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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsName three things, built by man, which will probably be around 5,000 years from now
My List:
The Pyramids
The Great Wall of China
Stonehenge
Squinch
(51,075 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Good choice actually
Squinch
(51,075 posts)marybourg
(12,648 posts)(Not the crap they're making now and calling "Corningware" . I think every piece ever made is still in existence. On their 3rd generation of owners now. Has anyone ever broken one? I haven't, going on 52 years.
Squinch
(51,075 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Damned if someone didn't rescue it.
Cleaned it out of a house of a recently deceased gentleman. It was in pretty bad shape, but now almost pristine again. Truly, it won't die.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)But unfortunately the containers are starting to crack around the rims. They're just not as flexible as they used to be.
1000words
(7,051 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)The Seed Vault
Large Hadron Collider
Aristus
(66,509 posts)When all contemporary documentation is gone, rotted away, or the pixels are no longer reproducible electronically, the people who see these carvings will no doubt think the subjects gods of one kind or another...
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I bet faces will be gone in 400 years with no maintenance. Dry, hot climate is needed for a real long term deal.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)Cheers!
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Only one I think we can count on.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Original wall is all gone. I figure that one will too, given the freeze thaw cycle in that part of the world.
I read that the Grand Cooley Dam will be around for a very long time. What about those stones in Georgia that a mystery man (ted turner) put up?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)the sandstone of the canyon walls will wear away first and leave a huge block of concrete sitting in the middle of the river.
Plains of Nazca
Plane Crash Memorialized In The Deep Sahara
http://www.gadling.com/2013/05/18/plane-crash-memorialized-in-the-deep-sahara/
Garbage Islands
Sissyk
(12,665 posts)I took off a toy for my nephew last weekend!!
Love your choices. I watched a program last night on H2 about Stonehenge. Right before it, was a program of all the Pharaohs and their burial chambers. They were both great shows. See if you can catch them.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)After civilization collapses, anyone who enters the Tomb of Nuke will be cursed with a horrible death.
And no one will be willing to dismantle these lethal tributes to madness and greed before then.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)barring malicious destruction.
lindysalsagal
(20,785 posts)Now, give me a hard one.
on point
(2,506 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)disposable diapers and plutonium.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)Guaranteed.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Even the footprints will be there in 5000 years time.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)probably astroid resistant too.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)good question...
Cayenne
(480 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,947 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Keith Richards.
And a single refrigerator with an empty pickle jar sitting on the back of the top shelf.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,381 posts)High, dry climate. They aren't going anywhere
The Lincoln Memorial;
At the most, it will be under water.
Hoover dam
The concrete keeps getting harder as the years go on.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)"I saw a bright light... thought it was time to go on!"