Life After People, C4 Monday 9pm

[Toadstool]

Does anybody intend to watch this programme on Channel 4 on Monday? It appears that it will deal with the scenario that humanity becomes extinct in the present and shows life on Earth from a year or so after the extinction to ten thousand years in the future. It really highlights the fact that cities need people to survive and remain; we all assume they will stand forever as a testament to human skill but they will in fact soon become Angkor Wats of their own as nature will quickly reclaim these now huge vacuums back.

Extinction could be a potential PO future.

[Keela]

Thanks for the reminder.... I actually set a reminder on Outlook in work so that I wouldn't forget..... forgetting of course that I'm not in work on Monday!!

[Initiation]

Dfrom a year or so after the extinction to ten thousand years in the future

It actually covers right from the first instance it happened. Eg lots of trapped pets, the lights going out 3hrs after etc.. Read the book and watched it when it was first on the History Channel, is an OK watch if nothing else is on but i preferred the book. One thing i didn't get was if we all just disappeared how come there are no crashed cars/trains/planes/oil tankers from where they crash because they have no drivers

[RenewableCandy]

One thing i didn't get was if we all just disappeared how come there are no crashed cars/trains/planes/oil tankers from where they crash because they have no drivers

Perhaps we took them with us? Perhaps you can take it with you when you go...

[Keela]

.... is an OK watch if nothing else is on....

That was about the height of it. Some dubious science. Many clips repeated and repeated. Some interesting snippets within the hype, silly music and short clip style..... I stuck it out only to jeer at the telly with the youngsters.

Last night's Eleventh hour was a much more professional piece of work - even if I didn't agree with quite everything.....

[clv101]

.... is an OK watch if nothing else is on....

That was about the height of it. Some dubious science. Many clips repeated and repeated. Some interesting snippets within the hype, silly music and short clip style..... I stuck it out only to jeer at the telly with the youngsters.

Last night's Eleventh hour was a much more professional piece of work - even if I didn't agree with quite everything.....

Ah well, glad I watched the programme about Graham Hill on BBC4 now. The world seems like it was a much simpler place in the 60s and 70s.

[Aurora]

.... is an OK watch if nothing else is on....

That was about the height of it. Some dubious science. Many clips repeated and repeated. Some interesting snippets within the hype, silly music and short clip style..... I stuck it out only to jeer at the telly with the youngsters.

Last night's Eleventh hour was a much more professional piece of work - even if I didn't agree with quite everything.....

And to think I've recorded the program to watch at a later date. What a waste of electrickery.

It's all your fault Toadstool.

[RenewableCandy]

And to think I've recorded the program to watch at a later date. What a waste of electrickery.

It's all your fault Toadstool.

Will it spoil it if I tell you the ending before you've seen it?

[biffvernon]

Ah well, glad I watched the programme about Grahman Hilll on BBC4 now. The world seems like it was a much simpler place in the 60s and 70s.

A delusion. Some of us were reading Rachel Carson, Fritz Schumacher, Teddy Goldsmith, Meadows and the Club of Rome et al and were realizing that it wasn't simple at all. Forty years on and we find that Hill and the petrolheads had their way so we are now where we are.

The film was clearly made on a very small budget, with repetition of some fun animations but very little science. I found the sequence from Chernobyl interesting, but still a missed opportunity to really see how buildings decay.

[RenewableCandy]

Now I come to think of it, apart from letting the nuclear industry completely off the hook (in that, apparently, some of the hot waste at Sellafield still needs active cooling... ) they forgot all about plastic. This would constitute the largest mark we'd leave on the planet. It doesn't rot, oxidise, dissolve or get eaten (though it may of course melt/burn if unlucky).

This, our kids' toys ("if all the world's Lego were equitably distributed, each person on earth would get just over 3 bricks") would outlive archives, buildings, cities...

The moral? If you want an idea to survive this kind o'thing, build a Lego model of it, and stash it well away from gas mains or volcanos !