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WTC Left Sedimentary Fingerprint

Posted by michael on from the sediment-cores-tell-all dept.

Quixotic1 writes "The NSF announced scientists had found a "distinct fingerprint on the sedimentary record in New York Harbor" due to the destruction of the World Trade Center. The findings were extrapolated from the presence of high concentrations of several elements that make up gypsum, a material used in drywall, and silica, likely from fiberglass."

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  1. Pretty cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    That's pretty cool that something as fairly small as that little incident, can leave a telltale layer that might eventually be part of rocks. That means That Which Is To Come will certainly be visible in sedement layers all over the world.

    250 MegaYears in the future, Squibbon scientists will study the layers, and finally figure out: this little layer right here, is where the thermonuclear war happened. One of them will exclaim "There was intelligent life on this planet before us! Yet though they were intelligent, they were fools as well."

    And then half a GigaYear after that, something else will look back what happened to the Squibbons; their whole culture compressed into a few millimeters. And they'll see us too, another mass-extinction event. Was it an asteroid, or something else?