Evidently a lot of shipwrecks are being salvaged in order to reuse the metal for high specification technology. The metal in these wrecks are uncontaminated by the atmospheric radiation since 1945 so they’re highly prized and necessary.
It blows my mind to think that this lead was mined by Romans.
Incidentally a few days ago, I was at a community gathering. As we left, in high spirits, the organiser turned to us and said that he wants this community to continue ‘for another three or four centuries’.
I’ve never considered anything in such a timescale. There was something gorgeous about zooming out to a timescale that extended well beyond my lifetime.
I started day dreaming about what I could possibly create that might be used or useful in the future.
I suppose maybe some artwork or something creative. They usually last a long time. All the digital technology I worked on will long since be gone.
What about a house? Maybe that’s why houses have such a spiritual and grounding appeal – to be able to create a house that others can also live in, in the future.
Maybe it’s something I’ll do unwittingly. It doesn’t even need to be anything successful or beautiful, as the case was with the shipwrecks – these were boats that sunk! And yet they’re still useful, possibly far more useful as shipwrecks than the original boats.