Comments on: A few good books http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/11/08/a-few-good-books/ Thoughts and musings Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: cobolhacker http://www.coverfire.com/archives/2008/11/08/a-few-good-books/comment-page-1/#comment-252929 cobolhacker Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:52:05 +0000 http://www.coverfire.com/?p=299#comment-252929 Regarding "The World Without Us", I haven't read it, but if all the humans suddenly disappeared I figure that nature would claim everything we had less than 100 years. Not destroy, but clearly and obviously own it. In terms of actually erasing the human legacy from the planet, this would take much longer. Humans have built some absolutely titanic structures and settlements on the surface and it takes a long time to make concrete go away. It would take tens of thousands of years before a visitor to the empty Earth would never know that we existed. Regarding “The World Without Us”, I haven’t read it, but if all the humans suddenly disappeared I figure that nature would claim everything we had less than 100 years. Not destroy, but clearly and obviously own it.

In terms of actually erasing the human legacy from the planet, this would take much longer. Humans have built some absolutely titanic structures and settlements on the surface and it takes a long time to make concrete go away. It would take tens of thousands of years before a visitor to the empty Earth would never know that we existed.

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