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Life After People
2008 · Film · documentary · 94 min
Directed by David De Vries
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life, and plant life might be like if, suddenly, humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect humanity's disappearance might have on the artificial aspects of civilization.
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The History Channel had a 20 episode series called Life After People that looked at what would happen if every human suddenly disappeared.
The National Geographic had a similar, but only one episode program looking at that questions, called Aftermath: Population Zero.
I have a vague recollection of seeing something like this on one of Discovery's channels, too, but I may be mixing that up with an article in their magazine.
My recollection is that they all concluded that in the very long term (tens of millions of years), if some other species evolved intelligence it would probably not be able to tell we were here.
Some of the materials we used might survive, but things like glaciers in ice ages would grind them to a powder. The next intelligent species might notice these odd concentrations of unusual combinations of metal particles and powdered long chain carbon compounds, but there would be nothing to tell them it wasn't made by some unknown natural process.