LIFE AFTER PEOPLE

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[NavyCanDo]

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking new special

[Lord_Calvinus]

Watched it. Whether they wanted to conveigh the idea or not, they left me with this impression:

Nature is not as fragile as some would like us to think. Some animals have adapted readily to living among us. Others have adapted to living near us. Much of the rest of nature, both plant and animal, are quite capable of quickly reclaiming even the most polluted environments.

But, the one Texas Tech professor needs to get a “personality.” Talk about making me nod off.

[Trailerpark Badass]

It was really surprising how much decay there was in the buildings, concrete, and mortar.

Which would decay faster, communist concrete or stick and styrofoam houses made by illegals?

[fish hawk]

That show made me think of something I’ve heard Rush say, and that is, no matter what man does to the earth, in time, the earths nature is to heal its self. The program sort of pointed that out,though not in a direct way.

[Ditto]

It’s unfortunate that Carl Sagan is no longer with us. Me thinks he would debunk the man-made global warming and truly educate us, in his layman fashion, of the history of the earth’s climate changes.

Sagan would be spewing global warming propaganda at a rate 'billions and billions' of times faster than even Al Gore. The guy was a big time lefty. In the 80s, he was pushing the Nuclear Winter stuff and wanted the US to disarm unilaterally to "save the planet."

[purpleraine]

I missed that one. I think two of my others may have been combined into 1.

[Phlap]

If there were no people to care ... ?

[MEGoody]

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever?

Who cares?

[Salgak]

Years ago, there were a few books by a speculative biologist:
"The New Dinosaurs" and "After Man"

Interesting artwork: the premise of the first is the K/T event didn't happen, and Man never appeared on Earth, and THIS is what the life on earth looks like now.

The second was that Man killed himself off, as well as a lot of the higher animals, in the early 21st century, and this was a look at what things looked like, 50 million years later.

Most of the ruminants (cattle, etc) had died off in whatever killed us, and rabbits ended up filling the niches.

Rabbit-antelopes, rabbit-deer, even rabbit-giraffes.

Penguins ended up filling the niche of whales.

Nifty coffee-table books. . .

[Pining_4_TX]

This reminds me of some ditzy girl in one of my son’s college classes who said we should all just kill ourselves to save the planet.

He told her to lead by example.

She told him to go... well, you know.

[Bob J]

Saw it. Absolutely dumb.

[G8 Diplomat]

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever?

There would be no dirty politics, no terrorism, and no taxes.

Actually, the same result could be accomplished if Democrats were to suddenly disappear forever.

[rbosque]

The “history-revisionist Channel” loves to put on these “man is evil or anti-Western Civilization shows”. This is wishful thinking from the empty minds of leftist “academics”.

[Bernard Marx]

In the 80s, he was pushing the Nuclear Winter stuff and wanted the US to disarm unilaterally to "save the planet."

In fact the "Nuclear Winter" scare tactic was so successful it inspired the Lefties to upgrade it to "Global Warming" aka "Climate Change." There's nothing as effective as a good disaster scenario to herd sheeple into the Socialist Corral.

[chuckles]

I watched about 10 minutes of it and turned the channel. I couldn't get the premise. If we are all dead,( the first statement was that we are the first generation that could kill ourselves), then how did the animals survive? There was a doggie looking out the window of a locked house with no people. What explosion, virus, chemical, etc would kill all of us and leave them? Then they studied the length of time electricity would keep flowing, and I was thinking, for who or what? Just seemed pointless to me.

I don't mind watching "what if's", but this just seemed silly. Besides, I will be with Jesus battling the Antichrist and reigning with Jesus for 1000 years. Why don't they do that show?

[WOSG]

“Me thinks he would debunk the man-made global warming “

Sorry, Sagan was a lib who tried selling us on “nuclear winter” which was just an 80s version of what global warming is today: An excuse for the liberal agenda wrapped up in junk science.

And btw, the avg global temperature in 2007 was the *coldest* in 9 years. And it is getting colder. We need to send letters to the editor etc. to remind people so this nonsense is debunked.

[-YYZ-]

Unfortunately, that story is bogus. Oh, she did travel in Chernobyl and take some pictures, but she didn’t ride her bike through it. It was a bit of a let down when I found that out. Just do a search on “Elena’s Motorcycle Ride through Chernobyl” and check some of the links that come up. Apparently there’s as much fiction as reality in her tale.

[mysterio]

No, I haven’t. I might check it out.

[GunRunner]

LOL, the last several times I tuned in they were showing 'Monster Quest.'

Monster Quest is a BAD show, and I'm saying this as someone who's seen every crypto zoology special on that channel.

I DVR'd an episode of MonsterQuest and watched it last night. It was the most laughably bad thing I've ever seen.

The episode was about flying "rods" that are picked up by video cameras.

At the end of the show, two video specialists proved that rods were nothing more than optical artifacts caused by bugs and birds flying close to the lens, but they still saw fit to make an entire show about it.

They even had "scientific experts" hypothesizing that they were 4th dimensional creatures and/or aliens. I was laughing my ass off the whole hour.

[shekkian]

If a rusted out skyscraper falls on a mime and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

[Salgak]

I was part of one of the studies that led to the TTAPS “Nuclear Winter” paper: we were studying “fallout” from the Mount Saint Helens’ Event. They then extrapolated our study, and several others, and put a political spin on it.

They forgot ONE minor but important fact. Ash is far more “wettable” than volcanic ejecta, and washes out of the atmosphere quickly. Volcanic ash, otoh, tends not to be wettable AND divides into far less dense forms, giving an extended “hang time” in the air. THAT is why we had the Year Without a Summer” after the Krakatoa Event. . . and why the Nuclear Winter paper was pretty much worthless. . .