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Andrew_nenakhov
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Would it be possible to detect an industrial civil...
Thing is, unlike dinosaur bones, beer can or bottle can't survive for aeons.
titzer
on Sept 27, 2020
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Sure they can, if surrounded by stable strata in the same way that dinosaur bones were. In fact, beer cans can bottles won't be broken down by natural biotic processes; they just need to be protected from erosive forces.
metiscus
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but styrofoam lasts forever /s
For sufficiently short values of forever.
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