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@just_another_person@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

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‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
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Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists
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          Whoa! Algebraic!

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    George Carlin did suggest that humanity’s purpose on earth was to create plastic.

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      Saving the Planet

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    Years from now ( think tens of millions) paleontologists of some species will wonder about this age, and think that this was great extinction caused by a period of volcanic instability; with monkeys and some mammals overrepresented in the fossil record

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      “These ‘sheep’ animals must have been the dominant species in the archipelago formerly known as New Zealand”

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    And glass bottles.

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      at least glass is nontoxic

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        nontoxic

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