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>Iceland glaciers takes 10 000 years to purify the particles inside the ice. There's lots going on there, none of which I am a fan.

• ChuckMcM 8y ago
  Hence the :-) in my comment. What I took from the article was the wonder the author felt at "touching" history in this way. It is similar to picking up a fossil and knowing that a very long time ago something lived and died and you are now holding its imprint from so long ago. Many people I know have had a moment in their life where the concept of how fleeting our lives are really struck them to their core. Often it comes with a change in outlook on the value of their remaining time on the planet.
  • zeristor 8y ago
    Like seeing ammonite fossil shells in the paving stone of shopping centres. I wonder where fossilised humans will turn up in 200 million years...
    • ChuckMcM 8y ago
      I wondered if you could actually do something not quite like that, which is create a quartz version of yourself and then embed that in a chunk of concrete or something and bury it so that 10,000 years from now someone could "unpack" it.