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- ninzoris, on 03/17/2008, -3/+98The world will be posterized and desaturated?
- beezneez, on 03/17/2008, -1/+49I already saw this on the Discover Channel. Their version was better.
- nwoantibody, on 03/17/2008, -27/+67Buried for all the sensational garbage.
PS: Anybody saw that huge burrito pop up in your face and went: WTF? Is that ***** attacking me? - woulok, on 03/17/2008, -4/+41I liked this article better when it was called I Am Legend
- JasonsLan, on 03/17/2008, -2/+36a little late....
http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people
funny how something comes out on TV and then everybody and their brother thinks its digg worthy.. - v1c1ous, on 03/17/2008, -1/+30we need to start investing in stone monuments.
- wayyy, on 03/17/2008, -0/+29Kudos to the Egyptians.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -4/+19So the Eiffel tower will break a bit below half height, tip over 1/4 of the way, then somehow stop in midair? / Rome will somehow spontaneously combust into flames? ... Those are stupid pictures.
- mrferg, on 03/17/2008, -1/+16Saw both shows about this subject on TV (History Channel and NatGeoHD), much more entertaining than this article... by far.
- jcr223, on 03/17/2008, -6/+20They look like great levels for Gears of War 2
- TheAmbushAhead, on 03/17/2008, -0/+14Why did the buildings in the second to last picture spontaneously catch in fire?
- Aurabolt, on 03/17/2008, -1/+11These images are terrible quality.
- flink405, on 03/17/2008, -2/+12Anti-human silliness. Silliness and done rather bad.
How about more silliness as in what the earth would look like in 7 billion years when the sun explodes?
Or what earth would look like if people had 6 legs and two heads?
Or what earth would look like if ants had the brainpower of humans?
Or what earth would look like if aliens from outer space took over? - jlungu, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9Great settings for a video game. CoD6: Return to Earth
- CaptainBryan, on 03/17/2008, -0/+9I'm not so sure Discovery's version was better. Considering this news article just took images from the show and used them.
- slantyeyed, on 03/17/2008, -0/+8wasn't this a recent History Channel documentary? Actually, the screenshots ARE from that documentary.
- jonnyboy1544, on 03/17/2008, -0/+8We didn't listen!
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+8Btw, since when was Buckingham Palace in a part of the world that could sustain jungle living plants?... Just because man disappears doesn't mean Buckingham Palace is all of a sudden in the amazon.
- centran, on 03/17/2008, -1/+8It was the history channel. Plagiarism anyone? The article didn't even meation the History channel and they stole direct quotes from the show as well as all the images.
http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people - phybere, on 03/17/2008, -2/+7I was expecting pictures of nature with no man-made objects in them...
- xrEE, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5Mattman; the root of all the god-awful dailymail articles
- FucangLong, on 03/17/2008, -0/+5Pay attention guys, at the end they say "•Life After People: History Channel, Easter Sunday, 9pm."
Its promoting people to watch the documentary, not just stealing pictures from it. - Bacontastic, on 03/17/2008, -5/+10Buried for the "Moss-Grow" pun.
- Balanced, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4The point is that while individuals and even out species are temporary, our structures and other artifacts will live on... for a time.
An interesting subject from the show is that we will leave a lot less 'data' for future researchers to study, as so much of our culture is based on transient paper and electronic storage that won't last more than a few hundred years at most without archival efforts. The ancient civilizations we are most knowledgeable about are those that left information carved ins tone that survived for centuries. - slantyeyed, on 03/17/2008, -3/+7it'd be a cool place to live . . . until posterization and saturation goes out of style.
- baronsmeg, on 03/17/2008, -1/+5really, nothing will be left? I beg to differ. as any archaeologist knows, stuff (mostly ceramics) survive underground for a good long time. Other items might leave impressions, and if anything, plastics, and rubber will be around for some time. all in all we will probably be remembered by the trash that we leave behind.
- ArchiTech, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Do you have a link?
- Maciula, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4"I can fix it!" Will Smith
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/17/2008, -0/+41/4 down the page, after the picture of Tower Bridge:
"The prophetic forecast for the longevity of our 21st-century civilisation is contained in research for a TV documentary, Life After People. "
RTFA next time and don't just look at the pretty pictures. - darkism, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Well at least New York will look better than it does now.
- theotheragentm, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Surely Les Stroud and Bear Grylls would be roaming the streets still.
- woohhaa, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4He should have done a rendition of Arizona bay.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4If I have to wait for the end of the world for big ass bears to sit on park benches, then it'll be way worth it.
- lazlonger, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4i agree. interesting, but "Revealed"? Stupid.
- RudeTurnip, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4Your pets would be screwed if you leave them in the house while you're at work...unless you have a doggie door.
- crerwin, on 03/17/2008, -0/+4The History channel's was better (and first). The NatGeo one had some thinly-veiled anti-nuclear propaganda and focused way too much on the release of gases from cryo storage. Sure, it would happen, but it wouldn't be as big a deal as they made it out to be.
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Daily Mail? Sensational garbage?
Surely not!! - t.toe, on 03/17/2008, -1/+4Yeah, and I want to know why the Eiffel Tower would suddenly feel the need to fall over. Does that thing require tons of maintenance?
- AnarkeIncarnate, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3You could not tell from the trailer? The acting was horrid even in that piece of marketing fluff.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3The Roman are no slouch either. They got the Collosium.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3I got the same feeling too watching NG's version of this same show (They both used the exact same Eiffel Tower graphic)
It was too preachy. "Here's a DEAD HERD OF DEER that DIED because a train full of CHLORINE GAS DERAILED! MARVEL IN THEIR DEATHS BY OUR HANDS AFTER WE'RE GONE!!"
NG's also jumped around a bit. I believe they were already into 60 years after humans, and they started talking again about pets, and they stated how dogs would be at a disadvantage because so many of them are spayed and neutered. Uhm... 60 years later I don't think talking about spayed and neutered pets is a good topic. Shoulda done that 60 years ago when you talked about pets surviving in the wild in the first couple weeks. Meh! - ShooterMcGavin, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Well, according to the oft mentioned History Channel show these were taken from, wildfires would ravage cities without people to put them out. Lightning is the most common cause of said wildfires.
Also, the metal of the Eiffel Tower would corrode and weaken. The joints would work loose by the combined effects of rust and ice over many many years. Eventually, the structure would fail. - RebeL5K, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3What a bunch of pretentious *****.
- DrMonkeyLove, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Nice play on words. Well played sir. Well played.
- inactive, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3*Mostly harmless.
- BassJunkie, on 03/17/2008, -1/+4Actually from the Daily Mail I'd expect something like "What Britain would be like without all the immigrants"
Still a load of wishful thinking tho, probably based in about as much scientific fact as The Day after Tomorrow!! - inactive, on 03/17/2008, -1/+4Means the world will be nothing in the future.
- jj101, on 03/17/2008, -0/+3Better off? How? Is there some universal policy determining the welfare of planets? The earth is what it is. Obviously it would still exist if we all died but it would be no better or no worse. We should preserve it as our home and the home of future generations for our own sake, not the planets sake.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2An excellent show (It already aired in the U.S.)
I liked it better than "Aftermath: Population 0" - variant5, on 03/17/2008, -0/+2Nature's doing fine, huh. Perhaps you should do some research on extinction patterns, of mercury contamination, dioxins in ground soil, rain forest decline...
Just a suggestion. Unless you're happy living in your perfect anthropocentric world, of course.
By the way, everything except for bacteria stands to "lose" from environmental damage.
Incidentally, pollution won't stop after we're gone. If we disappeared tomorrow, all ca. 450 nuclear reactors would progressively melt down, spewing out radiation; CFCs from refrigerators, air conditioners, etc., would eventually leak out and rip a new hold in the ozone layer; the list goes on. We'll have left a lasting legacy. -
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