The metals we extract and use don't disappear. By smelting iron with carbon we create steel for our buildings... If our building collapse the steel doesn't evaporate into the air. In a post-humanity future metals would actually be much easier to acquire! Remelting steel instead than creating it from coal and iron ore is much more energy efficient (that's why recycling metals is important)!
There would also be S-tier metals widely avaliable because of our industry: aluminium and titanium. Light and strong.
Extracting Aluminium form the ore require electricity and a lot of it (we created metallic aluminium only in the 1800s!), while smelting it is actually pretty easy due to its pretty low melting point.
We have liberated so…
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Michael Crary
Dec 15, 2024
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The comic hints at why this isn't the case with "a thin line of ash in the rocks told that story."In the plot of this hypothetical future, humanity wiped itself out in a nuclear war so devastatingly thorough that every city on earth (every factory, every skyscraper, every military base, everywhere steel, aluminum, titanium, etc. existed) was nuked. Nuked to ash.The wilderness survived, but all of humanity's massed wealth and technology was obliterated so thoroughly these bird-people couldn't make use of it. There would probably still be traces of it left for them to use, but only sparingly.It would be as rare as gold or maybe even rhodium is to us now.
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tommyboycassy
Oct 13, 2022
I'm gonna take a guess that the bird people evolved from crows. Fun fact crows are currently in their stone age!
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Thanatos
Dec 03, 2023
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Why not?
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Pablo Lamprea
Aug 06, 2022
Wouldn't that mean that it's really not our fault that we are the way we are? Given too much, too early?
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Quo vrep
Aug 06, 2022
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To be fair, we weren't so much given our gifts, as we very much took them, by force and fury, from the earth and then each other. And are still taking to this day, despite knowing the cost and consequences. Feels very much like a choice, by this point.
The metals we extract and use don't disappear. By smelting iron with carbon we create steel for our buildings... If our building collapse the steel doesn't evaporate into the air. In a post-humanity future metals would actually be much easier to acquire! Remelting steel instead than creating it from coal and iron ore is much more energy efficient (that's why recycling metals is important)!
There would also be S-tier metals widely avaliable because of our industry: aluminium and titanium. Light and strong.
Extracting Aluminium form the ore require electricity and a lot of it (we created metallic aluminium only in the 1800s!), while smelting it is actually pretty easy due to its pretty low melting point.
We have liberated so…
I'm gonna take a guess that the bird people evolved from crows. Fun fact crows are currently in their stone age!
Wouldn't that mean that it's really not our fault that we are the way we are? Given too much, too early?
Brilliant perspective and masterful storytelling!
Brilliant perspective!