History Channel special - Life After People

[SmoochyTX]

Are you any of you planning on watching this show tonight? It looks to be pretty interesting.

Life After People

ETA - For those of you too lazy to click the link and watch the video, here is what the show is about:

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking new special LIFE AFTER PEOPLE, premiering Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel®.

Abandoned skyscrapers would, after hundreds of years, become "vertical ecosystems" complete with birds, rodents and even plant life. One small animal might be responsible for bringing down the Hoover Dam hydroelectric plant. Swelled rivers, crumbling bridges and buildings, grizzly bears in California and herds of buffalo returning to the Great Western Plains: In a world without humans, these would be the visual hallmarks. Our cars would shrivel to piles of dust, our house pets would be overtaken by flourishing wildlife and most of the records of our human story (books, photos, records) would fade quickly, leaving little evidence that we ever existed.

Using feature film quality visual effects and top experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology and archeology, Life After People provides an amazing visual journey through the ultimately hypothetical.

The 1986 nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath provides a riveting and emotional case study of what can happen after humans have moved on. Life After People goes to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for traces of abandoned towns, beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals, to the Montana wilderness to divine the destiny of the bears and wolves.

Humans won't be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People.

 

[FoBoT]

are they going to blame humans for destroying the earth?

Humans won't be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People.

i think i'll pass, this is a veiled attempt to scare people into "going greener" , i.e. shun technology and go back to living in caves and eating dirt
no thanks

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
are they going to blame humans for destroying the earth?

Humans won't be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People.

i think i'll pass, this is a veiled attempt to scare people into "going greener" , i.e. shun technology and go back to living in caves and eating dirt
no thanks

I have to agree with you.

I saw some "documentary" called "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and had to stop watching it after it became all to clear that it was just a "go greener and be dammed of the full picture" movie.

 

[TehMac]

Yeah, The History Channel really has gone down the shit hole, I was reading on the The History Channel forums about the new show "Battle 360" and Nancy Dubac said (or they said she said) that the season one will take place focussing exclusively on the USS Enterprise and its aircraft....

uh...wtf? Dogfights was better than that, that was the last decent show, and now they're playing Ice Trucks 2 and all that bull shit. This just makes me so angry because History Channel is for adults, not kids, and it's fine if they have a kid show, but this shouldn't be a huge attempt at propaganda and all that bull shit.

You know what I want to do? I want to revolutionize History and the media. TV is done. It's old fashioned. The news is bull shit, it's all CNN vs. Fox and who can hire the best looking reporter, and who can make the best piece of propaganda, and you have retarded shows from TV, it's done.

I think the internet is the way to go, and I think I know how to do it.

 

[KB]

Geez we have some cynics here in AT. They don't mention people disappear because of failing to go green. In fact none of the locations are flooded by glacier melt, so it doesn't blame everything on global warming. Maybe there is a recycle message in there, but whats wrong with recycling?

It looks interesting to me, something so far from the norm that not even science fiction writers would touch it. Having lived near forests and farms and seeing abandoned houses taken over in a matter years, I have often thought about how long it would take for cities to fall if humans didn't keep them up.

Watched the trailer and the reasons for humans going extinct are viruses, comets and failing DNA strands (which sounds interesting).

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
are they going to blame humans for destroying the earth?

Humans won't be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People.

i think i'll pass, this is a veiled attempt to scare people into "going greener" , i.e. shun technology and go back to living in caves and eating dirt
no thanks

if they give it the pollution spin, then yeah, i might agree with you, but if they do it in a different way, i'm not sure you could say that?

 

[reeserock]

It looks interesting. I set my DVR to record it.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: KBWatched the trailer and the reasons for humans going extinct are viruses, comets and failing DNA strands (which sounds interesting).

And, computers become sentient and rising against their masters. :roll:

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: KBWatched the trailer and the reasons for humans going extinct are viruses, comets and failing DNA strands (which sounds interesting).

And, computers become sentient and rising against their masters. :roll:

And it's blatantly obvious you didn't even watch the preview clip on the site linked in my original post because if you had, you wouldn't be spewing all your bs here. :roll:

 

[Agentbolt]

It looks interesting to me because they apparently filmed quite a bit of stuff at Pripyat, the abandoned city next to Chernobyl. I always found that place pretty interesting to look at, there's a cool web site with a bunch of pictures of it. Fair warning though, the chick who took the pictures placed some stuff there for artistic affect, the gas masks and stuff were props. I saw them in the preview for the show as well.

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks for the reminder

 

[Bateluer]

I'll watch it, seems interesting.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Thanks for the reminder

You're welcome!

 

[SmoochyTX]

Bump for afternoon folks

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Bump for afternoon folks

Thanks, I'm gonna check this out. I watch one last night about the last days of human kind and it showed different ways civilization could end and how it has almost happened before. I set the DVR after the giant volcano segment.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: MBony

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
Bump for afternoon folks

Thanks, I'm gonna check this out. I watch one last night about the last days of human kind and it showed different ways civilization could end and how it has almost happened before. I set the DVR after the giant volcano segment.

i watched little of that show, it was pretty interesting, but only talked about 'normal' ways to extinct us, not greenie global warming crap

the super volcano is awesome , i can't wait to get snuffed out when yellowstone blows up

 

[clamum]

Looks interesting. I like this sorta stuff. I'll probably check it out after I get some Mario Galaxy in after work.

 

[edro]

The World Without Us is a book with the same topic.

I have been meaning to buy it, bu I keep forgetting when I go to the book store.
I heard it was really good.

Maybe I should just buy it on Amazon.

 

[LS21]

I already know what's going to happen on this show

5 minutes of wildlife inhabiting city...


then Will Smith drives by in a cherry red Ford Mustang

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: edro
The World Without Us is a book with the same topic.

I have been meaning to buy it, bu I keep forgetting when I go to the book store.
I heard it was really good.

Maybe I should just buy it on Amazon.

Thanks, I just bought it.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: KB
Geez we have some cynics here in AT. They don't mention people disappear because of failing to go green. In fact none of the locations are flooded by glacier melt, so it doesn't blame everything on global warming. Maybe there is a recycle message in there, but whats wrong with recycling?

It looks interesting to me, something so far from the norm that not even science fiction writers would touch it. Having lived near forests and farms and seeing abandoned houses taken over in a matter years, I have often thought about how long it would take for cities to fall if humans didn't keep them up.

Watched the trailer and the reasons for humans going extinct are viruses, comets and failing DNA strands (which sounds interesting).

It'd probably make for a pretty boring story if there were no characters.

 

[Modelworks]

They are showing the decoding the past episode about the end of the world before it.
The whole 2012 thing really creeps me out .
hrm , 4 years left ?
Time to do all that stuff I been putting off doing.


The show after it, Life after people, sounds interesting.
The whole planet will probably be alot better off without us

 

[SmoochyTX]

Less than ten minutes left for those interested in Eastern and Central time zones.

 

[spidey07]

Thanks again for the reminder. Should be really interesting if they do it right.

 

[RossMAN]

I got bored after the first 20 minutes, so I'm taping the rest.