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1,800-year-old Roman statue discovered in parking lot
- spicyusername 3y agoI always enjoy thinking about what modern artifact might make a similar journey into the future and be discovered under equally serendipitous circumstance.
- zvr 3y agoYou should read about Nacirema (no spoilers). The original is at https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/bodyrit.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20061004083040/http://www.aaanet... and it has been transcribed at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirema https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Body_Ritual_among_the_Nacirem...
- bongodongobob 3y agoOne of my favorite things is thinking about the life of discarded objects. I'll be walking through the woods and find a Mountain Dew can from the 80s. Who left it here 40 years ago? What store did he buy it from? Who stocked it on the shelf? Who was the person who packaged it after it came off the production line? Who was the truck driver that dropped off the aluminum? Who was the miner that pulled the ore from the ground? What star did the elements come from?
- curtis3389 3y agoAbandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?
- pjmlp 3y agoYou reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days. Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
- arrowsmith 3y agoCheck out the YouTube channel "Ghost Town Living". Some guy bought an entire abandoned mining town in California and has been living in it for the last few years while slowly making the whole town liveable for guests and tourists. One of the coolest personal projects I've seen in a long time.
- pjmlp 3y agoThanks for the tip.
- slimsag 3y agocheetos probably
- imoverclocked 3y agoStyrofoam packing nuts. They will likely fall out of use, then people will forget about them. Finally, as they reappear centuries later, people will start collecting them until they find a completely intact Amazon package of seeds from an extinct plant… and packing nuts. Then, the mystery will be solved; The ancients must have believed that these packing nuts could preserve objects since the styrofoam itself would last forever.
- detourdog 3y agoEgyptian artifacts have made it to Manhattan think of that puzzle left for the future. My guess is that it will look like Egyptian dynasty may look like it lasted much longer to the future.
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- 082349872349872 3y ago> In Europe, 200 km is a long way; in the States, 200 years is a long time —trad. (it's funny attempting to look at russian culture; in many ways it's continental european, but where it differs it strongly resembles nothing so much as american — due perhaps to similar reserves of unoccupied land?)
- imoverclocked 3y agoCheck out the “Hohokam Canals” in Tucson, AZ. They date back to 750 AD. The San Xavier Mission is about 227 years old… and is quite well preserved. I lived in a 200 year old house in Pittsburgh, PA. It did not stick out at all there. There are definitely things we preserve in the US. Cheaply built structures are just not one of them. Unfortunately (sorta) there are a lot of those here.
- raldi 3y agoI’m pretty sure we’ll still be using ASCII in 1000 years.
- 082349872349872 3y agoI'm pretty sure ASCII fell below 50% web usage around 2003.
- raldi 3y agoHuh?
- 082349872349872 3y agoASCII had a good run, lasting more than 32, but less than 64 years; πάντα ῥεῖ.
- 082349872349872 3y agoCleopatra lived closer to the invention of LLMs than she did to the building of the pyramids of Giza.
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- HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago... and when the pyramids were being built, Mammoths were still roaming around.
- 082349872349872 3y agoWrangel* island? That puts a new spin on the 1981 soviet cartoon "Mother for a Little Mammoth": https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mpew0 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mpew0 * named for the explorer, not the White
- mparnisari 3y agoThis is why I own a metal detector!
- sva_ 3y agoFound anything interesting yet?