10 unsettling answers to the fermi paradox

[Kevin Seitzer]

It is a great poem, and accurate....the only thing we have made in the US that would survive us for more than a blip on the cosmic clock is Mt Rushmore.

That's actually an interesting question. What would survive the longest? I imagine Hoover Dam would last quite a while. There are probably some canals or similar works of engineering that would last for a while. On a more negative note, I bet open pit mines would last a while, too. Some of those things are gargantuan.

[Bene Futuis]

That's actually an interesting question. What would survive the longest? I imagine Hoover Dam would last quite a while. There are probably some canals or similar works of engineering that would last for a while. On a more negative note, I bet open pit mines would last a while, too. Some of those things are gargantuan.

I read somewhere that non-stick coating will last millions of years. Have to imagine nuclear bunkers and the like will last a really long time, too.


But the longest lasting remnants of man will be what we leave behind on the moon or what we've sent into space, like Voyager, because most everything else will be eroded within a few tens of thousand years.

[The Feral Slasher]

I read somewhere that non-stick coating will last millions of years. Have to imagine nuclear bunkers and the like will last a really long time, too.


But the longest lasting remnants of man will be what we leave behind on the moon or what we've sent into space, like Voyager, because most everything else will be eroded within a few tens of thousand years.

Pretty sure that was just a Blue Granite infomercial

[Bene Futuis]

Pretty sure that was just a Blue Granite infomercial

To be fair, I bet most plastics and the like will outlast even the sturdiest cement/concrete structure.