The World Without Us

Did you know that if humans disappeared today, in a few thousand years the Chunnel would be the only man-made structure left?

Did you know that if humans disappeared today, the Panama Canal would close and reconnect North and South America?

Did you know that if humans disappeared today, in 4.5 billion years the depleted Uranium in the U.S. would reach it’s half life?

You didn’t? Well then go to this page and learn more, you human sponge, you.

I guess that last one would happen either way.

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Arthur 31 August 2007 at 6:00 am #

North and South America are disconnected? I’ll be damned.

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Christopher McCulloh 31 August 2007 at 6:54 am #

Ok, so it’s all going to be swallowed by the sun anyways before the remnants of us evil evil humans disappear. So screw it, everyone throw a piece of trash on the ground today, because it doesn’t freaking matter.

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B 31 August 2007 at 7:14 am #

Whoa, that guy must be really liberal or something to merit those kinds of comments.

I always thought how fascinating it was to think about what would happen if we all-the-sudden disappeared. It’s neat to see how alive our planet truly is, and think about what would happen to all the things we’ve built in the next year, 10 years, or 1000 years. Cool stuff, huh?

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jonathan 31 August 2007 at 8:38 am #

Yes, Brian. Yes.

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cmcculloh 31 August 2007 at 5:15 pm #

lol, I was just kidding. Reading it now I sounded really… pissed.

It was really interesting though…

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