Post #607237 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Sep 18, 2011 12:33 PM

This is really cool - and, when you think about it, really sad. Considering that you cannot turn time back, this is much better than just having a shopping mall with nothing in it, yes - but it is a sad reminder of the colonization and over-population of this planet. When you consider the beautiful nature that was there before, this is like one of those space craft meals distilled down to a pill in science fiction movies.

This said, I do appreciate historic markers that remind today's busy city dwellers of what or WHO was there before. In the last decade, several German cities have installed what is called "Stolpersteine", (stumbling stones) in front of select turn-of-the-century apartment houses. These brass markers, laid flat into the pavement, carry the family names, deportation dates and final concentration camps destinations and death dates of Jewish and other politically hunted citizens during the Nazi era.

Granted, most people rush by and over these, but when you enter a house, you might just stop long enough to glance down and have a brief realization.