After 200,000 Years Traces of Mankind Vanishes
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Interesting stuff. i wonder if anything would fossilise? And what about all the animals - think of the pollution caused by billions of decaying cows, chickens, dogs etc that would die without human support 
On this topic, there are 2 great books by dougal dixon about what happens when man is gone - 'After man' and 'Man after man'. he invents all these species that would evolve, mostly from rats and rabbits which don't get wiped out by humans.
On this topic, there are 2 great books by dougal dixon about what happens when man is gone - 'After man' and 'Man after man'. he invents all these species that would evolve, mostly from rats and rabbits which don't get wiped out by humans.
wow.... makes you think... but there are only 2 ways I can think of we'd ever really go extinct. 1. nuclear war. and 2. wreck our planet so throughly that we must leave it (assuming we have the technology.)
nuclear war won't happen. and if it does, it won't wipe out humanity. Wrecking the planet might kill everything else, but we'll be able to eek out an existence on a rock somewhere...
if we go, it will be in a couple of million years through disease or being outcompeted by another species. then again, we might evolve. i read an article this morning about how people could diverge into 2 new species...
if we go, it will be in a couple of million years through disease or being outcompeted by another species. then again, we might evolve. i read an article this morning about how people could diverge into 2 new species...
In a letter to President Harry S. Truman, Albert Einstein wrote "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." I tend to agree, but really hope there is no WWIII.
In other writings he believed about 2/3 of mankind would be wiped out. Of course, much has changed since then. I do think some people would survive, somewhere, and probably not the people we think it would be.
In other writings he believed about 2/3 of mankind would be wiped out. Of course, much has changed since then. I do think some people would survive, somewhere, and probably not the people we think it would be.