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00:00What would happen if every human being on Earth simply disappeared?
00:12This isn't the story of how we might vanish.
00:15It's the story of what happens to the world we leave behind.
00:23In this episode of Life After People...
00:26...divine images rot from within, while Satan's minions multiply.
00:35Can the forces of darkness bring down God's holy sanctuaries?
00:43Welcome to Earth, population zero.
00:56The streets of Earth are empty.
01:05And the faithful no longer fill the pews in the millions of houses of worship around the world.
01:11The flocks have all gone from St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where a faith thrived for two millennia.
01:23In the hall where the Shroud of Turin was displayed.
01:27And in America's megachurches, where millions of Christians once prayed.
01:36Humans built their religious structures and monuments to last for eternity.
01:40But eternity is a very long time.
01:52One day after people.
01:54In Rio de Janeiro, high above the city of God, Christ the Redeemer towers over a landscape that was once home to more than six million souls.
02:06Completed in 1931 and rising 130 feet, the statue has a secret.
02:12It seems to withstand everything nature can throw at it, even frequent bolts of lightning.
02:33It's poised for a long reign on Earth.
02:36But one day after people, as power plants begin to shut down around the world, will the Redeemer continue to be a light in the darkness?
02:57Two days after people.
03:00The image of Jesus Christ lives on around the world.
03:06In the time of humans, the most controversial was the Shroud of Turin.
03:13Many Christians believed that the Shroud was the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped.
03:20Millions of people would descend on Turin for rare public viewings, only held about once every 25 years.
03:27In the past, the Shroud was rolled on a wooden dowel and stored in a casket, covered with asbestos, to safeguard against fire.
03:40It was determined that continued rolling of the Shroud onto this dowel and keeping it in this casket was not very good for its conservation and preservation.
03:47So a new container was designed and constructed.
03:52The new two-ton bulletproof case automatically monitored and adjusted barometric pressure, temperature and humidity, according to changing weather conditions.
04:03But when the electricity shut down, so did the protection.
04:10With no one to return the container to its secured storage vault, it's now on display in Turin for eternity.
04:18Three days after people.
04:25In this empty church, the stained glass depicts one of the most important creatures in the Bible.
04:32Sheep thrived into the modern era, and by the 21st century, their population had swelled to more than a billion worldwide.
04:40Now, sheep are suddenly in grave danger as predators line up for the feast.
04:47But some still have a chance of survival.
04:53For 6,000 years, Anatolian dogs were specifically bred to guard sheep from predators.
05:00If the dog's flock is threatened by bear or mountain lion or wolves, the dog will seek out the threat.
05:19The dogs have even evolved to resemble the sheep.
05:23Their light-colored coats and black muzzles help them to blend in.
05:26Making it hard for predators to pinpoint their exact location.
05:36But how long will the canine shepherds tend to their flocks?
05:49It's four days after people, and in Rio de Janeiro, the night has returned to darkness.
05:54Unknown to the millions who lived below, this statue had a secret power.
06:09As part of a major renovation program aimed to preserve it, workers gave the Redeemer an electric force field.
06:16In the year 2000, the statue was fitted with a cathode mesh system, which actually is a mesh of wires that was installed inside the statue.
06:29And then they were electrified with a low voltage charge.
06:32The low voltage charge actually draws corrosion away from the original steel reinforcement.
06:37And the wire mesh takes on that corrosion.
06:38Without its force field, how long can the Redeemer last?
06:51We know from the history of the statue that corrosion will take hold again very, very quickly.
06:58One week after people.
07:11In Rome, towering above all else, is the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.
07:16Reputedly built directly above the tomb of St. Peter, the first pope.
07:20Designed by Michelangelo and completed in 1626, the 452 foot tall engineering marvel is still one of the tallest domed structures in the world.
07:35But it's been plagued by structural problems from the beginning.
07:38After construction, it formed cracks around the base because of the outward expansion of the dome structure.
07:47The solution to that was to insert chains and tension those chains to close up the crack as best they could.
07:56And they are still there today.
07:58The chains were designed to hug the inner dome, like the iron bands that hold a barrel together.
08:04Rather than actual links, the system uses interlocking iron bars.
08:10The chains themselves are wrought iron.
08:13Wrought iron will rust on the surface, but won't rust through.
08:18The rust on the surface protects the rest of the iron.
08:22The chains will maintain their strength for hundreds of years if left alone.
08:27Outside the Vatican roams a creature once unwelcome on these streets.
08:34Black cats were long associated with pagan rituals.
08:40In the year 1233, Pope Gregory IX pronounced them instruments of the devil.
08:46Eventually, they were considered to bring bad luck.
08:49Even as recently as 2006, an estimated 60,000 were killed in Italy by superstitious people.
08:57In 2007, animal rights groups petitioned the pope to renounce the slaughter.
09:02The rest of the dead is broken.
09:03In 2007, people were killed in Italy by being used by the captive.
09:09Now, with no humans to cross their paths, Black cats will repopulate the country.
09:15Two months after people...
09:17...the sun is setting on the tombs of the dead.
09:23Two months after people, the sun is setting on the tombs of the dead.
09:32In the time of humans, eternal rest wasn't always eternal.
09:37These poor souls are resting in pieces.
09:56Why are these bones hidden in the floor?
09:59Unlike the wide-open spaces of America, where burial plots could remain untouched,
10:04burial practices in modern Europe included an ancient method of maximizing space, the ossuary.
10:15Individuals are buried in a grave for a period of time until they skeletonize.
10:20The skeleton is removed from the burial site and moved to an ossuary.
10:24So you can just get more buried people in one area.
10:28And then the burial ground is reused.
10:30Evidence of ossuries date back well beyond 3,000 B.C.
10:37The largest are the Paris catacombs, thought to contain the bones of more than 6 million people.
10:46There was a sense in Christian theology that sooner or later, there would be a day of judgment,
10:53a resurrection of the dead, and it was imagined that people would inhabit their former bodies.
11:02This is true with many religions today.
11:04We must treat the remains of the deceased properly and with respect,
11:09so that they make a transition into the afterlife properly.
11:13The remains of these forgotten souls are now mingled forever.
11:29It's six months into a life after people,
11:32and even the modern cathedrals of God face an uncertain future.
11:36The crystal cathedral megachurch, just outside Los Angeles,
11:43was once one of the most recognized symbols of the Christian faith.
11:49With a worldwide television broadcast attracting 20 million followers.
11:56Seating nearly 3,000 worshippers, it's one of the largest glass buildings in the world.
12:01The 10,000 panes of glass are attached with a silicon adhesive.
12:08The flexibility of the silicon is intended to help the glass resist up to 100 mile per hour winds.
12:15And survive an 8.0 earthquake.
12:19But there's another L.A. hazard attacking the windows.
12:24In a time of people, air pollution has really affected the glass quite a bit.
12:29The acid air contaminants, like oxides of nitrogen, smog,
12:35eat away at the glass's protective, reflective coating.
12:41Every year, a thorough inspection and cleaning operation took place to remedy any deterioration.
12:48The difficult work required two weeks and 100,000 gallons of ammonia and water.
12:52The only cleaning the windows will be getting now
12:59is the infrequent Southern California rainstorm.
13:07Like a biblical apocalypse, the natural world is winning the battle against man's achievements.
13:14And only one faithful servant can prevent the coming slaughter.
13:18It's one year into a life after people.
13:32Like grim prophecies ripped from the pages of Revelations,
13:36the world's greatest structures crack and crumble,
13:40helpless in the wake of man's absence.
13:42The 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome is one of the most famous buildings ever built by man.
13:54Inside these ancient walls, it's estimated a million people met violent deaths
13:59just for the entertainment of Rome's bloodthirsty citizens.
14:03In 1349, a massive earthquake brought down the entire Southern Wall.
14:11Looters hauled off pieces of the facade for use in other buildings,
14:15including St. Peter's Basilica.
14:19Even though there is now no one to clean and care for it,
14:22the ancient arena could still outlast the best modern buildings.
14:26The Colosseum is an incredible structure
14:29because it's built by a culture that invented concrete.
14:33There are no reinforcing rods.
14:36And no reinforcing rods means there's no steel to rust.
14:40No steel rusting means no expansion and extra cracks.
14:45It was built to last.
14:47It was built for the ages.
14:49Across the globe is another Colosseum built for Christians to flock to.
15:02Constructed in 1923, the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum
15:06once attracted a record audience of more than 134,000 worshippers
15:11to an appearance by Billy Graham.
15:13In year one after people,
15:18no amount of prayer can cast out the seeds of destruction.
15:23The Los Angeles Colosseum is totally open as a structure.
15:28Animals and plant life can move right into the arcades under the stands.
15:34So this is a building that's going to get attacked
15:37both from inside and outside very, very quickly.
15:40Two Colosseums
15:43constructed some 1900 years apart
15:48but which structure will last the longest?
15:58Five years after people
16:00and a biblical symbol of evil is on the rise.
16:04In the book of Genesis,
16:05the evil presence in the Garden of Eden,
16:07a serpent, turns man against the will of God.
16:15The symbol of evil was the serpent.
16:23And this symbolism transcends all the way down into modern culture.
16:27Venomous serpents, like the rattlesnake,
16:33were a menace to mankind,
16:35a menace man tried to eradicate.
16:39What I have here is Crotallus atrox,
16:41the western diamondback rattlesnake.
16:43Now, people and snakes,
16:44they intersect in everyday lives.
16:47In the time of humans,
16:52rattlesnakes were contained with annual round-ups
16:54held in the American South and Midwest.
16:58The snakes were hunted to protect cattle
16:59and entertain the curious at popular festivals.
17:03On average,
17:04some 16,000 snakes were captured and killed every year.
17:08But now,
17:12it's the snakes that are staging a round-up of a different sort.
17:17Five years after people,
17:19you're looking at the beginning of an arms race
17:21between the rodent empire and the snake empire.
17:26Remove people from the equation.
17:28Immediately, you have tons and tons of human waste.
17:32All these rodents would move in.
17:34The snakes would follow the food.
17:37And since they're opportunistic eaters,
17:39they'll be going after city mice, rats,
17:42even small cats, baby kittens.
17:44Anything that follows the food
17:45and takes over an urban sprawl once people leave
17:49is just rife for pickings by snakes.
17:54Five years without their human predators,
17:57and the serpent is looking to make a comeback.
18:02There are other predators on the prowl.
18:07These wolves are in search of an easy meal.
18:12But they won't find it here.
18:14The Anatolian dogs still guard their sheep,
18:17willing to fight to the death to protect them.
18:23That unswerving dedication
18:25begins at the moment of a sheep's birth.
18:28The dogs will guard the ewes
18:31while they're having their lambs.
18:33They'll help the ewe deliver the placenta,
18:36and then the placenta will be taken away
18:39and be eaten by the dog
18:40so it doesn't draw the wolves or the coyotes out of the hills.
18:45Even in times of sickness,
18:47the dog goes to extreme lengths for the good of the flock.
18:50The dog will guard the sick animal
18:53until it either gets better or it dies.
18:57Two, three, five generations down the road,
19:00you're not going to see much change in the trade of these dogs.
19:04But as wild dogs disperse,
19:12crossbreeding with Anatolians
19:13could rearrange the guardian's DNA
19:15and leave the sheep vulnerable to predators.
19:1825 years after people.
19:29The glorious walls of the Crystal Cathedral
19:31have once again become a unique kind of sanctuary.
19:36A megachurch was designed with glass panels
19:39that automatically open and close.
19:41With no power now,
19:47a steady stream of windblown seeds
19:49have found their way in through open panels.
19:52Very soon after people,
19:56plants would become king of this holy kingdom.
20:02The former church is now a greenhouse
20:04as the glass allows in solar heat
20:07and even supports an automatic sprinkler system.
20:12As the moisture comes up in cool evenings,
20:16it would coat the undersides of the glass
20:18and drip back down.
20:20And you'd have a cycle,
20:21almost a natural rain cycle inside,
20:25even if you didn't have it outside.
20:28The Crystal Cathedral is well on its way
20:30to becoming a new Garden of Eden.
20:33But the 10,000 glass panes
20:37were not designed for such a role
20:39in a life after people.
20:41The rubber and the gaskets
20:43will degrade over time.
20:45If they aren't giving close attention,
20:48those pieces of glass will start falling out.
20:58In Rome, amid the dark, deteriorating structures,
21:01a strange white-walled building
21:03juts up from the undergrowth.
21:06This is the Jubilee Church.
21:10Completed in 2003,
21:12its immense concrete walls
21:13were intended to represent the longevity
21:15of the Roman Catholic Church.
21:17Now, they are doing just that.
21:21The walls somehow still gleam white
21:23and resist the destructive rampage of plant life.
21:26Could the city of Rome,
21:31centre of the Roman Catholic faith,
21:33be experiencing a genuine miracle
21:35in a life after people?
21:4450 years after people,
21:47and standing 2,400 feet
21:49on the peak of Brazil's Corcovado Mountain,
21:51the 1,145-ton Christ the Redeemer
21:55is struggling to maintain his pose.
21:58As you get closer,
22:00you'll realise that
22:02some of the outside veneer,
22:04the fine detail of soapstone,
22:06will have pulled away.
22:09Renovation work in the year 2000
22:11revealed weak spots.
22:13The first things to fail
22:15are likely to be
22:17where the statue has been patched in the past,
22:19especially the wrists,
22:21some sections of the arms,
22:23the neck.
22:24That's where the greatest stresses
22:26have occurred on the structure.
22:30It's the beginning of the end
22:31for Christ the Redeemer's reign on earth.
22:34In 50 years without people,
22:49unstoppable forces
22:50play hell with man's legacy.
22:53In one remote desert,
22:55a devil wind is methodically
22:56drowning homes and dismantling
22:58a town, brick by brick.
23:00Here, a biblical plague
23:03has already arrived.
23:1850 years after people.
23:24Desert towns around the world
23:26are being sandblasted into oblivion.
23:29How do we know this?
23:35There's one forsaken place
23:37in the middle of an ancient desert
23:39where it's already happened.
23:47This is Kolmanskop, Namibia.
23:50It may seem like a hellish mirage
23:52rising from southern Africa's Namib desert,
23:55but this is no illusion.
23:57It's a town
23:59whose fate could have come
24:00from the pages of the Old Testament.
24:11Hundreds of miles south of Windhoek,
24:13the Namibian capital city,
24:15Kolmanskop is hanging on
24:16in a godforsaken corner of the desert.
24:18Dozens of homes and public buildings
24:24scar the desert hillside
24:26like half-buried corpses.
24:29In 1903, it was a boom town
24:31where hundreds of Germans
24:32lived and worked
24:33under the harshest conditions.
24:39It's a very harsh environment,
24:41lots of wind.
24:42That wind can carry a lot of sand.
24:44It can be an extremely irritating
24:46and annoying place to live.
24:50Why would anyone choose to live
24:52in the middle of this desert?
24:55Diamonds.
24:59Millions of years earlier,
25:01diamonds erupted from the earth
25:03and were slowly scattered
25:04and blown north
25:05into the Namibian desert.
25:06In Kolmanskop,
25:08the workers literally plucked them
25:10from the surface,
25:11often using just the light of the moon.
25:17Today,
25:18their once comfortable
25:19social halls and living rooms
25:21are now visited
25:25by an unwelcome guest.
25:28The very desert itself.
25:29This house acts as a natural wind block
25:38so that the sand that comes in
25:40through the windows and doors
25:42accumulates here
25:43and piles up in the walls
25:46and grows higher and higher,
25:48sort of like water on a sinking ship.
25:54Doors are frozen in place.
25:56And baths that once held precious water
26:06are drowning in a sea of sand.
26:14Everywhere,
26:15the fine grains invade
26:16the weakened structures,
26:18forming perfect dunes
26:22disturbed only by the footprints
26:24of rodents.
26:26In pursuit of the rodents
26:31come the modern-day residents
26:33of Kolmanskop.
26:34A variety of serpents,
26:36including the deadly coral snake,
26:38now call these hallways
26:40their home.
26:43As the dunes slowly fill each room,
26:47sand pummels the building's exteriors.
26:50You can see that the sand grains
26:55at the base
26:55have cut through
26:56and physically eroded away the wall,
26:59leaving a huge gap.
27:00We can follow that along this wall,
27:02partly covered up by dune sand,
27:04and down here,
27:05we have the ultimate,
27:07next step result,
27:08is that the gravitational forces
27:10have literally allowed this wall
27:11to drop into that gap.
27:13And if we follow it further down,
27:16we see the final product
27:17of the entire crumbled down wall
27:20and the collapsed roof on top.
27:24How quickly the buildings deteriorate
27:27depends on the quality of the brickwork.
27:30Here's an excellent example
27:36of a south-facing wall
27:39showing the different weathering.
27:41We've got the more resistant,
27:43coarse-grain bricks above,
27:44which are sticking out in positive relief.
27:46The mortar in between the bricks
27:48is softer as weathered out.
27:49Below that, we have the opposite.
27:51We've got soft bricks
27:52that have weathered out preferentially
27:53and left behind the harder mortar in between.
27:58Even though Kolmanskop
28:00is surrounded by desert,
28:01it's surprisingly close
28:02to the Atlantic Ocean.
28:05When the diamonds began drying up,
28:07just a few years after its founding,
28:09the German miners built
28:10another prospecting outpost
28:1112 miles south
28:13at a place called Elizabeth Bay.
28:21Here, it is the sea salt
28:23that has destroyed the brickwork.
28:28Many of the bricks
28:29have completely disappeared,
28:30leaving behind the mortar
28:32that once held them in place.
28:38The extreme conditions
28:39often forced the settlers inside.
28:43Known as the casino,
28:44this once-magnificent structure
28:46was a regular gathering place
28:48for concerts and even church services.
28:50They built a theatre,
28:54they had a lot of musical events,
28:56and there wasn't a lot else to do,
28:58and there was not a lot of interest
29:00in being outdoors
29:01in the harsh environment.
29:06By the early 1930s,
29:08the diamonds in Kolmanskop
29:09and Elizabeth Bay
29:10had all but dried up.
29:11The last family departed in 1956.
29:20The landscape of Kolmanskop
29:22provides a fitting requiem
29:24for man's demise.
29:28From dust you came,
29:31to dust you shall return.
29:3575 years after people.
29:47In the midst of Rome's decaying buildings,
29:50the Jubilee Church
29:51is still standing tall and bright.
29:54How can the concrete walls
29:56remain so clean and white
29:57with no humans to maintain them?
29:59The structure is a miracle
30:01of engineering.
30:04This church is actually coated
30:06with a titanium dioxide-based cement.
30:11It's called photocatalytic cement.
30:14And what this material does,
30:16with sunlight,
30:17it will actually decompose
30:19CO2 and environmental pollutants
30:21and self-clean the church.
30:25The cement sheds dirt and water with ease,
30:28making it difficult
30:29for plants to colonize.
30:32This beautiful white exterior
30:34theoretically could last forever.
30:41Another modern temple,
30:43the Crystal Cathedral,
30:44is still the world's
30:45greatest glass megachurch.
30:48But the works of man
30:49are humbled by greater forces.
30:52Ultimately, we'd be left
30:54with a fairly light
30:56structural steel frame
30:57with very few panes of glass.
30:59And finally,
31:00the process of steel corrosion
31:02would bring
31:03the whole structure down.
31:20Beneath the rubble of civilization,
31:22the ancient symbol of evil incarnate
31:25is king.
31:28With no human predators,
31:30rattlesnakes are growing
31:31to enormous sizes.
31:33The larger an animal gets,
31:35the more it can breed.
31:37And genetically,
31:38the larger the offspring will be.
31:40It could be getting to the point,
31:41well, right now,
31:41the western diamondback,
31:43the largest recorded individual,
31:44was approaching seven feet long.
31:46If we were to leave that alone
31:48for 10, 15, 100 years,
31:51imagine the size of that snake
31:52as it could just grow unchecked
31:54to the point where
31:55it could possibly become
31:56an apex predator
31:57like some South American species.
31:59I wouldn't be surprised
32:00to see an eight- or nine-foot rattlesnake
32:02in as little as 50 years.
32:0575 years after people
32:07and 65 million years
32:10after the dinosaurs,
32:11the age of the reptiles
32:13has returned.
32:21100 years after people.
32:26The roof of the chapel
32:27of the Holy Shroud in Turin
32:29is the only barrier separating
32:30the heavens and the famous shroud below.
32:34Leaking cracks in the 15th century dome
32:36finally reach the point of collapse,
32:39exposing the shroud to sunlight.
32:43The growing concern over the years
32:48was that any kind of UV exposure
32:51perhaps would cause an aging
32:53or a darkening of the rest of the cloth.
32:57The daily doses of UV radiation
33:00are slowly fading the shroud's famous image.
33:04But another, more destructive force
33:07is pressing the attack.
33:08The greatest risk
33:14to the Shroud of Turin
33:15or any ancient linen
33:17isn't so much the ultraviolet from light
33:20as it is humidity or moisture.
33:26In just a few short years,
33:28as rainstorms saturate the rotten seals,
33:31mold begins attacking the linen.
33:33The image many believed was Jesus Christ
33:42is destroyed by a simple fungus.
33:45150 years after people.
33:58Compared to the ancient concrete
33:59in the Rome Colosseum,
34:01the reinforced concrete
34:02of the Los Angeles Colosseum
34:04is in dire straits.
34:05In the time of humans,
34:09the 1994 Northridge earthquake
34:11caused nearly $100 million
34:13in damage to the structure.
34:16The damage was quite extensive,
34:19especially in the reinforced concrete columns
34:21and beams supporting the upper concourse.
34:26Now, another earthquake
34:28rumbles through Los Angeles.
34:29Roman-style arches
34:33made of modern concrete
34:34are shattered.
34:39The cheap seats provide
34:40a front-row platform
34:42to the destruction.
34:43It's 250 years after people.
35:08The Colosseum in Rome
35:12is little changed.
35:15In the time of humans,
35:17the relentless clearing
35:18of plant life
35:18by maintenance staff
35:20kept the walls pristine.
35:24Now, extreme plant growth
35:26is choking the ancient concrete,
35:28but something is preserving it
35:30for the ages.
35:32The Romans
35:34used the same kind of limestone
35:37that we use,
35:38but as an aggregate,
35:40they used volcanic ash.
35:43It's a little bit finer,
35:44and the chemical balance,
35:46somewhat by accident,
35:47was just about perfect.
35:50The volcanic ash within
35:51is so dense,
35:53water can't penetrate the concrete,
35:55so can't expand
35:56during freeze-thaw cycles.
36:00Rome's Colosseum
36:02has withstood the ravages of time
36:04and the elements.
36:07Across the world,
36:08the corroded bones
36:09of Christ the Redeemer
36:10are now covered
36:11in a robe of green.
36:15The plant life
36:16would have colonized it.
36:18Wind would have scoured
36:20some of the surface.
36:22Ultimately,
36:23in a really high wind event,
36:25this statue
36:26could topple over.
36:27As the remaining monuments
36:52to God
36:53crack and crumble,
36:54will the last shepherd
36:58on earth
36:58resist the urge
36:59to abandon his flock?
37:01500 years after people.
37:15The absence of humans
37:16has turned most sacred places
37:18into hellish visions
37:19of biblical prophecy.
37:23Specifically,
37:24in the book of Revelation,
37:25where we're painted
37:27this horrible picture
37:29of earth
37:30as a place
37:31of absolute
37:32and total destruction,
37:33where everything
37:35that existed on earth
37:36no longer exists.
37:41Five centuries
37:43after people,
37:44the mountain
37:44overlooking Rio de Janeiro
37:46is no longer graced
37:47by the figure
37:48of Jesus Christ.
37:49Probably 400 or 500 years
37:54from now,
37:55on top of this mountain
37:56will be something
37:58that looks like
37:58a huge tree
37:59that's overgrown
38:01and that was
38:02once
38:03the statue
38:04of Christ the Redeemer.
38:12At the Vatican,
38:13the dome of
38:14St Peter's Basilica
38:15still rises high
38:16above the city.
38:17But the iron support chains
38:21are being pushed
38:24to the limit.
38:26Over time,
38:27in the absence of people,
38:28that dome structure
38:29would want to expand
38:31at the base.
38:32That's going to be
38:33the vulnerable area
38:34of the dome.
38:36As the base
38:37pushes outward,
38:38a second force
38:39is acting from above.
38:42After the dome's
38:42completion in 1590,
38:44a cross
38:45and a decorative lantern
38:46weighing more
38:47than three tons
38:48were placed on top.
38:56At the base,
38:57rainwater has attacked
38:59St Peter's flat roof.
39:01I think the first thing
39:02that's going to go
39:03on St Peter's
39:04is the roofing material.
39:06Sheets of metal
39:07that probably over
39:08the next 200 or 300 years
39:10are going to start
39:10weathering through.
39:12The roof will
39:13eventually disappear.
39:14ultimately corrosion
39:17will take over,
39:19the chains will break,
39:21and the extra support
39:24to the dome
39:25will be gone.
39:26A thousand years
39:43after people.
39:45Without reinforcing rods
39:47to tear it apart,
39:48the Colosseum
39:49is still a testament
39:50to Roman concrete.
39:51But the thicket growing
39:53inside is winning
39:54this battle.
39:57Birds have carried
39:58seeds from all corners
40:00of the Roman Empire
40:00throughout its history
40:01and deposited them there.
40:04And in a life
40:05after people,
40:06that may be
40:07a large part
40:08of what will eventually
40:09bring the rest
40:11of those walls down.
40:11In its weakened condition,
40:16an earthquake
40:16gives the home
40:17of the gladiators
40:18a final push.
40:33Despite the passage
40:34of many centuries,
40:35incredibly,
40:36Anatolian sheepdogs
40:37are still on guard duty
40:39over their flocks.
40:40They have avoided
40:41interbreeding
40:42with other dogs
40:43which would have
40:43dulled their
40:44sheepherding instincts.
40:49In life after people,
40:51the dogs will not crossbreed
40:54because any dog
40:56that they see
40:57will be presumed
40:58to be a predator.
40:59So you could see
41:0110, 20 generations
41:03down the road
41:03these dogs doing
41:05what they've been bred
41:06to do for the past
41:076,000 years.
41:10The remnants of humans
41:13their sacred sites
41:15cathedrals
41:16and images
41:18of their gods
41:19have returned
41:21to dust.
41:25But the spirit of man
41:26lives on
41:27in the legacy
41:28of devotion
41:29between the sheepdog
41:30and his flock.
41:32God bless you,
41:33Jesus,
41:34Jesus,
41:34Jesus,
41:35Jesus,
41:35Jesus,
41:36Jesus,
41:37Jesus,
41:37Jesus,
41:38Jesus,
41:39has a special
41:54plan for us.
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