Life After People

[bigdaddy]

I thought the special was pretty bad, then they decided to redo it into a series and I was bored out of my mine.

 

[pigletsgiblets]

I watch it.

It's just a fun show to watch when there is nothing else to watch.

 

[Neeka Keet]

I mostly watch it to see the real places that have been abandoned for X number of years. I used to do some urban exploring when I was a teenager and abandoned buildings are something I love.

 

[stoneroses]

I saw the special on BTvision (UK tv ondemand service) I liked that I am not sure it would work as a series.

 

[melancholymecha]

I thought the special was pretty bad, then they decided to redo it into a series and I was bored out of my mine.

I thought this was the special, just broken up into segments so they can reair it as a series. So this is completely new?

 

[bigdaddy]

Not completely new, but the special was 2-4 hours and the show is several at least. It seems they took the CGI parts and just somehow made the thing even more boring.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I like this show. I missed the first episode but have been watching it since. I liked the episode where it showed the gold in the Federal Reserve would still be around thousands of years after everything else has collapsed.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Frak. I just saw the episode where they predicted the St. Louis Arch will fall in about 250 years after people. Being a St. Louisan, that was painful to see, but I know that it was designed to last 1000 years with proper maintenance...

I like the show, but sometimes it's a bit depressing knowing that if Humans completely disappeared, it wouldn't take very long (in geological time) for nearly all traces of us to vanish from the Earth.

 

[melancholymecha]

Not completely new, but the special was 2-4 hours and the show is several at least. It seems they took the CGI parts and just somehow made the thing even more boring.

That's what I figured it would be, glad I didnt bother. The special was ok but nothing, well, special.

 

[Scout101]

Would be better if they picked a "focus" for each episode, instead of just wandering. They seem to just skip around a lot, and hit a couple places per episode, but not doing it any real justice.

They'd be better off, IMO, if they either skipped around more, and focused on a Time Frame for each episode (i.e. here's things around the world at 10 years AP), or picked one area, city, continent, or tech aspect (skyscrapers, for example) and followed it through from beginning to end.

With all the jumping around, feels really hollow, and then you just watch the same episode next time, except it's the Statue of Liberty falling down instead of the Eiffel Tower...

 

[bigdaddy]

Would be better if they picked a "focus" for each episode, instead of just wandering. They seem to just skip around a lot, and hit a couple places per episode, but not doing it any real justice.

They'd be better off, IMO, if they either skipped around more, and focused on a Time Frame for each episode (i.e. here's things around the world at 10 years AP), or picked one area, city, continent, or tech aspect (skyscrapers, for example) and followed it through from beginning to end.

With all the jumping around, feels really hollow, and then you just watch the same episode next time, except it's the Statue of Liberty falling down instead of the Eiffel Tower...

I completely agree! When I heard there was a show I hoped they would fix the special and make the series work. They should have a NYC episode, or a 3 months later episode. They do jump around way too much.

I like the show, but sometimes it's a bit depressing knowing that if Humans completely disappeared, it wouldn't take very long (in geological time) for nearly all traces of us to vanish from the Earth.

That actually makes me happy. We fucked this planet up so much with roads and building and all kinds of things and within 1,000 years very littler would be left.

 

[Zeppster]

That actually makes me happy. We fucked this planet up so much with roads and building and all kinds of things and within 1,000 years very littler would be left.

We haven't fucked up this planet near as much as some people will try and tell you. About the only thing that will be around after we are gone is maybe plastic. The planet has been a lot worse off without us doing the damage.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

That actually makes me happy. We fucked this planet up so much with roads and building and all kinds of things and within 1,000 years very littler would be left.

We haven't fucked up this planet near as much as some people will try and tell you. About the only thing that will be around after we are gone is maybe plastic. The planet has been a lot worse off without us doing the damage.

That's true. The planet itself has suffered the great deal of damage when we weren't around. Amazingly, earth has been through million of years during the time of evolution. If asteroid hadn't slamming into earth more than 65 million years ago, dinosaurs would be still rule the earth, not us. Now earth could suffer another ice age, another ten thousands years in the coming.

 

[Zeppster]

That actually makes me happy. We fucked this planet up so much with roads and building and all kinds of things and within 1,000 years very littler would be left.

We haven't fucked up this planet near as much as some people will try and tell you. About the only thing that will be around after we are gone is maybe plastic. The planet has been a lot worse off without us doing the damage.

That's true. The planet itself has suffered the great deal of damage when we weren't around. Amazingly, earth has been through million of years during the time of evolution. If asteroid hadn't slamming into earth more than 65 million years ago, dinosaurs would be still rule the earth, not us. Now earth could suffer another ice age, another ten thousands years in the coming.

Earth has seen earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages all without us being the cause. The planet will be fine till the sun destroys it some billion or so years from now.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

We haven't fucked up this planet near as much as some people will try and tell you. About the only thing that will be around after we are gone is maybe plastic. The planet has been a lot worse off without us doing the damage.

That's true. The planet itself has suffered the great deal of damage when we weren't around. Amazingly, earth has been through million of years during the time of evolution. If asteroid hadn't slamming into earth more than 65 million years ago, dinosaurs would be still rule the earth, not us. Now earth could suffer another ice age, another ten thousands years in the coming.

Earth has seen earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages all without us being the cause. The planet will be fine till the sun destroys it some billion or so years from now.

Already I felt bad for earth after we've left here. It's very shame that earth had good run. It's unavoidable for earth to getting away from sun, because sun will shallow it whole anyway. To some people, they thought that earth is eternal place to staying, but were they wrong about that, because earth isn't meant to be everlasting in our eyes. Spirit of humanity will be strong after we're heading off to another world to call it home. Didn't we already found one certain planet that could provide habitable zone for us to living on it? Heard that it has super gravity on that planet itself. Do we know enough about that planet?

 

[Zeppster]

That's true. The planet itself has suffered the great deal of damage when we weren't around. Amazingly, earth has been through million of years during the time of evolution. If asteroid hadn't slamming into earth more than 65 million years ago, dinosaurs would be still rule the earth, not us. Now earth could suffer another ice age, another ten thousands years in the coming.

Earth has seen earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages all without us being the cause. The planet will be fine till the sun destroys it some billion or so years from now.

Already I felt bad for earth after we've left here. It's very shame that earth had good run. It's unavoidable for earth to getting away from sun, because sun will shallow it whole anyway. To some people, they thought that earth is eternal place to staying, but were they wrong about that, because earth isn't meant to be everlasting in our eyes. Spirit of humanity will be strong after we're heading off to another world to call it home. Didn't we already found one certain planet that could provide habitable zone for us to living on it? Heard that it has super gravity on that planet itself. Do we know enough about that planet?

It pretty much is eternal as far as we are concerned. We've lasted about 200k as someone else posted and have only spent about 5,000 of those being what we consider civilized. That's not even a fraction of a billion years. We haven't even been around for a quarter of a million years. We'll be fine for a long, long, long time, as far as we are concerned. The latest we have to worry about our people dying in is 1 billion years and we probably won't exist by that time or we will be a different form.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

Earth has seen earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages all without us being the cause. The planet will be fine till the sun destroys it some billion or so years from now.

Already I felt bad for earth after we've left here. It's very shame that earth had good run. It's unavoidable for earth to getting away from sun, because sun will shallow it whole anyway. To some people, they thought that earth is eternal place to staying, but were they wrong about that, because earth isn't meant to be everlasting in our eyes. Spirit of humanity will be strong after we're heading off to another world to call it home. Didn't we already found one certain planet that could provide habitable zone for us to living on it? Heard that it has super gravity on that planet itself. Do we know enough about that planet?

It pretty much is eternal as far as we are concerned. We've lasted about 200k as someone else posted and have only spent about 5,000 of those being what we consider civilized. That's not even a fraction of a billion years. We haven't even been around for a quarter of a million years. We'll be fine for a long, long, long time, as far as we are concerned. The latest we have to worry about our people dying in is 1 billion years and we probably won't exist by that time or we will be a different form.

I thought that we, humans, will evolve in different level of forms in the order to survive? I remember the article some years ago, that in year 3000, we would be evolve into different humans, that sends the chill down to my back to thinking that. Already, I saw on the television about human 2.0, very chilling theory, if you ask me.

Also that concerns me about transhumanity, rather I find it very frighteningly.

 

[Zeppster]

Already I felt bad for earth after we've left here. It's very shame that earth had good run. It's unavoidable for earth to getting away from sun, because sun will shallow it whole anyway. To some people, they thought that earth is eternal place to staying, but were they wrong about that, because earth isn't meant to be everlasting in our eyes. Spirit of humanity will be strong after we're heading off to another world to call it home. Didn't we already found one certain planet that could provide habitable zone for us to living on it? Heard that it has super gravity on that planet itself. Do we know enough about that planet?

It pretty much is eternal as far as we are concerned. We've lasted about 200k as someone else posted and have only spent about 5,000 of those being what we consider civilized. That's not even a fraction of a billion years. We haven't even been around for a quarter of a million years. We'll be fine for a long, long, long time, as far as we are concerned. The latest we have to worry about our people dying in is 1 billion years and we probably won't exist by that time or we will be a different form.

I thought that we, humans, will evolve in different level of forms in the order to survive? I remember the article some years ago, that in year 3000, we would be evolve into different humans, that sends the chill down to my back to thinking that. Already, I saw on the television about human 2.0, very chilling theory, if you ask me.

Also that concerns me about transhumanity, rather I find it very frighteningly.

Who really knows? Evolution takes millions of years and we only live to be roughly 80 years old on average, that's why people have a hard time grasping something like evolution.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

It pretty much is eternal as far as we are concerned. We've lasted about 200k as someone else posted and have only spent about 5,000 of those being what we consider civilized. That's not even a fraction of a billion years. We haven't even been around for a quarter of a million years. We'll be fine for a long, long, long time, as far as we are concerned. The latest we have to worry about our people dying in is 1 billion years and we probably won't exist by that time or we will be a different form.

I thought that we, humans, will evolve in different level of forms in the order to survive? I remember the article some years ago, that in year 3000, we would be evolve into different humans, that sends the chill down to my back to thinking that. Already, I saw on the television about human 2.0, very chilling theory, if you ask me.

Also that concerns me about transhumanity, rather I find it very frighteningly.

Who really knows? Evolution takes millions of years and we only live to be roughly 80 years old on average, that's why people have a hard time grasping something like evolution.

How indeed it is. I agree with you.

 

[IndyJones]

With all the jumping around, feels really hollow, and then you just watch the same episode next time, except it's the Statue of Liberty falling down instead of the Eiffel Tower...

I agree with this. Every episode is basically the same story with different disaster porn thrown in.

The World Without Us did a better job on concentrating on specific topics: regrowth of forrests, collapse of oil pipelines in the south, bits of plastic being washed down the drain and staying in lifeforms for years, etc.