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dmxratedLast night at 9:00, I stayed up to watch this two-hour documentary on the History Channel called Life After People. Mom and Marie came home from the library shortly after I started watching it, and Mom asked me what it was. After I told them, Marie's like "That show's gonna freak you out!" Mom then asked me if I had been waiting to watch it, which I in fact was since I saw a trailer for it two mornings ago. During the show, Dad also came and watched part of it with me before going to bed. Despite what she said earlier, Marie did watch the end of the show.
About the actual show... well, it's pretty self-explanatory. It describes everything from dogs leaving homes (some of which will not survive) and rats and mice scavenging homes, grocery stores, and other sources of artificial food, to the eventual complete decay of steel and concrete structures such as buildings and bridges. In ten thousand years after humans are gone, almost every last remnant of their legacy will also be gone, and there won't be any proof left that there was intelligent life on this planet. This is bad for humans, who worked so hard to create everything, but good for the rest of life on earth, who have only detrimented from human activities.
Mount Rushmore, concrete structures such as Hoover Dam, and the Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt will be the only things left remaining. The last aforementioned will probably be buried underneath sand from sandstorms; the first is a semi-natural structure, and is only damaged by weather, but Hoover Dam will eventually succumb. Likewise, the Face on Mars (and the Pyramids on Mars) are possible evidence that there may have been intelligent life on Mars in the distant past. Like I mentioned a year and a half ago, if the human population of Earth is doomed, then the only way we can preserve our race and our creations is to send rocket ships full of people and artifacts to planets that can suit our needs, such as the need for food, water, and oxygen.
About the actual show... well, it's pretty self-explanatory. It describes everything from dogs leaving homes (some of which will not survive) and rats and mice scavenging homes, grocery stores, and other sources of artificial food, to the eventual complete decay of steel and concrete structures such as buildings and bridges. In ten thousand years after humans are gone, almost every last remnant of their legacy will also be gone, and there won't be any proof left that there was intelligent life on this planet. This is bad for humans, who worked so hard to create everything, but good for the rest of life on earth, who have only detrimented from human activities.
Mount Rushmore, concrete structures such as Hoover Dam, and the Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt will be the only things left remaining. The last aforementioned will probably be buried underneath sand from sandstorms; the first is a semi-natural structure, and is only damaged by weather, but Hoover Dam will eventually succumb. Likewise, the Face on Mars (and the Pyramids on Mars) are possible evidence that there may have been intelligent life on Mars in the distant past. Like I mentioned a year and a half ago, if the human population of Earth is doomed, then the only way we can preserve our race and our creations is to send rocket ships full of people and artifacts to planets that can suit our needs, such as the need for food, water, and oxygen.