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If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I often wondered about that. Humans have been around for 100,000 years or so and we've been putting people in graves for a much smaller portion of that, but it seems we would have an awful lot of graves at this point. But we don't. You don't come across cemeteries very often and when you do they're not enormous.

SO WHERE ARE ALL THE BODIES?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Did you think graves were perpetual?

I'm sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you'll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.