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ianai
on April 14, 2018
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Was there a civilization on Earth before humans?
Fossils represent a very tiny portion of whatever was there at that time.
ceejayoz
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Yes, but the point is the 1.7 M number for total crust turnover can't be valid, as
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of that tiny portion would still exist.
aalleavitch
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I find it hard to believe that there won't be at least some human fossils lying around 60 million years from now.
lostlogin
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It’s an angle that a funeral directors could use as a selling point - Fossilisation.
kabdib
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In Gene Wolfe's SF/fantasy tetralogy
The Book of the New Sun
, set very far in the future, he refers to corpses preserved by extreme means and rendered essentially indestructible and basically just cluttering up the world.
ahakki
on April 14, 2018
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