@KukriCat WRONG most species here today will live some will die out and new animals will join the evolution of earth after us thumbs up if u agree with me
We could achieve a peace like this if only we could evolve to be smarter. We humans are still stupid primates in many respects. We invent imaginary gods and religious baloney as a way of worshiping ourselves, and think that those dopey beliefs give us the right to rule and trash this planet as we see fit. We still hate each other based on skin color, religion, political affiliation, etc. If we can be just a little SMARTER, we can give the old girl(Earth) a break
Humanity will of course not vanish entirely; even dinosaurs left behind their fossils, if nothing else. We have a lot more shit around to be left around, and while most of it will vanish (and almost certainly none of it visible on the surface) some of it will remain preserved... Fear not, humans will have some sort of legacy to be found by those who search deep enough.
I can't imagine what an adventure it'd be for a new civilization to slowly uncover our own. Now that's something to think about
Without humans here to study the passage of time, 10,000 years is really meaningless. Time itsself is an invention of humanity and the world we leave behind will have no way of tracking it. Or if does invent its own system, it could be completely different.
People were created to worship God and spread the love and salvation of Jesus Christ to all nations, tribes, and languages. And P.S. all of the probes and footprints we left on the moon would last for hundreds of thousands of years. And I wonder how long the declaration of independence will last, also fort Knox, and all of the massive safes in banks.
@InsaneProjectsInc You do realize that religion is invented by mankind? It's basically a competetition who's got the best imaginary friend. People who are afraid of actual life turn to it, because they know what they'll get, in other words, it's a safe bet. It's simple human psychiology. Because humans are a curious race, they seek answers for why/how/what? So when you cannot find a definite answer to those, why not turn to something mysterious, like a god? Humans are silly :)
I think you guys are missing the point here, God created the heavens and the earth, he created all that is on the earth, the trees, animals, and plants. He also created man, God gave us the ability to think and imagine, he told us to rule over the earth and subdue it, without people, Gods principal creation, there would be no point to the earth or the universe.
this movie gives me "hope", that all that humanity has screwed up can be undone and swept away.my feel good movie of the year.
And by the way the mount rushmore last man made thing standing?yeah right try the giant garbage patches in the oceans which are 85% plastic,those are gonna stick for hundreds of thousand years- last thing standing will be our garbage, but eventually swept away.
God, my head is spinning! I normally like documentaries like this. But if you have had a hangover-like headeache for two days straight, maybe this wasn't my best idea :)
A planet that *may* go on? Not a complete recovery?
This portrays concrete structures in the contiguous 48 of the USA as the innocent victims of marauding nature and humanity as the core of the planet. The planet will go on without us, barring us being ended by a 400km asteroid impact or the Death Star.
I think complete erasure of lifeless cities counts as complete recovery.
Shame the rats, giant hogweed, cane toads and so on wouldn't all disappear too.
@KhanHamad Only pollution would still exist and scraps would be everywhere. Plains would no longer exist and at night the entire world will be plunged into complete darkness as moonlight and stars would be seen very little.
@KukriCat Wrong, the atmosphere can repair itself, but we're dumping so much pollution, it doesn't have time to. Without humans, everything would be nice.
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I think the longest lasting remnants of our civilization will be our trash. Plastics and styrofoam have the potential to last for tens of thousands of years, virtually unchanged.
This is the coolest thing I've watched in a while. If we left earth for 100 years, it would be nothing but grass and trees as if nothing ever existed, except for a few monuments. I could definitely watch this twice, that's how interesting it is.
our technology in space will remain as proof we were here...satellites, probes, robots, maybe bases on the rocky moons/planets.
however i don't believe we'll dissappear as a species, we might do sthg stupid and wipe out most of the population, but we'll live on adapting to the new rules of the game.
there's absolutely no species as adaptable as us, not even the cockroaches...that's my belief.
@Kamadeva01 Ya makes perfect sense to me. If all human life was wiped out, then ALL life in general except for some plant life would be wiped out as well. And that simply cannot happen. Time and Space however, are unpredictable.
this was very good, expect that humans wont just disappear. not without fucking up planet complately with nuclear war, or just by using all the natural resources and killing most of animals. so it's gonna be a whole different kind of earth after us
It seems like the point of this show was to say everything we've done is unnatural and things should be brought to a "should" way. I disagree. We are still one with nature, evolution bred for skyscrapers and intelligence. You can't HAVE unnatural in a nature world. Plus, we're not going anywhere.
The people that made this programme are forgetting that there will be a testament to our species and its ingenuity in the form of the technology left behind on the Moon, Mars and the Voyager probe. We won't be entirely forgotten.
Wow,the Earth will not only be better for the other animals once we're gone,it'll also be a lot prettier. Mankind really makes some ugly looking crap when you compare it to mother natures handiwork.
Man Earth would be so peaceful...an emerald dream. So green. The people that will replace us could be anything, or if the monkeys take over they would evolve into humans thus repeating the great history. Or aliens could occupy the empty planet. But just imagine a green world with birds chirping and the sound of water running
@jallar4 I wish mankind can change. No more war no more destruction on more nuclear bombs being made no more terrism. But even if America had fallen. There was freedom before America. There will be Freedom after America.
@jallar4 no birds would chirp, as it would attract predators - feral cats, hunters so fierce as to wipe whole cities of birds. The nights would be filled with howls of numerous fauna and shrieks of game torn apart by bloodthirsty carnivores. That's what nature looks like - red in tooth and claw
What we need to do as we stop breeding and phase ourselves out, is decommission nuclear power stations and dams for example. I also think we should encourage the growth of trees such as strangler figs in cities in appropriate climates/ecosystems. That'd be cool. A strangler fig using our buildings as scaffolding.
@rabbitspliff It isn't human existence that is the problem - it is the way humans live. Humans have the potential to actually tend the land and create habitats, but humanity as a whole chooses selfish interests. Humans can live in tree fab habs (grown trees grafted into the form of houses) and can live comfortably with all food and water needs met, comfortably with current population levels without damage to the environment, instead living with the environment. Humanity, however, chooses not to.
@Elliandr I agree with you. It's just, as you say, we choose not to. And at least for myself, the decision not to bring yet more people into the world is alot easier for me to make than the decision to make those lifestyle changes (largely due to the restraints of society - such a drastic lifestyle change from our extreme way of living right now would need alot of people behind it to give it momentum).
@ShoeTossLady The same idea applies to previous human civilizations. Knowing how may thousands of years humans have been around, and contrasting that to the short few thousand years it would take to erase human accomplishment, it makes one wonder. In India, for example, an ancient nuclear reactor was found in the 1970's (as reported by the New York Times) and was determined to be natural only because it is assumed humans were not that advanced. Could all this have happened before?
This is great and all, but they're completely overlooking the satellites that we've sent into space that will last for as long as anyone can imagine. The scars that we have created on the earth from the extraction of resources will easily last thousands of years after we're gone. The plastics, oil, fertilizers, and other pollutants we've dumped into the ocean won't simply disappear just because we decide to play hookie.
@atomiccows No Satellite has a perfect orbit. The orbit will either decay, or it will pull away from the Earth entirely... In the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" plastics are broken down into chips by sunlight and salt water. Many fish and birds eat this, and are poisoned by it, but the plastics in turn end up buried at the bottom of the sea... Fertilizers feed algae blooms that remove the phosphates from the sea... Pollutants in general tend to be absorbed by plants and then buried.
@Elliandr On a long enough time scale nothing will remain until the universe is essentially a a sparse quantum soup. I was more referring to the satellites that we've sent to the outer solar system and are now traveling beyond. While no longer on or anywhere near the Earth, they will most likely last longer than anything else we've made. I did not know that about the Pacific Garbage Patch. neat. What about the nitrogen that we've dumped into the oceans though?
@atomiccows I see. Good point about those Satellites. Well, in all probability, they will reach the Oort Cloud and be destroyed without anyone to direct them. (assuming the Oort cloud exists. It is still technically theoretical) from there I am unsure... As for the Nitrogen runoff, this causes algae blooms which in turn causes oceanic dead zones. These areas kill the fish because they are low oxygen, but the nitrogen is consumed and eventually without humans would return to balance. Eventually.
@destroth0R That depends. Since the moon has neither an atmosphere nor an ionosphere, it has no protection. Space Debris hit the moon all the time so it is just a matter of time before those are destroyed as well... however, lacking an exact hit, those would remain until our moon's orbit completely decays. I would be more curious the impact of the eventual loss of our moon will have.
This show serves to remind every single person on Earth they are only a grain of sand in the endless hourglass of the universe. Humanity has a very fragile hold on our world and we could lose it at any second. Probably one of the most thought provoking documentaries ever made, 10 out of 10.
@torylivingston Well said... I would add that anyone talking about "Saving the Earth" is really talking about Saving Humanity. Humanity needs a suitable habitat. The habitat, however, doesn't need humanity.
The white mans arrogance is astoudaing, he think that he can do whatever he wants to nature and get away with it. If he disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would be grateful. I dont care about any of your negative comments, if you disagree just look up your people and there history of violence.
Cats. They'll replace us. Fuck, they were ninjas to start with, now they can fly. They taught us to feed them, keep them warm, and give them free massages. And I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient. In fact, positive. Although, having read "The Alex Chronicles" it seems birds are sentient too....and can manipulate tools....Yeah. Probably birds. Man, the earth's so beautiful without buildings....
Thank you Chichanpwns for posting this. I saw part of this documentary on the telly years ago and was sad that I couldn't see the whole thing. Thanks to you I now have. =) I must say that I feel hopeful after watching it. The thought of life happening even after you're not around to witness it, makes death look less scary. The world will be just fine without us. It will even be better off. Good to know.
@dannylau328 Ok then, imagine 280 Americans-probably 140 m & 140 f scattered across a country as big as America. Whole secrtions of America including whole towns and some cities empty of ppl.
@discotheminecrafter i think that the only hope Humanity has of surviving is to get off the earth, and to colonize other systems. Therefore education and advancement IS important, because quite literally..our survival depends on it. stay in school kid. lol
A better program would be if 99.99% of people died off, say via a super virus, and a program the see how the 'Survivours' who were immune to it coped in an empty world.
@sammynalla I am legend wasn't an empty world, it was a zombie lite movie. I mean an more or less empty world. The population is around 7 billion ppl, if just 0.0001% were naturally immune to a 'super virus' that would leave just 7000 ppl in the world. there are 200 countries so that leaves 35 ppl for each country if there of course anyone left alive in a particular county. Think about it, just approx 35 ppl alive in a country the size of America, the ending of IAL would then be relevant.
@counterkick45 this chuck norris is a nobody hes just some 1980 big guy with a big gun and stop talking aboud him where ever you go jesus no matter what your talking aboud you will hear some old shit aboud him. fuck i hate chuck norris fans they are soooo anoing.
Best Advice: people if you have important art, photos, documents or artifacts you want to perserve forever....hide them in a dry cave or dry underground location in places like Egypt! you be glad you did
I know how to perserve my artwork and important documents forever now....bury them inside a clay pot and lock it away in a desert cave or pyramid in Egypt or other dry climate areas...Of course that goes for ANY artist,
Well Na'vis were cats and birds were dinosaurs. Maybe there will be other species who will wander and say
"do you think something existed before us?"
and the other will respond
"Nah, there were just some stupid elephants and many birds and stupid apes. And before that more strange creatures. What, do you think there was an early civilisation in this forest, like a ape people? your nuts!"
This is really deep, however I'm wondering. This video almost makes it sad, it made me feel like there is no purpose in life. So, I don't know what to make of it. Is there really no purpose? However, what if... God is actually real. and what if, by some chance, we actually have a purpose in life. seeing how this video opened my eyes. it made me think that anything is possible, no matter how absurd it may seem. Because there is no way that the human civilization is here without a purpose.
@zepeterinma - Well, you can see "meaning" or "purpose" from different perspectives or scales. For instance, on a human scale, a single human life can have a meaning or purpose as long as you figure it out (or invent one) and act on it. On a geological scale, well, human life is insignificant (on a cosmological scale, humans are non-existent). It's up to you to choose which scale to focus on, though I strongly suggest the human scale... it doesn't fill you with existential anxiety, at least.
@TheScottKonar We humans have the need for competition. Everyone has to have the biggest stick. If people stopped acting according to their egos then it is possible for the world to be....eh... somewhat harmonic. :/
the idea of us not being as important to the planet as we think we are made us make religion up to make ourselves useful and important in some special way. And if religion was to be true, wouldn't we be selfish to let this place live on without us?
although i think this way, i now look at mountains differently because they might have had been monuments before and we'll never know about it.
What will happen to the satellites in outer space? Would they begin to collapse as well? There is not much water in space, so corrosion might not be one of the decaying factors.
But, then again, Mankind is required to maintain those satellites. How will the world behave after man? Will the atmosphere evolve differently due to the extinction of pollution by man?
@zhatdude They'd eventually be pulled back into the atmosphere and be destroyed either by the heat of re-entry or the impact of hitting the ground at high speeds.
The atmosphere would probably change in some shape or form, although it's difficult to predict exactly what might happen. There are just too many factors involved. It's fun to speculate, though.
Almost a Lovecraft ending, that mindset. Poetic, but frightening. Realizing the extent of ephemeralness of our awareness, even our existence, is always so fearsome.
I loved this, though. And how could I not agree with all those who said it before me: Why do we waste so much time on frivolous issues? Why society pushes us to remain on the surface, always towards ease, never to what really matters?
@diegogordillo07 I think they forgot to mention about radioactive waste buried deep under the ground. Those substances could likely be around for ten to hundreds of thousands of years.
It is nice to say how beautiful and poetic we are with our eyes turn to the sky and deep thoughts about universe and god. To think, we still destroy so many tries only to print colorful pictures in magazines that will end up in garbage in three days time.
There was life before people and there will be life after people that is so true in the end humans are important to a limit as in humans are not everything,time doe's not stop because we as humans say so,the weather does not be good because we say so,the universe was here way before humans was even thought of so in the end of story is life goes on with or with out people.
the guy at the end of this is a classic example of how atheists and evolutionists are so desperately clutching at straws to try and explain the complexity of human nature... even how the existence of humans came about! he says we may be an 'accident' of nature. what a joke why don't we all just kill ourselves now, after all life has no purpose, meaning or significance, we're an accident!
so stubborn, open your eyes and see the blindingly obvious.
@ferrel81 stop being an imbecile, just because our very existence was random, doesn't mean we should all go out killing ourselves. Life is an accident, get over it. Stop clinging to your bullshit creation myths, the story of nature crafting out or cosmos, our planet and even life itself, is more richer and awe inspiring than the ramblings of any theistic text
@lypse14 i hardly see how that's true. it takes more faith to believe "the story of nature crafting out or cosmos, our planet and even life itself" as evolution explains it, than it does to believe the what the bible teaches. you just have to get over yourself to be willing to look at the facts.
@ferrel81 You're so fractally wrong, it's not even funny lol. First of all, all evolution explains is the change and diversityof species, it has nothing to do with cosmology. Secondly, you don't hve to take anything on faith when it comes to evolution or big bang cosmology, and you know why? Because they're supported by EVIDENCE and make testable predictions. The amount of evidence for evolution alone is is so staggering, that it's inconceivable to me how anyone can deny it!
@lypse14 sorry, i should have said 'as evolution requires' rather than 'as evolution explains' watch all 6 parts of this video and ask yourself honestly, how true is the statement you just made to me?... watch?v=NdNWkGqBsrA
But, we will always be remembered. That first American flag, Apollo 11, we will be remembered on the moon... In SPACE!
vidioinspector 2 weeks ago
@KukriCat WRONG most species here today will live some will die out and new animals will join the evolution of earth after us thumbs up if u agree with me
101hypershadic 1 month ago 2
We could achieve a peace like this if only we could evolve to be smarter. We humans are still stupid primates in many respects. We invent imaginary gods and religious baloney as a way of worshiping ourselves, and think that those dopey beliefs give us the right to rule and trash this planet as we see fit. We still hate each other based on skin color, religion, political affiliation, etc. If we can be just a little SMARTER, we can give the old girl(Earth) a break
TheGreaterGood80 1 month ago 2
I actually want to see this with my own eyes.
meatballsarebrown 1 month ago
Humanity will of course not vanish entirely; even dinosaurs left behind their fossils, if nothing else. We have a lot more shit around to be left around, and while most of it will vanish (and almost certainly none of it visible on the surface) some of it will remain preserved... Fear not, humans will have some sort of legacy to be found by those who search deep enough.
I can't imagine what an adventure it'd be for a new civilization to slowly uncover our own. Now that's something to think about
Jimera0 2 months ago
@Jimera0
I just hope they won't give us furr or scales at their reconstruction models. Who knows. Maybe our replacements won't be vertebrates.
Tabbimura 1 month ago
Without humans here to study the passage of time, 10,000 years is really meaningless. Time itsself is an invention of humanity and the world we leave behind will have no way of tracking it. Or if does invent its own system, it could be completely different.
torylivingston 3 months ago
People were created to worship God and spread the love and salvation of Jesus Christ to all nations, tribes, and languages. And P.S. all of the probes and footprints we left on the moon would last for hundreds of thousands of years. And I wonder how long the declaration of independence will last, also fort Knox, and all of the massive safes in banks.
InsaneProjectsInc 3 months ago
@InsaneProjectsInc You do realize that religion is invented by mankind? It's basically a competetition who's got the best imaginary friend. People who are afraid of actual life turn to it, because they know what they'll get, in other words, it's a safe bet. It's simple human psychiology. Because humans are a curious race, they seek answers for why/how/what? So when you cannot find a definite answer to those, why not turn to something mysterious, like a god? Humans are silly :)
CptWildee 2 months ago
I think you guys are missing the point here, God created the heavens and the earth, he created all that is on the earth, the trees, animals, and plants. He also created man, God gave us the ability to think and imagine, he told us to rule over the earth and subdue it, without people, Gods principal creation, there would be no point to the earth or the universe.
InsaneProjectsInc 3 months ago
Isn't that a big "screw you" to saving the planet. As George Carlin has said. "The planet is fine, the people are fucked".
openminded2 3 months ago
this movie gives me "hope", that all that humanity has screwed up can be undone and swept away.my feel good movie of the year.
And by the way the mount rushmore last man made thing standing?yeah right try the giant garbage patches in the oceans which are 85% plastic,those are gonna stick for hundreds of thousand years- last thing standing will be our garbage, but eventually swept away.
Shiratsui 3 months ago
10.000 years on some of our satellites might still be in orbit...
TrueNorthNorway1970 3 months ago
God, my head is spinning! I normally like documentaries like this. But if you have had a hangover-like headeache for two days straight, maybe this wasn't my best idea :)
MetalFanx2000 3 months ago
its tera nova!
vcastillo1990 4 months ago
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so what we are all just going to disappear?
RedxLilxSleepy 4 months ago
A planet that *may* go on? Not a complete recovery?
This portrays concrete structures in the contiguous 48 of the USA as the innocent victims of marauding nature and humanity as the core of the planet. The planet will go on without us, barring us being ended by a 400km asteroid impact or the Death Star.
I think complete erasure of lifeless cities counts as complete recovery.
Shame the rats, giant hogweed, cane toads and so on wouldn't all disappear too.
Sableagle 4 months ago
greatt storry whoooo ooooo....
MrTrueKristen 5 months ago
So, speculation on how memorable our existence would be to creatures without the capacity to even care is important?
Pooknottin 5 months ago
Life after people = Life before people!!!
KhanHamad 5 months ago 6
@KhanHamad Only pollution would still exist and scraps would be everywhere. Plains would no longer exist and at night the entire world will be plunged into complete darkness as moonlight and stars would be seen very little.
KukriCat 4 months ago
@KukriCat Wrong, the atmosphere can repair itself, but we're dumping so much pollution, it doesn't have time to. Without humans, everything would be nice.
Cminecraft 4 months ago
@Cminecraft It CAN, but we're talking millions upon millions of years.
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WeekendattheCabin1 5 months ago
I think the longest lasting remnants of our civilization will be our trash. Plastics and styrofoam have the potential to last for tens of thousands of years, virtually unchanged.
LordBizarre112233 6 months ago
This is the coolest thing I've watched in a while. If we left earth for 100 years, it would be nothing but grass and trees as if nothing ever existed, except for a few monuments. I could definitely watch this twice, that's how interesting it is.
JTC31290 6 months ago
Directed by Michael Bay
TheRandomPenOfficial 6 months ago
our technology in space will remain as proof we were here...satellites, probes, robots, maybe bases on the rocky moons/planets.
however i don't believe we'll dissappear as a species, we might do sthg stupid and wipe out most of the population, but we'll live on adapting to the new rules of the game.
there's absolutely no species as adaptable as us, not even the cockroaches...that's my belief.
Kamadeva01 6 months ago
@Kamadeva01 Ya makes perfect sense to me. If all human life was wiped out, then ALL life in general except for some plant life would be wiped out as well. And that simply cannot happen. Time and Space however, are unpredictable.
KukriCat 4 months ago
Thx God, humans have lasted only half a minute so far, imagine if it would have been an hour already...
dubsolbrother 6 months ago
this was very good, expect that humans wont just disappear. not without fucking up planet complately with nuclear war, or just by using all the natural resources and killing most of animals. so it's gonna be a whole different kind of earth after us
Apiaanilol 6 months ago 2
It seems like the point of this show was to say everything we've done is unnatural and things should be brought to a "should" way. I disagree. We are still one with nature, evolution bred for skyscrapers and intelligence. You can't HAVE unnatural in a nature world. Plus, we're not going anywhere.
cupshalfphil 6 months ago
The people that made this programme are forgetting that there will be a testament to our species and its ingenuity in the form of the technology left behind on the Moon, Mars and the Voyager probe. We won't be entirely forgotten.
creationbassist 6 months ago 2
That last part really shaked me. "Who will tink about it?"
SophosVII 7 months ago
Why jungle? Why not forest?
GTXMAN 7 months ago
@NobodyXChallenger Maybe if you watched all 20 episodes you'd know that it does. This is just the beginning.
KrossPoison1 7 months ago
Wow,the Earth will not only be better for the other animals once we're gone,it'll also be a lot prettier. Mankind really makes some ugly looking crap when you compare it to mother natures handiwork.
mrbrianmccarthy 7 months ago
i can see only 1/2 of the the hints when they appear. Thats so annoying , i cant read and learn the interesting facts
samosval92 7 months ago
this documentay is amazing! Simply breathtaking to know what comes next!
gwidao123 7 months ago
shut the fuck up ! ... tTHERE IS NO GOD only science ;)
vankovolley 7 months ago 2
just look at some of the sidewalks now. You'll see the planet reclaiming it's self. can't stop mother nature.
antzinn79 7 months ago
This explains why the only thing left on Mars is that pyramid, and that stone face the martians built, so long ago.
MrLotharofhillpeople 8 months ago
This is just the best documentary. It is so.... hopeful...
ninarm 8 months ago
If buildings were underground, they might survive until 50,000 years or something.
airbendingavatar1 8 months ago
Awesome & a little scary
teedome3284 9 months ago
Man Earth would be so peaceful...an emerald dream. So green. The people that will replace us could be anything, or if the monkeys take over they would evolve into humans thus repeating the great history. Or aliens could occupy the empty planet. But just imagine a green world with birds chirping and the sound of water running
jallar4 9 months ago 11
@jallar4 I wish mankind can change. No more war no more destruction on more nuclear bombs being made no more terrism. But even if America had fallen. There was freedom before America. There will be Freedom after America.
ray2971 8 months ago
@jallar4 no birds would chirp, as it would attract predators - feral cats, hunters so fierce as to wipe whole cities of birds. The nights would be filled with howls of numerous fauna and shrieks of game torn apart by bloodthirsty carnivores. That's what nature looks like - red in tooth and claw
Arjozof 2 months ago
@jallar4 your a fail
BlurnyShurn 2 months ago
@BlurnyShurn you're* a fail
Exsoldier7777 1 month ago
@jallar4 you idiot an emerald dream
BlurnyShurn 2 months ago
@jallar4
Or some squids would become new sapient beings.
Tabbimura 1 month ago
I wonder how much fun they had making this. I know I would have enjoyed making this!!
TTStarlight911 9 months ago
Makes me wonder. Maybe some 5'000'000 yrs ago there was some highly inteligent squirrel civilization who destroyed itself in atomic war.
Validols 9 months ago
What we need to do as we stop breeding and phase ourselves out, is decommission nuclear power stations and dams for example. I also think we should encourage the growth of trees such as strangler figs in cities in appropriate climates/ecosystems. That'd be cool. A strangler fig using our buildings as scaffolding.
rabbitspliff 9 months ago
@rabbitspliff It isn't human existence that is the problem - it is the way humans live. Humans have the potential to actually tend the land and create habitats, but humanity as a whole chooses selfish interests. Humans can live in tree fab habs (grown trees grafted into the form of houses) and can live comfortably with all food and water needs met, comfortably with current population levels without damage to the environment, instead living with the environment. Humanity, however, chooses not to.
Elliandr 9 months ago 2
@Elliandr I agree with you. It's just, as you say, we choose not to. And at least for myself, the decision not to bring yet more people into the world is alot easier for me to make than the decision to make those lifestyle changes (largely due to the restraints of society - such a drastic lifestyle change from our extreme way of living right now would need alot of people behind it to give it momentum).
rabbitspliff 9 months ago 2
@ShoeTossLady The same idea applies to previous human civilizations. Knowing how may thousands of years humans have been around, and contrasting that to the short few thousand years it would take to erase human accomplishment, it makes one wonder. In India, for example, an ancient nuclear reactor was found in the 1970's (as reported by the New York Times) and was determined to be natural only because it is assumed humans were not that advanced. Could all this have happened before?
Elliandr 9 months ago
This is great and all, but they're completely overlooking the satellites that we've sent into space that will last for as long as anyone can imagine. The scars that we have created on the earth from the extraction of resources will easily last thousands of years after we're gone. The plastics, oil, fertilizers, and other pollutants we've dumped into the ocean won't simply disappear just because we decide to play hookie.
atomiccows 9 months ago 2
@atomiccows No Satellite has a perfect orbit. The orbit will either decay, or it will pull away from the Earth entirely... In the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" plastics are broken down into chips by sunlight and salt water. Many fish and birds eat this, and are poisoned by it, but the plastics in turn end up buried at the bottom of the sea... Fertilizers feed algae blooms that remove the phosphates from the sea... Pollutants in general tend to be absorbed by plants and then buried.
Elliandr 9 months ago
@Elliandr On a long enough time scale nothing will remain until the universe is essentially a a sparse quantum soup. I was more referring to the satellites that we've sent to the outer solar system and are now traveling beyond. While no longer on or anywhere near the Earth, they will most likely last longer than anything else we've made. I did not know that about the Pacific Garbage Patch. neat. What about the nitrogen that we've dumped into the oceans though?
atomiccows 9 months ago
@atomiccows I see. Good point about those Satellites. Well, in all probability, they will reach the Oort Cloud and be destroyed without anyone to direct them. (assuming the Oort cloud exists. It is still technically theoretical) from there I am unsure... As for the Nitrogen runoff, this causes algae blooms which in turn causes oceanic dead zones. These areas kill the fish because they are low oxygen, but the nitrogen is consumed and eventually without humans would return to balance. Eventually.
Elliandr 9 months ago
they forgot to mention what would happen to the rest of the fucking world
randomstuffness 9 months ago
What about the shit we put on the moon?
destroth0R 9 months ago 2
@destroth0R That depends. Since the moon has neither an atmosphere nor an ionosphere, it has no protection. Space Debris hit the moon all the time so it is just a matter of time before those are destroyed as well... however, lacking an exact hit, those would remain until our moon's orbit completely decays. I would be more curious the impact of the eventual loss of our moon will have.
Elliandr 9 months ago
Did the sun disappear along with people for the making of this show?
So dark =\
ThatLaggyNoob 10 months ago
This show serves to remind every single person on Earth they are only a grain of sand in the endless hourglass of the universe. Humanity has a very fragile hold on our world and we could lose it at any second. Probably one of the most thought provoking documentaries ever made, 10 out of 10.
torylivingston 10 months ago 10
@torylivingston Well said... I would add that anyone talking about "Saving the Earth" is really talking about Saving Humanity. Humanity needs a suitable habitat. The habitat, however, doesn't need humanity.
Elliandr 9 months ago
@Elliandr I agree with you!!!
TTStarlight911 9 months ago
are we anything after all this ??
freeamericaneagle 10 months ago
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What will happen to the world's nuclear arms? Will they not be affected?
Spiritkiller09 10 months ago
I think this show's producer has a hard on for the Hoover dam.
lemonsyay1 10 months ago 27
My favorite show. And yes, the other friend is right saying it kind of puts our day to day bullshit into perspective. Thank you very much.
jinglejangle1871 11 months ago
The white mans arrogance is astoudaing, he think that he can do whatever he wants to nature and get away with it. If he disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would be grateful. I dont care about any of your negative comments, if you disagree just look up your people and there history of violence.
KQH8 11 months ago
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Yeah...because only white people do such things.....moron....
gregpasq 10 months ago
@gregpasq I didnt mean to offend anyone, its just my opinion. I will be more tactful next time in my approach.
KQH8 10 months ago
Mans arrogance is astounding !!! & they almost always leave GOD out of the equation ...
salcarusomusicvideo 11 months ago
So what will happen to the satellites and the Space Station..??
M16OnDaScene 11 months ago
@M16OnDaScene They would eventually turn into space debris.They would break down due to lack of maintenance, get hit by stray rocks and meteors, etc.
19felinefancy 11 months ago
@19felinefancy Real great answer thanks!!
M16OnDaScene 11 months ago
I doubt the 10,000 years forecast would be accurate!
jing713 1 year ago
Kind of puts our day to day bullshit into perspective.
Wammoblammo 1 year ago 41
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I laughed my ass off when the guy (an astrophysic, by the way) said that Mount Rushmore would be around for thousands of years.
Apparently he hasn't heard about a magical process called weathering which causes and an even more magical process called erosion.
Not to mention stuff like earthquakes...
LinoWalker 1 year ago
@LinoWalker Erosion only happens with metal....not rock like granite.
SammyBad1 9 months ago
I laughed my ass off when the guy (an astrophysic, by the way) said that Mount Rushmore would be around for thousands of years.
Apparently he hasn't heard about a magical process called weathering which causes and an even more magical process called erosion.
Not too mention stuff like earthquakes...
LinoWalker 1 year ago
They forgot the moon landing sites and the Pioneer and Voyager space probes.
fedupx5900 1 year ago
@orkneymist fuck chuck norris, hes a goof. i dont understand why people are still makin jokes bout him.
david292978 1 year ago
I say ravens will replace us lol.
flybyth 1 year ago
Dam nature you scary.
TheIcelandicPatriot 1 year ago 6
Cats. They'll replace us. Fuck, they were ninjas to start with, now they can fly. They taught us to feed them, keep them warm, and give them free massages. And I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient. In fact, positive. Although, having read "The Alex Chronicles" it seems birds are sentient too....and can manipulate tools....Yeah. Probably birds. Man, the earth's so beautiful without buildings....
FLuffeesNewFan 1 year ago
Thank you Chichanpwns for posting this. I saw part of this documentary on the telly years ago and was sad that I couldn't see the whole thing. Thanks to you I now have. =) I must say that I feel hopeful after watching it. The thought of life happening even after you're not around to witness it, makes death look less scary. The world will be just fine without us. It will even be better off. Good to know.
Lodeinro 1 year ago
Nothing will live forever that is sad but this is the nature.
oposum94 1 year ago
It's pretty hard to wipe out humans we're so resilient that we've come back from dangerously low population levels many times throughout our history.
spo666tty 1 year ago 4
@spo666tty So have millions of other species of plants and animals.
19felinefancy 11 months ago
@dannylau328 Ok then, imagine 280 Americans-probably 140 m & 140 f scattered across a country as big as America. Whole secrtions of America including whole towns and some cities empty of ppl.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
i would guess the first day without us humans would be the 22nd of December 2012.
Zelda0923 1 year ago
@Zelda0923 o0hh scare mongery
Pawnbroker00 1 year ago
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I want this to happen.
LudiHERMANkoknit 1 year ago
fallout
jasenrooks2010 1 year ago
So now I guess all we're doing on Earth is practically pointless, because you just said we will eventually die. Screw education.
discotheminecrafter 1 year ago
@discotheminecrafter i think that the only hope Humanity has of surviving is to get off the earth, and to colonize other systems. Therefore education and advancement IS important, because quite literally..our survival depends on it. stay in school kid. lol
kennedy9888 1 year ago
i start to think that one goal is to show americans what will happen with the glorious USA -.-
TigerMeet2142 1 year ago
A better program would be if 99.99% of people died off, say via a super virus, and a program the see how the 'Survivours' who were immune to it coped in an empty world.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
@Puzzoozoo Like the movie "I am Legend
sammynalla 1 year ago
@sammynalla I am legend wasn't an empty world, it was a zombie lite movie. I mean an more or less empty world. The population is around 7 billion ppl, if just 0.0001% were naturally immune to a 'super virus' that would leave just 7000 ppl in the world. there are 200 countries so that leaves 35 ppl for each country if there of course anyone left alive in a particular county. Think about it, just approx 35 ppl alive in a country the size of America, the ending of IAL would then be relevant.
Puzzoozoo 1 year ago
This programme makes me feel so insignificant.
x2multi 1 year ago 59
@x2multi as it should
SophosVII 7 months ago
@x2multi I hate to say it, but we are.
creationbassist 6 months ago
I'm wondering if the Reapers had anything to do with our dissapearence?
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1975bakerlad 1 year ago
@bag04u special, but not good for the world and all life on it.
twinkstance 1 year ago
I'm sure in 1000 years chuck norris will tell them all about us.
AnonymouseLad 1 year ago
@AnonymouseLad who is chuck norris?
amnesiaraver 1 year ago
@amnesiaraver what the fuck?! you don't freakin' know who CHUCK NORRIS is?! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
counterkick45 1 year ago
@counterkick45 no lol i hear his name all over the place and it does my head in so thought i would ask lol
amnesiaraver 1 year ago
@counterkick45 this chuck norris is a nobody hes just some 1980 big guy with a big gun and stop talking aboud him where ever you go jesus no matter what your talking aboud you will hear some old shit aboud him. fuck i hate chuck norris fans they are soooo anoing.
TheIcelandicPatriot 1 year ago
Best Advice: people if you have important art, photos, documents or artifacts you want to perserve forever....hide them in a dry cave or dry underground location in places like Egypt! you be glad you did
856956sinewavetones 1 year ago
@856956sinewavetones Until the environment changes and it becomes tropical like it once was lol.
TalesOfWar 1 year ago
@TalesOfWar how can the pyriamids and desert of egypt change into a tropical enviroment??? i dont see that happening.
856956sinewavetones 1 year ago
@856956sinewavetones the sahara desert was once a tropical environment. if you go back further in time, antartica was once a jungle.
robokill387 1 year ago
@robokill387 well the moon's climate NEVER changes.
856956sinewavetones 1 year ago
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I know how to perserve my artwork and important documents forever now....bury them inside a clay pot and lock it away in a desert cave or pyramid in Egypt or other dry climate areas...Of course that goes for ANY artist,
856956sinewavetones 1 year ago
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Dang that narrator's voice is DEEP!!! I think that narrator smoked too many cigarettes!
856956sinewavetones 1 year ago
Right now there's some Human-Hater Greenie going "Yeah! Yeah! BRing it on!"
Hey, Greenie... you think the world would be better without people?
Take yourself out of the equation first... oh... and murder your children before you do.
Nah... that ain't gonna happen is it...?
Hypocrite!
Humanity is quite capable of learning to live in harmony with Nature.
Green AND Cities... and beyond them, the Stars.
That's the future.
Everything is else B***S***!
(Waiting to ignore your response)
v1e1r1g1e1 1 year ago
Well Na'vis were cats and birds were dinosaurs. Maybe there will be other species who will wander and say
"do you think something existed before us?"
and the other will respond
"Nah, there were just some stupid elephants and many birds and stupid apes. And before that more strange creatures. What, do you think there was an early civilisation in this forest, like a ape people? your nuts!"
"But what about those mountainfaces?"
"Rock erodation or maybe aliens! who knows!"
movienaut 1 year ago 4
Who cares we are all going to die in 2012 i just hope i live near john cusack he will take care of things!
fooksake69 1 year ago
@fooksake69 Mathew 29:30 Man not even the angels know when the end times is, only God knows. or something like that =D
TheRealKidAlex 1 year ago
that was cool, but what about coins, safes, vaults,
joe142507 1 year ago
Like something said "Hand me over your flesh. And the new world awaits us."
karatcha 1 year ago
This is really deep, however I'm wondering. This video almost makes it sad, it made me feel like there is no purpose in life. So, I don't know what to make of it. Is there really no purpose? However, what if... God is actually real. and what if, by some chance, we actually have a purpose in life. seeing how this video opened my eyes. it made me think that anything is possible, no matter how absurd it may seem. Because there is no way that the human civilization is here without a purpose.
zepeterinma 1 year ago
@zepeterinma - Well, you can see "meaning" or "purpose" from different perspectives or scales. For instance, on a human scale, a single human life can have a meaning or purpose as long as you figure it out (or invent one) and act on it. On a geological scale, well, human life is insignificant (on a cosmological scale, humans are non-existent). It's up to you to choose which scale to focus on, though I strongly suggest the human scale... it doesn't fill you with existential anxiety, at least.
dudecicero 1 year ago
What a brilliant video.
I really fancy a wank now.
asubjectiveopinion 1 year ago
Humans are quite smart and stupid at the same time. We can go into outer space but we cant find a way to live in harmony with planet earth.
TheScottKonar 1 year ago 2
@TheScottKonar We humans have the need for competition. Everyone has to have the biggest stick. If people stopped acting according to their egos then it is possible for the world to be....eh... somewhat harmonic. :/
ccrg109 1 year ago
Would knew intelligent life develop, we did
TheEmperorhirohito 1 year ago
the idea of us not being as important to the planet as we think we are made us make religion up to make ourselves useful and important in some special way. And if religion was to be true, wouldn't we be selfish to let this place live on without us?
although i think this way, i now look at mountains differently because they might have had been monuments before and we'll never know about it.
APOLOMILES 1 year ago
What will happen to the satellites in outer space? Would they begin to collapse as well? There is not much water in space, so corrosion might not be one of the decaying factors.
But, then again, Mankind is required to maintain those satellites. How will the world behave after man? Will the atmosphere evolve differently due to the extinction of pollution by man?
So many questions, yet so little answers...
zhatdude 1 year ago
@zhatdude They'd eventually be pulled back into the atmosphere and be destroyed either by the heat of re-entry or the impact of hitting the ground at high speeds.
The atmosphere would probably change in some shape or form, although it's difficult to predict exactly what might happen. There are just too many factors involved. It's fun to speculate, though.
sciencealwayswins 1 year ago
@sciencealwayswins Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for answering!
zhatdude 1 year ago
i still have questions like what will happen to the decloration of intependence and the monalise and what about pandas will they live on
redsoxxx1234 1 year ago
Chuck norris will be alive in 10,1000
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1975bakerlad 1 year ago
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Earth should be a better place without people ...
danulaestrellaosCura 1 year ago
Amazingg show , very interesting .. Enjoyed it..
Homiebalonie 1 year ago
life after people huh god if i could be one creature it would be a cat!!!!
f1etchy1 1 year ago
I bet pyramids will live, but under the sand.
ponti117 1 year ago
All this pathos.........
What's for dinner?
puncheex 1 year ago
I find it absolutely amazing that the earth won't even miss us. As a matter of fact it would probably throw a party...
chibikawaiichris 1 year ago
Almost a Lovecraft ending, that mindset. Poetic, but frightening. Realizing the extent of ephemeralness of our awareness, even our existence, is always so fearsome.
I loved this, though. And how could I not agree with all those who said it before me: Why do we waste so much time on frivolous issues? Why society pushes us to remain on the surface, always towards ease, never to what really matters?
God I'm depressing myself. xD
diegogordillo07 1 year ago
@diegogordillo07 I think they forgot to mention about radioactive waste buried deep under the ground. Those substances could likely be around for ten to hundreds of thousands of years.
supersmash43 1 year ago
@supersmas You're right. And they omitted talking much about nuclear plants too....
diegogordillo07 1 year ago
@diegogordillo07 but they are spot on about everything else. Human civilzation is indeed frail compared to the forces of nature.
supersmash43 1 year ago
I like the documentary, "The World Without Us" better. This is just too frightening.
skanthavelu 1 year ago
It is nice to say how beautiful and poetic we are with our eyes turn to the sky and deep thoughts about universe and god. To think, we still destroy so many tries only to print colorful pictures in magazines that will end up in garbage in three days time.
Threemicsrecords 1 year ago
i will missed the earth T_T when im gone
daybreak4491 1 year ago
There was life before people and there will be life after people that is so true in the end humans are important to a limit as in humans are not everything,time doe's not stop because we as humans say so,the weather does not be good because we say so,the universe was here way before humans was even thought of so in the end of story is life goes on with or with out people.
Starbucks coffee taste so good . LOL
SISTERWANDAVIPOFEB 1 year ago
@SISTERWANDAVIPOFEB You do know that's what the entire series is about, right?
Rammstein651 1 year ago
@Rammstein651
Yes i know what the series is about but at the same time people are not that
damn important in the real world some people hate black people , some people
hate celebrity's and so on we have to many issues / problems from environmental to marriage to power to money and so on we as humans has
fucked up a lot of things but it's OK because there are people in the world
who hate other people ( humans) it's sad but it's understandable look at the
past and reality that tell us things.
SISTERWANDAVIPOFEB 1 year ago
@SISTERWANDAVIPOFEB You do know that's what the entire series is about, right?
Rammstein651 1 year ago
@SISTERWANDAVIPOFEB You do know that's what the entire series is about, right?
Rammstein651 1 year ago
the guy at the end of this is a classic example of how atheists and evolutionists are so desperately clutching at straws to try and explain the complexity of human nature... even how the existence of humans came about! he says we may be an 'accident' of nature. what a joke why don't we all just kill ourselves now, after all life has no purpose, meaning or significance, we're an accident!
so stubborn, open your eyes and see the blindingly obvious.
ferrel81 1 year ago
@ferrel81 stop being an imbecile, just because our very existence was random, doesn't mean we should all go out killing ourselves. Life is an accident, get over it. Stop clinging to your bullshit creation myths, the story of nature crafting out or cosmos, our planet and even life itself, is more richer and awe inspiring than the ramblings of any theistic text
lypse14 8 months ago 2
@lypse14 i hardly see how that's true. it takes more faith to believe "the story of nature crafting out or cosmos, our planet and even life itself" as evolution explains it, than it does to believe the what the bible teaches. you just have to get over yourself to be willing to look at the facts.
ferrel81 8 months ago
@ferrel81 You're so fractally wrong, it's not even funny lol. First of all, all evolution explains is the change and diversityof species, it has nothing to do with cosmology. Secondly, you don't hve to take anything on faith when it comes to evolution or big bang cosmology, and you know why? Because they're supported by EVIDENCE and make testable predictions. The amount of evidence for evolution alone is is so staggering, that it's inconceivable to me how anyone can deny it!
lypse14 8 months ago
@lypse14 sorry, i should have said 'as evolution requires' rather than 'as evolution explains' watch all 6 parts of this video and ask yourself honestly, how true is the statement you just made to me?... watch?v=NdNWkGqBsrA
ferrel81 8 months ago
@ferrel81 I'll watch then I'll pm you
lypse14 8 months ago
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@lypse14 while your at it watch this one... watch?v=2rCkFLq3uts
ferrel81 8 months ago