[The Lone Ranger]

I'm a fairly voracious reader, and I seem to have been blessed with a decent memory. So it has often been the case that if I don't know the answer right off the top of my head, I can recall reading something that touched on the subject, and so start from there.

As a rule, if I don't know the answer to a question, I can usually figure out how to find it.

In the case of MonCap's question, it happens that paleontology is one of my particular interests. So naturally, I've pondered the question of whether anything of our civilization would be detectable 65 million years into the future. It's an interesting thought experiment.



For good or ill, I'm a terrible insomniac. I literally can't remember the last time I had a decent night's sleep. Most nights, I lie awake thinking about stuff. I've never really been able to figure out how to shut my brain off.


Some of it is training, too. For instance, I'm quite familiar with most plant and animal families. So if you show me some plant or animal, if I don't know it, I can probably tell you what family it belongs to more or less at a glance. After that, it's just a process of elimination to narrow it down to the correct species.

Cheers,

Michael