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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First no vanities and now no opinions?
Yes, but I imagine some of that had to do with substandard building techniques employed by the Soviet Union to save money, and because the builders had no incentive to do anything right.
I kept thinking “No lines at the Roller Coasters!!!!”
All the Yorkies die immediately and kitties rule the roost in the abandoned sky scrapers...
“We are nothing more than a dot in the history of the world”.
All “dots” are equal but some “dots” are more equal than others….
Gamma ray bursts was number 7. Number 1 being the most threatening (Global Warming). Nuclear, volcano, machines, black holes, and asteroids also on the list. Don’t remember the order of the middle five.
If there were no people on the Earth, it would not matter if it was a lush paradise or a lifeless ball of rock. I could not care less, one way or the other.
Wouldn’t your editorializing in the thread title be a bit more meaningful if you’d bothered to watch what you are editorializing on?
That’s what I was thinking-— if you haven’t watched it, how do you know what it’s about?
Yes, it was a typical liberal piece of crap...how the world would be better off without us. I will say the computer graphics were good...especially of the Eiffel tower taking a tumble.
My take away: if you want your history saved far into the future, build a pyramid in an very arid, geologically quite zone, and carve everything in stone inside the pyramid!
I watched it too. I am always sensitive to the enviro leftist agenda. I did not sense any of that in this show. There were spots where it talked about man's impact on ocean stock, animal populations and even scavenger birds that thrive off our garbage. It then went on to postulate about the recovery of the oceans, drop off of bird populations that depended on our garbage. I found the scientists discussing this in a realistic sense and not trying to "blame humans."
I thought it to be an objective discussion of what would indeed happen. The part that was most interesting to me was the discussion of the physical decay of modern cities into the landscape.
I feared that too. But it wasn't at all. I do recommend it. As an engineer, I found the discussion of the decay of building, bridges and our recorded knowledge very interesting.
So why don’t they lead by example?
LOL, the last several times I tuned in they were showing 'Monster Quest.'
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. I’m so sick of hearing how the human race is destroying the Earth. The human race is destroying the human race. It doesn’t take a scientist to realize that Mother Earth can withstand our “near dot” existence. I wish somebody would send some global warming to Dallas. Brrrrr. I’m a native of Phoenix, Arizona. Ooo, wait. Phoenix is experiencing the effects of global warming, too - in the high 20s. Ha!!!
I'd give it minutes or at the most an hour or so without human intervention since supply and demand would be out of sinc and the automatic protection systems would trip the turbines.
I would think a pandemic plague would be pretty high on the list.
They killed off the nuclear plants because with everyone gone, there would be no energy needed and the reactors would automatically go into shut down mode with no load. I guess everyone turned off their lights and air conditioners before they left. Well, except for Las Vegas so the hydroelectric generators didn't have the same shut down protocol.
Still, I thought it was an interesting program in the first hour I watched. The main thing it pointed out was how much maintanence our modern infrastructure needs and how quickly everything would fall apart without constant watch on our part.
But I guess that's more "historical" than "Ice Road Truckers."
You really must have been looking hard for an agenda. The only time Man was criticized was the brief discussion about garbage in the ocean and the fishing industry. There was no mention of Global Warming. There was no mention of pollution caused by the decay of skyscrapers. In fact, they mentioned how wonderfully and quickly nature has recovered in an area devastated by Chernobyl.
In other words, Man’s “rape of the planet” so frequently exagerated and decried by the left as “the end of the world” is temporary and reparable.
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