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01-25-2008, 08:10 AM
So I just watched a show called Life After People(history channel)... Anybody watch it??? It brings up some very interesting stuff that i can honestly say i never thought of before... it goes back in steps of time(5yr... 25yr & so on) showing how the planet would reclaim itself without ANY people on the planet... They didn't go into why there was no people... just that there was none... They seemed to take just about everything I could think of into consideration
Did you know Hover dam would be the last power plant on the planet to be running??? Nuclear power plants would shut down in under 2 days(without melt down) from there being an overabundance of power... They would pretty much go into sleep mode... Convention fossil fuel power plants without someone to feed them would shut down in a day to a week
Did you know that the subways in NYC would flood in under 2 days(i think they said 36 hours) without people running & switching the over 70 pumps used to keep it dry??? They said they pump like 3 million gallons out of the system EVERY day... The subways would be subterranean streams/rivers & would be eating all the columns holding the street up... It wouldn't probably take this long but the streets would collapse into them around 150 years(according to the show)
100-300 years - Most if not all steel & iron building would collapse
500 years - Reinforced concert objects & buildings would be gone
1000 years - Modern city's wouldn't be recognizable... It would almost e as if nothing was every there... New terrain from the piles of rubbles would be forming(mountains & stuff in NYC & other large city's)
10,000 years - There wouldn't be much trace of people on the face of the planet... Huge stone building(great wall.. hover dam... giza pyramids) would be there but under layers of sand/dirt/mud/water... The Hover Dam again would be one of the only places above ground where there would be evidents of people... Places like Mount Rushmore in a stable environment would last 10,000's if not 100,000's of years
If anyone has a way to watch it check it out... heres a link to some INFO (http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people) on the show... theres a pretty cool vid showing a bunch of the really awesome animation the used to show the decay of city's
Did you know Hover dam would be the last power plant on the planet to be running??? Nuclear power plants would shut down in under 2 days(without melt down) from there being an overabundance of power... They would pretty much go into sleep mode... Convention fossil fuel power plants without someone to feed them would shut down in a day to a week
Did you know that the subways in NYC would flood in under 2 days(i think they said 36 hours) without people running & switching the over 70 pumps used to keep it dry??? They said they pump like 3 million gallons out of the system EVERY day... The subways would be subterranean streams/rivers & would be eating all the columns holding the street up... It wouldn't probably take this long but the streets would collapse into them around 150 years(according to the show)
100-300 years - Most if not all steel & iron building would collapse
500 years - Reinforced concert objects & buildings would be gone
1000 years - Modern city's wouldn't be recognizable... It would almost e as if nothing was every there... New terrain from the piles of rubbles would be forming(mountains & stuff in NYC & other large city's)
10,000 years - There wouldn't be much trace of people on the face of the planet... Huge stone building(great wall.. hover dam... giza pyramids) would be there but under layers of sand/dirt/mud/water... The Hover Dam again would be one of the only places above ground where there would be evidents of people... Places like Mount Rushmore in a stable environment would last 10,000's if not 100,000's of years
If anyone has a way to watch it check it out... heres a link to some INFO (http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people) on the show... theres a pretty cool vid showing a bunch of the really awesome animation the used to show the decay of city's