In a world without humans I imagine the structures would be our only ever lasting monument. An epitaph of beams and columns interlaced in a lost language.
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structures … for long, a word that I cherished and which is still in my professional title ! I love them, human or not ! Many thanks, Francis !
You’re welcome, Gilles. I’m architect, so we have similar fields… You are an artist as well, Gilles, I wouldn’t be surprised if you had more activities in your private life.
Until the plants take over! I saw a documentary on what would happen to the world if humans disappeared, over 500 yrs everything got eaten by plants! 😊
Yep, they are the more stable structures. Join four triangles and you have an everlasting Pyramid.
I saw that same documentary about what happens to the planet after humans. It’s amazing that the first twenty years is complete chaos as the nuclear reactors blow up and the domesticated animals re-learn to be wild. Ultimately, it goes back to a tranquil setting with the occasional building crumbling to dust.
I can also imagine an alien race visiting the planet after we’re gone and puzzling over some of the remaining structures. What would they think if they ever found playground equipment or an amusement park? They might think that they’re torture devices.
It’s a fun thing to ponder…I’ll think about it when I’m driving back to Missouri today :)
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structures … for long, a word that I cherished and which is still in my professional title ! I love them, human or not ! Many thanks, Francis !
You’re welcome, Gilles. I’m architect, so we have similar fields… You are an artist as well, Gilles, I wouldn’t be surprised if you had more activities in your private life.
Until the plants take over! I saw a documentary on what would happen to the world if humans disappeared, over 500 yrs everything got eaten by plants! 😊
I suggest that in revenge we should eat the plants first! 😋
I read an article years ago, pyramids and Eiffel Tower seemed the more durable structures.
Triangles are very strong structures I think.
Yep, they are the more stable structures. Join four triangles and you have an everlasting Pyramid.
I saw that same documentary about what happens to the planet after humans. It’s amazing that the first twenty years is complete chaos as the nuclear reactors blow up and the domesticated animals re-learn to be wild. Ultimately, it goes back to a tranquil setting with the occasional building crumbling to dust.
I can also imagine an alien race visiting the planet after we’re gone and puzzling over some of the remaining structures. What would they think if they ever found playground equipment or an amusement park? They might think that they’re torture devices.
It’s a fun thing to ponder…I’ll think about it when I’m driving back to Missouri today :)
And the aliens could think that the bathrooms are places to think and meditate XP
Thank you Melissa. Wish you a safe and happy trip :-)
Lol! Aren’t bathrooms places of thinking and meditation?
haha, yeah! and in though times also of penitence D:
“An epitaph of beams and columns interlaced in a lost language.”
You give another dimension to them, I read you and my words now have a meditative peace. Thank you, dear Caroline :-)