What will survive 10,000 years?

[Captain Ned]

This is simply a thought experiment from a lifetime sci-fi geek. What bits of today's culture & hardware will still exist 10,000 years on? My two are simple:

The music of the Beatles and the M1911.

Sip and start.

Edit: I've been completely taken by the Dune Universe since I first read Dune some 30+ years ago. I know it's since been knocked off-canon, but 1984's Dune Encyclopedia (I have a copy) made it clear that Lennon/McCartney tunes were still played on balisets by men like Gurney Halleck.

[Pancake]

This is simply a thought experiment from a lifetime sci-fi geek. What bits of today's culture & hardware will still exist 10,000 years on?

roast suckling pig
roast pork belly
Nuremberg bratwurst

[SnowboardingTobi]

Twinkies!

oh wait....

[ludi]

Assuming no environmental contamination, about one-fourth of your carbon-14 content.

I would thrown in another vote for the M1911, and beer. I'm not sure much else of present culture and technology will still be around, at least not in any form that could be directly recognized.

[nanoflower]

Bread will still be around in the many forms we see today. It's hard to see what other elements of our culture can survive that long. I can see some music making it but not much else.

[EJ257]

The wheel. Sure you can have all sort of unimaginable technological advances in transportation. I'm talking about a simple wheeled cart you can use to carry stuff around, requires no power except your own.

[mnecaise]

With or without human intervention?

[Captain Ned]

The wheel. Sure you can have all sort of unimaginable technological advances in transportation. I'm talking about a simple wheeled cart you can use to carry stuff around, requires no power except your own.

Didn't think down to that level. Good choice.

[Captain Ned]

With or without human intervention?

With. I'm an optimist.

[bthylafh]

Bach will survive. At least some recipes will. Some of today's stories (fiction and non) will be recognizable by those with training, but mutated to a greater or lesser extent.

If we still have an Internet analog by then, you will find something like TV Tropes and lolcats.

[Krogoth]

Outside of historical keynotes. (Assuming nothing gets lost in a dark age).

Radioactive waste and lunar landing sites, not much else.

[Captain Ned]

Bach will survive.

I'll buy that.

[Captain Ned]

Radioactive waste and lunar landing sites, not much else.

I was trying to avoid the full Leibowitz.

[ShadowEyez]

Few things:
--probably insects
--possibly a few nuclear waste sites
--hopefully humans

[bthylafh]

For reference: around 10k years ago, depending on where you were, your people might have just recently learned how to farm and were still using stone implements; otherwise, you were still a hunter-gatherer.

[Vrock]

Styrofoam coolers.

[wintermane666]

Some of us will survive for 10k years... Not many tho. 20 years out we will likely live 50 years longer.. 50 years out 120 years longer 100 years out 300 years longer and 300 years out we will likely only die from stupidity.. so about .1% of us will make it to 10k.. mainly because humans is stupid.

music.. all of it will survive even and especialy the realy bad stuff... If you live to be 300 your great great great great great great great great grandkids will be listening to versions of your favority music.. horridly mutated till it makes you shreak in horror;/

All the shows you hate... yes every one will still be shown 10k years from now... but everything you loved will either never show up or will be twisted into a horrid leprous monster.

tramp stamps... because anything that tacky is garanteed by the laws of the universe to stay around FOREVER....

Fat people wearing thongs... even after we cure it in humans the universe will make our eyes bleed by making realy fat icky aliens wana wear em....

French fries...

jelly beans...

fruitcake...

[Franklin]

No chance humans will still be here in 10,000 years. Ants probably.

[hhhoudini]

fruitcake...

Specifically the one your mother in-law gave you for last Christmas. AND it will still be just as "tasty" and "edible" as it ever was.

On an only slightly more serious note, shouldn't we be into our next ice age?

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[anotherengineer]

My Remains..................in my custom designed 316L stainless steel coffin

[MadManOriginal]

Plastic in garbage dumps. Future anthropologists will dub this 'the plastic age.'

(btw people, he did specify 'culture & hardware.' Plastic might be a stretch since it's not exactly culture, but it is a reflection of our culture.)

[Jigar]

My Remains..................in my custom designed 316L stainless steel coffin

Date: 31/04/3001

We regret to inform you that because of the resource crunch, we had but no choice to recycle your great, great, great, great, great, great, great grand father's stainless steel coffin. - Thank you for your contribution to this world in the time of crisis. I hope you made it to the last intergalactic ship that was leaving for Mars yesterday.


PS: I have already left this job and i am no longer available on earth.

Sincerely your,
ex - XYZ officer,

[danny e.]

Nothing. The Y10K bug will be our doom.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan E
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:15 AM
To: *snip*
Subject: RE: stp for compare process

yeah, fancy. but what happens in the year 10,000 ?

-----Original Message-----
From: *snip*
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:05 AM
To: Dan E
Subject: stp for compare process

Scorm - Just so you know it is common to do the following when dealing with null WhenExpire dates

AND ISNULL(LaborDistribution.WhenExpire, '12/31/9999') > @StartDate

[killadark]

but load of plastic waste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... duiE#t=44s

[BIF]

In 10,000 years, the moon's orbit will have drifted "just this much" farther away from Earth, allowing Terra to enter a wobbly Weeble-like flight trajectory. The tides will cease and eventually the tectonic plates will stop moving.

People won't be here. But bad 80's music will still be playing at Denny's restaurants.

[clone]

The music of the Beatles and the M1911.

obviously most foods will survive.... Pizza being the obvious first that comes to mind, classical music such as Beethoven or Bach will obviously make it given that music has already transcended but I'd wager heavily against any generational music making it 50 years past the passing of said generation....the Beatles aren't simple enough like folk music nor was any of their music complex enough to survive time like classical.

[jihadjoe]

beer

[yogibbear]

Cockroaches
Stupid people
Knock knock jokes (though people will no longer understand why they are saying 'knock knock' and not 'hello' or some other more logical term used when entering someone's personal space. They will simply learn that there used to be a coated deceased biological barrier between them and the person's space they were entering and it was custom to knock on it before entering.)
Porn industry.

[Arclight]

Sticks and stones as weapons.

[Arclight]

Ups, double post