What would happen to Earth if humans disappeared? Video shows how the terrifying sequence of doomsday events would unfold
If doomsday struck, and humans were wiped off the face of the Earth, what would happen to our planet?
According to a recent video, it won't take long for Earth to 'reset' itself - but the process would be terrifying.
Within a few hours most of the lights would turn off and within months, nuclear disasters would strike across the planet.
After thousands of years the only evidence of our existence would be in the form of stone structures like the Great Wall of China or Mount Rushmore.
'The reason is irrelevant, just imagine the results,' the narrator of the video, from viral YouTube channel '#Mind Warehouse', says.
The video was put together using footage created by National Geographic.
The video animations came from Life After People,
a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and
other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity
instantly disappear.
A
few hours after humans disappear, most of the lights around the world
will shut off because most of the power stations will not be able to
run.
Fossil fuels power plants would run out of fuel and solar panels would eventually get covered in dust.
The only power plants still running would be hydroelectric stations.
'On
the west of the United States, the generators of Hoover Dam are
activated by the water flow from Lake Meade,' the narrator says. 'Thus,
it can be left unattended for several months, or even years.'
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF HUMANS WERE WIPED OUT: A TIMELINE
A few hours later:
most of the lights around the world will shut off because power plants
would run out of fuel and solar panels would eventually get covered in
dust. The only power plants still running would be hydroelectric
stations.
Two or three days later: most underground train systems would flood because the pumps keeping water out would stop working.
Ten days later: pets and farm animals would die off while packs of big dogs would form to hunt down other animals.
A month later: the
cooling water in nuclear power stations would have evaporated. This
would lead to a series of disasters across the world, stronger than
Fukushima and Chernobyl.
One year later: satellites around Earth will start to fall from their orbit, creating strange 'stars' in the sky.
Twenty five years later: vegetation will cover the world with some cities being buried in sand.
Three hundred years later: metal buildings, bridges, and towers will start to break apart because of corrosion.
10,000 years later:
the only evidence of our existence will be the things we’ve made with
stone like the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China and Mount
Rushmore.
We are already the only living hominid
that's conservation status is not endangered or critically endangered.
Any extinction event that affects humans will likely be dangerous to
primates too. If humans succumb to a pandemic, the great apes are the
species most at risk of contracting it, for example (Ebola test is
pictured)
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