Earth without humans

[Shoyru_Lover]

Marucs gave me a link to a really interesting article about what would happen if humans all dissapeared from Earth tomorrow.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100

Discuss.

[zorg]

Thats right I did. Because its awesome, seriously, read it, its really interesting.

[Shoyru_Lover]

Like I told Marcus, I really should find a link to the article that discusses how slight of a chance it was for us to be here today... apparantly for our environement etc. to be replicated... there needs to be a spiral galaxy like the milky way... we need to be in a certain position, there needs to be a certain sun/star... we need to be a certain distance away from it... etc. etc. etc. It's like a 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001 x 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 billion chance that we would be here... quite amazing really. If you think about it that way, WE ARE ALL WINNERS!

[Pudding]

That's an interesting article. Reminds me a bit of this mockumentary I saw a few years back about what would happen with the animals over the next few million years if the human race packed up and left. (Their answer: giant sharks, spider farmers, and the end of mammals.)

I think the scenario here would make a weirdly creepy movie. Just imagine the roving packs of feral dogs wandering through the decaying buildings.

[Asthaloth]

That's an interesting article. Reminds me a bit of this mockumentary I saw a few years back about what would happen with the animals over the next few million years if the human race packed up and left. (Their answer: giant sharks, spider farmers, and the end of mammals.)

I think the scenario here would make a weirdly creepy movie. Just imagine the roving packs of feral dogs wandering through the decaying buildings.

Remembers "the Last Train"
That show was cool, alas, some humans survived, but Rabid dogs were cool.

[hikaru_dream]

It is interesting

But even the people who are nature freaks probably don't want to be wiped out yet.
Then of course maybe we wouldn't notice ourselfs gone.
...........Make any sense?

[Wind]

Interesting reading. I've got a friend who meant to write a novel about humans getting wiped out from earth, I'll sure send him the link
Though the article calls for some zen philosophy. If all humans die, how do you know that's what will happen? How do you know that little winged fairies aren't going to pop up from under rocks and begin dancing in the moonlight? Compared to the odds of us being there, they have a fair chance
(Ok, nevermind that about fairies, nothing I write past my bedtime ever makes sense.)

[Dragonfire]

All things considered, it will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find no obvious signs that an advanced civilisation ever lived here.

Only?

That's an interesting article. But they're looking too much on the optimistic side; they didn't even give a thought to military equipment and what might happen to that stuff.

[NeoPet_online]

Here's a nice litte chart of that, for those of you who don't like to read >.>



It's not word-for-word, but it's close enough.