• TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    We’ve so much plastic waste that its now our most signifigant marker in the fossil record to say “humans lived here”.

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      2 years ago

      In the future scientists will try to convince people that the plastic layer is not naturally occurring

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        2 years ago

        It wont be hard, its the rarest material in the universe. Entire planets can be made of diamond. But of planets with life for millions of years, then with intellegent life capable of finding, processing and spreading it. Well it may only have happened once.