[Northern Yankee]

On a related note on the web page, National Geographic is running a special on Sunday on what will happen with the earth when man no longer inhabits the earth.

What's the point? Are they looking forward to this?

[gusopol3]

everybody needs to believe in something?

[GladesGuru]

What the Nat. Geo whacko crowd is really attempting to portray in that issue is their fevered imaginings of what the area surrounding the Big Sh*tty will look like after those gun totin’ knuckle walkers out in “fly-over Country” stop sending all those transfer payments.

It will be the end of civilization as THEY know it.

Pity!

[buffyt]

My cat hates shows like that. She thinks SHE Is the most important creature in the universe. LOL

[visualops]

Well, yes, they wistfully dream about “the earth we’ll never know”.

[Boundless]

> ... what will happen with the earth when man no
> longer inhabits the earth.

Simple. The planet will eventually get whacked by a
big space rock that could have been deflected by a
spacefaring species.

The dinosaurs didn’t have space technology.

Humans do, but for how much longer? And will it get
for priority missions, or just Apollo re-dos.

[lajollasurfer]

Have you seen the show? It is fascinating. I don't know if they are looking forward to it; as with all species man-kinds end WILL come some day, to watch how the planet will go back to before man was here was/is interesting. They use Chernobyl for their example of 20 years after.