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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the ''Art/MonaLisa'' rot away and the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the ''Art/MonaLisa'' ''Art/TheMonaLisa'' rot away and the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa ''Art/MonaLisa'' rot away and the ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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** The seeing-eye dog that continues to follow its daily routine [[LoyalAnimalCompanion as if its master was still there by its side]]. The poor thing continues to adhere to its training, ignoring the instinct to raid the cupboards in hunger while it waits for a feeding that will never come. Well-trained dogs will do this almost to the point of ''starvation''.
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** The seeing-eye dog that continues to follow its daily routine [[LoyalAnimalCompanion as if its master was still there by its side]]. The poor thing continues to adhere to its training, ignoring the instinct to raid the cupboards in hunger while it waits for a feeding that will never come. Well-trained dogs will do this almost to the point of ''starvation''. Eventually, it dies a couple of years after humans disappear, completely unable to fend for itself.
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** Along with them are the films and books that preserved our history and culture, from our greatest achievements to our worst mistakes. In less than a century, all of it has been degraded or eaten away.
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** Along with them are the films and books that preserved our history and culture, from our greatest achievements to our worst mistakes. In less than a century, most, if not all of it it, has been degraded or eaten away.
** Ironically, the last recogizable human bodies will be those of the poor tourists who died while trying to climb Mt. Everest. And even they don't stay that way forever, eventually thawing out and decomposing just like the rest.
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* The slow death of every last seed in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. All that potential to generate new life gone forever.
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* The slow death of every last seed in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. All Vault, which takes for ''twenty thousands of years''. While the vault itself manages to remain intact thanks to cold temperature, all that potential to generate new life is gone forever.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome ceiling of the Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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** Same with the Crypt of Civilization. It was designed to preserve a artifacts from the mid-20th century until May 28th, 8113 AD. But once the university around it collapses, the walls crack, allowing mold and moisture inside. By the time its opening date arrives, the crypt is nothing more than a tomb for the decaying relics inside.
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** The smallest dog breeds like Pomeranians, Chihuahuas, and Yorkies? They die out in less than a ''week'' after we disappear. Poor things don't stand a chance in the world without us.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.star.
* The slow death of every last seed in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. All that potential to generate new life gone forever.
* The slow death of every last seed in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. All that potential to generate new life gone forever.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.star.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
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* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.star.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.
* A sad thought that the original special ends with is the idea that maybe [[HumansAreSpecial humans really are special]]. While some species might become smart enough to use tools and develop some kind of societal structure, the ability to look up at the sky and contemplate yourself, to your role in the universe, and even contemplate the idea of what the world would be like if they weren't around, all of that might be something unique to humans. Maybe it was something that we achieved by accident. In which case, if we disappear, life on Earth may continue, but maybe no other species will ever manage to make that leap that we did.
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In a [[LiveActionTV/LifeAfterPeople series]] dedicated to exploring the destruction of all of mankind's achievements, you can expect a few sad moments.
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In a [[LiveActionTV/LifeAfterPeople [[Series/LifeAfterPeople series]] dedicated to exploring the destruction of all of mankind's achievements, you can expect a few sad moments.
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* Seeing your home city abandoned and in ruins combines both Tear Jerker and NightmareFuel.
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* At the end of the original documentary, it's speculated that while apes may one day achieve a human-like mastery over the environment, the ability to [[NavelGazing look outside one's self and contemplate one's place in the cosmos]] may well have been an evolutionary accident -- one that will likely never be repeated. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether anything from the time of humans survives: even if it does, there will be no one to talk about it.
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* At the end of the original documentary, it's speculated that while apes may one day achieve a human-like mastery over the environment, the ability to [[NavelGazing [[ContemplateOurNavels look outside one's self and contemplate one's place in the cosmos]] may well have been an evolutionary accident -- one that will likely never be repeated. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether anything from the time of humans survives: even if it does, there will be no one to talk about it.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome of the Sistine Chapel crumble to dust.
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* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome of the Sistine Chapel Art/SistineChapel crumble to dust.
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** Also the RealLife fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with wastes.
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** Also Along with them are the films and books that preserved our history and culture, from our greatest achievements to our worst mistakes. In less than a century, all of it has been degraded or eaten away.
* The RealLife fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul withwastes.wastes.
* The KEO satellite, an orbiting time capsule, returns to Earth after 50,000 years, carrying messages from the 21st century. But nobody's around to see it or retrieve it. Its ultimate destiny is to crash into the ocean and likely remain there for the rest of time.
* All of man's attempts at achieving immortality prove futile.
** The fate of [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically-preserved humans]]. As the liquid nitrogen keeping them preserved boils off, it reaches a critical point where the decomposition process accelerates. People like them made a gamble for a second chance at life, but they're among some of the first to go.
** The hundreds of thousands of human embryos kept preserved thanks to liquid nitrogen die off quickly as well.
** After three years of orbital decline, the International Space Station comes crashing back to Earth, and with it, the last digitized samples of human DNA.
** The final remnant of humanity will likely be our fossilized bones. With nothing left of our civilization, what might some future intelligence say about us? What will they make of our existence and the legacy we left behind?
* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
* The RealLife fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with
* The KEO satellite, an orbiting time capsule, returns to Earth after 50,000 years, carrying messages from the 21st century. But nobody's around to see it or retrieve it. Its ultimate destiny is to crash into the ocean and likely remain there for the rest of time.
* All of man's attempts at achieving immortality prove futile.
** The fate of [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically-preserved humans]]. As the liquid nitrogen keeping them preserved boils off, it reaches a critical point where the decomposition process accelerates. People like them made a gamble for a second chance at life, but they're among some of the first to go.
** The hundreds of thousands of human embryos kept preserved thanks to liquid nitrogen die off quickly as well.
** After three years of orbital decline, the International Space Station comes crashing back to Earth, and with it, the last digitized samples of human DNA.
** The final remnant of humanity will likely be our fossilized bones. With nothing left of our civilization, what might some future intelligence say about us? What will they make of our existence and the legacy we left behind?
* While many had hoped that our radio and TV signals broadcast over the centuries would continue travelling through space forever, calculations have shown that it all dissipates within one or two light years into white noise. Turns out our signals won't even make it past the next closest star.
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** And for the animals in America who are lucky enough to escape, many of them will fall victim to a rabies epidemic. One that will last a good ''300 years'' before populations die off and spread out enough for it to cease.
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In a [[LiveActionTV/LifeAfterPeople series]] dedicated to exploring the destruction of all of mankind's achievements, you can expect a few sad moments.
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* For pet lovers, the pilot episode of the first month or so takes extra care to mention the millions of cats, dogs, hamsters, and fish all locked inside their houses, waiting for humans that [[InferredHolocaust will never show up]].
** And then they ''had'' to show cats pawing at the doorknob and dogs scratching at loaves of bread, desperate for food.
** The seeing-eye dog that continues to follow its daily routine [[LoyalAnimalCompanion as if its master was still there by its side]]. The poor thing continues to adhere to its training, ignoring the instinct to raid the cupboards in hunger while it waits for a feeding that will never come. Well-trained dogs will do this almost to the point of ''starvation''.
* At the end of the original documentary, it's speculated that while apes may one day achieve a human-like mastery over the environment, the ability to [[NavelGazing look outside one's self and contemplate one's place in the cosmos]] may well have been an evolutionary accident -- one that will likely never be repeated. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether anything from the time of humans survives: even if it does, there will be no one to talk about it.
-->'''Narrator:''' And so, like an abandoned village on a global scale, the Earth will move on without us. There was life before us, and there will be [[TitleDrop life...after people.]]
* Then there's the closing perspective on humankind's "reign" over planet Earth: if the Earth's 4.5 billion year existence were condensed into a 24 hour period, man's time on the planet would be ''half a minute long''. And the 10,000 years it would take the earth to wipe out nearly all traces of our existence? ''A fraction of a second''. WeAreAsMayflies, indeed.
** Since the documentary aired, it's been estimated that the Earth is between 60 and 300 million years older than previously believed. Half a minute? Try ''a couple of seconds''.
** On the other hand, it's now suspected that the human race itself is [[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133807-our-species-may-be-150000-years-older-than-we-thought/ 150,000 years older]] than we thought. Even with the adjustment, however, that's ''infinitesimal'' in comparison to the livespan of the Earth itself.
* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome of the Sistine Chapel crumble to dust.
** Also the RealLife fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with wastes.
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* For pet lovers, the pilot episode of the first month or so takes extra care to mention the millions of cats, dogs, hamsters, and fish all locked inside their houses, waiting for humans that [[InferredHolocaust will never show up]].
** And then they ''had'' to show cats pawing at the doorknob and dogs scratching at loaves of bread, desperate for food.
** The seeing-eye dog that continues to follow its daily routine [[LoyalAnimalCompanion as if its master was still there by its side]]. The poor thing continues to adhere to its training, ignoring the instinct to raid the cupboards in hunger while it waits for a feeding that will never come. Well-trained dogs will do this almost to the point of ''starvation''.
* At the end of the original documentary, it's speculated that while apes may one day achieve a human-like mastery over the environment, the ability to [[NavelGazing look outside one's self and contemplate one's place in the cosmos]] may well have been an evolutionary accident -- one that will likely never be repeated. Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether anything from the time of humans survives: even if it does, there will be no one to talk about it.
-->'''Narrator:''' And so, like an abandoned village on a global scale, the Earth will move on without us. There was life before us, and there will be [[TitleDrop life...after people.]]
* Then there's the closing perspective on humankind's "reign" over planet Earth: if the Earth's 4.5 billion year existence were condensed into a 24 hour period, man's time on the planet would be ''half a minute long''. And the 10,000 years it would take the earth to wipe out nearly all traces of our existence? ''A fraction of a second''. WeAreAsMayflies, indeed.
** Since the documentary aired, it's been estimated that the Earth is between 60 and 300 million years older than previously believed. Half a minute? Try ''a couple of seconds''.
** On the other hand, it's now suspected that the human race itself is [[https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133807-our-species-may-be-150000-years-older-than-we-thought/ 150,000 years older]] than we thought. Even with the adjustment, however, that's ''infinitesimal'' in comparison to the livespan of the Earth itself.
* The destruction of mankind's greatest works of art. It's not easy to watch the Mona Lisa rot away and the dome of the Sistine Chapel crumble to dust.
** Also the RealLife fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with wastes.
