• neptune@dmv.social
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    8 months ago

    Metals oxidize. You need a ceramic encased in a carefully constructed glass.

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      8 months ago

      Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?

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        Until someone discovers your cache of tungsten carbide and sells it for scrap to be turned into ball bearings and drill bits.

        The cap stones of the pyramids were taken for building construction. The rare velum paper with ancient Greek mathematics was bleached and used for daily prayers.

        Perhaps the copper complaint survived because it was on worthless dry clay.

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        Depending on who you listen to, piss in the snow might outlast us after the next election.

        If you live somewhere it still actually snows anyway.