PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Rough Roman Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe Romans were awfully clumsylemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down16
arrow-up1411arrow-down1imageThe Romans were awfully clumsylemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Rough Roman Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoCompare that to the amount of plastic fragments thrown away by the American empire
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month ago And they sent down some astronauts To study our bones Through the miles of garbage Beneath all the junk that we owned Carbon dating beer cans Condoms and Twinkie wrappers We were something beautiful, baby What the hell happened?
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoWell, two of those things can potentially be carbon dated… Actinides or something would probably work for the cans, assuming they know when we did all the nuclear testing.
minus-squarePersen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoOr all the empires for that matter (if I haven’t missed a joke)
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI’m not sure if you got the intended joke which wouldn’t make your joke any less valuable. Most empires were before plastic was a thing. The Inca empire or the Tsar empire didn’t have plastic yet so they didn’t leave all this waste behind
Compare that to the amount of plastic fragments thrown away by the American empire
Well, two of those things can potentially be carbon dated…
Actinides or something would probably work for the cans, assuming they know when we did all the nuclear testing.
Or all the empires for that matter (if I haven’t missed a joke)
I’m not sure if you got the intended joke which wouldn’t make your joke any less valuable. Most empires were before plastic was a thing. The Inca empire or the Tsar empire didn’t have plastic yet so they didn’t leave all this waste behind