Destroying Historical Treasures? Or Cleaning Up Waste From Humans?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

What say ye?
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Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites

Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region’s heritage.


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There's an awful lot of people junk down there.

 

[KMFJD]

unfortunately i don't think there's anything that's going to be stopping these mussels, i thought it might have been the zebra mussels, but these are on a whole new level it seems even faster breeding than zebra's...can the get rid of the algae blooms?

The world's biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII shipwrecks

Exclusive: the unmarked graves of thousands of sailors are threatened by illegal metal salvagers

www.theguardian.com

i thought it was about this when i clicked on it (still ongoing btw)

 

[sdifox]

If the mussels can get rid of the junks humans dumped in the water, so much the better. At least that goes in the plus column.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

That's kind of what I'm thinking. I've long said that Mother Nature will eventually wipe out all traces of us, as if we'd never been here. I'm OK with that.

 

[skyking]

^ exactly^
The Earth will heal. GTF out of the way of that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Fine to go explore these places, but don't touch anything, that's how I see it. I mean maybe take some small samples if it's for research purposes or musem purposes but that's it and everyone should be on same page about it being ok. Like at one point they actually took a chunk of the Titanic up, I think that's ok, but don't go there with huge harvesting machines to start chopping it up and disturbing it either.

 

[pmv]

That's kind of what I'm thinking. I've long said that Mother Nature will eventually wipe out all traces of us, as if we'd never been here. I'm OK with that.

Well, for that matter, eventually the entire planet will be engulfed by the Sun, so...I guess nothing really matters in the long run?
As for the ships, can't we just replace them by sinking some new ones?