Comments on: Future Archaeologists Are Screwed (Somewhat) http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/future-archaeologists-are-screwed-somewhat/ A Philosopher's View of the World...assuming it exists. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Michael LaBossiere http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/future-archaeologists-are-screwed-somewhat/#comment-1234 Michael LaBossiere Fri, 09 May 2008 19:00:14 +0000 http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/?p=244#comment-1234 God bless it indeed. Then again, perhaps our landfills could be excellent resources for civilizations to come. I can imagine them being mined for resources. I wonder what time will do to them? I suppose the iron and steel will rust, but the plastics will endure for a long time. The organic waste might end up becoming some sort of potential fuel source-or just decay away. God bless it indeed.

Then again, perhaps our landfills could be excellent resources for civilizations to come. I can imagine them being mined for resources. I wonder what time will do to them? I suppose the iron and steel will rust, but the plastics will endure for a long time. The organic waste might end up becoming some sort of potential fuel source-or just decay away.

]]> By: myimpermanence http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/future-archaeologists-are-screwed-somewhat/#comment-1233 myimpermanence Fri, 09 May 2008 16:07:50 +0000 http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/?p=244#comment-1233 In a future world I envision a completely globalized world in which all culture has been eroded. Wikipedia will serve as our definitive source towards historical information and all but the most popular forms of media will have ‘died-off’ from the countless and ever changing platforms of various technologies; all else will be lost in translation. Luckily our species has become quite good at accumulating so much unnecessary junk. In fact if the population were to die off (be it global warming or nuclear war), the next crop of archaeologists (or alien archaeologists for that matter) will have no trouble finding all kinds of useless shit in our landfills. God bless materialism. In a future world I envision a completely globalized world in which all culture has been eroded. Wikipedia will serve as our definitive source towards historical information and all but the most popular forms of media will have ‘died-off’ from the countless and ever changing platforms of various technologies; all else will be lost in translation.

Luckily our species has become quite good at accumulating so much unnecessary junk. In fact if the population were to die off (be it global warming or nuclear war), the next crop of archaeologists (or alien archaeologists for that matter) will have no trouble finding all kinds of useless shit in our landfills. God bless materialism.

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