If Humans simply disappeared one day...

[NextLineIsMine]

I read an awesome article about what would happen if we suddenly just disappeared.

- Without our body heat and electricity in our houses most buildings would begin to crumble within 30- 50 years due to foundation rot and freeze/ thaw cycles

-The NY subway would flood within 2 days, all reactors would melt down in a week

-Our bronze statues however would last around 10 million years and still look much the same

-There would be a very real possibility that another primate would evolve bigger cortexes like we did, discover our technology and emulate our own species in a weird parallel.

-and a trillion years from now when our universe is old and decrepit our television shows will still be cruising through the incomprehensible depths of space

it makes me wonder how our species will finally kick the bucket

[cannabisis4for20]

Yeah, I read that too but that's assuming that the whole race disappeared and every other part of the world stayed exactly as it is right now. As if the whole race just vanished into thin air, or got moved to a whole different planet. That's not realistically what would happen, even though it is interesting to think about.

[4twentE]

Where is this article? Sounds cool. I think the world would be a much better place. Maybe dolphins or apes would take over. All you really have to do is present any species with opportunity and resources and it will expand. Anyhoo, before I get off on a rant, yeah, I say the world would be better off.

[Dro_Princess]

That sounds very interesting. Hope you got a link!

But as for us being extinct I think we will destroy ourselves.




I found one How would Earth fare if humans disappeared? | www.azstarnet.com �® (http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/195093)

[cannabisis4for20]

Here's time line I also remember seeing but there was an article to go with it
http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,351113,00.jpg

[cannabisis4for20]

and here's the article I saw
Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100)

[Oh My High]

A trillion years from now when our universe is old and decrepit our television shows will still be cruising through the incomprehensible depths of space.
That's a misnomer, actually. Television broadcasts only travel about 50 years before disintegrating into oblivion. It's true transmissions can travel for millions of years but only if either exceptionally narrow or at extremely high power, by comparison. Either way, there's no alien colony in the Andromeda galaxy who will catch first-run episodes of "The Honeymooners".

[Anubis10012007]

I read an awesome article about what would happen if we suddenly just disappeared.

- Without our body heat and electricity in our houses most buildings would begin to crumble within 30- 50 years due to foundation rot and freeze/ thaw cycles

-The NY subway would flood within 2 days, all reactors would melt down in a week

-Our bronze statues however would last around 10 million years and still look much the same

-There would be a very real possibility that another primate would evolve bigger cortexes like we did, discover our technology and emulate our own species in a weird parallel.

-and a trillion years from now when our universe is old and decrepit our television shows will still be cruising through the incomprehensible depths of space

it makes me wonder how our species will finally kick the bucketI believe that humans will reach a higher level of consciousness (4th and 5th dimensions) and will begin to colonize the stars.

[NextLineIsMine]

its not a totally extrapolated thought, a drug resistant disease could potentially take us out in mass.

And im pretty sure on the TV signals lasting for literally trillions of years. Its empty space, theres nothing affecting them besides we get radiation waves that have been traveling about since the big bang. Im open to any arguements to the contrary though:)

[cannabisis4for20]

^
that's probably how they pick up I Love Lucy in hell.

[Oh My High]

And im pretty sure on the TV signals lasting for literally trillions of years. Its empty space, theres nothing affecting them besides we get radiation waves that have been traveling about since the big bang. Im open to any arguements to the contrary though:)
Okay, the cosmos are anything but empty space. There are solar flares, solar wind, gamma rays, and the like, which are not background radiation from the Big Bang. Hell, a major problem which satellites and deep space probes face is electro-magnetic interference.

SPACE.com -- Can Aliens Find Us? (http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_shostak_aliens_031023.html)

Bottom line? With radio technology slightly more advanced than our own, Homo sapiens is detectable out to a distance of roughly 50 light-years.
SPACE.com -- Listening for ET's Television (http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_shostak_tv_061109.html)

OK, how strong is that signal by the time it reaches our putative alien audience at 55 light-years distance? Not very. The megawatt broadcast washes over ET's world with a power density of about 0.3 million million million million millionths of a watt per square meter, which is not exactly a scorching signal.
F.06 How far away could we detect radio transmissions? (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part6/section-12.html)

Even a 3000 meter diameter radio telescope could not detect the "I Love Lucy" TV show (re-runs) at a distance of 0.01 light years! It is only the narrowband high intensity emissions from Earth (narrowband radar generally) that will be detectable at significant ranges (greater than 1 LY).
TV Beacons in Space - TIME (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,835008,00.html)

Sweeping the Universe. Unlike low-frequency radio waves, which are reflected back by the earth's ionosphere, UHF transmissions continue traveling in a straight line out into the farthest reaches of space. And unlike standard television waves, which penetrate into space but tend to be drowned out by cosmic radiation of about the same frequency, UHF broadcasts could eventually be detected as far off as 200 light years from earth.
(200 light years is still a far cry from trillions of light years)

Once again, narrowband transmissions pointed in one specific direction can travel great distances, but broadband television signals transmitted today will be dead before you die.

[cannabisis4for20]

Sounds like you know what you're talking about

but,

So............ you're telling me that the old shitty signals that you can barely pick up on your tv are stronger then the satelites?

[ghosty]

interesting i bookmarked the article

[Blindman0v0]

If humans disappeared then that would leave me with all the weed and no 12 year olds running around in jap cars with black disco music blaring at deafening levels.
I say it would almost be heaven.
Except for no pussy of course.lol But then I could get a dog.

[cannabisis4for20]

If humans disappeared then that would leave me with all the weed and no 12 year olds running around in jap cars with black disco music blaring at deafening levels.
I say it would almost be heaven.
Except for no pussy of course.lol But then I could get a dog.

I don't even know where to start on everything wrong with that.

First of all, you're human so you would go too.
I don't see man 12 year olds driving jap cars.
Who listens to disco?
HOW IS A DOG SUBSTITUTE FOR PUSSY?
(please don't tell me what I think you're gonna tell me.)

[HighTillIDie]

well, i would hope i taught my dog enough to survive in the wild... but i wonder how long he will make it after the biscuit rations go... or when he realize there are no more hamburgers... sad

[MisterGreen]

that was good cannabis4for20 haha

but thats pretty interesting stuff i'll read the article.

[cannabisis4for20]

that was good cannabis4for20 haha

but thats pretty interesting stuff i'll read the article.

Which one? I'm so witty I lose track when people tell me how awesome I am.

[vej33]

i read that same article, it was in TIME or Newsweek or something...

it was a fantastic read, i love learning about those hypothetical situations. kinda scary.

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

i like the idea of another human like specie and the weird parallel world. Hahaha it would be so weird, think about it. Everything would be different yet the same, how lost would one human be xD

[cannabisis4for20]

i like the idea of another human like specie and the weird parallel world. Hahaha it would be so weird, think about it. Everything would be different yet the same, how lost would one human be xD

There have been theories that that actually happens. I'll try to find it for you.

[cannabisis4for20]

And here it is, I should be an encyclopedia
BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Parallel Universes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml)

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

And here it is, I should be an encyclopedia
BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Parallel Universes (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml)

Hmm, interesting, thanks!

[cannabisis4for20]

Hmm, interesting, thanks!

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