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Message:: [QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 737192, member: 19456"]Even though I am a dedicated fan of the History Channel, I refuse to watch the "Life after people" garbage.  Please. Our buildings will be here for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, unless they are purposely destroyed, and cars do not rust rust into nothingness like they would have you believe. (OK, some do, but not all) If left in the elements they will rust, but it will take a lot more then 50 years for that to happen. The 1895 cars I saw in the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg musuem proves that if well kept, they will survive. Clad coins can last thousands of years. No, they won't look the same as they do now, but they will still be here.  The zinc cents, that might be another story. The copper outer layer, if kept out of the natural elements, should keep them in existance. I am doing a study, on Christmas Day of 2008 I put a brand new 2008 cent outside, on top of my generator. It was in perfect BU condition at the time, and I've left it out there in the elements all year. It has not kept it's original color (some remains but mostly it has turned black) but it has not dissolved. The Arizona Quarter, which has been sitting next to it but had been there earlier, since it first came out in the spring of last year. The detail is still there and so is some of the lustre but most of that is gone, and it has turned some odd colors.[/QUOTE]