arcologies like mountains

James Wynn · 17 Jul 2002, 15:52 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: "James Wynn" <crushtv at HotPOP.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) arcologies like mountains
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:52:21 -0500
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I'm inclined toward short-timeline theories myself - simply because I don't
think beyond a maximum of a million years in the future, the characters
could credibly be considered human. Although a review of the archives
reveals a wealth of debate on this subject, I wasn't on the list then. ;-)
So I'll offer my pennies:
Mantis wrote:
As for the mine at Saltus: well, urk -- do you believe that excavations of
Roman cities prove that they were in place a million years ago?  Probably
not.
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
But the point I think was made about the mines is that they are not mining
the crust for raw materials (ores) as we would understand it but mining
the detrius of the past - that's unlikely to be less than many many times
what we'd find today in the whole archological deposit between the Iron
Age and now.
=46rom the beginning of the Bronze Age til now - 5000 years --- the currently
available technologically-advanced archeological artifacts available for us
to "mine", is still impressive.
Imagine that extended to 100,000 years - mostly encompassing the output of
artifacts since the first industrial revolution a mere 250 years ago ---
well, one could probably mine for generations in the New Jersey garbage
dumps even if we shut them down today.

-- Crush

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