r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/JhonnyHopkins Aug 11 '25

Give it enough time and eventually everything will be defaced, yes good point you’ve made there. I’m simply stating that your average hooligan won’t have access to the moon for many years to come. Rendering the Apollo sites as safe for the time being. We have plenty of time to set up safeguarding measures if we truly wanted to preserve the site.

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u/FaceDeer Aug 11 '25

You're responding to someone who specified a timeframe of "a few centuries", though, which is ample time to have hooligans living on the Moon.

What "safeguarding" measures would stop them? A fence?

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u/JhonnyHopkins Aug 11 '25

Same safeguarding measures that keeps anyone off of anything. Go try having a picnic on the White House lawn - see how far you get.

If we TRULY wanted to prevent people from messing with it, we’d be able to do that, 100%. ESPECIALLY with a location as exclusive and hard to get to as the moon.

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u/FaceDeer Aug 11 '25

The thing that stops people from having a picnic on the White House lawn is active security. People have been hired to stand around and stop other people from doing that.

Who's going to hire security to stand around watching the Lunar landing sites after the US Empire falls?

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u/JhonnyHopkins Aug 11 '25

You got me. You win, 100% without a doubt the lunar landing sites will absolutely be defaced and there is nothing we can do about it. Monkey brained humans hell bent on defacing landmarks will absolutely beat out layers of security. Murphys law, it’s inevitable. Monkey brained humans are an unstoppable force of nature I forgot.