Life after people 24 hours to 10,000 years after

[the itinerant shrubber]

Sorry if this has been posted before but I love this and It's very reassuring and shows that ultimately the environmental movement is really about the welfare of people rather than the earth itself which managed before we were here and will get on just fine when we're gone.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hVoFwRgcleY

[the itinerant shrubber]

Not sure how I just double posted the same thread. Sorry.

[cafe beelzebub]

Not sure how I just double posted the same thread. Sorry.

you are the missing link, goodbye

[cafe beelzebub]

'Life after people' is a brilliant doco, watched it a while back :)

[hagbard_celine]

This programme really makes me think about Atlantis, Mu etc:

The man-made buildings and objects that dominate our lives today would not last long if people weren't around to take care of them. This is why when people say that Atlantis never existed because if it did we'd be able to see the traces of it. Well no. Cities endure not because they're built to last, but because they're constantly maintained by the people who live in them. Every time a window breaks or a tile falls off the roof a builder comes round and fixes it. If all the people suddenly abandoned your home town then it would not take long for the forces of nature to wear it down. Within a year you'd be able to see distinct differences, grass in the pavement cracks, houses with unrepaired damage. In ten years, young trees would be sprouting through cracks made in the roads by frost and parks would be overgrown. In 50 years some of the houses would be windowless and roofless. After 100 years your town would consist of bare walls with trees and bushes growing inside them. All the parked cars would be rust-buckets. Only very sturdy buildings like cathedrals would still be standing. In 1000 years it would be hard to see that there had ever been a town there at all. Only the very strongest man-made objects stand the test of time, like the Pyramids, and even those are looking very old today.

If this would happen today then why shouldn't it have happened before?

[majicdragon]

hey hagbard, who is that in your avatar? I saw you on a few vids posted here. You would make a great avatar... that pic of you as the pub landlord is awesome. the one that is in 'post your picture' sticky. It's a classic great picture.

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[hagbard_celine]

hey hagbard, who is that in your avatar? I saw you on a few vids posted here. You would make a great avatar... that pic of you as the pub landlord is awesome. the one that is in 'post your picture' sticky. It's a classic great picture.

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It's the late great Robert Anton Wilson, the funniest conspiracy theorist who ever lived!:):D