It is not often that I will find a documentary that truly captivates me the way History channel's 'Life after people' has. To surmise it shortly it is a documentary about how life on Earth would develop if we humans should all of a sudden vanish from the face of the Earth and the results are staggering. You might think that if we as a species would die tomorrow there would be plenty of evidence that we existed for whomever would come after us. But as the documentary exposes this is not so certain.
The documentary goes from 1 day after people to 10 thousand years after people and it is staggering how fast, in cosmic terms at least, any trace of us as a species would vanish from the face of the earth. First things to go is electricity which would, with exception of whatever parts of the USA Hoover dam keeps lit, would go away withing 36 hours. Our pets would become feral and withing a couple of years buildings would begin to crumble and nature start taking back its territories. I guess spoilers are in order, but according to this documentary all signs of life on Earth would vanish within ten thousand years, which might seem allot to you and me is an insignificant number in the cosmic whole.
This becomes a rather short post, but if what I have told you here intrigues you then either pick up the book "the world without us" or check out the documentary *Life after people."
3 comments:
and why did you see this in the first place?
because it sounded awesome that's why. And it was so that worked out just fine.
send this my way, i think i've heard of it before
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