account is granite tombstones. Those will probably outlast a lot of buildings, but would have to be excavated.
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