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Click on the link below to get an idea of what the New York City subways looked like today.... (Image by Kenn Brown)

http://www.mondolithic.com/images/stories/News_Updates/World_Without_People_Sciam_NY_Subway.jpg


(Edited to add: Okay, for those of you who want an explanation of where that image came from, check out this link.)

Date: 2007-08-08 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com
What, no cockroaches?

Date: 2007-08-08 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estherchaya.livejournal.com
wait, seriously? Are those rats? 'They almost look like nutria! Holy cow!

Date: 2007-08-08 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estherchaya.livejournal.com
just to clarify... it wasn't that I thought the picture was serious... it's that I can't believe those are RATS! They're Friggin' HUGE!

Date: 2007-08-08 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhysara.livejournal.com
I'm totally missing something. So I know there was severe weather in NYC, and I can tell that image was photoshopped... but I still don't get it.

Date: 2007-08-09 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com
Check out the link I added to the post for an explanation of where the photo actually came from.

Date: 2007-08-08 08:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sdelmonte
This is clearly fake. The rats had to walk as well. Though some took a cab.

Date: 2007-08-08 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com
I take it you've been getting a lot of rain. See, if this shot were taken in Kansas right now, it would be a parched desert with little skeletal rats.

Date: 2007-08-08 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chelseagirl.livejournal.com
OK, I find that amusing, largely because I work at home over the summer, but I will NOT be showing it to my husband, whose usual 45 minute commute from W. 23rd Street in Manhattan to Prospect Park in Brooklyn took him 2 1/2 hours.

Date: 2007-08-08 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fontosaurus.livejournal.com
Fascinating. A few years ago, New Scientist had a short piece of the distant future of Earth and what the geology would be like. At a billion years, it's tidally locked to the sun, with a big wad of the atmosphere frozen out on the farside and raining silicates and metals in the "twilight region" around the terminator after they've melted and evaporated from the dayside.

Brutal. Especially since I'm trying to set a piece on Earth four billion years from now. :-)

Date: 2007-08-08 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caryabend.livejournal.com
I thought that tidal locking to the sun took something on the order of 10 - 100 billion years, but tidal locking to the moon would happen in 1 billion or so.

Date: 2007-08-09 01:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com
New Scientist also ran an article last year on what Earth would be like if humans suddenly vanished:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19225731.100-imagine-earth-without-people.html

Date: 2007-08-08 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] delkytlar.livejournal.com
Kenn's about got it right. This morning was a nightmare. I will blog my experience as soon as I'm properly rested from the journey.

Date: 2007-08-08 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nojojojo.livejournal.com
Wow, thanks for that link... fascinating, idea-inspiring stuff.

My commute this morning was easy; after learning there were no trains and the buses were all full, I gave up and worked from home. =P

Date: 2007-08-09 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com
I've got a copy of the book. It is quite fascinating.

Date: 2007-08-09 01:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aunt-becca.livejournal.com
I'm homesick!

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