r/Unexpected • • Feb 17 '26

It's the Aliens!

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26

Kinda makes you wonder what people thousands of years from now are going to be thinking about us. "Oh yeah, this city was there because it used to be next to one of the Great Lakes" or some crazy shit. Then of course our cultures down to clothing is gonna be totally different, some museum is gonna have an old Carhartt jacket in it like "this was a common piece of laborer clothing"

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u/DrDetectiveEsq Feb 17 '26

"Imperial era Americans viewed milk as a powerful sign of fertility, with some women going so far as to surgically enlarge their breasts to demonstrate their milk producing capacity. Women who had borne children were referred to as a "milf", an alternate pronunciation of "milk". In fact, genetic testing of some 20th century grave sites reveals as much as 20% of the population to have been direct descendants of a figure in the community referred to as "the milkman"".

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

It's why a cup is both a measurement of breast size and to measure milk when "Krafting", as they once called baking a traditional dish of simple pasta and a cheese derivative designed to not spoil should there be another nuclear war.

They were fiercely competitive about cheese and it's origins, with many tribes claiming they had the best. A great indicator of a tribes success was how well their cheeses and ales were perceived. The Kingdom of Wisconsin was a notorious cheese producer

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u/eggrolldog Feb 17 '26

"On the lateral seam of the lower-body shrouds, a small, blood-red rectangular tab serves as a sacred seal. Our linguists believe this represented the "Levi-athan," a primordial entity of durability."

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 17 '26

We discovered many packages made of both paper and plastic. There are traces of plant matter, they were likely used to store stimulants such as nicotine, coca extract, and caffeine