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      “This is Trash Planet, former home of the Trash Aliens. They seemed to really, really love making trash.”

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        Would aliens in 10000 years even be able to tell the difference between trash and … well, not trash? They’d probably just think that we were really into plastic. Which isn’t wrong - I literally bought a plastic mixing bowl this week (it was that or steel, and I hate the noise of steel bowls).

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          mixing bowls are the fucking worst

          plastic: scratches really easily, probably toxic, environmental nightmare

          ceramic: heavy af, breaks easily

          glass: heavy af, breaks easily

          wood: literally porous, pain in the ass to clean, can’t go in dishwasher, and you have to oil it like a fucking engine

          steel: heavy, dents easily, your kitchen is STOMP! now

          (I think I recall a STOMP! performance played on PBS when I was a kid in the early '00s where they used primarily steel bowls but couldn’t find a clip)

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      We’re leaving a soil layer with radioactive isotopes, microplastics and concrete rubble. You’ll probably also find lots of signs of all the earthmoving we’re doing

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      Maybe they spot the machines and artifacts left on Mars and the moon and go with robotics or metal poly compounds/alloys. If it’s just Earth maybe plastic or concrete or transistors.