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luke
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 Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:53 am Post subject: life after people ( history channel - 21st january ) |
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| Quote: | Life After People
What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? From the ruins of ancient civilizations to present day cities devastated by natural disasters, history gives us clues to these questions and many more in the visually stunning and thought-provoking new special LIFE AFTER PEOPLE, premiering Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The History Channel®.
Abandoned skyscrapers would, after hundreds of years, become “vertical ecosystems” complete with birds, rodents and even plant life. One small animal might be responsible for bringing down the Hoover Dam hydroelectric plant. Swelled rivers, crumbling bridges and buildings, grizzly bears in California and herds of buffalo returning to the Great Western Plains: In a world without humans, these would be the visual hallmarks. Our cars would shrivel to piles of dust, our house pets would be overtaken by flourishing wildlife and most of the records of our human storybooks, photos, records would fade quickly, leaving little evidence that we ever existed.
Using feature film quality visual effects and top experts in the fields of engineering, botany, ecology, biology, geology, climatology and archeology, Life After People provides an amazing visual journey through the ultimately hypothetical.
The 1986 nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl and its aftermath provides a riveting and emotional case study of what can happen after humans have moved on. Life After People goes to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for traces of abandoned towns, beneath the streets of New York to see how subway tunnels may become watery canals, to the Montana wilderness to divine the destiny of the bears and wolves. Humans won’t be around forever, and now we can see in detail, for the very first time, the world that will be left behind in Life After People. |
this sounds great! i remember skylace talking about a book that looked at the same thing
theres a little preview at http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people
anyone got the history channel?  |
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faceless
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd do it but that's the american channel - it probably won't be on here for a few months. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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I do get the history channel luke.
The book I was talking about a while back was "The World Without Us" a great read. |
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luke
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Skylace wrote: | | The book I was talking about a while back was "The World Without Us" a great read. |
thats it, i meant to look it out, it sounded really interesting * loads amazon * |
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Twirley
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I get the history channel, too. I'll record it and upload it for those who are interested. |
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luke
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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nice one twirley, much appreciated - thanks  |
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faceless
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| great stuff Twirley - I'll look forward to seeing it |
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Twirley
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Apologies to Face and Luke - I'd love to blame it on technical faults but I can't. I completely forgot to record Life After People last night. It's on again on Wednesday night. If you want me to do it I can...unless you'll have got it from a torrent before then.
Sorry!  |
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luke
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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no worries twirley, i've got a memory just like that  |
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major.tom
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| Me too. I intended to watch for it and record it, but by the time Sunday rolled around, forgot completely *what* I was watching out for. (I checked History Channel Canada, but nothing rang a bell, so maybe our programming is different.) |
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6ULDV8
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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I will be looking out for this as a re-run on the history chn...
I will also try to seek out the program in torrent format.
It looks great, something the kids would enjoy too...
If I find it I will up it. |
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major.tom
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faceless
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| nice one Major, grabbing it now. |
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Twirley
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Just when I finally got this, too.
I'm certainly not the fastest capper...that accolade goes to Face! |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Images remind me of the Planet of the Apes .. |
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