Comments on: The world without us

By: Tdave

Tdave — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:30:32 +0000

Hint: It begins with “W” and ends with “Mart”.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:11:21 +0000

When the drive-in movie theater closed when I was a kid I was mildly impressed by how the lot became a miniature forest over the 20+/- years that it went unused. The return to nature wasn’t permanent. I’ll give you three guesses as to what is there now.

By: tata36

tata36 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:52:33 +0000

But where oh *where* is this amusement park????

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:08:46 +0000

As a member of the species currently at (or near) the top of the food chain, I quite frankly don’t give Rhett Butler’s proverbial damn.

No people = starving domestic animals, melted nuclear reactors and storage units, leaking petroleum tank farms, collapsing city infrastructures, fading art and forgotten music.

After awhile, the only things left will be the Pyramids, and they, I suspect, don’t give a damn either…

By: donner

donner — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:26:26 +0000

I’ve always wondered what would happen if we were to disappear off the planet today…I took comfort in thinking the paved parking lots would crack/crumble and grass/trees would flourish there again…looks like I was on the right track and I’m glad to know the earth would swallow our ‘improvement’ and become somewhat whole again…

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:38:56 +0000

Discovery/BBC ran a ‘future documentary’ a fews years ago about what the planet would be like in millions of years. I was called “The Future is Wild” and was based on a book by the same name.

They imagine a world where Humans are extinct (or leave the planet, depending on what version you get a hold of.) Most of the series deals with the flora and fauna of the distant future, but some of it is dedicated to what traces of humanity will last the longest. I have forgotten all of the details, but it was kind of fascinating.

It is available on Netflix, for the curious.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:40:54 +0000

Fascinating… I’ve been thinking a lot along these lines lately. I’ll just stare at my kitchen and wonder what it would look like in 50, 100, 1000 years if no one ever touched it again… It’s weird that this is the second article about this that I’ve read in the past couple of weeks. Was this on Fark.com?

By: exile38

exile38 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:38:04 +0000

There are backup systems, but eventually those would run out too. I work at a nuke plant, but it doesn’t have cooling towers since it situated right on a lake. So I can’t say if that little tidbit is true or not. But eventually something would give out and –presto!– pile of radioactive goo.

By: pica

pica — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:00:50 +0000

I’m not so sure about that Roman statues claim. J. J. Winckelmann in the 18th century thought a lot of Roman statues he saw were Greek. Most tourists to Rome say that their favorite “ancient ruin” in the city is the 19th-century Altar of the Fatherland (aka the “Wedding Cake” or the “Typewriter”).

By: Keeker

Keeker — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:51:13 +0000

Sounds nice, except for the nuclear power plant meltdown thing. Isn’t there some kind of backup system should, say, everyone in the plant suddenly perish? Maybe someone out there has the answer…?