Could you imagine what the world would be like if the human race were suddenly wiped off the face of the planet? How would things change? When nature takes back the planet, what will survive in the absence of human life? A new series from the History Channel, Life After People, attempts to answer these questions and more.
Life After People will give a look into the world without man, offering up amazing computer generated examples of how the world will transform. You won’t want to miss this two-hour special premiering exclusively on the History Channel at 9pm ET on January 21, 2008.
In the meantime, get a sneak peek with this video clip of the upcoming special:
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Valrie Thomas said
January 22 2008 @ 12:42 am
I saw “Life After People” 01/21/08 channel 47. I think if the world is destroy by “chemical war” or by nature with “poisions gases and etc”. I think humans may survie since for years we have been “digesting” pollutions and etc and I beleive some humans may survie for this reason.
I think because the way there are so many gangs. Any gangs that survie will fight for the best territory where food and etc is.
I think people who are not in the gangs, will live to live alone and will meet people like them and start there own gangs.
I think for along time we will live like this. I think re-poluation will take along time due the the poisions in the world.
I think it will take awhile for the plants to take over the world since like us they will have to mutate to cope with the poisions.
I think many more dogs and cats will survie since if there is a “chemical war” or natural exposure and etc, widows and etc will be blow out to let the pet escape.
I think after the humans can not eat can food and etc., than we will hunt dogs, cats and small animals that survied.
I think instead of the segals dying off they will do the best. Since for years segals have been eating our poisions and breeding. The segals will have plenty to eat between the dead humans and animals and living in supermarkets and etc., since the segals would be able to eat the rotten foods.
I think the segals would mirgrate to big cities and for years would be able to live since they would have garbage, dead humans and animals and etc. to eat.
I think any animals that lived in the big cities and survie off our garbage and poisions and polluition also will survie.
I have no education on this comment, but it seems there are so many animals and birds that still can not surive polluitions and etc., like humans, segals and the inner city insects or animals.
Jasonatr0n said
January 22 2008 @ 7:23 am
I saw the show last night (the premier). Was excited because just last week I was listening to the radio and heard the author of “The World Without Us”, Alan Weisman, speaking about this very subject. I immediately thought the show was done in conjunction with the author, as it has the same ideas. However, in the credits there was no mention of the book.
I did enjoy the show, however there were a few things that left me thinking. What about all the plastics? The program seems to stray from the fact that just about everything we humans touch on a daily basis is made from some sort of hydrocarbon/plastic/Styrofoam/etc. These materials take centuries – if not thousands of years – to degrade back to whence they came. What about all the satellites in space? Surely they will last a bit longer than the concrete structures on the ground that are subject to the elements. The show focused mainly on the buildings and large structures man has created, comparing them to the longevity of the pyramids and the Mayan ruins.
I watched the show in HD and the graphics were pretty good. Although they seem to like to replay the same scene over and over. The music was – I thought – over dramatic. Dramatic music playing throughout the film is just too much for me. Felt like I was watching a preview sometimes. The commentary was good, with not just the narrator but various scientists giving their two cents as well.
Overall I would recommend watching it. The two hours goes fast due to the fact that this subject hasn’t been show on TV before, so it is interesting. However I would have liked a bit more of a science-show, maybe PBS Nova-esque format, rather than the ultra dramatic feel it portrayed.
-JasonL
JoeG said
May 22 2009 @ 11:40 am
Life after people? Who will be caring? It does not take much imagination to realize that reversion to wilderness would take place. The only question would be how long would it take? A more interesting question, presuming evolutionists are correct, how long until humans evolve once again and where (in which species) would the transformation take place. This was an unimaginative program, hardly worth the time, effort and cost. Certainly not worth viewing.