Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoWhen our species has become extinct, is there anything that would survive long enough to tell the next intelligent species to arise that we were a technological civilization?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down16
arrow-up175arrow-down1message-squareWhen our species has become extinct, is there anything that would survive long enough to tell the next intelligent species to arise that we were a technological civilization?Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareAbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 months agoWon’t there also be evidence of raw materials that got mined out?
minus-squarecucumber_sandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoProbably. Metals etc. are far out of “equilibrium distribution”, even if all mines collapse without a trace.
Won’t there also be evidence of raw materials that got mined out?
Probably. Metals etc. are far out of “equilibrium distribution”, even if all mines collapse without a trace.