Posted on 01/22/2008 9:33:58 AM PST by 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
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
At least until the Sun becomes a Red Giant, then; WHOOOOSH!
It pretty much covered everything I was curious about. I know it was a two hour special, but I honestly wish it would have been longer and they would have spent more time going even further into the future. But it was great.
I told SirKit about this show, our youngest son and I had watched a bit of it the other day. Hubby’s comment was, “What does that have to do with history?”. I told him it was history based on the environmentalists’ ideal future. ;o)
It is amazing how people can find an ulterior motive and hidden message in programs that they don’t bother to watch. It was a ‘what if?”. There was no cause given for why man disappeared, at least none that I saw. No preaching on global warming or against biological warfare. Just a ‘suppose man disappeared tomorrow, what would happen?’ And to echo an earlier poster, it was very interesting.
At least we would be rid of the Klintoons. Well, maybe not. They are both lawyers and we know how hard it is get rid of cockroaches.
Agreed. Good program.
For example, after 200 - 300 years without people, buildings and skyscrapers would collapse because the steel frame would have rusted beyond the ability to keep the structure upright. The fires in the west that we fight every year would no longer have people around to stop them, so they’d ravage everything. And so on.
The ‘We’re not as important as we think we are’ was referring to the fact that everything we’ve built would be destroyed by nature very quickly if we’re not around to maintain it.
The ‘Dot in the history of the world’ comment remarks on human’s time on earth compared with the the entire history of the planet.
It’s worth the time. I was afraid it wouldn’t live up to the hype, but for me, it did.
If man were to completely die off what would stop primates from evolving into humans again?
I skipped it. I thought it was going to be a “12 Monkeys” leftist dream.
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization....Carson's interpretation of the hotel bathroom as the inner sanctum of a religious structure and the subsequent depiction of his assistant -- ala Heinrich Schliemann with the Trojan treasure and Leonard Wooley with the Ur III treasure -- wearing those paper seals from the toilet seat as religious paraphernalia...
I watched it too and found it so interesting that I watched it instead of the democrat circus debate, which I really wanted to see.
Now THAT is history! Looking back at the facts, rather than conjectures about the future.
“As of right now, a “dot” may still be an over-exaggeration”
A ‘dot’ on a time scale, but not in importance.
The earth is 4 billion years old
Human civilization is about 10,000 years old
Modern mechanized industrial civilization is barely 200 years old
Drastically different timescales.
Speculating about 10,000 or a million years from now is a bit scifi-ish, dangerous to make any assumptions. Reminds me of the song
“In the year 2525 ...”
It is speculative future history. Orwell would recognize it as BS History.
Well ... that's not surprising is it? The direct death toll from Chernobyl was about ~ 16 people. It's only 138 million billion if we go by the left's version of events.
Remember: trams/public transport were running in Hiroshima and Nagasaki the same day they were bombed. Nuclear events are impressive, but we would need to do a lot more to eradicate life. The only force in nature capable of depopulating whole countries is socialism.
Yes, it's good to see that they seem to be drifting away from theiir obsession with Hitler.
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