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Incredible that a child 200k years ago left something behind that we can still see today.

I struggle to imagine what I could do today that someone 200k years from now would find. Any ideas?




Build a massive coil out of stone around a ferromagnetic core, 500 feet high, engrave walls with Maxwell and QM diff equations, so future generations would know that our civilization was built around electromagnetism. In reality, though, they'll think it's a tower of power with inscripted incantations for rituals.


Scratch your name into Hoover Dam? A handprint in wet cement?


Collect plastic drink bottles?




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