How Far in the Future is Urth?

Jeff Wilson · 01 Dec 2008, 20:38 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:38:02 -0600
Subject: (urth) How Far in the Future is Urth?
In-Reply-To: <20081201202301.GD25060 at broggs.org>
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	<20081201202301.GD25060 at broggs.org>
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Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:19:29PM -0600, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> 2.  Mining is done by digging up forgotten buried cities. 
> 
> Clearly not forgotten, but just before the current economic crisis, the
> price of metals was high enough that people were starting to bandy about
> mining the land fills as cost effective

This already happens, except that it's even cheaper to dump the junk out 
on the ground in China where entire villages subsist on what they can 
sift out, instead of letting it be buried to begin with.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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