The Aftermath Population Zero on National Geo HD
 

I had forgotten that I DVR'd this 2 hour show a few weeks ago. It's amazing. For 2 hours it chronicles what would happen to Earth if suddenly ALL humans ceased to exist. Nuclear reactors exploding, animals, global warming reversal, toxic gases escaping, etc etc.

I don't know when it's on again, but I highly recommend that you try to watch it if you can.

my cable went out 11 minutes into it, so alls I got is 70 minutes of black :(

its looking good for rover, though

I saw some of it and it is a bit depressing. It reminded me of the movie "I Am Legend", with all of the decaying buildings and overgrowth of vegetation in urban environments.

I couldn't help but think that it will become a reality some day. :tsk:

I thought is was facinating.

I watched it, but imo, it was overdone fantasy...and, the truth is,
if it were to happen, no one is around to "see" how it is/looks, lol!

I usually enjoy NatGeoHD, Discovery and esp. HD Discovery, but many of
their recent "big deal" shows/multi-part specials leave me wondering where
did they spend the dough?

Good exp., imo, is the recent series on The Body: every hour of this
4 or 5 part series is simply cheesy reinactments and continual replay
of the same footage...they beat their chest about the graphics, and
then used the same stuff over and over and over.

As for the "info" part, they spent 'hours' over the course of the series,
showing catchy graphics of the brain and never mentioned by name,
any of the areas they were highlighting. It reminded me of a modern
version of a bad science film strip, shown in 8th grade, circa 1960.
Could they not ever identify the amygdala or hippocampus or...they
kept highlighting?

HD is great...NatGeoHD and Discovery HD is sometimes visually stunning;
their level of real info and "science" is pathetic these days. The marketeers
and FX guys and the melodramatic writers have taken over, imo.

I agree MD. The shows have become flicks that can be watched with the mind on auto pilot. While they raise interesting points and remain informative, all the groundwork leading to said conclusions are presented as if to and by a 12 y/o. That is a shame because there are usually very smart people behind the science who are much more deserving of the screentime than watching a guy push a rock off him self for the 17th time.

Even worse is the blurring of the line between fact and theory. People who find them selves learning anything should always remain critical of the media as well as the source. Never has it been more true with the popularity of light entertainment.

I approached it from a completely hypothetical position before I watched it. I think alot of the assumptions about post nuclear recovery from the reactor meltdowns is based on the surprises nature has pulled around Chernoble (sp?) anyway...I was thinking about how nature has adapted around that disaster and it got me thinking is it easier for smaller faster reproducing creatures to weed out genitic defects and those that are healthy enough to live long enough to reproduce again, but with the weaker or genitically deficient dying off faster...so once again in nature only the stong survive...any one care to comment?

I like NatGeo HD... and Discovery HD, and History HD :) But speaking of good shows on some time ago, did anyone happen to catch the 3 hour show on the Galapagos? After seeing that, Nicole and I want to one day take a trip there to see it in person.

I hate to break the news to NG, but unattended nuclear reactors do not melt down. They shut themselves down automatically when any monitored parameter goes out of range. Even Chernobyl only melted down when the tech's overrode the system as part of a "test".

Can't help but think there's a political agenda here somewhere - but, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean you're not being followed... ;)

thx found the torrent, will check it out.