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[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a Mistborn reference isn't it? That sentence seems familiar

[–] feannag@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

"What's a few words changed here and there among friends?" - Ruin, probably.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.

[–] neptune@dmv.social 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Metals oxidize. You need a ceramic encased in a carefully constructed glass.

It's a reference to the Mistborn series of books.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?

[–] neptune@dmv.social 5 points 1 year ago

If you are lucky

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tungsten carbide in high-silica glass will probably outlast humanity by a significant margin.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until someone discovers your cache of tungsten carbide and sells it for scrap to be turned into ball bearings and drill bits.

The cap stones of the pyramids were taken for building construction. The rare velum paper with ancient Greek mathematics was bleached and used for daily prayers.

Perhaps the copper complaint survived because it was on worthless dry clay.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Depending on who you listen to, piss in the snow might outlast us after the next election.

If you live somewhere it still actually snows anyway.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nah Ruin will change the ceramic

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I knew this was going to be top comment.

Can steel really be trusted if it can be rusted?