I was thinking the other day, a rare occurence but it has been known to happen on occasion .
What do you think (or hope) will remain of our 20th/21st Century lives for the archaeologists and geologists of the future, in maybe thousands or even millions of years time, to discover.
Personally I hope in a few thousand years perhaps someone might find the time capsule I buried in the back garden about a year ago containing:
1} Newspaper.
2} The same paragraph in various major languages (if you like, a kind of Rosetta Stone).
3} A Counting Crows Album - August and Everything After.
4} A recipie for Chocolate Cake (if there is no chocolate in the future all hope is lost!)
5} A flash drive with all the musings I had consigned to Word at that time.
6} A photograph of me and the missus.
As for millions of years time I can imagine some geology professor out in the field with his students, perplexing over some particularly dense and enigmatic layer, bordered on each side by an unconformity.
What do you think (or hope) will remain of our 20th/21st Century lives for the archaeologists and geologists of the future, in maybe thousands or even millions of years time, to discover.
I was thinking what I could leave behind in a time capsule (tupperware container) for the benefit of future archaeologists:
A set of redundant false teeth.
A photo of Brian Blessed on Everest.
The toothbrush I use to clean bits of rock with.
An unwashed T-shirt saying "Tonto's Expanding Headband World Tour 1971".
A half eaten packet of Minstrels.
A Blue Peter badge gained from doing a backwards sponsored walk through the Yorkshire Dales in which I accidentally kicked their dog.
A joke birth certificate saying "King Tut, born 77 BC".
A small airtight container with a fart in it.
A mangled pair of specs that did Gaping Gill Main Shaft minutes before I did.
I always thought that lithified landfills would make some pretty interesting rock layers... Perhaps in the larger ones you could track the progression of our soceity by the type of non-biodegradable stuff we threw out.
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What do you think (or hope) will remain of our 20th/21st Century lives for the archaeologists and geologists of the future, in maybe thousands or even millions of years time, to discover.
Our Geology Rocks postings!!
Plate tectonics - how quaint
Geologists like a nappe between thrusts
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I was thinking what I could leave behind in a time capsule (tupperware container) for the benefit of future archaeologists:
A set of redundant false teeth.
A photo of Brian Blessed on Everest.
The toothbrush I use to clean bits of rock with.
An unwashed T-shirt saying "Tonto's Expanding Headband World Tour 1971".
A half eaten packet of Minstrels.
A Blue Peter badge gained from doing a backwards sponsored walk through the Yorkshire Dales in which I accidentally kicked their dog.
A joke birth certificate saying "King Tut, born 77 BC".
A small airtight container with a fart in it.
A mangled pair of specs that did Gaping Gill Main Shaft minutes before I did.
Gus
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Gus, your Blue Peter badge are we talking the days of Petra or Bonnie?
Ben.
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I always thought that lithified landfills would make some pretty interesting rock layers... Perhaps in the larger ones you could track the progression of our soceity by the type of non-biodegradable stuff we threw out.
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Gus, your Blue Peter badge are we talking the days of Petra or Bonnie?
I'm not sure which one it was. Whichever wasn't limping in April 1969, the month before the kicking.
Gus
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I think that any future archaeologists will find an awful lot of carrier bags of which many will be emblazoned with either "Ikea" or "Tesco".
"Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution" - T. Dobzhansky
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Why did you eat half a packet of Minstrels Gus? :?
John
Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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