What will we leave behind?

over the last couple of weeks there have been a lot of talk about global warming and global cooling, a lot of speculation about an upcoming war and a lot of talk about alien invasions.

This got me thinking, what would be left to remember us if something was to happen to us. What if every human on earth was suddenly gone what would be left to remember us?

Over 4 thousand years ago the pyramids in Egypt were built. This was a creation that still manages to impress architectures and scientists world wide. Thousands of years before that, cavemen made carvings and paintings on rocks and in caves.

In our Modern, fast paced lifestyles everything is done on computers and paper. CD's are used to store movies, music and information. USBs are used to store data on.
None of these things will last longer then a couple hundred years. after those few hundred years, skyscrapers will start to rust and eventually fall and decompose back into the earth. paths made of concrete and ashfelt will be overrun by weeds.

Eventually everything we treasure will be gone. There will be nothing left of of our great achievements

Dont we have bunkers full of amy surplus, and super computers, treasure ,and med labs full of equipment.Head stones.What about the half life on nuclear weapons, .I understand it can last for thousands of years . when was the woolly mammath around ? They
are still finding them ? Should we write in stone and put them in the artics?
Anyway good Question.
take care.

I can see people a thousand years from now finding our trash dumps buried under huge hills. They'll probably find millions of empty plastic water bottles. They'll see what wasteful people we were.

Where I come from the old city dump was turned into a ski hill called Mt. Trashmore. That should be a gem to discover.

Headstones might survive, but the inscriptions on them will probably fade away within a couple hundred years from weather.

Maybe some bridges might survive?

I dunno. It is a good question.

Plastics, radiation, poisons and depleted wildlife worldwide; will remind future generations for thousands of years to come, how wasteful and destructive humanity was in the 20th century. All because they were so wrapped up in a fantasy land dreamed up by capitalists and expansionists.

The average Joe's were convinced to follow systems of finance,by being convinced they had stuff to fear in the world; these fears in turn turned them and their their offspring into nothing more than lazy, obedient sheep. It wasn't until decades later, the skies grey, the people hungry and the lands fouled; that humanity got fed up.

It was too late though and they all mutated into giant space bats.
did you make it this far?

Originally posted by iced_blue

This got me thinking, what would be left to remember us if something was to happen to us. What if every human on earth was suddenly gone what would be left to remember us?

Cigarette butts.

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In ten thousand years not much would be left! Metal rusts, the concrete we use is cheap and not as good as what the Romans used look at the level of deterioration already and it's been only a thousand years.
Paper rots
most of our data is now stored electronically that will be gone.

Mount Rushmore would be around but would not look recognizable

I think they will find a flag on the moon that looks kind of Cartoonish with red and white stripes with stars!

And apes will rule the world!
Those damned dirty apes!

Or kittys

In ten thousand years not much would be left! Metal rusts, the concrete we use is cheap and not as good as what the Romans used look at the level of deterioration already and it's been only a thousand years. Paper rots most of our data is now stored electronically that will be gone.

Mount Rushmore would be around but would not look recognizable

this is what i was trying to say. No Cigarette buts would be left and almost all landfill site would have decomposed

No one would know any of our great achievements.

History Channel has a great show on this.

Life after Humans.

Trust me, after a few hundred years, it's like you never were.

Feel better?

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Well the ppl in Norway made the Doomsday seed vault, so it
will still be around !

Doomsday seed vault

Makes we wonder if they know something we don't ???

Originally posted by iced_blue
No one would know any of our great achievements.

No, not ours. Skyscrapers would fall before the pyramids.

Aliens landing here 100,000 years from now would think Egypt was the height of civilization. We use particle board.