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- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+182Not everyone reads reddit. I hadn't even heard of it until just now!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+125Isn't everything on this site a dupe from another site?
- drpeppper, on 10/12/2007, -14/+105you're a dupe from my next door neighbor. please die.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+96Funny, I thought it was a dupe from timesonline.co.uk.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+832 minutes after all the people on earth disapear.. amaizingly so do the trolls
- qwickone, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51The only thing I dont get on this is the fact that genetically mutated crops disappear (assuming that's what GM meant). Arent they meant to be genetically superior? Wouldnt they take over? Or do they all need special pollinization processes?
- MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43If it was not on this site yet, is it really considered a dupe?
- rsvguy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44I don't understand how methane disappears from the atmosphere given that most living creatures produce some methane. It's part of the digestive cycle.
As for nuclear waste, the more radioactive something is, the faster it breaks down, so the least radioactive stuff will take millions of years to decay, but this is the least dangerous stuff (do people realise that radioactive substances occur naturally? eg granite).
If we listen to all the deep green pundits, humans will wipe themselves off the face of the planet so maybe this will come to pass... - rindin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36The GM crops are mainly designed to withstand a certain type of man made poison (herbicide) that kills everything else.
- dancpsu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+39They also forgot about all the livestock starving to death and the incredible ecological imbalances left behind. The first wildfire would probably engulf most of the western U.S.
- MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27It's not like we invented radioactivity... there is radioactive material that exists naturally in/on the earth.
-Mike - ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22We should get started on that plan right away...
- Quactaur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Well some (like seedless bannanas would be in trouble) but i agree about others. Something else i have difficulty believing is methane in the atmosphere going, as cows and other herbivorous animals release tonnes (literally) of it. The rest of it is quite interesting.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25I was hoping for something more interesting. This is really just a propoganda piece.
EDIT: tmbq47's link is more like what I was expecting. It is interesting and provides the reasoning behind the ideas. - ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18If we all dissapear who will seed the torrents??? WHO DAMMIT!!!?!?!
- wbtittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Doesn't quite work that way either. Plutonium, considered by many to be deadly, is considered to be deadly because of where it resides on the periodic table, not because it has truly killed people in mass. I am not going to sit on a piece of it (fundamental of rule of occupational radiation exposure minimization-- Time, Distance and Shielding). IIRC Plutonium-239 decays by high energy alpha emission, which will be shielded by the dead tissue of your skin. So you are probably safe there. Neutron emitters might make me take a few extra precautions when handling it, but only in that I would minimize the amount of time I handled it.
You want to see me worried. Lets deal with a spent fuel from a reactor that is only a couple of years old. All kinds of short half life stuff in it emitting nasty levels of radiation. Still manageable, but only with lots of water (30ft), a nice thick lead cask for transport, and a bunch of people trained to handle it so that it is never exposed to anyone.
I worry much more about the fast moron emitters that happen every day on the way home from work. 4000 lbs of car will kill me much more rapidly than 1000 neutrons over the course of a month. I can keep my radiactive substances shielded. Keeping the moron from running me off the road requires ESP.
- themarq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23The pyramids of Giza were built about 2000 years ago and are still standing (more or less) and yet this article, pardon me .jpg, claims that "most brick, stone and glass buildings" will be gone in about 1000 years.
Some how I doubt that massive stone constructs wil be gone in that short a time span. - tmbg47, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22The associated story is *much* more interesting, IMO.
http://digg.com/environment/Imagine_Earth_without_people - ArcusOfSV, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17...float
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18You're correct, methane wouldn't completely disappear from the atmosphere. I think they oversimplified in this graphic. What would happen is that methane would sink back to natural levels if we were gone. Methane is an important part of the earth's atmosphere - it's just that, like anything else, sometimes too much of a good thing can kill you.
- gtiness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17"As for nuclear waste, the more radioactive something is, the faster it breaks down, so the least radioactive stuff will take millions of years to decay"
That's a vast over-simplification.
There are many isotopes that have very long half-lives that also emit very high energy (read very dangerous) radiation. Some isotopes merely decay into [still] radioactive isotopes...which doesn't really help... - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Now we just need to figure out how to outlast the sun...
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Well, seems like you cared enough to comment >_>
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Who cares? If humans disappeared, well, you wouldn't be around to read articles on digg about it or see the effect.
All I have to say is OPRAH HAS A NEW RED IPOD OMGWTF YAAAY. - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Pyramids are older than that. Then again, they were also a lot larger than "most brick buildings" and not made out of brick.
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19If you feel that the Human race needs to be gotten rid of why don't you go first?
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15The apes start walking on the hind legs and start communicating.... oh wait...
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12For the same reason that people leave wills and estates.
- rasbill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16im not saying this is *****, but definatly exaggerated
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12SkyNet
- tunana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12That's right. Last I heard we only got 2 billion years until the sun explodes
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12* looks around for volunteers to start killing everyone *
- allengeer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12yea.. and __most__ buildings from that period are gone... there are a few however that are still around.
- durazine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Earth needs to quit her bitching, I'm tired of hearing it. I work hard all day, I just want to come home drink a beer and relax, geez.
- benjaminbr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12they aren't meant to increase fitness, they are meant to cater to our needs. Most domesticated crops would go extinct w/o human agriculture.
*edit* hahahaaha... seedless bananas in trouble.... - pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10funny, reminds me of the "if you quit smoking today" timeline.
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Dammit this makes me wanna get a rootbeer.....
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+11I like how it jumps from 1,000 to 50,000 years. I wonder how much this evolution of the earth or return to balance would resemble those time travel squences in the Time Machine movie (2000, 2001?)?
- sonicdevo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's disgusting to think the world would be less rich for the human species not existing? WTF?
Granted, we've got a pretty large ecological imact... but how do you justify value judgements about our environmental impact as objective? Is a meteor impact that is an extinction-level event disgusting? It could wipe out far more species than we've ever endangered. Well then consider that we're the only species on this fair planet that has a hope of preventing such a _disgusting_ event. - Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I think you mean until the sun burns out. Our sun will likely never explode
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=232 - BobTGoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9When do the Gunslingers take over and the Beams form?
- voiceofman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Week 2: The Crab-people reclaim the planet's surface as their own and get down to business burning human corpses as fuel, causing a massive build up of greenhouse gases and turning Earth into the first-ever galactic sauna and spa.
- karn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This kind of timeline makes you wonder...If after 50 thousand years almost all traces of humans disappear..imagine what has possibly disappeared.
Perhaps even precursor civilizations starting up that we would never know about - allengeer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9methane doesn't disappear. Methane is a vital hydrocarbon released in a variety of natural events, including volcanic eruptions, cave formations, etc. etc. Please, if you are a scientist that knows what he or she is talking about, you can make diagrams like this. People should be banned from putting out faux-fact.
- freddo411, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I concur with themarq. I think most modern building would last much longer than 1000 years. They are engineered to withstand everyday forces like winds up to 100 mph. The effects of water (rusting) are significant, but thick beams of steel rust more slowly as they age due to the rusted layer on top. Earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis will be the most likely cause of large building decay ... but there are cities far away from these forces.
There are significant roman and Greek buildings standing despite the earthquakes in the region (granted some maintenance has occurred). These buildings didn't have modern materials or engineering.
... While the article is an interesting thought experiment, it is motivated by a twisted and horrible vision ... Earth without humans. I reject the premise that we as a species are problematic ... the changes we have made to the Earth are wonderful additions that largely benefit humanity. To the extent that some folks are bothered by some of the changes, that is regrettable, but these nabobs are overwhelmed by the 7 billion, thinking, breathing, living human beings that inhabit our planet. - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not to mention that the shape of a pyramid is far more stable that a typical stone or concrete building we have around today. If a vertical wall cracks or breaks, it destabilizes the whole thing, and when it falls it smashes into small pieces.
- jger82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9All of the suppositions about how "good" the planet would be without humans irritate the ***** out of me. If there are no human beings around to appreciate and study Earth, nothing on Earth matters. In order for something to be perceived as good, bad, or any other interpretation, there needs to be a self-aware, intelligent being making the judgment.
If there were no human beings nothing on Earth would be better or worse; better and worse are sentient perspectives. If humans were gone and every living thing on the planet flourished it wouldn't be good, it would just happen. Or if every living thing died from some cataclysmic event it wouldn't be bad, it would just happen...and even the definition of cataclysm implies something bad, but if there were nobody around to interpret it as such it would just be what it is. - BigManOnCampus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This "article" is a joke. Methane gone in 10 years, but organic landfill waste not done decaying until 500 years? You can't have one without the other. Horrible display of ignorance there. Besides that, methane is a natural product of biological decay, you cannot get rid of it in the atmosphere.
I like how they assume that GM crops will dissapear in 20 years, as if they know how viable such genetic material would be in the wild. That is a huge unqualified assumption. If GM crops are so bad for mother nature, why is it that mother nature would weed it out in 20 years? - zeifers, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18If i'm dead why would i care about it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Cher and Michael Jackson are cockroaches?
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