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"I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet" is a sentence that I would react to with the opposite emotion :-(
by thewarpaint 7y ago
"I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet" is a sentence that I would react to with the opposite emotion :-(
- ChuckMcM 7y agoWhen future cockroach geologists look upon this artifact they might speculate it was a throne for the giant creatures that used to rule the planet :-)
- ljm 7y agoYou assume they might know or appreciate chairs and thrones. More likely they see it as an ancient monolith.
- hdjejdjd 7y agoYeah your opinion about future cockroach geologists studying ancient human civilization is more scientifically valid than the other person's.
- DeedsMoraine 7y agoWell, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.
- airstrike 7y agoReminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653567
- countername 7y agoWhy? It's durable you can clean the chair and reuse it without throwing it away and creating a new chair.
- MereInterest 7y agoBecause it implies an end to humanity on this planet that does not also incorporate an end to that titanium chair. That any physical object could outlive humanity means that humanity will end far before it should.