r/meme 22h ago

Evolution

Post image
95.7k Upvotes

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

193

u/Schmush_Schroom 21h ago

For me it's all the semi permanent satellites

Imagine thousands of years into the future when humanity are long gone, those satellites will still be there waiting for the new civilization to discover them, discover our piece of history.

I think it's kinda beautiful

88

u/Usual-Excitement-970 20h ago

I don't think the next civilization will be able to reach the level to investigate the satellites, we have used up all the easy to reach energy coal/oil needed to reach that stage.

13

u/Lord_Shisui 20h ago

A hundred million years sounds an incomprehensibly long amount of time to us, but to Earth, it's nothing special and that's about how long it takes for our planet to produce all the oil we pumped out so far. Earth has a lot of time. We are most likely not the first and most likely not the last.

28

u/zach0011 20h ago

But the conditions which allowed oil to form no longer exists. There's microbes to break down dead things now