Posted on 01/22/2008 9:33:58 AM PST by NavyCanDo
" Fundamentally, we are not as important as we think we are".
"We are nothing more than a dot in the history of the world".
Review: http://www.daemonstv.com/2008/01/20/life-after-people-review-history-channel/
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Let’s make the world a better place folks...
Kool-aide anyone?
I watched it front to back. I thought is was the best History Channel documentary I have ever seen. Although I’m pretty interested in that particular subject, so that might have biased my ranking of it.
If the majority of people take these statements to be true then I'd think man-made climate change would be a harder sell.
Sunday night they ran the show with the top 7 threats to humanity. Climate Change number 1 of course, with ample quotes from Owlgored.
Some of the plot
Intelligence never arose again
Rodent carnivores started farming primates as prey species.
500 million years later all mammals were extinct
It's a depressing read actually.
I DVR’s it. It is set for my viewing when I get home from work...that and the Sarah Connor chronicles.
I am also interested in this topic.
Well, except for young earth creationists, those are about as true statements as you can get.
The Earth got along quite well before we showed up and it will get along just fine after we leave. Unless we somehow throw the earth into the sun - but anything else, the Earth will get along fine.
i saw the beginning of it last night and it looked great. im going to catch the rerun tomorrow night. pretty fascinating to see what would happen if people just vanished.
Would we care since we, as humans, would be gone forever?
I actually watched some of it ... and I got the opposite impression.
The impression I got was — the Earth will survive anything, and thus that current “environmental” movements are entirely unnecessary. It showed that, no matter how self-aggrandizing humanity can be ... we haven’t the wherewithall to destroy the environment. The environment is an adaptive equilibrium.
For instance — they showed an abandoned city near Chernobyl where life is abundant.
It strikes me as very arrogant to believe that we have the capability of destroying the environment with a mere 100 years of carbon emissions. This documentary is simply another way of showing that.
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I actually found it interesting, you want to say its anti-human, then thats your problem not mine.
I haven’t seen it yet but want to. I don’t particularly disagree with those two quotes you listed. Without us, the world would indeed keep on spinning. As of right now, a “dot” may still be an over-exaggeration as to what we are in reference to the history of the world.
Like mysterio, this is quite interesting to me so I too may be a bit biased.
“It’s a Madhouse!”
History Channel started out as the “Hitler Channel”. Now its morphed into the “Mega-Disaster Channel” with a little “Crypto-Zoology Channel” thrown in.
Ditto. I found the part showing what the city in Russia next to Chernobyl looks like 20 years after people left. It was really surprising how much decay there was in the buildings, concrete, and mortar.
>> that and the Sarah Connor chronicles.
I DVRed this weeks Connor Chronicles as well. I was impressed with last week’s episode.
With 24, The Unit, and Heroes on hiatus ... Sarah Connor’s all I’ve got.
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LOL.
There was another History channel show that I recommend.
It was a history of the earth, about the geological history of the earth over 4 billion years. Fascinating.
Explained all the wild swings of climate the earth has gone through. The earth was for a while a giant snowball, and other times had a lot more CO2 and oxygen. Once you watch that, the whole global warming pap seems much ado about nothing.
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