Life after People

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mjosef

Life after People
« on: 20 May 2009, 02:41 am »
I am a sucker for disaster/end-of-world kinda' movies, and am loving this series on the History channel in Hi--Def. 
Anyone else catching this?
It goes from 1 year to 2 years to 5 years to 20 years to 50 years to 100 years...at 1,000 years after humans I am like in heaven.  :hyper: :hyper:

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #1 on: 20 May 2009, 01:23 pm »
 :duh: I saw the promo and, like you, got all excited. Movies like "The Day After Tomorrow", etc.. get me excited too. But I forgot about series.
Not sure when it's on, I'll have to check the guide. The wife may very well have all the DVR channels used up.  :(

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #2 on: 20 May 2009, 04:14 pm »
caught a few episodes on the History Channel. Creepy stuff indeed. Enough to make one believe there really could have been an Atlantis or a Lemuria 10,000 years ago and that we're the dumbed down descendants destined to blow ourselves up all over again. Like I said CREEPY!!!!

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #3 on: 23 May 2009, 06:49 am »
New episodes every Tuesday night at 10pm.
Next week they will be looking at how the Great Depository will fare 25,000 after humans are no more.

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #4 on: 23 May 2009, 01:32 pm »
I've got "Life After People" set on the DVR.
I'm looking forward to it!  aa

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #5 on: 24 May 2009, 06:22 am »
downloaded one episode, to be honest i found it to be over dramatised over Americanised shite, however somewhat interesting subject, but pretty much unwatchable as it makes you want to throw up.

bad use of music
bad narration

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #6 on: 24 May 2009, 07:14 am »
I watched it on Youtube.  Somewhat interesting but very much overly melodramatic.  Not nearly as interesting as the book The World Without Us (that probably inspired the show).  I think they overestimate the degree to which human presence would fade.  For instance, millions of tons of plastic in the oceans will continue to kill marine life for thousands of years.  An intelligent alien species would easily detect the artificial nature of radioactive waste, much of which will still be lethal when the sun expands to the point where Earth is swallowed up.  Plastic, especially that which is buried, will also last thousands of years at a minimum.  Bronze items may still be recognizable for many millions of years.  Mount Rushmore will be impressively intact for hundreds of thousands of years and still be recognizably artificial for perhaps several million more years.  Glass could endure for tens-hundreds of thousand years, even millions (if it's not broken or weathered it will still be glass).  This doesn't even consider the possibility of artifacts or bodies being fossilized.

Still, it's overall an entertaining program.

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Re: Life after People
« Reply #7 on: 27 May 2009, 08:25 pm »
I thought it was really cool as a single show, but I don't know how long they can continue it before it jumps the shark.

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Plastic, especially that which is buried, will also last thousands of years at a minimum.

Reminds me of that Carlin sketch..."The Earth...plus plastic!" :D