‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/technofossils-how-plastic-bags-and-chicken-bones-will-become-our-eternal-legacy
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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 1y
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
errer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Incredible.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Whoa! Algebraic!
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 1y
TheAristocrat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
George Carlin did suggest that humanity's purpose on earth was to create plastic.
Allonzee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Saving the Planet
https://youtu.be/09FmRNb3Krg?si=cacookjBpDTQl69I
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
And glass bottles.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
at least glass is nontoxic
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 1y
non-toxic
limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
"These 'sheep' animals must have been the dominant species in the archipelago formerly known as New Zealand"