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- Waterproof, on 10/10/2007, -10/+378This is wrong, the fort I built in my living room will last at LEAST 100,000 years.
- ElFredo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+226The only thing that will outlast humanity forever will be our crappy TV broadcasts. How depressing.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/10/2007, -45/+234Oh please, reactors have fail-safe mechanisms built into them - and they would shut themselves down. It is VERY unlikely that even a single reactor would become dangerous - let alone "melt down". Along with other issues, the author really shows his lack of basic understanding. Of course his emphasis on New York is probably very telling about his lack of exposure to how infrastructure functions (hey, water comes from a faucet, electricity from a wall plug, and food comes from a corner grocery store).
- nbhagwat, on 10/10/2007, -7/+180But where's the part where the apes take over?
- everlaster, on 10/10/2007, -12/+1683,943,000 years... the last digger dies of loneliness after posting:"...Digg FTW!!"
- Folklorefur, on 10/10/2007, -8/+152I just came back from 2500, and its nothing like he predicts. For starters, Ostrich riding Sea Otters now rule Manhatten, the only thing he was right about is the reforestation of NY.
- insonh, on 10/10/2007, -13/+144This is total crap!
Here’s the real future if we disappeared…
Left in their cellophane cocoons uneaten “Twinkies” for more than 10 years would become “self aware” and after a brief larva phase would emerge as the dominant species on the planet.
Knowing that they would needed large quantities of sugar to propagate the species the Twinkies would enslave “Devil Dogs” and “Hostess Cupcakes” to work the sugarcane farms and a booming slave trade would ensue with Twinkies in other parts of the world exporting their Devil Dogs and Hostess Cupcakes to the New World.
The indigenous “Little Debbies” snacks would be over run by Twinkie armies in a quest for more sugar.
Academic Moon Pies would stage protests at the Twinkie colonialism with chants of “NO SUGER FOR TWINKIES” while other Twinkies would advocate that teenage Twinkies injected with cream should be allowed to have free De-creaming available paid for by the Twinkie Government.
Baklava will end up attacking the Twinkies and call them infidels because Twinkies have no nuts in them.
Other Twinkies will blame it on the Twinkies because they aren’t diverse enough and don’t understand the way the pastry world works.
In the end a Fat Cheese cake will try to convince the rest of the pastry world that making more pastries of any kind is giving the planet a cold. - Shade00a00, on 10/10/2007, -3/+126I'm not sre that the world wold be that different withot 's. It is jst a minor vowel anyways.
- Bahimiron, on 10/10/2007, -7/+125At what point do the aliens show up and let Haley Joel Osment out of all that ice?
- lkmbrd, on 10/10/2007, -21/+137Can't wait to see it.
- jjb123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+101It's nice to know our legacy will live on as radio waves in space, any one who intercepts them will be able to learn all about paris hilton.
- GunRunner, on 10/10/2007, -11/+111I love this stuff.
- StacysMom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+78Cats and Dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+79You can't really accurately describe the destruction of mankind without taking a few liberties and simplifying a bit.
- jackal42, on 10/10/2007, -4/+77Uh its in such as like, the iraq.
- thomasprebble, on 10/10/2007, -3/+75Cities would be consumed by fire. No time to turn off the oven!
- kmb1794, on 10/10/2007, -11/+76Ok, the first thing is about the NY Subway? Give me a break.
- animal71, on 10/10/2007, -1/+61Across the road from manhatnine
- Dimah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+59The fail safes are designed to work when the power goes out. It's powered by gravity. Big control rods drop when there is no electricity to stop the nuclear reaction.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+58I see what yo did there.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/10/2007, -3/+55I think us digg nerds know a little bit more about the operation of a nuclear reactor than these supposed "experts" you speak of.
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+52"This is an outrage! I demand to know what happened to the plucky lawyer and her compellingly short garments."
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+53Well, we won't continue broadcasting, obviously, but radio waves move at the speed of light. It's just like now, how most of the stars you see in the sky exploded a long time ago. If a star is 4.5 billion light years away, you see what it looked like 4.5 billion years ago, and where that star is, they'll be receiving new episodes of "America's Top Model" in 4.5 billion years.
- echinda, on 10/10/2007, -3/+52But see, that's the thing: he was being funny.
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43Electromagnetic waves don't "die out". The strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, so they'll become more diffuse, and eventually be indistinguishable from background noise. That may be what you were thinking, and you just worded it poorly.
- magnusswede, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43All that is left is American idol, flying through the universe. Forever... What have we done??
- blakeage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43Yea, they evolve back into humans, only this time, they can fly.
- dupeduperson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41They made a mistake. At 10,000,000 years, the cockroaches will have evolved and start making their own trash. They will have also made factories that put too much oxygen in the atmosphere.
- AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -3/+43Where's manhatten?
- SnapETom, on 10/10/2007, -18/+56Sounds great. When do we start?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+48Ok that just made me feel bad... and the ivory trading!! leave the ***** elephants live!! :(
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+38Nokinja are serious Digger. This are serious thread.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34The poor lice and roaches. Somebody THINK OF THE ROACHES!!!
- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35I can just imagine some aliens a thousand light years away going, "*****! Another reality show..."
- Dylan16807, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33The reactor will fall apart, losing the density to have a sustained reaction, well before the control rods stop working.
- Ramble, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36Diesel generators and other power backups would operate failsafes within a few hours to a few days if left alone.
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33It'll still be shut down. Control rods don't lose their potency over time, and they're designed to be resistant to corrosion. The fuel will decay to below a fissionable mass long before the control rods become ineffective.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Well if the elephants would just stand still while the poachers cut off their tusks with a chainsaw, maybe they wouldn't have to shoot them.
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27"none of this stuff would ever happen . . . not even the burning by the sun stuff."
Yeah, that part will happen whether we want it to or not. Entropy's a bitch. - AntBing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Autophobia is fairly unhealthy. You might want to get that checked out.
- OsiVert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28It depends if you made a roof with a blanket. If not, I give it 6,000 years.
- timsantiago, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Everyone.
- retske, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26So after 'hundreds of thousands of years' a microbe will spring up and and eat plastic? Even if we are on the planet then it could be bad news for my GI Joe's and Tupperware. What will become of that chili (I think it is chili at least) that is in the back of my frige?
- catachip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25Well, thank God I've got nothing to worry about, all the bad stuff happens in one American city. Whew!
- ElFredo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25Half-life of U238: 4.5 billion years so they are spot on.
Half-life of Pu239 (weapon grade): 24,110 years, but to reach the natural background radiation level it needs several half-life periods. 250,000 years is about 10 half-life periods.
BTW humanity will disappear EVENTUALLY. It's not a matter of IF but of WHEN. It depends on our use of natural resources as well as on the occurrence of global disasters, either naturally occurring (volcanoes, comets, gamma ray bursts, pandemics) or man-made (nuclear holocaust, pollution). If we continue to treat our ecosystem like a cesspool, we may be extinct within a few centuries. But even if we make the most rational use of available resources, I doubt that humanity as we know it could last more that one million years. - LFAB, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Bridges will be gone WAY before 300 years.
- po43292, on 10/10/2007, -4/+27I, for one, welcome our Ostrich riding Sea Otter overlords.
- quetzatcoatl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23A fail safe should not require any power, take a look at the word, fail safe, the point is that critical systems are designed so that when they fail they will do so in a planned way that minimizes the danger of any catastrophe.
- CatalystGhost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22There's people who will joke, and people who want to actually talk. How about, instead of being an ass about it, ask a serious question about the problem, and see what responses you get. I guarantee you'll be surprised at how many people are actually inclined to be serious.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21So apes that like to ***** around are going to replace us?... It will be like we never left.
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