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24 Aug 2008, 1:56 am

How long will it take for civilation to be retaken by nature?



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24 Aug 2008, 4:26 am

There was a great documentary - one of several unconnected on the same theme in recent years - recently called Life After People. The speed at which the planet would begin to heal from our absence is actually quite surprising...

http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people


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24 Aug 2008, 4:43 am

I forgot to watch that program.. I only seen clips. I want to see how long it takes.



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24 Aug 2008, 11:57 am

There's a book called The World Without Us that deals with this very subject. I can't remember the author, but you should be able to find it on Amazon.



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24 Aug 2008, 1:17 pm

Was that the book on The Corbert Report?



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24 Aug 2008, 3:20 pm

I read the book. Very good book.


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24 Aug 2008, 7:53 pm

look up chernobyl.


screw nature. i'm more important than nature.



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24 Aug 2008, 8:16 pm

Under what situation would mankind disappear and not take the rest of the earth with it?



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24 Aug 2008, 9:04 pm

skafather84 wrote:
look up chernobyl.


screw nature. i'm more important than nature.


I once saw a series of pictures on what Chernobyl looked like after 20 years. It's very illuminating. The photographer has since vanished, but her site is still up. I don't remember the exact URL, but it's on angelfire.com under the username kiddofspeed.



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24 Aug 2008, 9:14 pm

pezar wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
look up chernobyl.


screw nature. i'm more important than nature.


I once saw a series of pictures on what Chernobyl looked like after 20 years. It's very illuminating. The photographer has since vanished, but her site is still up. I don't remember the exact URL, but it's on angelfire.com under the username kiddofspeed.


they recently found animals living there and surviving the radiation just fine.



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24 Aug 2008, 10:16 pm

I'd have to read the book again. If I am recalling correct, there is evidence that the animals there have adapted to eliminating free radicals in their bodies; microevolution.


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24 Aug 2008, 10:29 pm

skafather84 wrote:
pezar wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
look up chernobyl.


screw nature. i'm more important than nature.


I once saw a series of pictures on what Chernobyl looked like after 20 years. It's very illuminating. The photographer has since vanished, but her site is still up. I don't remember the exact URL, but it's on angelfire.com under the username kiddofspeed.


they recently found animals living there and surviving the radiation just fine.


You screw nature, it'll screw you.



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24 Aug 2008, 11:15 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Under what situation would mankind disappear and not take the rest of the earth with it?


The Earth will be here for a very long time. We can't blow up the whole thing.

Barring cybernetic revolt, something many computer science experts consider a possibility in this century, nature will take back everything we've made pretty quickly.


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24 Aug 2008, 11:19 pm

That was a neat program. And another one they have that's on a similar topic, the one called "Final Days of Man" or something similar to that. It listed the top 7 most likely causes of the destruction of man: Gamma Ray Bursts, Global Warming, Grey Goo Syndrome (this one was neat), Asteroid/Comet Impact, Nuclear War, and a few others I can't remember (AI overrunning the world may have been one).



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24 Aug 2008, 11:52 pm

If a spambot takes over the world.... I'll be out of a job. :P



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25 Aug 2008, 12:02 am

I'd walk around naked all the time without anyone to mind to.