Reminds me of that guy who did a study into how long it would take nature to take over our cities if all mankind was no longer around to maintain stuff. It wasn't as long as I had thought, being only a couple of decades to really start reclaiming what people had built.

So where are the t-virus zombies hiding?

Shazzoir:

One of the things I like about post-apocalyptic novels is how the remaining population (mis)interprets what little remains there are.

It's amazing how dedicated they are to winning the sand castle competition.

wow

Shazzoir: Reminds me of that guy who did a study into how long it would take nature to take over our cities if all mankind was no longer around to maintain stuff. It wasn't as long as I had thought, being only a couple of decades to really start reclaiming what people had built.

Life after people on the History channel is related to what you said
Link (new window)

Tell Garrett Morris I want my fondue set back, dammnit.

Closer to home, the formerly bustling Detroit neighborhood of State Fair.

Anyone see the movie "Hardware" by Richard Stanley?

It's like this. Only with killer robots.

/taking my chances with the direct link

Wow... I love stuff like this...

MetaFilter did it

Any one else get the feeling that the whole "town" consisted of four or five buildings?

Any chance this happens to Arizona when all the water has been used up on the lawns and golf courses?



Joe Arpaio could make his prisoners build a sand castle so he could knock it down

That is beautiful. It is weird seeing this and realizing that a few hundred years from now someone will be digging it up as an archeology site. With how quickly it is getting buried I bet it will be well preserved.

Years ago Readers Digest (this was probably late 70's, early 80's) had an article about a modern day hotel room being excavated hundreds of years in the future. It was a riot. They thought that the tv was a god because of the pedestal it was sitting on. I have to see if I can find it on-line anywhere.

If any of you google search geniuses could find it I would be trilled.

SlowTimedRapid: /taking my chances with the direct link

Stay away from Vegas.

That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Shazzoir: Reminds me of that guy who did a study into how long it would take nature to take over our cities if all mankind was no longer around to maintain stuff. It wasn't as long as I had thought, being only a couple of decades to really start reclaiming what people had built.

Hell-- you can see this happening. There are lots of pictorials of abandoned Old Soviet cities, buildings in Detroit, jails and hospitals all over the US.

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: Any one else get the feeling that the whole "town" consisted of four or five buildings?

Have you seen pictures of Detroit recently? The town in the link was circa end of WWI. Detroit has only been declining maybe 2-3 decades

Lovely find Subby. Haunting indeed.

The article reminded me of Silent Hill.



/gosh i hope they make a sequel
//prolly not

I work with a girl from Namibia and I'm really getting a kick outta these replies.

Namibian girls are HAWT.

littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

h to the 'ojo: LOGICAL_PSYCHO: Any one else get the feeling that the whole "town" consisted of four or five buildings?

Have you seen pictures of Detroit recently? The town in the link was circa end of WWI. Detroit has only been declining maybe 2-3 decades

Yeah but this town doesn't have crackheads burning down buildings.

That was haunting.

this is why i like gated communities...

FelixEngine: littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

Tough luck. If nature wants your house, it's going to take it. And maybe you with it, if you are not carefull.

That was beautiful.

Anyone want to find the google earth of this place? I feel like it would be interesting to see it from the air, too. Perhaps not, but if anyone has the time/curiosity/isn't as lazy as me.

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: h to the 'ojo: LOGICAL_PSYCHO: Any one else get the feeling that the whole "town" consisted of four or five buildings?

Have you seen pictures of Detroit recently? The town in the link was circa end of WWI. Detroit has only been declining maybe 2-3 decades

Yeah but this town doesn't have crackheads burning down buildings.

FTFA:

Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.

I'm guessing if they had a school, a casino, and a hospital.. there were probably more than 'four or five buildings'...

Just a guess though.

skinink: Neville. NEVILLE!
Can anyone tell me if the "I am Legend" movie with Will Smith showed him being taunted by a masturbating female vampire/zombie, like the book?

No...... but I did have a dream like that last night if you want to hear about it.

cowsspinach: The article reminded me of Silent Hill.



/gosh i hope they make a sequel
//prolly not

they made 3 sequels, with a 4th in the works.

Shazzoir: Reminds me of that guy who did a study into how long it would take nature to take over our cities if all mankind was no longer around to maintain stuff. It wasn't as long as I had thought, being only a couple of decades to really start reclaiming what people had built.


//Tyler Approves

That is one, big litter box!

SlowTimedRapid: /taking my chances with the direct link

awesome. those invisible flying f*ckers are the bane of my existence.

littlett's: FelixEngine: littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

Tough luck. If nature wants your house, it's going to take it. And maybe you with it, if you are not carefull.

/satire
//Fark, remember?

GingerGirl
Years ago Readers Digest (this was probably late 70's, early 80's) had an article about a modern day hotel room being excavated hundreds of years in the future. It was a riot. They thought that the tv was a god because of the pedestal it was sitting on. I have to see if I can find it on-line anywhere.

This probably isn't it, but that sounds a lot like "Motel of the Mysteries." Link (new window)

FelixEngine: littlett's: FelixEngine: littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

Tough luck. If nature wants your house, it's going to take it. And maybe you with it, if you are not carefull.

/satire
//Fark, remember?

Remembered, but couldn't easily read your sarcasm.

/I'll put my Fark glasses on.

Hell, I went hiking today and saw the ruins of farmhouses that had been abandoned a hundred years or more ago, and now just sit in the middle of nowhere in a state forest. It's kind of creepy to stand on what was once someone's front porch, with nothing around but the stone foundation and the chimney still standing right across from you. Nature takes back all things eventually.

littlett's

FelixEngine: littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

Tough luck. If nature wants your house, it's going to take it. And maybe you with it, if you are not carefull.

Heh. Nature: the original fat-cat politician abusing eminent domain to pass your property to its own developers. Watch it level your house with a tornado, without your approval, and build trees where it once stood!

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the !days of our lives ...

Poop-n-Slop:
Within two years, a town, complete with a casino, school, hospital and exclusive residential buildings, was established in the barren sandy desert.

I'm guessing if they had a school, a casino, and a hospital.. there were probably more than 'four or five buildings'...

Just a guess though.
Not if they were all in the same building.

What happened? Black folks moved in?

/ducks
//well, this was Africa, so you never know.

littlett's: FelixEngine: littlett's: FelixEngine: littlett's: That is just neat!!!

It's really intriguing to see how nature just goes on with its own business.

Screw you! When I build my multi-million dollar home on the side of a cliff I expect nature to stay the hell away!

Tough luck. If nature wants your house, it's going to take it. And maybe you with it, if you are not carefull.

/satire
//Fark, remember?

Remembered, but couldn't easily read your sarcasm.

/I'll put my Fark glasses on.

So now does every other person you see have sharp knees?

another-farker:
they made 3 sequels, with a 4th in the works.

I meant movie, not the video game.

The village was built like a German town, with facilities like a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theater and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in southern Africa. It also had a railway line to Lüderitz.



Yeahfail.

azn_firebug

It may have been based on it. The back cover description sounds a lot like it. The RD article was mostly pictures with blurbs, but I bet it was taken from that book.

You are GOOD

azn_firebug This probably isn't it, but that sounds a lot like "Motel of the Mysteries."

Reader's Digest probably ran an extract of MotM. Which is hilarious, by the way, and well worth reading.

Poop-n-Slop: Namibian girls are HAWT.

I agree, but the weird thing about it is that both the black girls and the (minority) white girls are hot, but I've never seen any obviously mixed kids or adults. WTH? Must admit I've never been there, just met travelers and such in other places.