The December, 2004 issue of National Geographic Magazine has an article on the slow decay of the Titanic, including diagrams showing how it will look in the coming decades. A pile of rust is a fairly accurate description of its future.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0412/feature5/index.html
This same NGM issue has a nice article on exoplanets, too.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0412/feature4/index.html
The Pioneer and Voyager probes, plaques, and records have been estimated to survive in deep space for at least 1 billion years, far longer than anything can on Earth made by present humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/voyager/voyager-record.html
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re: Another reason why I'm a UFO skeptic
