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But Where DID the People Go?

posted 16 years ago by beckeis
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I know the entire concept of the program is what would the world be like if the human race just suddenly disappeared, which IMO is highly unlikely. However, I was thinking more along the lines of a natural disaster, disease, bombs, or any other form of damage that might suddenly stop the human race from existing.

Guess what I'm getting at is with all the dead bodies laying about, for animals to devour and the decay, possibly causing an effect of another type - etc. Would there be a difference in the outcome of what the program showed us? Even just slightly? Bones for future peoples to find?

Was anyone else disturbed at all that after a few hundred years this show sort of just said there would be NO trace that human beings ever existed? EVERYTHING would be destroyed, that those transmissions and capsules we sent out into deep space would never get anywhere ...

Guess it just made me a little sad to think, in this show's opinion, once we're gone we are really GONE.

[–] jiminwatford 16 years ago

yes some of the representations of cites disappearing after a few hundred years didn't come across to me as all that convincing, but i feel that was because they seemed to rush through it.

where Manhattan reduces to brooks and fields i thought they could have slowed the pace or spent a little longer explaining it

this was the part where evidence of human existance was to be removed forever and because of the gravity and shock in thinking of such a thing more time for reflection would have been nice.

there would be articles of human existance around for thousands of years. Plastic bottles never actually biodegrade in natural conditions, and glass takes 1 million years.

because we are organic our matter could survive like all creatures have. if our remains are left in preserving conditions, such as peat, we'll prove to have existed for a long time after we're gone. Dinosaurs did it!

(Assuming we don't simply vanish) i believe, there are so many of us (7 billion) that some of that organic matter will remain buried but recognisable for explorers in millions of years.

the show's premise is that we do just vanish. i can't really imagine how that could happen and i don't think it needs to be the case for the show to work. I don't think having all our bodies laying around is going to have any great effect on the animals that come after us.

[–] midgar7 16 years ago

your right I found myself pausing the thing just to see the city in succession.

I thought of this too, but we could of course all die from a humans only disease, thats the closest I can come to explaining vanishing. But it was kinda funny when the dog was barking and noone was comming. we pamped them into a dependance that they couldn't possiably have had without us.

[–] pageiv 16 years ago

Maybe they were all sleeping in.

[–] midgar7 16 years ago

perhaps we were abducted by aliens or the rapture came and we all made it.

Its kinda freaky now i feel like nature is just biding its time waiting for us to leave so it can get rid of our crap.

[–] weepastie 16 years ago

Maybe a neutron bomb? high level radiation causing immediate decay of organic matter...

yeah all the dogs and animals were lead lined....:)

Love "The little Pastie"

[–] gufodotto 16 years ago

Good Pun. In fact, neutron bombs would slow down, if anything, the decay of human corpses, by killing most of the bacteria that eat us from inside...

I wish they had thought of a nice way to make us all disappear, too...

[–] mateeemat 16 years ago

Rot, decay, dog food...

There was a list of video in the "special" section of this DVD of various reasons why mankind could die off, ex Nukes, meteors, disease, DNA wearing out, etc etc. There were about 8 different short videos listed.

"There is thunder in our hearts" -Kate Bush

[–] dontdropthebanana 15 years ago

As this thread was about a year ago... Don't think I'll get much response but DNA wearing out? Like, we just keep evolving til we're not human-like anymore?

I'll google this and hopefully find something!

[–] Tyrannosaurus_sex 16 years ago

You want 2 know where the people went????????

A Borg Cube swung by earth beamed most of them in waves and assimilated them and (4 whatever reason) left earth intact; unlike the beginning of Star Trek 1st contact where they stuck around 2 change earths environment 2 fit their biology.

[–] cwins 16 years ago

Obviously. You've hit it on the head -- it was Borg assimilation!

[–] kittd82 15 years ago

Everyone went on a vacation at the same time.

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