Is it just me, or has the History Channel become just depressing to watch? They just seem interested in coming up with shows about the end of the world and mega disasters and things like that. Then there's their reporting on stuff like UFOs and things like that, where they basically just boil everything down to, well there must be a conspiracy but then why and never really resolve anything. I got ticked off for getting sucked in by some show where they were searching for bigfoot and two teams laid cameras and used different ideas of trying to find one. After a while, I just kinda thought to myself, "why am I watching this? If they had found anything then it would have been fairly big news, so obviously they don't really come across anything new." I used to really like shows like they have on there and the Discovery channel, but there's something about how they're done anymore that just bothers me, I'm not sure what it is.
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For anyone who's played COD4, Priyat looks a lot like what it did in the game. Same kind of architecture. God that game is cinematic.
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You're so silly, you already know the answer to that. BTW, what time are you going to be here to pick up your buy?Originally posted by: TehMac
Do you have a methamphetamine lab too?Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
I'm enjoying it and am not bored at all. I like thinking about the long-term picture though and not just the first five years.
But seriously, if you're not watching the show then you're not watching the show. Stop trying to shit on my thread.
Jeff7
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Ugh, I hope not. Global warming and such aren't going to kill off humanity. If anything, the effects might just be, well, inconvenient in the long run - a small bump in the road, not an endgame, not a doomsday scenario.
Homo sapiens won't be around forever. Whether we wipe ourselves out, the sun goes a little nuts and nukes the planet with some supermassive flare, a huge asteroid hits, or if it's simply genetic progression into another species (natural, or more likely, artificial), some day, this species will not exist.
Nothing in the Universe is permanent, except for increasing entropy (on a large scale).
SoulAssassin
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That book looks good. I think I'll buy it the next time I place an order on Amazon. Thanks!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.
The Boston Dangler
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that show was pretty good. i thought it was logical and entertaining. maybe it could have used a little more destruction.
the game depicting Pripyat was Stalker. it's a great game, too bad people have abandoned the multiplayer game.
fobot and lokiju, the show never said how or why people disappear, not even in previews or articles. unable to find a reason to fuel your cyncism, you invent one. sad.
the game depicting Pripyat was Stalker. it's a great game, too bad people have abandoned the multiplayer game.
fobot and lokiju, the show never said how or why people disappear, not even in previews or articles. unable to find a reason to fuel your cyncism, you invent one. sad.
ZzZGuy
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If we go down, we're taking the world with us.
-We nuke ourselves. Bye bye 90% of animal species.
-Disease. Not 100% lethal pulse there will be unaffected pockets.
-AI's take over the world. Lots of nuking and I doubt the AI's will be eco-friendly.
-Asteroid. Bye bye 99% of animal species.
-God finally gets fed up. Probably won't be a planet left.
-Aliens. Will probably terraform the planet killing all animal species cept for some micro organisms.
-Black hole or something just as bad passes through our solar system, either knocking our planet out of the solar system or destroying it. Killing everything.
am i missing anyting?
-We nuke ourselves. Bye bye 90% of animal species.
-Disease. Not 100% lethal pulse there will be unaffected pockets.
-AI's take over the world. Lots of nuking and I doubt the AI's will be eco-friendly.
-Asteroid. Bye bye 99% of animal species.
-God finally gets fed up. Probably won't be a planet left.
-Aliens. Will probably terraform the planet killing all animal species cept for some micro organisms.
-Black hole or something just as bad passes through our solar system, either knocking our planet out of the solar system or destroying it. Killing everything.
am i missing anyting?
Throckmorton
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meltdown75
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pretty cool - I caught the last 25 minutes or so. some of the animations were cheesy but most of the chat was interesting. it is wild to think about how some of the structures have already stood the test of time, such as the great pyramid and the great wall of china. definitely worth watching and i was flipping to a show on Egyptian burial practices etc. on the other History network during commercials. also pretty cool
there were also some "ghost hunters" on some other nearby channel trying to hear some EVP crap... try harder :roll:
there were also some "ghost hunters" on some other nearby channel trying to hear some EVP crap... try harder :roll:
Atomic Playboy
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Maybe it's just me, but a show about life after people on the history channel seems a bit... ironic? I mean, maybe my grasp of history isn't as good as it could be, but I don't remember humans going extinct. Although if they had and ended up coming back spontaneously, that would be a pretty convincing argument in favor of intelligent design...
The history channel showing a speculative view of the future is like ESPN showing poker. It's in the same ballpark, and it probably appeals to people who watch the network, but a fictional account of what may happen in the future is no more history than card games are a sport.
The history channel showing a speculative view of the future is like ESPN showing poker. It's in the same ballpark, and it probably appeals to people who watch the network, but a fictional account of what may happen in the future is no more history than card games are a sport.
DanTMWTMP
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I thought the discovery channel's special on life on earth millions of years from now was a lot more realistic and truthful. I think Humans will be around for a long time, and if we do disappear, all those animals mentioned in the documentary won't even exist.
If something happens to completely wipe out humans, nothing else on the planet will be around either. If some virus and disease breaks out there may be millions or even billions of people killed, but some will survive and a cure will be found.
The show was insteresting, but when it started out as people just disappeared and went on about how house pets would survive, kind of gave it a dumb perspective. I would have started it at 100 years after humans died.
It is interesting that after 10,000 years, Mount Rushmore will still be there. Like they said a new dominant species could evolve and IF they gained the same level of conciousness as us, it would make for a very cool find to know that a species existed before you that had that kind of accomplishment. They would be unearthing cities and roads. Makes you wonder if something could have happened on earth or other planets like Mars and time has just covered it all up.
The show was insteresting, but when it started out as people just disappeared and went on about how house pets would survive, kind of gave it a dumb perspective. I would have started it at 100 years after humans died.
It is interesting that after 10,000 years, Mount Rushmore will still be there. Like they said a new dominant species could evolve and IF they gained the same level of conciousness as us, it would make for a very cool find to know that a species existed before you that had that kind of accomplishment. They would be unearthing cities and roads. Makes you wonder if something could have happened on earth or other planets like Mars and time has just covered it all up.
Extinctions and evolution are inevitable so I discount the notion that hu-mans are the friggin' be all and end all and likewise that when they are gone that everything else must be too.
Dinosaurs thought they were pretty bad ass too yet they at least survived exponentially longer than hu-mans have thus far. We have virtually no history by any relevant scale and "tools" cannot stave off the inevitable (and indeed may hasten it) so let's not get cocky.
Hu-mans don't "have to" be wiped out completely, just knocked down such that their impact is minimized a la said dinos so that other critters prevail. They lived on, in a fashion, as other species therefore so too could hu-man remnants evolve into others as well. Either way, whether that is considered a dead branch depends upon the POV which is mostly dependant upon scale.
Dinosaurs thought they were pretty bad ass too yet they at least survived exponentially longer than hu-mans have thus far. We have virtually no history by any relevant scale and "tools" cannot stave off the inevitable (and indeed may hasten it) so let's not get cocky.
Hu-mans don't "have to" be wiped out completely, just knocked down such that their impact is minimized a la said dinos so that other critters prevail. They lived on, in a fashion, as other species therefore so too could hu-man remnants evolve into others as well. Either way, whether that is considered a dead branch depends upon the POV which is mostly dependant upon scale.
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