• Tlaloc_Temporal
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        6 months ago

        What’s wrong with dirt?

        On a planetary scale, all soil is dirt, because it’s all been displaced so many times from glaciers and mountains and oceans and taking part in the biosphere, you can’t tell where each particle was originally weathered from or which plant first captured it from the air. No one can trace sod to a fault line.

        It’s hard to have a rich history when evwn sharks are older. I bet you can’t even tell if a soil is from regolith younger or older than Pangaea!

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      6 months ago

      Dirt? Do you mean the mythical home planet of humanity in Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series?

    • uebquauntbez@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Dirt will be a term for the remains of mankind in future civilizations. So much dirt left from those f**kheads. /s