Aftermath: Population Zero

[chickenchop1]

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/aftermath/

Aftermath: Population Zero aired March 9th, 8 pm on National Geographic Channel. The two hour special showed what would happen if every human suddenly vanished from the earth, and how all the buildings, nuclear power plants, electricity, animals and so on would be affected.

Without people to maintain all the crap we make, things get pretty bad, especially when the nuclear plants break down and overheat, spilling out plutonium and radiation for hundreds of miles. The buildings eventually crumble to the ground, the city becomes a forest, the Colorado dam breaks, and the animals that survived take over the planet again.

Slow paced, but a great viewing for fans of post-apocalyptic movies where there's nobody left on earth. Some nice special effects for TV, and plenty of scenes of broken down, empty cities.

Anybody else catch the show? It'll probably be on DVD in the future.

[Subgenius]

I started a thread for Aftermath and Life After People.

Anyway, both are good for zombie research, if you want a realistic afterworld.

[DarthJoe8]

This was just on again and i missed it.:-(I'll have to wait until next time around.

[Subgenius]

This was just on again and i missed it.:-(I'll have to wait until next time around.

If you get the chance, then also check out The Human Body on Discovery. It has a lot of great data about the human physiology and human potential. It talks about "super-human" potentials. A lot of good stuff on DNA and the human experience physically. What was it that Norman Osbourne (aka The Green Goblin) said in Spider-man? "40,000 years and we have only just begun to tap into the human potential." Something like that.

[UNDEAD FRED]

I saw Aftermath on Sunday, it was pretty good. Intresting about what would happen to the nuclear power plants, and our family pets. I thought Life After People was far better.

[DarthJoe8]

I saw Aftermath on Sunday, it was pretty good. Intresting about what would happen to the nuclear power plants, and our family pets. I thought Life After People was far better.


I saw it the other night but missed the first hour. I was wondering about the nuclear plants and such.

I thought that they painted a pretty optimistic view of the future, where everything gets better because humans are gone and all is perfect in the world after only 100-200 years.

What about all of man's crap rotting and polluting everything worse than we already do? Power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and car batteries, the list is long on what would be unleashed.

I'll of course need to watch it from the beginning.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Im sure it will be on a few times. Yes it wouldnt be a good ideal to be around a nuclear power plant if you where the last person on earth.

[chickenchop1]

The nuclear power plants, unattended without constant cooling, melt down and explode more or less. And they want to build more of them. Good source of energy, but what about the risks is the question. That was the biggest threat after people were cleared off the earth.

In Romero's Dawn of the Dead, I think Peter says something like (paraphrased) "Mall still has power, must be nuclear."

In a zombie world, I'd hate to be around a nuclear plant when it melts down. I wonder how many are out there in the US? Would have to drive out west to the desert and hope there's no facilities out there. Or maybe north into the cold forests. Cities would have plenty of stocked food, but plenty of zombies too.

[Subgenius]

The nuclear power plants, unattended without constant cooling, melt down and explode more or less. And they want to build more of them. Good source of energy, but what about the risks is the question. That was the biggest threat after people were cleared off the earth.

In Romero's Dawn of the Dead, I think Peter says something like (paraphrased) "Mall still has power, must be nuclear."

In a zombie world, I'd hate to be around a nuclear plant when it melts down. I wonder how many are out there in the US? Would have to drive out west to the desert and hope there's no facilities out there. Or maybe north into the cold forests. Cities would have plenty of stocked food, but plenty of zombies too.

Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl style meltdowns or explosions/implosions do not happen in the US for a reason. One of them was Three-Mile Island. The US nuke plants are far, far superior to those found in other countries, except maybe Canada. They have far more fail-safe systems and redundant shut-down systems that are fully automated and computer controlled.

As a matter of fact, most factories around the nation have switched to nearly full-automation. In some cases, the factories would keep running as long as their had been power and automated feeds and recieving systems to move items into the line and off of the line. In many cases, people still do that job, and that would mean a massive back-up or the machines would run without producing a product.

But, if a nuke plant has been damaged in some way, then that could be big trouble. This has been an issue that I had with Day By Day Armageddon. In that book, the military dropped bonbs on cities near nuke plants. Even with a low-yield, low-rad nuetron bomb or whatever, if the nuclear power plant had been damaged, then they screwed up BIG TIME. I just do not see that happening.

[UNDEAD FRED]

In a zombie world, I'd hate to be around a nuclear plant when it melts down. I wonder how many are out there in the US? Would have to drive out west to the desert and hope there's no facilities out there.

Im sure theres plenty out here. But its probilly where the zombie virus will come from, deep in some goverment lab under the nevada desert. Maybe Milla will be wandering out there:evil:


It kind off bummed me out about what will happen to peoples pets, most will starve to death, locked up in our homes. Or the smaller dogs will be hunted by the larger dogs. Whats intresting to is what would happen to the zoo animals if they got out. I saw another program on National Geo. about what would happen to elephants if they got loose in North America if people all disapeared. In a few generations they might start to resemble wholly mammoths again. Adapting to the cold weather here, and they have no natural predators on in North America.

[C J]

Interesting show. Basically, the last survivor would have less than a week(?) before the meltdown. Hard to imagine that in about 200 years that our existence would be almost entirely erased by mother nature. This just goes to show us how insignificant we really are in perspective.

What about California??? Oh, my gosh! It would turn into one big desert.