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it's tuesday april 5th 20 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. How to have the best odds of becoming a fossil after you die. Plus, the creators of the viral Marcel the Shell videos secretly made a feature-length film that's coming out this summer, and a few other

recommendations you can stream right now. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Have you ever thought about what'll happen after you die? And I don't mean that in a like,

is there an afterlife kind of way, or even the

Keanu Reeves, the ones who love us will miss us kind of way. Now, today I'm talking about what will

happen to your body after you die. If you're not cremated, might your body one day become a fossil

that future generations could discover to learn about our present?

Spend enough time reading about fossils and archaeological digs, and it's likely to be something

that passes through your mind at least once. Lifelong fossil fan Richard Fisher recently

wondered the same thing and set out to figure out how exactly he might be able to make himself into a fossil.

He wrote about his findings recently in BBC Future,

mostly getting insight from Professor of Macroevolutionate Jacob Venter,

who, it turns out, has thought a lot about this subject

and is even considering writing a book about it.

So the first reality check in this whole mostly thought experiment

is that it is highly, highly unlikely that any of us will become fossils,

even if we follow all these best practices.

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