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Life After People: The Series [Complete Season 2] (2010)

Posted By: shuchu14

Date: 17 May 2010 13:03:27

Welcome to Earth: Population 0. If humans vanish from the face of the earth, what happens to the world we leave behind? HISTORY offers another amazing glimpse of what that might look like. Expert engineers, biologists, geologists and archeologists create scenarios while CGI effects present haunting views of our planet's future. What will happen to our iconic structures? What creatures will take our place? Will our garbage outlive us by one million years? When the imprint of man has faded, LIFE AFTER PEOPLE explores the humbling and fascinating possibilities.

EPISODES GUIDES

Episode 01: Wrath of God

This episode predicts the fate of humanity's religious symbols and artifacts after the disappearance of man – such as the Christ the Redeemer statue which stands over Rio de Janeiro, the Crystal Cathedral and the Memorial Coliseum in Southern California, the Colosseum, the Jubilee Church and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the Shroud of Turin. Rattlesnakes thrive in the American Southwest, and shepherd dogs continue to protect sheep for several generations. The episode also examines Kolmanskop, a desert town in Namibia established by Germans during a diamond rush, and abandoned over 50 years ago.

Episode 02: Toxic Revenge

In a life after people, toxic materials leak into the environment without human intervention: spent nuclear fuel rods spontaneously burst into flame, chlorine gas spills out of tanks and turns lakes into deadly acid, and in New York City underground methane gas originates from Grand Central Station and leaks into the adjacent MetLife Building, which eventually ignites an explosion. Cargo ships from the Great Lakes drift past the fallen International Railway Bridge and tumble over the edge of Niagara Falls. Raccoons use homes as a temporary paradise. The episode also features Picher, Oklahoma, a toxic former lead mining town which has been slowly abandoned over the course of the last 40 years.

Episode 03: Crypt of Civilization

This episode looks at how crypts, safes, vaults and time capsules survive in a post-apocalyptic world, including a visit to the "Crypt of Civilization" at Oglethorpe University, the Gherkin in London, the Marine Corps War Memorial and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.. Military-trained German Shepherds battle coyotes in the wild and the remains of naval hero John Paul Jones are entombed by rising sea levels. The proposed KEO satellite, Rosetta disks (focusing on one at the Smithsonian Institution), and the prototype 10,000-year clock meet their fates in the far future. The episode also examines Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut, sections of which were abandoned between 40 and 15 years ago.

Episode 04: Last Supper

In a world without people, man's food supplies decay as supermarkets turn into breeding grounds for insects and vermin, humidity causes Leonardo DaVinci's mural The Last Supper in the Santa Maria delle Grazie to crumble, and both the landmark Randy's Donuts restaurant in Los Angeles and the restaurant atop Taipei 101 in Taiwan succumb to the force of gravity. Snack cakes survive 25 years, but jars of honey might remain edible for millennia. The episode also includes video from a Fort Worth, Texas grocery store which was abandoned for three months—with all the food still inside. This episode also examines the Tranquille Farms in the Canadian wilderness, which were abandoned and closed in 1985.

Episode 05: Home Wrecked Home

This episode predicts the apocalyptic fate of homes—from the Stahl House to the San Remo. Co-op City sinks beneath the water and, Dubai's Burj Khalifa corrodes and collapses. Gas leaks turn suburban homes such as Levittown into infernos, a hidden flaw topples Hearst Castle, linseed oil in paint-soaked rags causes some high-end homes to explode in flames, and the contents of the Bettman/Corbis Archive meet a tragic fate. Bobcats use abandoned houses as dens, and zebras from the Hearst Castle private zoo escape and survive for generations. The episode also visits the Italian town of Balestrino, which was abandoned during the 1950s due to geologic instability.

Episode 06: Holiday Hell

Vacation destinations and holiday treasures are featured in this episode; fireworks factories explode with no people to see the event, sand inside the Silver Bullet roller coaster is the key to its destruction, while fruitcake lasts for over 130 years. Domesticated reindeer join herds of wild caribou, only to be devoured by wolves. Lions escape the San Diego Wild Animal Park and fill the ecological role American Lions once had. Nearby Palm Springs is consumed by the desert, its aerial tramway suffers catastrophic failure, and its wind turbines shatter. In Detroit, Aldrige's Always Christmas store witnesses a not-so-jolly scene as power goes out, and domesticated turkeys die off while their wild relatives live on. This episode also examines the Salton Sea, where parts of a former resort town were abandoned over the last 40 years.

Episode 07: Waves of Devastation

This episode examines the effects of water on man's structures. Rotterdam and Amsterdam flood as levees fail; washing away the treasures of the Boijmans Museum, while Sacramento is first swamped, then destroyed when Folsom Dam ruptures. Non-native Asian carp slip through man-made barriers to invade the Great Lakes, but must compete with another invasive species. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline spills its hazardous contents, the Santa Monica Pier sinks into the ocean, the Sydney Opera House caves in, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge tears apart. The episode also explores the Russian coal mining town of Pyramiden, abandoned in 1998. Preserved by Arctic temperatures, Pyramiden may survive as one of the last towns standing on Earth.

Episode 08: Sky's the Limit

Human neglect affects the world's skies and aeronautic icons, including Air Force One, the Theme Building and control tower at Los Angeles International Airport, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota. Elsewhere, Rocky Mountain locusts invade the cities in the Midwest, Mount Everest's ice preserves artifacts left by climbers, and the migratory patterns of birds are affected by the absence of mankind patrolling the skies. Solar-powered radio station KTAO continues broadcasting long after humans are gone. The Cassini space probe crashes into Saturn's moon Enceladus, leading to extremophile bacteria from Earth colonizing its possible water ocean and causing life to evolve on it. The episode also visits Edgar, Ontario, a Cold War radar site which was abandoned in 1999, and the aging Berlin Tempelhof Airport in Germany.

Episode 09: Depths of Destruction

The underground and underwater world suffers a destructive destiny in a post human era. The NORAD operations facility comes under assault, the echo chambers below the foundation of the Capitol Records Building outlasts the structure's downfall. The subterranean Carlsbad Caverns is repopulated by bats, the gypsum crystals inside the Naica Mine grow unchecked, and mankind's former geothermal power sites such as the Geysers in northern California relinquish their strength to geologic forces. The Satellite Transit System at Seattle's airport is disabled and the Underwater Sculpture Gardens outside of St. George's, Grenada are taken a hold of by coral reefs. Prairie dogs reclaim their territory in Lubbock. The episode features the Bonne Terre Mine, which was abandoned in 1960 and subsequently flooded, and also the steamboat Arabia in Parkville, Missouri.

Episode 10: Take Me to Your Leader

This episode analyzes how structures and testaments devoted to world leaders factor adversely without human sustainment, among them include the White House, the Palace of Versailles, Monticello, the Secretariat Building and the General Assembly Chamber of the United Nations Headquarters, and the Hall of Supreme Harmony in China's Forbidden City. The entombed body of Ulysses S. Grant is buried for the first time in history, and Mao Zedong's mysterious body at the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong submits to the quirks of his embalmers. As a result of his owner's disappearance, the dependent life of the United States president's dog, "Bo," is transformed as his wild instincts take effect. The episode also examines the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb on the San Francisco Naval Shipyard in Hunters Point.

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