The Future

I hope that millions of year from now, if the Earth still exists, there will be enough artifacts left so whatever intelligent life forms exist at that time can accurately deduce what the human race was and what we accomplished in our time here. I just think it would be a shame if our species was misinterpreted and remembered in a less-than-impressive way.

Just imagine what gross misunderstandings we probably have about past life on this planet; dinosaurs and cavemen and the Romans. As much as I base my life on the fact that velociraptors are the coolest predators that ever lived, and were among the first to begin hunting with coordinated attack plans, I realize that this could just as easily be false. How can we really infer from a fossil how a creature hunted, or what the theologies were of ancient tribes from something like a broken clay pot? I am still trying to cope with the fact that everything I was ever taught about T-rex's in school and in Jurassic Park was a lie, and that they were scavengers, not hunters. It's devastating, although there is still hope that that revelation was false too. What I'm getting at here is that there is basically no way of knowing what the truth is about past civilizations and species.

What will be inferred about the human race millions of years from now? What will remain? There will probably be some styrofoam left, thank god, but that might be the only remaining link to our lives here. And think about how many different implications styrofoam could have. All the movies that were ever made wouldn't be adaptable to the technology of the future. Even if they could be adapted, think of how confusing it would be to scientists in the future to see a movie like The Lord of the Rings or 28 Days Later. We could encase our world history textbooks in some super powerful protective casing, but even those aren't completely truthful. Maybe I should start writing a history textbook of my own.

It may be wise for us to start destroying everything that could confuse our image millions of years from now. This could include things like abstract art and all copies of The Planet of the Apes (since it is the most terrifying movie of all time, I think the sooner those are destroyed, the better). I would just hate if the same incorrect deductions were made of us that we made of Tyrannosaurus Rex.