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
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I won't say you are wrong but if you're right, I must have missed that part and I watched the whole thing, while trying to follow the live thread about the rat debate.
I enjoyed the part I was able to see. It didn’t strike me as anti-human at all.
After mankind disappears, there will be no more Global Warming to keep the glaciers at bay. Ice planet.
A given for the person who coined the phrase. Not a given for me.
Absolutely the neatest thing I’ve read all day. Maybe in a week!
>> 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.
At some point in his life, even the most manly of men has had his mother fight a battle for him. He’s a teenage kid.
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Bittersweet vine would cover everything on my property within two years.
Backed up by ample "predictions" of Nostradumbass.
I thought it was pretty interesting. The time frame for how long things would take to rot and tumble was pretty interesting. I liked where they were showing the riverways that were in NY.. I think it was NY.
The whole cats living in a skyscraper and never touching the ground was kind of neat too. Although, I suspect when the buildings did tumble there would be a mass exodus of critters.
“I watched it and thought it was interesting. I didn’t see any agenda but maybe I missed it.”
Same here.
Any agenda was for ratings probably because I Am Legend is in theaters.
It was fun actually.
Vegas the last place for lights to go out.
Cats residing in skyscrapers.
our poor ablilitys to archive our knowledge and Mt. Rushmore likely being one of the more long lasting reminders of humanity.
It was just a fun “what if”
not anykind of condemnation of humans.
Other then going a bit overboard on sea life doing oh so much better.
We use the oceans for toilet and pantry the one guy said,
well, SO DO THE FISH! lol
Along with heavy doses of UFOs and Nostradamus.
In the interest of truth in advertising, they should change the name of the channel because they don't do very much on history anymore. It's sad. I used to enjoy it but it is mostly garbage now. I seldom turn it on anymore.
If they wanted to show what life after people would be like, they should have broadcast an hour of dead air.
NO, it wasn’t really political. It was mostly stupid. My daughter made me watch the whole thing with her, although by the end I think she was pretty bored with it.
I started out making fun of it, but she kept glaring at me so I stopped.
It was one of those “what-if” things the History channel loves to do, part of their “re-writing history” agenda I guess.
They simply took as a premise that every human being dissappeared one day (like a super-rapture where God forgot there were some people he wasn’t supposed to take).
Then they looked at how everything around us is dependent on humans, and how things would change over time.
They didn’t do a very good job of it, in my opinion. They had all the power out in a week, except for Las Vegas powered by the Hoover Dam, which apparently alone among EVERY power source in the world has been designed to run without intervention (until the mollusks block the coolant intakes and the turbines trip off, that is).
When I was about 17, my dad took me back in the country to the house where I had been born, midwifed by my grandmother and neighbor lady from about a mile away.
The forest had grown up around it and the underbrush had grown up through it, three small rooms, the roof lifted up at crazy angles as the briars made their way to the sky above.
A wild rose poked its bright red face from the window sash keeping silent sentinel where once I stood my own quiet watch.
oops. I also watched the whole thing, and had a slightly different take on it. But there were some cool parts, and some of their science seemed OK.
Have you ever read an old book titled “Earth Abides”? Very interesting story. You might like it. It’s still in print in paperback.
Did they include gamma radiation? I’m still convinced that one day we are going to get the entire world sterilized by a huge shot of gamma radiation.
Then we’ll be really happy that we didn’t destroy all the frozen embryos. Although man will have a hard job over the next 70 years re-engineering enough other species to have a good food chain.
All the pudgy show dogs die off almost immediately.
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