It may be that, as the oceans rise, the museum will, in a few decades, disappear under water, one more mad Tasmanian myth, a shadow line, another rusting skeleton mirroring the Otago's ribs on the far side of the river, after its skipper abandoned it to head into his own age's heart of darkness.
Soon after the sun sets, the road into this capital, which has had no electricity in nearly a decade, disappears into the dark night.
Since the mid-70s, however, we have again been living in a different world in which the automatic prosperity and growth of the postwar decades have disappeared.
The need to deter a Soviet nuclear strike, the mission for which the three of us spent a combined 12,000 hours underground on launching duty over four decades, had disappeared.
Great chunks of the famed Karakoram Highway — a celebrated feat of high-altitude engineering built by the Chinese over two decades — have disappeared as cliffs fell away in the torrent.
Most of the manufacturing jobs lost in the last few decades have disappeared because automation has made them unnecessary and that's not something Trump, or anyone, can negotiate away.
Earlier this year, someone I'd considered pretty much a sister for over a decade randomly disappeared from my life.
He told Discovery News this week that his team has also found "remains of small fires with birds and fish bones, giant clams that had been opened like a New England oyster, empty shells laid out as if to collect rain water, pieces of a pocket knife" and broken bottles – all of which could mean just about anything, considering the decades and decades since Earhart disappeared.
