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The dinosaurs lived for a couple hundred million years. An industrialized society might last a few thousand.
by ALittleLight 6y ago
The dinosaurs lived for a couple hundred million years. An industrialized society might last a few thousand.
- cgriswald 6y agoYou'd want to compare the total number of dinosaurs that ever lived against the number of fossil-izable and recognizable artifacts an industrialized society ever created.
- ALittleLight 6y agoTrue... Assuming that any individual has an equally likely chance of getting fossilized. It also brings up the idea of whether or not we would know if some fossilized specimen or footprint belonged to an animal or a civilized individual.