Our recent ruminations about nuclear weapons and who’s got ’em/who doesn’t got us to thinking about apocalypse. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but what would happen if all of a sudden there were no people on Earth? The Times of London put together a timeline of what the Earth would look like 20 years from now, 100 years from now, all the way up to 200,000 years from now, if humans simply vanished.
https://gizmodo.com/got-nukes-putting-it-into-perspective-206454
What evidence of our existence would be left behind? Hint: after about a thousand years, not much. For a reminder of just how temporary we could be, take a look at the full chart, after the jump.
We’ll Meet Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When [treehugger]
