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> It is hard to believe later generations were always just too impatient to bother doing top quality work.

I believe it. Walk around New York City or Paris and compare the level of detail in construction from a historic building to a recently built one.




A good point. Also, i don't think any of our great buildings (i.e empire state building, all those skyscrapers made from steel frames and glass) or technological marvels (like jets) will survive 400 years into the future. They will think we never made anything. Not only that, but they will dismiss written accounts as fiction. Even our plastic waste should have largely dissolved by then.


our graveyards will


It is not. Remnants -- turbine blades -- will survive. Plastic will last for geological eons.


A good point. Also, i don't think any of our great buildings (i.e empire state building, all those skyscrapers made from steel frames and glass) or technology will survive 400 years into the future. They will think we never made anything. Not only that, but they will dismiss written accounts as fiction. Even our plastic waste should have largely dissolved by then.




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