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Proof you were somewhere, occasionally the only sentence you leave behind.
means The mark or impression left by a foot, or by extension the space, trace, or lasting effect that something occupies or leaves behind.
from A plain compound of Old English foot and print, the latter arriving through Old French preinte, 'an impression,' from Latin premere, 'to press.' So a footprint is literally a pressing of the foot — though English happily stretched it to mean the ground a building sits on, the smudge a server leaves on the planet, and any trace that outlives the thing that made it.
- moon prints
- Apollo footprints could last millions of years undisturbed
- fossil record
- Dinosaur tracks reveal speed, weight, and herd behavior
- carbon kind
- Average human leaves about 4 tons of CO2 yearly
- laetoli
- 3.6-million-year-old human ancestor steps survived in ash
- forensic clue
- No two shoe wear patterns are exactly alike
lucy's footprints laetoli — 3.6 million year old human ancestor tracks in volcanic ash, tanzania, 1978
neil armstrong moon footprint — first human footprint on the moon, apollo 11, july 1969
carbon footprint index — measures greenhouse gas emissions per person or organization globally