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You mean like pyramids? Heh look at what few thousands of years caused to them, and its not even very challenging environment (very low humidity, mostly sand ab
by saiya-jin 3y ago
You mean like pyramids? Heh look at what few thousands of years caused to them, and its not even very challenging environment (very low humidity, mostly sand abrasion). In fact, go to mountains and actually try to look around a bit from geological perspective - they are constantly being weathered, all types of rock, by mostly rain and elements. Elements cut through stone like through butter.
Just because something doesn't visibly keep disappearing in front of your eyes doesn't mean its some ultra stable form to last for a billion years.
Also, one proper earthquake and your fine stone structure is a big pile of rubble. Now do it 100x.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoFrom a geological perspective, several types of rock will last more than long enough. Maybe you're thinking too long-term, heh. During the last 2.6M years - and man's been around -at least- that long - there've been a dozen or two ice-ages. Between them were interglacials, some of which lasted 2 or 3 times longer than our 10,000-year holocene. More than enough time and resources for an earlier (even wiser or saner) humanity. Or three.