This is another good one, although it looks at things from more of a societal viewpoint...
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 ...
“In the year 2525 ...”
At least one of the far off times cited in that song is IF man is still alive...
Doesn’t Discovery do UFO and ESP type shows at times?
It was an interesting show, it just seemed odd for the History Channel. It seemed more appropriate for the Discovery or Science channels, even National Geographic, all of which we watch quite a bit. Our local cable company is fixing to get the Science channel in HD! Can't wait!
I watched the show last night. It was fairly entertaining but PC to an extreme extent. Such subjects as Global Warming and other liberal concepts were treated as if they were givens with no real scientific disagreement.
Don’t ask us. We are too stupid to exist.
In the future, please don’t editorialize headlines based “I didn’t watch it but it sounds like...”
http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/2004/03/imagine-updated.html
Imagine there’s No Castro,
Just like there’s no more Saddam,
Imagine all Dictatorships,
Thrown in history’s trash can,
Imagine all the people,
Living Their Lives In Freedom,
Imagine there’s no Commies,
It’s easy if you can,
No Socialized Economies,
From England to Japan,
Imagine all the people,
Living Their Lives In Freedom,
You-hoo You may say I’m a Freeper,
but you know it isnt just me,
I Hope Some Day You’ll Join us,
So the world will soon be Free.
Imagine no reparations,
In a culture with no torts,
Imagine no taxation,
Honesty instead of courts,
Imagine peace through justice,
And virtue that make us free,
You-hoo You may say I’m a Freeper,
but you know it isnt just me,
I Hope Some Day You’ll Join us,
So the world will soon be Free.
Interesting. While reviewing the web site’s list of essential equipment, I never saw mention of firearms/bows/weapons.
The Earth would survive anything. Anything. Even meteor strikes.
It may resemble the Moon but the rock would remain.
“Speculating about 10,000 or a million years from now is a bit scifi-ish, dangerous to make any assumptions.”
Yeah, I’m not denying the “scifi-ish” part. Making the assumptions is not what I’d consider dangerous so much as acting on those assumptions as “accepted facts” or “a consensus”.
I thought it was a decent show, telling us how the earth would rebound from any human influences over a short period of time. 1000 years is short period of time....
I saw the previews, and it sounded interesting, so I set the DVR to record it. It was recording when I came home, so I watched it live.
For the most part, it was good, but my critiques were not in the cold factual predictions of how, why and when certain things would collapse, but in the giddy spokespeople they had describing how glorious it would be for “insert other species here” if humans did not exist. One expert talked about the renaissance for cockroaches, another about the joys of being a 3rd generation post human seagull, another about being a feral housecat ... etc, etc.
The other thing that got really old was how they played special effects over and over and over. OK, watching how and why the Brooklyn Bridge, or Golden Gate Bridge would collapse (which, they would both collapse the same way), and then showing each animation 3 or 4 times, both before and after the commercial, as well as another 6 times in the commercials ... was a bit much. Yeah, I know the graphics were expensive to make, but sheesh. Same went for watching both the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle come down. Could have shown just one of them, and done it half the number of times, and been just as effective.
The final thing that happened that I found funny was, as areas such as Manhattan reverted to nature ... they showed buildings collapsing, but then hills growing ... oh sure, the first assumption was that the hills were just the stubbs of the buildings all covered in grass, but that would mean that the decay would stop, which it would not ... what they did not add into thier equation is that a building is 1/3 as big underground as it is above ground, so Manhattan, rather than becoming hilly, would become the land of 1000 lakes (sorry Minnesota) as the sub-structures completed the decay from above, and eventually, the island would probably sink or at least become some form of bajou.
Sarah Conner chronicles ... Mrs Rainman had an interesting observation ... so, in the future we are going to be lead by a man that has women fight all his battles ... great message.
Yes, they do and that's when I switch channels.
I've heard the word "Roswell" quite enough for one life time and their E.S.P. crap should be renamed B.S.
I think about it often too. it never amazes me to walk across a shopping center paved parking lot and come across a crack in it where a seed has ended up and started growing. Be it a dandylion or an oak tree or something..........
Nature will go on long after we're gone and it will decide what thrives and what doesn't. We ARE insignificant.....
hmmm...if that's what it takes....
“It was fairly entertaining but PC to an extreme extent.”
That’s why I chose not to watch it. Instead there was great Pirate Ship recovery documentary on one of those other channels. Maybe I’m being too critical of the topic, others seem to think I am - but shows like this that suggest we are not part of Gods plan bother me.
>> The Earth would survive anything. Anything. Even meteor strikes. It may resemble the Moon but the rock would remain.
My point (and the point of the documentary) wasn’t that the rock would remain — but that life would adapt and remain. That there is no force that man can exert through which the environment would not remain. Life has survived massive meteor strikes without the Earth becoming a barren wasteland resembling the moon.
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This is another good one, although it looks at things from more of a societal viewpoint...
"We are nothing more than a dot in the history of the world".
I thought that Lefties believed that "the end of history" was a socialist utopian state that lasts forever and ever. So they're admitting now that human "social justice" isn't the be-all and end-all of everything?
Something tells me this isn't going to change any of the crusades liberals are waging.
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