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** The original special seemed to imply that Hoover Dam would be the last of the works of man to disappear, as the pyramids would be covered in sand without humans around to keep them visible.
*** Subverted for anything that manages to get itself buried and/or "fossilized".
* [[The End of the World
* [[Exty Years From Now]]
* [[Fling a Light Into
** [[Did Not Do the Research]]: the Voyager Golden Record has already experienced nearly all of the erosion it will ever see from dust and particle impacts. Assuming no catastrophic events, the record and the probe attached to it could survive indefinitely.
** The [[wikipedia:Crypt of Civilization|Crypt of Civilization]] on the campus of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta is shown on its presumptive opening date of May 28, 8113.<ref>This is the only specific future date given in the series. It is exactly 6177 years from the date the Crypt was sealed (May 28, 1936), which was exactly 6177 years after the establishment of the ancient Egyptian calendar (at the time, the earliest known recorded date in history)</ref>. Sadly, the time capsule is shown to have been compromised by tree roots and the elements long before.
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* [[Hey, It's That Sound]]: Quake teleporter sound.
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: Not just the humans, but the animals that are bound to die in our absence.
* [[Just for Pun]] - A number of comments about future results have some rather wry connotations, often also invoking the [[Bond One-Liner]]. Two of them include one about a major work by [[Leonardo
* [[Look
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: The possibility of zoo animals such as lions, elephants and chimpanzees escaping and forming populations in the United States is explored.
* [[Monumental Damage]]: Every. Single. Episode. Slightly subverted in that it's nature doing the damage (and that the Lincoln Memorial is shown, for once), but definitely a way to show off the sheer power of nature, given enough time.
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** A parrot's skeleton was seen lying in a dusty birdcage.
* [[Precursors]]: It is hinted that if there are future sentient species, they may see us this way.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: Averting this trope is the whole point of the series, showing that this trope doesn't hold much in real life. Even though it goes [[Contrived Coincidence|quite out of its way]] [[Did Not Do the Research|to make this prediction]], often to the point of [[Anvilicious|being rather anvilicious]] and even [[Writer
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Nobody is keeping an eye on nuclear power plants. Also oil refineries are more likely to explode within less than a day of no human monitoring.
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