--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:01 AM, authfriend wrote:
> 
> > Chart of the length of time it would take
> > for all traces of human civilization to
> > disappear if we all died tomorrow:
> >
> > http://www.treehugger.com/files/doom_1.php
> 
> Fascinating.  I wonder, though, when they say 1,000 years for 
stone, 
> brick and concrete buildings gone, do they mean turned to rubble or 
> completely disappeared?  And how would that square with buildings 
> that have survived for millennia, like the Coliseum and the 
pyramids?

Dunno, I was wondering that myself.  I think they
mean turned to rubble, but buildings have survived as
buildings far longer than that, as you say.  Maybe
modern buildings wouldn't, though.

What gets me about the chart is how quickly the
earth's ecosystem would repair itself after human
beings were gone.





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