• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    I can’t remember if it’s an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.

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      thousands

      There’s probably millions even if you account for the fact that most would have been destroyed