{"id":783,"date":"2006-10-13T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/if-humans-vanished-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2006-10-13T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T16:52:54","slug":"if-humans-vanished-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/if-humans-vanished-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"If Humans Vanished Tomorrow&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More article regurgitation today, a bit on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-2399972.html\">how long the traces of our incredibly advanced civilization would last<\/a> if we all disappeared tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 The short answer: not too long.\u00c2\u00a0 For the long answer click the link, or for the medium answer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/TGD\/picture\/0,,351113,00.jpg\">a graphic<\/a> that displays exactly the same information as the article.\u00c2\u00a0 Interesting stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically we would not even be a blip on the radar after about 50 000 years.\u00c2\u00a0 With the exception of course of Harvey&#8217;s pee-burned grass art installation on my lawn.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way that 50 000 years of wild natural reclamation is going to eradicate those things.\u00c2\u00a0 They are permanent in a way that makes the pyramids look flimsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More article regurgitation today, a bit on how long the traces of our incredibly advanced civilization would last if we all disappeared tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 The short answer: not too long.\u00c2\u00a0 For the long answer click the link, or for the medium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/if-humans-vanished-tomorrow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}