if mankind disaapered

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How long will it take for civilation to be retaken by nature?

There was a great documentary - one of several unconnected on the same theme in recent years - recently called Life After People. The speed at which the planet would begin to heal from our absence is actually quite surprising...

http://www.history.com/minisites/life_after_people

I forgot to watch that program.. I only seen clips. I want to see how long it takes.

There's a book called The World Without Us that deals with this very subject. I can't remember the author, but you should be able to find it on Amazon.

Was that the book on The Corbert Report?

I read the book. Very good book.

look up chernobyl.


screw nature. i'm more important than nature.

Under what situation would mankind disappear and not take the rest of the earth with it?

I once saw a series of pictures on what Chernobyl looked like after 20 years. It's very illuminating. The photographer has since vanished, but her site is still up. I don't remember the exact URL, but it's on angelfire.com under the username kiddofspeed.

they recently found animals living there and surviving the radiation just fine.

I'd have to read the book again. If I am recalling correct, there is evidence that the animals there have adapted to eliminating free radicals in their bodies; microevolution.

You screw nature, it'll screw you.

The Earth will be here for a very long time. We can't blow up the whole thing.

Barring cybernetic revolt, something many computer science experts consider a possibility in this century, nature will take back everything we've made pretty quickly.

That was a neat program. And another one they have that's on a similar topic, the one called "Final Days of Man" or something similar to that. It listed the top 7 most likely causes of the destruction of man: Gamma Ray Bursts, Global Warming, Grey Goo Syndrome (this one was neat), Asteroid/Comet Impact, Nuclear War, and a few others I can't remember (AI overrunning the world may have been one).

If a spambot takes over the world.... I'll be out of a job.

I'd walk around naked all the time without anyone to mind to.