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What about when the skyscraper’s pieces are submerged under saltwater for a million years? Or are covered up by a mile of river sediment and then plunged another 5 miles under the earth for several million years?


Or the concrete develops cracks, allowing water into the steel reinforcement, which expands, further cracking the concrete until it collapses. Like modern bridges.




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