What will the earth look like after 10,000 years of human disappearance?
What will the earth look like after 10,000 years of human disappearance?
Since the birth of the earth, a long 4.5 billion years have passed. After research, the earth has experienced a total of 5 mass extinctions of life. That is to say, there have been 6 generations of overlords on the earth, but the first 5 overlords are for some reason. Extinction stepped off the stage.
There are still 4.6 billion years of life on the earth in the future (depending on the sun). It is conceivable that human beings will not survive the day when the earth is destroyed. One day, human beings will be extinct before the earth disappears.
What would happen to Earth if all humans disappeared overnight? Today, we will take stock of the changes that have occurred on the earth from the first day of human disappearance to the 10,000th year.
Humans disappear for 1 day
In fact, within a few hours of the disappearance of human beings, there will be major power outages around the world, because many power plants need to be monitored and maintained by humans. Without human operation, many power generation systems will enter a state of protection, especially The nuclear power plants with the highest risk will stop working at this time.
Humans disappear for 3 days
Because of the loss of electricity, the city's underground pipes and drainage systems will be out of control, the dams will start to run out of water because they are unmanaged, and the entire city will be flooded, even the city center will be surrounded by water.
There will be crazy double-flash cars floating on the streets of the city.
Humans disappear for 1 week
The water in the city will slowly recede (to the bottom), but everything in the city will be soaked and spoiled, especially the food in the supermarket, where cockroaches and ants start to occupy these places.
And some animals that hide in high places, such as cats and dogs, will return to the city to find food at this time.
Even some pampered domestic cats have begun to hunt mice for food, because the number of mice will increase at this time.
The number of cattle and sheep hiding in high places increased, and they began to enjoy the remaining grassland.
Humans disappear for 1 month
The safety systems of power plants and nuclear power plants start to break down, especially nuclear power plants, because the backup power system also fails, the nuclear reactor cooling device fails, the core temperature rises until it crosses the critical point, and then nuclear power plants all over the world will explode, and countries will have many outbreaks. Sub-nuclear explosion, just like being attacked by a nuclear bomb, the nuclear pollution spreads rapidly.
With the monsoon, the nuclear pollution was blown all over the world, and the cars parked everywhere began to be completely turned into scrap metal.
Smaller animals will die.
Humans disappear for 1 year
There will be an unusually spectacular "meteor shower" over the earth. This is because human artificial satellites begin to fall into the atmosphere, because satellites need ground personnel to constantly adjust their orbits to stay in space. Lost control, they slowly fall, within a year A collective fall of time left and right.
There are currently more than 5,000 satellites in orbit. If you are lucky enough to see this scene at night, it will feel very "romantic".
Eventually, the International Space Station, which weighs more than 400 tons, will also fall into the earth, like a meteorite due to its huge size, but it will burn up before hitting the ground, like a giant firework.
Plants on the ground began to surround the man-made objects.
Humans disappear for 10 years
Most of the houses will be attacked by plants, the appearance will start to become mottled, some houses will collapse, and the whole world will return to a world of wasteland.
The interior of the house will also be a mess.
Large animals began to die because of the lack of food, and their carcasses became food for mice and cockroaches.
30 years of human disappearance
Cities will begin to be forested, human buildings and plants will merge together, and roads will be completely covered with plants.
However, the birds survived, and the whole city began to sing.
100 years of human disappearance
Due to the lack of maintenance, coupled with the external force of plants and strong storms, high-rise buildings began to collapse, while some of the strong high-rise buildings will survive.
Overpasses and the like will all collapse because their typical structural life is only 50-70 years.
Cars and the like are flooded into city centers and slowly decay.
500 years of human disappearance
A worldwide wildfire will burn through most of the Earth's forests.
This wildfire will continue to burn for 50 years until it burns all the forests on the earth.
A large amount of toxic gases will block the sky, reduce photosynthesis, and 80% of animals and plants will die.
1000 years of human disappearance
Human city buildings will be razed to the ground, and the whole earth will be black.
As global temperatures have continued to rise for hundreds of years, much of the ocean has evaporated.
3000 years of human disappearance
It is difficult to see traces of human existence on the surface, and the earth at this time is more like Mars.
The global desertification is serious, and there is no sign of life.
But 20% of the plants and animals on Earth are still alive.
5000 years of human disappearance
After the ocean is evaporated, after a cycle of hundreds of years, the ecosystem of nature begins to recover, and the earth begins to experience a heavy rain that lasts for 100 years.
Global oceans are starting to recover again.
After the rainstorm, the air began to improve, the sunlight could penetrate the clouds again, and the plants began to recover. Thanks to the increase in oxygen content, some plants began to grow larger.
As the plants became plentiful, the small mammals that survived began to emerge from the burrows.
Humans disappeared in 10,000 years
The earth was full of life, and various animals began to appear, and they became larger and larger. The size of mice could grow to the size of a sow, and they began to become the overlords of the land.
Various marine animals also began to appear slowly, and their bodies began to increase in size.
But it's hard to say what the next intelligent species on Earth will be
At this time, there are basically no signs of human activities on the earth, but there is one human relic that may survive, that is, the pyramids.
If there is no external force, the pyramid can stand for tens of thousands of years. If aliens come to the earth at this time, they may only find the remains of human civilization through these pyramids that have not completely collapsed.
What would these aliens do if they discovered an animal with the potential to evolve into intelligence?
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