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Those people need to watch a few episodes of the TV series Life After People. Watching it, and realizing that everything around us would literally start to fail
by pmiller2 6y ago
Those people need to watch a few episodes of the TV series Life After People. Watching it, and realizing that everything around us would literally start to fail in a matter of days without us as its caretakers, really brought home the impermanence of everything. Skyscrapers are certainly not going to outlast ancient cave dwellings. In a matter of a couple hundred years, I would be surprised if a single skyscraper was still standing without us to keep it up. I’ve seen unmaintained buildings falling a part after a mere decade of disuse; a skyscraper lasting for a century or two would be extremely durable on the scale of modern buildings.
- friendlybus 6y agoNobody is building for the super long term, we expect on some level that new will replace the old at some point. This man is trying to build a clock to last 10k years. https://longnow.org/clock/ https://longnow.org/clock/
- jlawson 6y agoI wonder how long the Egyptian pyramids would last.
- lumost 6y agoAs the pyramids are constructed of limestone, they would desolve during the next wet phase of the sahara ( previous wet period ~20kya and 12.5 kya ). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_pump_theory
- reachfortheskyy 6y agoFor what it's worth, the Spivey Building is almost 100 years old and it's been abandoned since the '50s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivey_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivey_Building St. Louis has a lot of cool abandoned architecture, although you might want to be careful wandering around East of the river. I wonder how many cities have abandoned towers that became historical places thanks to longstanding traditions of not being able to afford a demolition.