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Forget skyscrapers, instead consider this: footprints. You likely made millions of them in your life. How many of them still exist? Approximately zero. It's
by yongjik 6y ago
Forget skyscrapers, instead consider this: footprints. You likely made millions of them in your life. How many of them still exist? Approximately zero. It's hard to think of something more ephemeral.
Yet dinosaur footprints have been fossilized. They're found all around the earth.
I'm sure our civilization has already created a gazillion things more permanent than them.
- jlawson 6y agoYeah, but consider the base rate. Even if the things we create are more permanent that footprints, there are just so many footprints that some of them, by unbelievable triple-corner case coincidences, end up here for us. Even if the chance per footprint is really low, there are so many of them made over the course of hundreds of millions of years that it doesn't matter. Our 100 year industrial history is nothing compared to that.