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Life After People: The Series
2009 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by David De Vries
Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human extinction on the environment, and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
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Life After People is a TV show that covers some answers to the title, from several points of view.
This reminds me about the "Life After People" television series [1]. In several episodes it presents possible or imagined scenarios in case of a sudden human removal, in various areas: cities, animal life, oceans, etc. Every single bit of modern life requires maintenance. They could have added an episode about the digital information :)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People
Those people need to watch a few episodes of the TV series Life After People. Watching it, and realizing that everything around us would literally start to fail in a matter of days without us as its caretakers, really brought home the impermanence of everything. Skyscrapers are certainly not going to outlast ancient cave dwellings. In a matter of a couple hundred years, I would be surprised if a single skyscraper was still standing without us to keep it up. I’ve seen unmaintained buildings falling a part after a mere decade of disuse; a skyscraper lasting for a century or two would be extremely durable on the scale of modern buildings.
"Life after People" describes this exact scenario over 20 episodes.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People: Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear. The featured experts also talk about the impact of human absence on the environment and the vestiges of civilization thus left behind.
A lot of meteorites would be necessary for this to happen. Of course depending on how big and widespread the evidence would be. Some "well-directed" hits, and our footprints and scientific things would be gone. If they had a bigger base, they probably dug a lot of underground tunnels which are a lot more resistand (one of the reasons to build them to begin with).
The BBC actually made a documentary, showing what would happen, if the human race would suddenly vanish from earth: http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people
There's a short summary on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-lqtxZisA&feature=player_embedded
[EDIT: The movie linked above talks about craters on the moon which are "billions of years" old.]
[Dinosaurs on the moon. What a crazy tought. But certainly interesting ;)]
I had recently seen an Amazing Documentary called "Life After People", I would recommend it to anyone interested in knowing what would happen to Earth without humans. http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people