Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Dead Past
It kind of makes me wonder how old does something have to be for it to be archaeological? We did we have to wait until we had gotten enough junk up there and it was old enough? Can something be archaeological if it's only 10 minutes old? My answer to that is absolutely it can be. Isaac Asimov actually wrote a very interesting short story about this called the dead past. A time machine had been invented but no archaeologist or historian was allowed to look into the past. And it is because the past could start a millisecond ago.
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