Life After People - A History Channel Special

[JSngry]

Long story short - a humbling reminder that Earth can easily survive, perhaps into infinity, without us.

Other than that, some cool computer-generated images of Life On Earth as it progresses w/o human inhabitants, on into 10,000 years ahead. Watching shit like all of Manhattan eventually disappear at (and back into) the hands of Nature is quite a...thing.

Check it out.

[BruceH]

Alread read the book: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. Very interesting.

[Quincy]

Long story short - a humbling reminder that Earth can easily survive, perhaps into infinity, without us.

Duh.

Other than that, some cool computer-generated images of Life On Earth as it progresses w/o human inhabitants, on into 10,000 years ahead. Watching shit like all of Manhattan eventually disappear at (and back into) the hands of Nature is quite a...thing.

Check it out.

Didn't know the book had been made into a tv show, but it sounds like fun. Hey, jazz is dead, might as kill off humanity at some point (wait till I'm done first.)

[Jazzmoose]

Yeah, I caught this a couple of nights ago. Seems to me I'd already seen this info on a website somewhere, but stuck here with dial-up, I'll be damned if I'm going to look for it! Pretty interesting stuff, particularly how fast plants take over buildings.

[Chas]

Watching shit like all of Manhattan eventually disappear at (and back into) the hands of Nature is quite a...thing.

Pretty interesting stuff, particularly how fast plants take over buildings.

Geez , you guys sound like you've never seen kudzu in action

[Chas]

Each of us is just one uncleaned eaves trough away from something like this :

'Course , if instead that's Cthulhu about to devour six souls , then we've got bigger problems

[MoGrubb]

I imagine that Earth would be better off without us.

[catesta]

I TiVo'd it and plan in watching tonight.

Don't spoil the ending for me.

[Shawn]

Each of us is just one uncleaned eaves trough away from something like this :

'Course , if instead that's Cthulhu about to devour six souls , then we've got bigger problems

[RDK]

Alread read the book: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. Very interesting.

It wasn't said, but I believe the program was essentially "ripped-off" from the book. Very interesting stuff, but I thought, as a documentary, it was pretty slapdash and a bit cheesy-looking. But, yes, humbling it most certainly is. And I'm damned depressed having seen, in the last week, both that and several other shows about how the Earth is inevitably doomed by gamma ray bursts, robotic intelligence, mega-volcanos, asteroid impacts, and global warming.

[BruceH]

Alread read the book: The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. Very interesting.

It wasn't said, but I believe the program was essentially "ripped-off" from the book. Very interesting stuff, but I thought, as a documentary, it was pretty slapdash and a bit cheesy-looking. But, yes, humbling it most certainly is. And I'm damned depressed having seen, in the last week, both that and several other shows about how the Earth is inevitably doomed by gamma ray bursts, robotic intelligence, mega-volcanos, asteroid impacts, and global warming.

Watch out for that robotic intelligence.