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[-] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago

What culture are we going to be for the aliens who discover our remains ten thousand years from now?

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 48 points 1 day ago

"This is Trash Planet, former home of the Trash Aliens. They seemed to really, really love making trash."

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Would aliens in 10000 years even be able to tell the difference between trash and ... well, not trash? They'd probably just think that we were really into plastic. Which isn't wrong - I literally bought a plastic mixing bowl this week (it was that or steel, and I hate the noise of steel bowls).

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

mixing bowls are the fucking worst

plastic: scratches really easily, probably toxic, environmental nightmare

ceramic: heavy af, breaks easily

glass: heavy af, breaks easily

wood: literally porous, pain in the ass to clean, can't go in dishwasher, and you have to oil it like a fucking engine

steel: heavy, dents easily, your kitchen is STOMP! now

(I think I recall a STOMP! performance played on PBS when I was a kid in the early '00s where they used primarily steel bowls but couldn't find a clip)

It was a ritual fetish act.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

How dare they. This is Planet Dirt, not Planet Trash!

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Planet Plastic Ocean.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

we really did name the planet Dirt 🤦‍♀️ you'd think we could have at least called it Home or some shit

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 22 points 2 days ago

We're leaving a soil layer with radioactive isotopes, microplastics and concrete rubble. You'll probably also find lots of signs of all the earthmoving we're doing

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

The plastic Miku culture.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe they spot the machines and artifacts left on Mars and the moon and go with robotics or metal poly compounds/alloys. If it's just Earth maybe plastic or concrete or transistors.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The vitriolic nuclear primates

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