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Re:Monobloc chair by thewarpaint on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:46PM (#22394122)
"I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet" is a sentence that I would react to with the opposite emotion :-(
Re:Monobloc chair by ChuckMcM on Saturday February 22, 2020 @06:59PM (#22394166)
When future cockroach geologists look upon this artifact they might speculate it was a throne for the giant creatures that used to rule the planet :-)
Re:Monobloc chair by ljm on Saturday February 22, 2020 @09:09PM (#22394632)
You assume they might know or appreciate chairs and thrones. More likely they see it as an ancient monolith.
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Re:Monobloc chair by DeedsMoraine on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:38AM (#22395797)
Well, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.
Re:Monobloc chair by airstrike on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:05PM (#22394818)
Re:Monobloc chair by countername on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:35PM (#22394317)
Why? It's durable you can clean the chair and reuse it without throwing it away and creating a new chair.
Re:Monobloc chair by MereInterest on Saturday February 22, 2020 @10:17PM (#22394869)
Because it implies an end to humanity on this planet that does not also incorporate an end to that titanium chair. That any physical object could outlive humanity means that humanity will end far before it should.
Re:Monobloc chair by orestarod on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:19AM (#22396501)
When should humanity end?
Re:Monobloc chair by winrid on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:08AM (#22395564)
I don't think he was thinking of this in such a draconian way.