Has anybody here been watching the History Channel show "Life After People"
James
James
Life After People
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My family watches it. I don't because I'm not to interasted.
I saw the first two episodes, and enjoyed them. I read Alan Weisman's The World Without Us last year, and assume that's where this project came from (at the very least, they share many similarities).
The thing about this that creeped me out was the thought of birds still speaking 200 years after people disappear. Though I've always had an (un?)healthy fear of birds.
The thing about this that creeped me out was the thought of birds still speaking 200 years after people disappear. Though I've always had an (un?)healthy fear of birds.
I think showing animals alive hundreds of years later, isn't exactly right. I think they are forgetting over time the storage containers for biological and chemical weapons being tested, will fail and eventually over time the containers of the poisons will fail and seap into the air and water, killing tons of animals.
Same with nuclear weapons and waste that are not canned and burrined.
And millions of years later jsut when nature is recovering and springing back, then underground containers will fail and once again kill the planet.
Same with nuclear weapons and waste that are not canned and burrined.
And millions of years later jsut when nature is recovering and springing back, then underground containers will fail and once again kill the planet.
I liked the idea of seeing the planet recover from humanity, until I realized that the show was "Left Behind" Rapture porn.
Yeah I've been watching them all. Let's see, how many different ways can we make skyscrapers/bridges/monuments collapse? 
That just never gets old.
Plus there is some educational content!
But I really hope that some natural predator will evolve that eats kudzu.
Maybe the pythons?
That just never gets old.Plus there is some educational content!
But I really hope that some natural predator will evolve that eats kudzu.
Maybe the pythons?
Supreme Admiral
Captain
I stopped watching this program after two episodes aired. Rather finding it so uncomfortable with the idea of humanity vanishes suddenly into thick air, I find it so impossible for humanity to disappearing that quickly.
Knowing that it's science fact that we will be no longer here on the earth, but it didn't mention about space exploration. That FACT we will be left to live on different planets in another solar system in the order to ensure our survivability. Like it or not, humanity will be around for VERY, VERY long time.
Knowing that it's science fact that we will be no longer here on the earth, but it didn't mention about space exploration. That FACT we will be left to live on different planets in another solar system in the order to ensure our survivability. Like it or not, humanity will be around for VERY, VERY long time.
I think your post just made my head hurt.
So did I miss when people started moving to other planets? Also it was mentioned in the first episode (the special that aired during the summer) what happened was the rapture came.
Supreme Admiral
Captain
How can my comments make your head hurt? I remember vaguely that they were mentioning in the first episode, but still I find it so uncomfortable. I'd rather for those people to telling the story on how will humans leave earth and move on different planets. It would be very interesting, don't you agree?
Really? I watched the special and don't recall that detail. But I don't care either so it's all good.
Sounds like a good show, but not this one (and really too far afield from "History" not that they care about that too much.)
That's just human civilization. As a species, it's much longer - 200,000 years - but even then we're a young species.
Incredible that for most of the history of humanity, people didn't even have agriculture. And sometimes I wonder how anyone survived without the internet.
That's just human civilization. As a species, it's much longer - 200,000 years - but even then we're a young species.
Incredible that for most of the history of humanity, people didn't even have agriculture. And sometimes I wonder how anyone survived without the internet.
That's probably right, but still 200k years is not even a blink of an eye to 4 billion years. Go on the relative scale that's like a minute or two compared to 100 years.
But that's not the focus of it at all. It's about the world we leave behind. In The World Without Us, I think the pemise is that an alien or God beams every person off the planet in an instant, the real cause is glossed over to get to the actual story.
I guess I just don't need to know more.
What I wouldn't mind was a documentary about how we are moving out of Earth, but I guess that won't happen in my lifetime.
I saw that program on the rapture to, can't remember the name, think it had to do with the antichrist and the end of days!? For your information the rapture won't take every human being off the surface of the earth.
James
James
Probably Left Behind. The rapture is only supposed to take the true christian believers. I don't know about the believers of the other religions of the world. Although Christianity may not even be the biggest religion in the world for much longer. Islam may actually pass Christianity in the near future.
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