jim_flanegin wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <salsunshine@> >> 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. >> >> > That chart gave me the creeps! It has a very passive-agressive feel > to it, sort of a big F-you to humanity...not nice at all. OTOH, sure > let's continue to try to be responsible energy producers/consumers... It might also suggest that we can no longer see remains of civilizations that may have existed on the planet over 50,000 years ago. And of course if the Sun spits at us humanity will all be toast.
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