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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 536902" data-attributes="member: 6521">Hardly?The outer layer of white sandstone (or whatever it was) is almost completely gone -- taken away by people, most think, but that's a legitimate form of erosion.The larger blocks inside those layers are wearing away and cracking, as well... The pyramids themselves have stood for so long (and will continue to stay standing) because of their sheer mass... The majority of what supports them is insulated from the weather, meaning erosion will just cause aesthetic damage.Not so for modern architecture. As pointed out, it's just a couple of layers through before you start eating away at the steel skeleton of a building: And then, collapse.In short, what remains of modern times is not going to be the large buildings, and probably not the monuments either... It's what happens to be protected from wind/rain/water/et cetera... Subways might still be recognizable (if they haven't flooded), although the tracks will be ribbons of rust at best. The ruins of large downtown ares will probably still have enough inorganic mass that there won't be much plant-life, leading to dusty red wastelands (that's assuming concrete dust and rust can't support plant life, which I'm not sure of). Plastic will slowly deteriotate into strange deposits of goo... Not sure any remnants of that will be around in 10,000 years (they might not be biodegradeable, but they're still subject to entropy).In short, not very much will remain. The question shouldn't be "what will remain after 10,000 years," because virtually nothing will, in its current form (except perhaps for the genomes). Look at it more like "what is big enough, protected enough, or durable enough that it will have any visible effect on the world, 10,000 years from now?"</blockquote>

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