--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jim_flanegin wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > 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.
Yowzah. And of > course if the Sun spits at us humanity will all be toast. There are a whole lot of ways we could disappear in the blink of an eye that we have absolutely zero control over: being hit by a good-sized asteroid, the "supervolcano" under Yellowstone erupting and burying us in ash, for example. Given our vulnerability, we might as well do what we can to avoid killing *ourselves* off. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
