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‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Incredible.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Whoa! Algebraic!

[–] TheAristocrat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And glass bottles.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

at least glass is nontoxic

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago

nontoxic

non-toxic

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

"These 'sheep' animals must have been the dominant species in the archipelago formerly known as New Zealand"