Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 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-square45fedilinkarrow-up193
arrow-up193message-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 · 10 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squareAbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoWon’t there also be evidence of raw materials that got mined out?
minus-squarecucumber_sandwich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 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.