> > > Lemme explain: almost all paper used in books today is made
> > > from trees and contains a certain amount of an acid which English name
> > > escapes me at the moment. Thanks to this, the paper will selfdestruct
> > > in about a hundred years. To quote the Swedish physist-novelist Peter
> > > Nilson, "in 2100 they'll wonder why people ceased to write books in
1870".
>
> What? So ... they just crumble? Disintegrate? Become dust?
They... biodegrade, basically. Deteriorate. Yeh.
I read somewhere that the space suits of the moon astronauts are already
falling apart, even after doing nothing but sit in a museum all this time.
And most plastics will go the same way.
*Muke!
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