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fluoridation 5 hours ago

>It feels like a kind of end of civilization or even humanity type of thing, where at some point all of the earth will have been excavated and all human evidence will have been removed and catalogued and archived in some warehouse, totally sanitizing sterilizing the planet of human activity.

Well, no, because as you've said, the evidence will be in warehouses, and then at some later time also buried. The practice of human archeology is as much a part of culture that the future may study as the cultures that it itself studies.

>it is after all objectively desecration of burials

What do you mean "objectively desecration"? Whether something is sacred or not is purely a matter of opinion. "Objectively" it's just some configuration of atoms being moved from one place to another, neither action inherently having any more meaning or specialness than the other.

>that were never meant to be dug up to satisfy the curiosity and career of some rather selfish and increasingly irreligious academic.

Who cares what the intent was? The people who put it in the ground are dead, and so are their children, and their children. The only living people who care are the ones digging it up.

>Think about it, very little of today will be of value if it survives at all.

That's what you think because you're alive now to experience it. It's worthless to you because it's abundant. Someone a million years from now may see your PC and that sarcophagus as equally priceless artifacts, because both points in time will be roughly equally distant.

WalterBright an hour ago | parent [-]

My original IBM PC looks pretty sad now. I remember buying it and how it smelled when I unpackaged it.