History Channel – “Life After People” Series

If you want to totally waste your time and have nothing better off to do, then I recommend watching this show. The only reason I can think of why the History Channel put this show on the air is to fill some open air space.

The point of the show is to project in to the future starting from the day humans no longer inhabit Earth. All of a sudden one day humanity no longer exists and the show starts with that day. They don’t tell you how humanity was wiped off the face of the Earth. They just start with that scenario, and you must keep in mind that all other living things still exist.

Then starting with that day they begin projecting in to the future what will happen incrementing by years into the future. One episode started with 10 days, then 6 months, then 3 years, then 10 years, then 20, etc all they way up to one million years.

The amazing thing is they have more than one episode; in fact they have several episodes. The episodes (yes that is plural) cover what will happen to the major cities, buildings, streets, water systems, electricity, transportation, electronics, bridges, dams, etc and just about anything else you can think of that is not living.

What they do is show you how the non-living things will disintegrate as time passes, all via simulations. During each episode they break up the simulation with engineers of various specialties describe how and why for example a building will eventually fall down. Exciting huh? <NOT>

Or they show how a dam will eventually break down and collapse and when the water rushes down, destroy everything in its path, except of course, humans because they no longer exist. Are you on the edge of your chair yet?

Another episode spends a good half hour showing the lights going out across the country, or bridges falling down because the humans are gone and can not attend to the maintenance of these objects. Shaking with excitement are you?

My question on this subject “Who cares?” The only answer can be, “Nobody, because nobody will be left to care.”

Now I am going to saving you hours of watching this nonsense and give you the answer to what is going to happen when one day all the humans are gone and all other living things still exist. Here it is, “Evolution will begin all over again.” Then a few billion or so years later the History channel will be running this show again.

Normally I would supply you with a link to the History Channel site where you can get more information on this series, but if you're that interested, then you have nothing better to do, so you can go “google” it yourself. I am moving on to “The Game Show Network (GSN).