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If construction would stop every time you dig out something old there would be no construction at all. But it's not everyday you find perfectly preserved dinosa
by z3t4 9y ago
If construction would stop every time you dig out something old there would be no construction at all. But it's not everyday you find perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs.
- amorphid 9y agoIn the future, maybe there will be a more efficient mechanism to pre-scan a construction site for noteworthy finds. I'm imagining a non-invasive deployment of cyber-worms that go thru soil & nano-drillbots that go rock to survey a site. With sufficiently advanced sensors (which totally exist in my sci-fi future), you could pre-find all the cool stuff. When a construction site has been blessed as 100% uninteresting, you can blast away with your explosives with reckless abandon. You could even buy archaeology insurance to cover you in the event that construction efforts unveil something this survey missed. Can anyone familiar with construction comment on how construction sites are blessed now, and what hedges are available to construction companies who have to halt construction because someone found dinosaur eggs?
- lobster_johnson 9y agoConstruction in Italy, especially in Rome, is regularly stopped because they hit something old -- old meaning Roman period. The same is true about other ancient cities such as London and Jerusalem.