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1 day Without humans to maintain them, power plants across the world begin to shut down.

1 week In London, Big Ben stops running when no one is around to rewind it.

2 weeks From Japan to California, 3.5 million tons of garbage goes uncollected and storms wash some of it out to sea expanding the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

3 months In Rome, Michelangelo's artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has been without protection since the computerized climate control system failed, but the lack of moisture and body heat from visitors is actually helping preserve the works of art.

3 years The International Space Station loses altitude and falls to Earth, destroying the "Immortality Drive", a computer disk containing the digitized genetic information of some extraordinary humans, with it. The wind powered Ricoh sign in Times Square finally goes dark when the light bulbs burn out.

4 years Some cities have fallen victim to floods. With no people to repair the damage, homes succumb to decay and the foundations of buildings slowly erode. This future has already happened in New Orleans; four years after Hurricane Katrina, much of the flood damage remains.

10 years At Independence Hall, broken windows allow sunlight to beam down on the Declaration of Independence. Protected from the elements in it's airtight case, the light will cause the letters to fade away over time.

15 years In Hawaii, the lines holding the USS Missouri to the docks succumb to corrosion and decay. The warship, now free of its moorings, floats away but only gets so far when it bottoms out in the mud.

25 years In museums, without functioning environmental systems to preserve them, insects and fungi ravage the Egyptian mummies. The same fate happens to the embalmed body of Lenin. Soon nothing is left but dust and bones. Without people to maintain levees, low lying cities such as London will have flooded.

50 years The metal letters of the Hollywood Sign are finally brought down by an earthquake. Ravaged by pyrite disease, dinosaur skeletons in museums across the globe begin to fall apart. By now, the plant seeds frozen in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will have died. In the Gulf of Mexico, only one oil platform remains after 50 years of hurricanes. Mold and metal corrosion is finally collapsing the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. In orbit, uncontrolled satellites begin colliding into each other.

70 years At Pearl Harbor, the USS Missouri is now covered in green as seeds dropped by birds have caused vegetation to grow all over the wooden deck.

75 years Bridges begin to collapse when their protective paint flakes off and are no longer protected from moisture and corrosion. In Kuala Lumpur, the supports under the sky bridge of the Petronas Twin Towers buckle because of corrosion, and it falls to the ground. In Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell falls to the ground and cracks completely in half.

100 years Big Ben, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge collapse. Washington D.C. reverts back into a swamp where beavers thrive damming up the Potomac River. At the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is eaten away by death watch beetles. In Turin, the Shroud of Turin is exposed to the elements when the roof of Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist collapses. Mold and humidity consume the cloth and the image of Christ on the shroud becomes unrecognizable.

125 years In Moscow, after 125 years of fighting water damage and corrosion, the St. Basil's Cathedral finally collapses to the ground.

150 years Elephant herds roam free in the American West filling the ecological niches that mammoths and mastodons left vacant at the end of the last ice age. The levees in New Orleans finally give way after 150 years of being gnawed at by local animals, and the city floods with saltwater. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is collapsed by an earthquake, but the ancient Colosseum in Rome will remain standing for centuries more.

200 years In San Francisco, only the skeletal towers of the Golden Gate Bridge remain after the road deck collapses. In New York City, the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building finally collapse. Structures such as the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Tower Bridge in London collapse.

250 years By now, the United States Constitution has faded away inside the crumbled rotunda of the National Archives and Records Administration. In Hawaii, water has penetrated the hull of the USS Missouri. It floods and begins to sink deeper into the mud of the harbor bottom, but it could last as long as 20,000 years. In Rio de Janerio, a strong wind topples the weakened Christ the Redeemer statue leaving only the pedestal and part of the feet.

300 years In New York City, the Statue of Liberty breaks in pieces and sinks into the Atlantic Ocean.

500 years Though Michelangelo's frescos are still recognizable after so many centuries, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel collapses, bringing down the entire building. The Petronas Twin Towers finally collapse after five centuries of tropical sun and moisture. St. Peter's Basilica's dome collapses after the weakening of its steel support chains.

1,000 years Almost all traces of human culture are buried beneath vegetation and sand. The Earth itself will have buried all of man's cities. The Taj Mahal in Agra collapses after a fairly large earthquake, and rising sea levels flood the area where Washington D.C. once stood, leaving a highly degraded, but still erect Washington Monument emerging over the waves. Meanwhile, on the Moon, the three Lunar Roving Vehicles left behind from the Apollo 15 through Apollo 17 missions will remain in near-mint condition barring degradation or destruction from meteor impacts. The Colosseum in Rome falls from an earthquake.

2,000 years Because it is basically held together by gravity, the medieval Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris may still stand and be recognizable.

5,000 years The Confederate Memorial, carved on Stone Mountain in Atlanta, is one of few indications that man ever inhabited the area. Most of what man has built has long eroded or been destroyed.

10,000 years Almost all traces of human civilization have been buried under sand and vegetation. Buried underground, the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City, still holds $200 billion of gold bars intact. In New Orleans, plastic and glass Mardi Gras beads can still be found buried under soil and vegetation.

20,000 years The final seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault die.

1,000,000 years The Golden Records aboard the Voyager space probes are damaged beyond recognition after centuries of collisions with dust and space debris.

10,000,000 years The fossilized corpses of New Orleans are a mile and a half underground. Pressure and heat have transformed the soft tissue that remained into oil.

100,000,000 years All that will remain from the existence of human beings are our fossilized bones.



[edit] See also

Life After People

The World Without Us

The Future Is Wild

After Man: A Zoology of the Future

Aftermath: Population Zero

[edit] References

1.^ http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people/about-the-series

2.^ "Depopulation Boom", The Washington Post, March 8, 2008.

[edit] External links

Official website

Life After People at the Internet Movie Database (series)

Life After People at the Internet Movie Database (original special documentary film)

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