If Humans simply disappeared one day...

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

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.

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.

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 �®

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

and here's the article I saw
Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October 2006 - New Scientist

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Originally Posted by NextLineIsMine

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.

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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".

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Originally Posted by 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

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I believe that humans will reach a higher level of consciousness (4th and 5th dimensions) and will begin to colonize the stars.

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:)

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