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eru on Nov 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scenes from Earth on the Voyager Spacecraft

That's why Archaeologists are so keen on garbage dumps.

(And to anyone worrying that our digital artefacts are much shorter lived than clay tables: We are producing more garbage than almost any society before. They'll be plenty to piece together.)

lloeki on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

Interesting point. I'm not sure we should continue contributing that much though.

eru on Nov 8, 2011 | [–]

Recycling is the bane of archaeology. Science or nature, choose one.

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