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Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022 (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

If they were meant to survive nuclear apocalypse, then why did one small non-nuclear bomb bring them down? You'd think they should be better constructed or protected or something.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Elbert County, Georgia. A county with about 20k people in it.

    They didn't need to withstand a direct hit. Just the fallout/nuclear winter that would kill most of humanity.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I see. I guess odds were pretty low that a nuclear bomb would lay waste to a rural town.

    As an aside, I wonder why they used so many languages if the nuclear winter survivors would have been rural Georgians like the ones who built the monument. I don't imagine a Russian survivor would ever find themself in the American Deep South without functional airplanes and such.

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