• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Their legacy lasted all these billions of years only to be destroyed by nosy humans. I get the scientific benefit of discovering things like this and support the research efforts in general, but the very act of studying something ancient like this irrecoverably alters it, and that still makes an irrational part of me really sad.

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      If it makes you feel better nothing has any meaning, and preserving things is just humans trying to not feel the meaningless of it all.

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        1 day ago

        Last month priests dug up bones of my great-grandmother with no warning or notice. I just went there and there was someone else freshly buried there. RIP my ass, wieczny odpoczynek kurwa ich mać.