Do you like the show Life After People?

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I love learning what's going to happen to the world after we are all dead and gone OMG it's amazing how nature will take over and once great structures will fall and yet the Greek God statue in NY (made of Bronze) it'll last for 100's of years!! !! Lincoln,White House,Eiffel tower,Sears Tower, ALL GONE!! !! !! !! ! Egypt pyramiads have already lasted thousands of year they can last thousands more. Also it's amazing the statue of Liberty arm could fall into the water and could be dug up years later!! !! Sadly overall though most man made structures are dust.

I just wish I could have seen it in sequence...

Yes I love that show

That show was amazing. I saw it AGES ago when it was new. I've always been fascinated with nature taking over all the man made stuff so this doc really made me interested! The best bit for me was when they go to Pripyat in Ukraine because that is a real place where no people live (in the Chornobyl exclusion zone).

It was like a post-apocalyptic movie without a plot. I'd rather watch I Am Legend again. Better graphics, too.

I love it. Makes me yearn for the complete and total elimination of mankind. (sorta)

Seriously, very fascinating show!

Oh, it's more than just a 2-hour documentary. They've made it into a series.

Yes it's a series now. (there's also the 2hr. documentary) but now it's a series. They've discussed D.C. (white house etc.) metals (steel buildings,gold BTW Gold=10's of 1000's of years at the bottom of the sea! It doesn't rust or ANYTHING!! !! !! !! !! landmarks such as Statue of Liberty (the arm could fall into the water and solidify (think Titanic) (so it could be found later YA!) Overall though most man made structures would be destroyed. I love how the animals are going to take over!! !! They say perhaps Deer/cow will evolve into it's own species!! !!

Yeah, it boggles my mind how people can watch essentially the same thing over and over. The fascination with post-apocalyptic was fresh and new 10 years ago, but now it is just beating the dead horse.

I also don't get this anti-human vibe and almost wishful fascination. It's rather juvenile. Humanity is f*****g great, and I want it to stay. I am a fan of man.

And the whole accelerated entropy angle of the show... entropy gives me existential angst, and so does anything that throws it in my face.

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Ya but this show has scientist talking about different things piece by piece it's IMO more than OMG meteor we're going to die It's the science of what happens to what gets left behind. Most Doomsday shows are what COULD happen TO US (meteor,global warming etc.)

I agree. You find this a lot on some nature shows and with radical environmental activists. How mankind is a 'cancer' upon nature and how mankind is 'ruining' nature. Not that I am saying mankind is doing no damage at all, but sometimes this stuff ends up going overboard.

Besides, man is a part of nature too, and nature adjusts to itself. Man might cause some species to go extinct, but we have others that are actually thriving from man's interferance, and would not be doing as great if it wasn't for people mucking around.
Coyote populations once where largely staying to the West, but their range is actually growing because of humans. Cities offer raccoons a ready food supply, and abandoned houses and attic-spaces offer conveniant habitat to raise young and use as winter shelters.

So it's not all bad.

Peopleless life topic

I feel sorry for the pets and domestic/zoo animals left behind that depended on people for survival. A state of nature is a nasty, brutish, and short life.

I just like to see how nature reasserts itself in the wake of us humans trashing it.

Sort of. The thing that ruins it is the idea that the human race can literally vanish into thin air, which my uncle actually thought was probable. I just don't get that. Did God just decide to take us off the Earth before his showdown with Lucifer? Come on!

This show always gives me anxiety. I think its outcomes are likely and this depresses me. Although there are some big holes in it. One problem is that since the first episode the show hasn't included the impact of nuclear meltdowns in its timelines. Further more how the people disappear could affect the way the world is left, War or meteorite, a missing ozone, solar flare etc.

But every time the shows on, I end up watching it, staring at it like a car accident, and I always feel kind of sick after.

I strongly recommend the book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.

It follows a similar premise yet tackles so much more than the show.

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/

I haven't read the book, but I like the actual concept of life after people.