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Old 01-16-2020, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by RalphH View Post
It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/
I saw a story on archeologists who went "digging" in a municipal landfill. The most intact things they found were paper phonebooks. They were so dense that oxygen couldn't get in to the inner pages and promote decay.
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