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Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022 (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] radix@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see. I guess odds were pretty low that a nuclear bomb would lay waste to a rural town.

As an aside, I wonder why they used so many languages if the nuclear winter survivors would have been rural Georgians like the ones who built the monument. I don't imagine a Russian survivor would ever find themself in the American Deep South without functional airplanes and such.

[–] Anaphylactic_Gock@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

The extra languages are probably to help it act as a sort of rosseta stone to help future archeologists.