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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 22 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 52 seconds ago

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

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Planet Plastic Ocean.

It was a ritual fetish act.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 points 8 hours 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

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

The vitriolic nuclear primates

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

If we're lucky...