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00:00Imagine our planet without its people.
00:08Imagine that every single human being has simply disappeared.
00:13This isn't the story of how that might happen.
00:17It's the story of what happens to the world we leave behind.
00:22In this episode of Life After People,
00:26humans have always liked to gamble.
00:28And the world's sin cities have uncertain futures.
00:33In Las Vegas, how quickly will these famous faces suffer a meltdown?
00:39What makes the wood of the Atlantic City boardwalk as durable as concrete?
00:45And what will be the fate of man's ultimate gamble?
00:50Welcome to the future of once-crowded cities
00:53And an abandoned silent funfair
00:59Welcome to Earth
01:03Population Zero
01:07One of man's most popular vices
01:23Was to play the odds
01:26In the time of humans, the streets of their gambling meccas were lined with outrageous spectacles
01:37And tributes to the great civilizations of the world
01:42But these cities are built in hostile environments
01:48Las Vegas springs from a barren desert
01:52Atlantic City is perched on a storm-battered coast
01:56Now that the final bets have been placed
02:01Can anything in either of these cities beat the odds?
02:07One day after people
02:19In Las Vegas, the casinos are empty
02:25But there's one place that still draws a crowd
02:29In the time of humans, celebrities and dignitaries were immortalized in wax at the famous Madame Tussauds
02:41Each lifelike figure was based on as many as 150 measurements
02:45Melted wax was poured into plaster molds where it hardened into its final form
02:57Hair was placed strand by strand
03:03Now, works in progress will never be finished
03:08In Las Vegas, more than 100 completed wax figures are displayed in a 30,000 square foot museum
03:16The temperature is set at an ideal 70 degrees
03:21For now, at least
03:23Two days after people
03:33Power has started to fail
03:37Along the Las Vegas strip
03:39And a new rat pack is prowling the streets
03:45Rats have been a problem around Las Vegas since the 1990s
03:51Experts believe they came in the palm trees
03:53Shipped in to decorate hotels and housing developments
03:57After people are gone
04:04They find their way into the city's casinos
04:08Where they're more interested in searching for food than rolling dice
04:12More than 2,000 miles away in Atlantic City
04:18The only creatures strolling down the world-famous boardwalk are cats
04:23In the time of humans, 18 colonies of feral cats already lived under the boardwalk
04:35Human volunteers put out food for them on a daily basis
04:39Without people, the future of these 140 felines is uncertain
04:47The boardwalk itself might just beat the odds
04:56Originally built in 1870, Atlantic City's was the first beachside boardwalk in the United States
05:05It's made up of 216,000 planks of wood and runs for over four miles
05:11The earliest boardwalk was made of cedar
05:17A wood so fragile it was dismantled and put into storage every winter to keep it out of the elements
05:22The modern boardwalk is much tougher
05:26Beginning in 1990, many sections were replaced with a South American hardwood called ipe
05:33Or Brazilian walnut
05:34It's naturally resistant to insects, rot and mould
05:38It's one of the world's densest woods
05:42With fibres packed so tightly, it has the same fire rating as concrete
05:46In June 2007, a fire that started under the boardwalk tore through local businesses
05:56Some sections of the boardwalk, the parts made of pine, were destroyed
06:03The hardwood was barely touched
06:07Three days after people
06:22Inside Madame Tussauds, glass eyes stare out at the empty hallways
06:30When the power goes out
06:37Emergency lighting keeps the figures illuminated in the windowless galleries
06:45But in the museum's utility rooms, the exhaust fans slow to a halt
06:54The air conditioning cuts out
07:01And the temperature begins to rise
07:05Inside the building, the upper floors will really compress the heat and be kind of like an oven
07:13The wax figures will start to droop and sweat and melt
07:18Beeswax, the main component in these figures, begins melting at 115 degrees
07:26Against these odds, Madonna has no chance
07:31And within days, the material girl dematerializes
07:36While the figure of Madonna melts, 6,000 miles away in Buenos Aires
07:46The body of the woman she played in the film of the same name remains surprisingly intact
07:52When Argentina's first lady, Eva Perón, died in 1952
08:01Her body was preserved by a process that left a plastic-like film on her skin
08:08Evita's husband was assured her body would never decompose
08:16Today, Evita rests in a tomb 20 feet underground
08:23Said to be able to withstand a nuclear attack
08:26Unlike Madonna's wax figure, Evita will be preserved as a living doll for many years to come
08:34One week after people
08:4737 and a half million people used to visit Las Vegas every year
08:53Now, the streets are empty
08:56Looming over the scene of desolation is the Stratosphere Tower
09:03Part of a hotel complex, it's the tallest freestanding observation tower in America
09:08At 1,149 feet, it is taller than the Space Needle and the Eiffel Tower
09:16Its most distinctive features were the highest amusement rides in the world
09:23Including one that dangled visitors 64 feet over the edge of the tower on a mechanical arm
09:33Now, the screams of thrill-seekers no longer echo across the Las Vegas Valley
09:38In the time of humans, many of the iconic hotels of this city were demolished in seconds at the hands of man
09:51Clearing the way for bigger and more eccentric structures
09:55Now, nature may act more slowly, but with no less violence
10:04And at this amusement park in the heart of America, life after people has already begun
10:15Two weeks after people
10:30In Las Vegas, casinos that were once filled with the flashing lights and deafening clamor of slot machines
10:38Are silent and dark
10:41Although there are no humans to exterminate them
10:54The new rat pack has plenty to fear
10:57This dog may not look like a predator, but he's called a rat terrier for good reason
11:11His breed was originally developed in the 1800s to hunt vermin
11:16And he's better than most cats at catching small rodents
11:19In the time of humans, American President Teddy Roosevelt
11:26Was said to have used one of these dogs to eliminate rats from the White House
11:29Once the rat terrier got out
11:34They'd be out there sniffing around
11:37Following mice, rats that you would have here in the Las Vegas area
11:41There'd also be lizards
11:44And a variety of other kinds of species that were small
11:47That they would probably have the ability to capture
11:49Across the country in Atlantic City
11:59The ocean continues to pound against the famous steel pier
12:03As it has since 1898
12:05Nearly as long as the Las Vegas stratosphere is tall
12:14This attraction once hosted entertainers from W.C. Fields
12:18To Frank Sinatra
12:19And even the Miss America pageant
12:22Rebuilt in 1993
12:25Its concrete supports are in good shape
12:27For now
12:29Mankind's gambling meccas have always been fertile ground for strange architecture
12:49Unlike skyscrapers and monuments
12:54These bizarre structures were built to draw in customers today
12:58Not to stand for tomorrow
13:00Near Atlantic City
13:07The strangest of them all
13:09Is Lucy the Margate Elephant
13:12Designed to attract investors to what was then an undeveloped stretch of sand
13:21This 65-foot-tall pachyderm was completed in 1882
13:25A year before the Brooklyn Bridge
13:28But she's hardly an engineering marvel
13:30Her fragile skeleton had to be rebuilt in 1973
13:38At a cost of $124,000
13:41That she lasted into the 21st century was a miracle
13:48Lucy's exterior shell is made up of wood covered with a tin sheathing
13:55Being 100 feet away from the Atlantic Ocean
13:58The structure requires constant maintenance
14:01It needs to be stripped and painted every three years
14:04At a cost of around $65,000
14:06Rotted wood needs to continue to be replaced
14:10Rotted tin panels need to be replaced all the time
14:13The last time Lucy was painted was 2002
14:18By 2009 the deterioration was clear
14:22On average it rains every three or four days in Atlantic City
14:30With wintertime bringing snow and ice
14:34In the past every time Lucy's future was threatened
14:37Concerned humans stepped in to save her
14:40Now she's on her own
14:43The fragility of the architecture of amusement is clear
14:54It's a story that is already being told
14:58At this abandoned amusement park in America's heartland
15:01Welcome to the Americana Amusement Park
15:09In Lizardsville Lake, Ohio
15:11In the time of humans
15:13It was a thrill-seeker's paradise
15:15Drawing daily crowds of up to 10,000 people
15:19The park in its heyday was quite beautiful
15:22It had a lot of vibrant colors
15:23It was full of life and excitement
15:25And today to see it, it's almost like a ghost town
15:32It's very sad to see it in this state
15:34The park fell on hard times
15:39And the gates closed in 2002
15:4280 years after they first opened
15:44Just a few short years of abandonment
15:50Have created a monster
15:52Wood is rotting everywhere
15:57Motors, bearings and metal components are corroding
16:02Gaping cracks permeate the park
16:05The annual freeze-thaw cycle
16:09That occurs in the Ohio Valley
16:11Is very hard on things
16:13Water tends to seep in cracks
16:17Freeze overnight
16:18As the water expands
16:20It applies loads that enlarge the cracks
16:22This amusement park tells us
16:30What will happen to the spectacles of Las Vegas
16:32And Atlantic City when people are gone
16:35Like all amusement parks
16:37It was once distinguished by bright colors
16:39But protective paint steadily degrades
16:48Beneath the sun's ultraviolet assault
16:50This entrance looks like it's painted in pastel colors
16:55But at one point they were much more vibrant
16:57In less than a decade
17:01The sun's ultraviolet radiation
17:03Dimms the paint to an atomic level
17:05The sunlight makes oxygen already in the paint
17:09Mixed with the color pigments
17:11Which fade as a result
17:13The loss of pigment
17:17The loss of volatiles within the paint
17:20Is going to reach a point
17:21Where the paint loses its elasticity
17:23Its ability to expand and contract
17:26With the material
17:26And you'll see cracks
17:28That's when the structural damage occurs
17:31Without humans to constantly repaint the park
17:37Its first layer of defense
17:39Is gone
17:40At its current rate of destruction
17:44The Americana will soon become unrecognizable
17:47There's no fixed lifetime
17:51For the rides in an amusement park
17:53In theory
17:54They could last forever
17:56If they're inspected
17:57And repaired
17:58As damage occurs
18:00But the inspection is long overdue
18:05And the rides are beyond repair
18:07Especially this once proud roller coaster
18:10The screeching eagle
18:16Was the main attraction
18:17Cars raced, plunged and swerved
18:20At top speeds of 55 miles an hour
18:23On the 180 degree turns
18:25What was once considered
18:28One of the best wooden coasters in America
18:30Is now plunging towards complete collapse
18:33But rotting wood is not the immediate enemy here
18:43The coaster's support beams
18:45Are made of chemically treated wood
18:47So they'll resist rotting for several more years
18:50Longer than the mechanism that binds them together
18:52A series of guy wires
18:55Provides tension to the tallest section of track
18:58It's braided wire rope
19:04And we can see parts of the rope
19:07Where the strands are coming apart
19:10And actually breaking
19:11So there are a few of these ropes
19:13That are poised for failure right now
19:16The weakest link in this coaster
19:20Is the fasteners
19:21Something as mundane as the nails
19:24That hold the boards together
19:26Over a single season
19:28We see nails coming out
19:31And when those go
19:32That will permit the vertical members
19:35To undergo buckling collapse
19:37It just needs that one push
19:39To stop the dominoes falling
19:42With enough nails and guy wires loosened
19:47A stiff wind will set off
19:48A dramatic collapse
19:50In the coaster's upper reaches
19:51In time
19:58Every structure in the park
20:00Will become a heap of rubble
20:02If everyone on earth disappeared
20:06Within ten years
20:07This park would start deteriorating so bad
20:09The buildings would start falling down
20:12All the rust and the steel
20:14And the maintenance on all the equipment
20:16Would just start deteriorating
20:17And the concrete would be overgrown
20:20And being pushed up by plants
20:21And overgrowth
20:22In a matter of twenty years
20:25It would be unrecognizable
20:26As the years pass
20:33Few of man's familiar landmarks
20:36Will be recognizable
20:37And the absence of people
20:39Will bring surprising changes
20:41Like water
20:42To places where there was
20:44Nothing but desert
20:45Two years after people
20:56In Las Vegas
20:57The climate of its Mojave Desert
20:59Starts to produce a new kind
21:01Of strange display
21:02As the parched desert
21:04Reasserts itself
21:06In the Mojave we like to say
21:11Water is life
21:12In the time of humans
21:15The city was lush
21:16With green gardens
21:17Fed by a water system
21:19Holding nearly 700 million gallons
21:22In reservoir tanks
21:23Scattered throughout the valley
21:25Lake Mead
21:32A primary water source
21:34Is 25 miles away
21:35But without electric pumps
21:37Its water has been unable
21:39To reach the city
21:40It rains only four and a half inches
21:44A year here
21:45And little will grow naturally
21:47Besides the scrub
21:48Of the Mojave Desert
21:49Three miles from the strip
21:53A one-time oasis
21:54Stands as a natural reminder
21:56Of the city's lush past
21:58Springs Preserve
22:02Is a museum
22:03Built on the site
22:04Where artesian springs
22:05Were discovered in 1829
22:07The springs made it possible
22:09For people to settle here
22:10Las Vegas
22:12In fact means
22:13The meadows
22:14The wells dug to tap
22:18The underground water
22:19Have long gone dry
22:21The Las Vegas spring
22:22Started out as rainfall
22:23And snow melt
22:24In the spring mountains
22:25But inside the visitor's center
22:27The voice of man
22:28Still echoes in the halls
22:30Where it formed an aquifer
22:32Layers of rock and silt
22:33Through which groundwater flows
22:35The museum exhibits
22:36Don't get their electricity
22:37From the municipal grid
22:39They're powered by the sun
22:41Over 2,000 solar panels
22:48Cover the car parks
22:49Generating 409 kilowatts
22:52Of electricity
22:52This recorded narration
22:57Is the last human voice
22:59Heard in Vegas
23:00Five years after people
23:14In Atlantic City
23:16Inside the waterfront casinos
23:18The city's feral cat population
23:20Has found a new home
23:22What's really interesting
23:27About domestic cats
23:28They're not like bobcats
23:29That don't tolerate
23:30Others of their kind
23:31The densities of house cats
23:33Domestic cats
23:34Can be very very large
23:35And I think over time
23:36They would set up a hierarchy
23:37And they would occupy
23:38These buildings
23:39Their new homes
23:42Are dank ghostly tombs
23:44Cobwebs shroud the slot machines
23:47Humidity from the outside
23:49Encourages rot
23:50Thick paper playing cards
23:52Have curled
23:52And grown mouldy
23:54In the dampness
23:54The durable plastic poker chips
23:58However
23:58Are unharmed
23:59Though they are covered
24:01With grime
24:01Formed of dust
24:02And moisture
24:03In the gloom of the casino
24:13Bats also find a place to live
24:15Species of bats
24:17Preferring to avoid human contact
24:19Most of them found homes
24:21In abandoned mines and tunnels
24:22Like the hibernia mine
24:24Where thousands congregated
24:26Every autumn and winter
24:27Now every casino
24:31Is a potential bat cave
24:32Some of these buildings
24:38Will end up being roosts
24:40And for some species of bats
24:41These colonies are limited
24:43Only by the size
24:44Of the cave that they live
24:45And in this case
24:46The cave would be
24:47A very large building
24:48Ten years after people
25:00A familiar voice
25:03Begins to strain
25:05The solar cells
25:12In the car park
25:12Of the springs preserve
25:13Have kept the facilities
25:15Power on for a decade now
25:17But in order to operate efficiently
25:19The panels need to be
25:20Cleaned regularly
25:21Solar cells are great
25:23But they don't last forever
25:25Without people
25:26The solar cells
25:28Are going to fall prey
25:29To dust and debris
25:30And they're going to degrade
25:32Seven or eight percent a year
25:33That means after ten years
25:35They will have lost
25:36More than half their power
25:37As the voltage dips
25:40The lights dim
25:42And the voice of man
25:44Is silenced
25:46It's fifteen years after people
26:03Down the coast
26:05From Atlantic City
26:06Lucy the Margate elephant
26:08Is on her last legs
26:09After people
26:11The first thing
26:12That will happen to Lucy
26:13Is her outer skin
26:14Will begin to fail
26:15And each piece of tin
26:16Will eventually start to peel off
26:17And fall to the ground
26:18But eventually
26:23One good storm
26:24Will weaken one leg
26:25When one leg goes
26:27The rest of Lucy
26:28Will fall to the ground
26:29Fifty years after people
26:42Atlantic City's steel pier
26:44Is just a skeleton
26:46It looks much the way
26:51The old garden pier
26:52Did in the time of humans
26:53After the hurricane of 1944
26:56The buildings were demolished
26:57And the pier's foundations
26:58Never repaired
27:00Built of reinforced concrete
27:07The steel pier's
27:08Cations are strong
27:09But not strong enough
27:11Against the constant
27:12Assault of the ocean
27:13The piers that extend
27:16Into the ocean
27:16Are already subject
27:18To the constant
27:19Wearing away
27:20By the ocean
27:21But the water
27:22Has sand in it
27:24As well as
27:26Boards and other debris
27:27This sand is essentially
27:30Sandblasting the structure
27:31And typically within 50 years
27:34The structure is gone
27:35In Las Vegas
27:46A city long known
27:47For giving second chances
27:49A former star
27:50Is making a surprise
27:51Return engagement
27:52Water
27:5650 years after people
28:01Rain has continued to fall
28:03In the surrounding mountains
28:04Water from the mountains
28:06Is flowing down
28:06To the Las Vegas Valley
28:08Where it permeates
28:09A porous layer
28:10Below denser rock
28:11At the surface
28:1250 years after people
28:14Water will return to the valley
28:17In spots like this
28:18This is an old well
28:20It was built
28:20In the early 20th century
28:21And because of
28:22Groundwater pumping
28:23Basically the soil
28:25Just sank down
28:26So about 5 feet
28:27All the way down to here
28:28And when water returns
28:3150 years after people
28:32Little holes like that
28:33Will be where the water
28:34Comes out of
28:35Water's reappearance
28:38In Las Vegas
28:39Will alter the landscape
28:40But only gradually
28:42In other parts of the country
28:44Change comes suddenly
28:45And violently
28:47A hurricane is on its way
28:50Up the coast
28:50Towards Atlantic City
28:52The big one's coming in
28:54Sometime in the next
28:55100 years
28:56Much of the boardwalk
28:59Is already buried under sand
29:01But in the exposed sections
29:03Wind buffets
29:04The durable South American
29:05Hardwood that has survived
29:06The years intact
29:08Corroded metal fasteners
29:10Weaken as the winds increase
29:12And whole sections of the boardwalk
29:14Are ready to give way
29:15Portions of the boardwalk
29:18Will break up
29:19And become battering rams
29:21Seawater floods the buildings
29:25And soaking their framework
29:26With a heavy solution of salt
29:28That remains behind
29:29Long after the storm ends
29:31The salt that's left behind
29:35Sucks the water out of the air
29:37The ports now subject to salt
29:40Will constantly be re-wetted
29:42And corrode much faster
29:44Than the rest of the structure
29:45Since they're subjected
29:48To the heaviest loads
29:49They'll start to fail
29:51One by one
29:52In a progressive failure
29:54First one
29:55Then a second
29:56After the first one goes
29:58Nothing will probably happen
29:59But when the second
30:00And third columns go
30:02You'll start to have
30:03What amounts to be
30:04A demolition of a building
30:06By explosives
30:06But in slow motion
30:08Because only half
30:09Of the building will fall
30:10And then the middle
30:12And the other half
30:13A hundred years after people
30:26Fine grains of windblown sand
30:28Are erasing the welcome sign
30:30That once greeted visitors
30:31To the city of Las Vegas
30:33The blowing sand
30:39Is actually an unnatural consequence
30:40Of man's presence here
30:42A century ago
30:43Before Las Vegas was developed
30:48Most of the sand
30:49Was held in place
30:50By a hard layer
30:51Called the cryptobiotic crust
30:54The crust is formed
30:57Of soil particles
30:58Held together by microbes
31:00Fungi
31:00Lichens
31:01And mosses
31:02Filaments from photosynthetic
31:04Cyanobacteria
31:06Spread out
31:06To bind specks of mineral material
31:09Into a tough matrix
31:10Man's shovels and bulldozers
31:17Disrupted the crust
31:18And without it
31:19The winds blow the sand around
31:21Unimpeded
31:22Wind gusts can be
31:26Quite, quite powerful
31:26In the valley
31:27In fact Las Vegas
31:28Is well known
31:29For its windstorms
31:30With wind comes sand
31:32Blown about
31:32Most of that results
31:34From us moving around
31:35Through the desert
31:36We've destroyed
31:36The cryptobiotic crust
31:38Which takes hundreds of years
31:39To come back
31:40And because we've destroyed
31:41This crust
31:42We get a lot of sand
31:43Blowing about
31:43And that causes erosion
31:45In Las Vegas
31:51Shafts of sunlight
31:52Make their way
31:53Into the giant atrium
31:54Of the Luxor Hotel
31:55When it was built
32:00In 1993
32:01It was the tallest building
32:03On the strip
32:03Now
32:06Every one
32:07Of the 28,500
32:08Panes
32:09In its glass skin
32:10Are broken
32:11The concrete structure
32:14Inside remains
32:15However
32:15Its shape
32:16Giving it a natural stability
32:18We've seen the pyramids
32:22Last for thousands of years
32:23And in Las Vegas
32:25We have a simulation
32:26Of a pyramid
32:27That building
32:28Is probably amongst
32:29The most stable
32:30Structural systems
32:31That we can think of
32:32The increasing amount
32:37Of windblown sand
32:38May be eroding
32:39The Luxor
32:39But other particles
32:41Of earth
32:41Have preserved
32:42Its ancient Egyptian
32:43Namesake
32:44The Temple of Luxor
32:46Originally built
32:49Almost 3,500 years ago
32:51The Temple of Luxor
32:52Stands today
32:53Because it was entombed
32:55In the layers of silt
32:56Deposited each year
32:57By the Nile River
32:58The river mud
33:00Was a blanket
33:01Protecting the site
33:02Not only from wind
33:03Earthquakes
33:04And other hazards
33:05But also from damage
33:07By vandals
33:07And treasure seekers
33:08The site was largely buried
33:13Until excavations
33:14In the late 19th century
33:15Will Las Vegas
33:18Be as lucky?
33:26200 years after people
33:28In Las Vegas
33:31A desert thunderstorm
33:33Rumbles in
33:34Because Las Vegas
33:37Often gets its total
33:38Annual rainfall
33:39Of four and a half inches
33:40In one or two storms
33:42Flash floods
33:43Are common
33:44There's two ways
33:45To die in the Mojave
33:46You can die of thirst
33:47Or you can die of drowning
33:48Floodwaters have rushed past
33:54The Las Vegas sign
33:55So much in the past
33:56200 years
33:57That rust
33:57Has started spreading
33:59Into its support beams
34:00Now another weather hazard
34:04Comes into play
34:05The wind can blow up
34:07To 90 miles per hour here
34:09And today
34:10A powerful gust
34:11Catches the city's
34:13Old greeting sign
34:14Like a sail
34:14It talks the weakened supports
34:17To the breaking point
34:18And the sign falls flat
34:21On the empty
34:22Crumbling road
34:23300 years after people
34:32While the skylines
34:34Of most cities
34:35Are stripped
34:35Of their iconic towers
34:36There are some surprises
34:38In Las Vegas
34:39Seen from a distance
34:41The desert has preserved
34:42Much of the familiar skyline
34:44But the artesian water
34:49That began bubbling
34:50To the surface
34:51250 years ago
34:52Is bringing new life
34:54To the ruins
34:55In the desert
34:55It's kind of interesting
34:58To think about
34:59What life might be like
34:59In the valley
35:00After people
35:01When water returns
35:02The habitat will look
35:03Very much like
35:04This area right here
35:05We'll have quite a bit
35:07Of vegetation growing around
35:09Scattered throughout the valley
35:10It'll actually be quite lush
35:12Plants like the western honey mesquite
35:17Grow in clumps
35:18Along the strip
35:19Wherever the water
35:20Happens to flow
35:21But the new pockets
35:25Of groundwater
35:25In Las Vegas
35:26Wreak havoc
35:27On building foundations
35:28Designed for the dry
35:29Desert terrain
35:30300 years after people
35:33The weakened foundation
35:34Of the stratosphere
35:35Will have to endure
35:36A thrill ride
35:37Courtesy of mother nature
35:40Although neighbouring California
35:45Is notorious for earthquakes
35:46Nevada experiences
35:48Thousands of its own tremors
35:49Every year
35:50Faults near Las Vegas
35:53Have the potential
35:53To unleash events
35:55As large as the 1994
35:56Northridge quake
35:57That jolted Los Angeles
35:59If you look at a place
36:02Like Las Vegas
36:03It's a seismically active area
36:05It has earthquakes
36:05The buildings in Las Vegas
36:08Because it's a relatively dry climate
36:10You might think
36:11Would last a long time
36:12But actually
36:13Many of them
36:14Will be shaken down
36:15We could potentially
36:19Have a toppling failure
36:20Of a tower
36:21If we lost the corner
36:22Of the tower
36:24At its base
36:25And it tilted over
36:26We could have
36:27The leaning tower
36:28Of Pisa effect
36:30A violent quake
36:33Lashes the tower
36:34Back and forth
36:35Like a whip
36:36Losing support
36:38From its base
36:39Its fall seems
36:40Agonisingly slow
36:42The big observation pod
36:47Hits the ground
36:48At 150 miles an hour
36:50The entire tower
36:52Smashing in a cloud of debris
36:54A blanket of dust
37:02Hangs over the city's remains
37:03A place once called
37:06The Meadows
37:06Is now
37:07A pile of rubble
37:09Many of the odd animals
37:15Imported into Las Vegas
37:17Died quickly
37:17In the absence of humans
37:19But in the distant future
37:21The descendants of one creature
37:23Just may beat the odds
37:25And the messages man thought
37:29Would last forever
37:30Face destruction
37:32In the great expanse of time
37:35It's been a thousand years
37:51Since the last bets
37:52Were placed
37:52In the gambling meccas
37:53Of Atlantic City
37:54And Las Vegas
37:56Their long term fates
37:58Are not based on chance
37:59But on the inevitable
38:01Forces of nature
38:02A thousand years after people
38:05Even a trained eye
38:07Would have trouble
38:07Recognising that there was
38:09Ever a city
38:09In the Las Vegas Valley
38:10In the ten centuries
38:13After people
38:14Las Vegas is now
38:16Little more than
38:16A jagged mound
38:17In the desert
38:18Creosote bushes
38:20And other rough vegetation
38:21Have colonised
38:22Any remnants of buildings
38:24Remaining
38:24Under a thousand year
38:26Layer of desert dust
38:27It is this very vegetation
38:30That prevents the wind
38:31From forming sand dunes
38:33And burying the remains
38:34Of the city
38:35Even more deeply
38:3620,000 years after people
38:51Subtle changes in Earth's orbit
38:55And the tilt of its axis
38:56Have aligned to return
38:58To return the planet
38:58To an ice age
38:59As ocean water
39:05Is tied up
39:05In the planet's
39:06Massive ice sheets
39:07Sea level drops
39:08Almost 400 feet
39:10In New Jersey
39:21The entire continental shelf
39:23Stands above sea level
39:24Atlantic City
39:26Is surrounded
39:27By an inland forest
39:29If I were standing
39:31In Atlantic City
39:32During the next ice age
39:33I would see forests
39:35Something like this
39:36The ocean
39:37Would be too far away
39:38To see
39:38In a million years
39:50A number of ice ages
39:52Have come and gone
39:53The Nevada desert
39:55Has gone back
39:56To looking much as it did
39:57When people gambled
39:58In Las Vegas
39:59The city is long eroded away
40:03But a vaguely familiar
40:05Looking creature
40:06Reminds us that once
40:07There were humans here
40:09The animal is descended
40:11From camels
40:12Once kept at a ranch
40:13In Virginia City
40:14400 miles from Las Vegas
40:16But with low growing
40:18Vegetation as its primary food
40:20It has evolved
40:21Into a new species
40:22Similar to the camel
40:24Like guanacos
40:25Of South America
40:25Because of the habitat
40:30In Las Vegas
40:31A new species of camel
40:33Might be a little bit
40:34Smaller in stature
40:35Probably a thicker
40:36Insulating layer
40:37Of fur
40:38Because of the temperatures here
40:39This new species
40:41Of camel
40:42Would probably be
40:43Fairly quick
40:44There's quite a few predators
40:45Though our gambling meccas
40:50Are now all gone
40:51One of man's greatest bets
40:53Is still in play
40:55It's not a gold coin
40:57But a gold record
40:58Aboard the Voyager spacecraft
41:01What of humankind
41:02Will actually last
41:03A million years
41:04One pretty sure bet
41:06Is the Voyager spacecraft
41:08When the Voyagers
41:15Were launched in 1977
41:16To explore the solar system
41:18And beyond
41:19Each one carried
41:20A gold record
41:21Containing sound
41:22And images from earth
41:24As well as greetings
41:24In 55 different languages
41:26Intended to inform
41:28Other intelligent beings
41:29Of our existence
41:30On the third planet
41:31From the sun
41:32But interstellar space
41:36Is not a pure vacuum
41:37It is filled with
41:39Widely scattered gas molecules
41:41Dust
41:41And micrometeoroids
41:43After 300 million miles
41:46And a million years
41:48The stuff of space
41:49Takes its toll
41:50On Voyager
41:51It's still recognisable
41:53But in pieces
41:54And full of holes
41:56Even the gold record
42:01Is so damaged
42:02That there's little chance
42:03Anyone who finds it
42:05Will be able to play it
42:06Like all of man's
42:10Great gambles
42:11This one
42:12Has proved to be a long shot
42:14In a life
42:15After people
42:16After people
42:18It's stolen
42:19Stick
42:20In an area
42:20In June
42:21And Billie
42:22In the middle
42:22In the middle
42:22Is nothing
42:23Nice
42:23To be up
42:23In the middle
42:24It's still
42:25A long shot
42:25To be able to
42:26With that
42:26Inoshima
42:27And a última
42:28With that
42:30In the middle
42:30At some point
42:31Just move
42:32In the middle
42:33关 confuse
42:33To be a Based
42:34In the middle
42:35At some point
42:36After people
42:37And believe
42:37To be able
42:38Over
42:40可愛
42:41To be able
42:42To be able
42:44To be able
42:44To be able
42:44To be able
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