Life After People

Post #309,677 by SpiceWare 6/14/09 6:18:22 PM Reply	Life After People Caught an episode of Life After People on the History Channel. They present what would happen if all the people disappeared (not why they disappeared, just what happens afterward). The episode I saw was the seventh, "Sin City Meltdown" and covered Las Vegas and Atlantic City. During the episode they cover places that have been abandoned, which helps to reinforce how quickly nature can reclaim the world of man. http://www.history.c...life_after_people The first episode, "The Bodies Left Behind", is repeating tonight at 10 CST. It covers Boston and Houston and what happens to mummies in museums, cryogenically frozen bodies, etc. Looks like there will be 10 episodes in all http://www.history.c...ple/episode-guide You can watch some of the episodes online, though I think I'll catch the repeats as it looks much better in HD.
Post #309,685 by a6l6e6x 6/14/09 11:04:29 PM Reply	I've seen a couple episodes. Pretty interesting! Alex
Post #309,686 by Ashton 6/14/09 11:30:59 PM Reply	All knockoffs of ... 'Earth Abides' (though this series seems to expand on imagined details, some maybe beyond this 1950 book by George R Stewart ... which didn't deal with corpses, IIRC.) Serendipity: much action is set in Berkeley Hills, so there are believable vignettes of the mode of decay of the local bridges and other tie-ins. My mother had scored a paperback copy, annotated on the cover, for me. Eerie to be in precise locale, poignant to find her incisive notes -- years later. **** IMO. If not the earliest version of Earth sans its most dangerous and destructive Terraformer, it may be the first which sold to others than readers exclusively of SciFi/Fantasy tales. Pity.. no History Channel por moi, though will see about looking in, next door. Thanks for the agenda links!
Post #309,723 by SpiceWare 6/15/09 9:09:55 PM Reply	I'd read "The World Without Us" http://www.worldwithoutus.com/ The first episode was quite good. It was interesting to see the Astrodome become a bat cave for about 80 years before the roof collapsed. They also speculated that speech would be heard for a couple hundred years from escaped parrots and their descendants. This episode took a look at Hashima Island, a Japanese mining town that was abandoned 35 years ago. http://en.wikipedia....ki/Hashima_Island Photos http://home.f01.itsc...a/hashima001.html
Post #309,698 by dmcarls 6/15/09 9:50:52 AM Reply	Re: Life After People There are some that think trees need protecting: http://online.wsj.co...964322813585.html Walls Around Rio's Slums Protect Trees But Don't Inspire Much Hugging [...] "We want people to enjoy the forest, and protect the forest." more...

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