45 Times Nature Won The Battle Against Civilization (New Pics)

If you're into these cool photos, you should consider watching shows like History Channel's The Life After People which have comprehensive timelines of collapses detailing what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth.

The BBC (with scientific advice from Dr. Philip Wheeler, OU.) has entertained the thought about natural forces as well. Within just days, the electricity grid fails as supplies run out. There's nobody to override the power stations' failsafe mechanisms, too.

Within a week, the subways built under the water table flood. To put things into perspective, the 47 million liters ( 12.4M gallons) of water that was pumped out of the London Underground every day inundates tunnels. Without heating and air conditioning, mold takes over surfaces in homes and offices. Other plants begin taking over abandoned homes as different species compete for space.

Eventually, the lines between city and countryside get blurred. Windows fall out of rotten frames and nature's reclaiming of towns and cities would more and more evident. Meanwhile, farmland gets covered by scrub and trees.

But scattered on the surface, some things will never degrade. Metals corrode, plastics start breaking down and dispersing, but stainless steel pans, stranded granite worktops, and billions of car tires remain.

Nuclear facilities fail. Some explode, unleashing an enormous amount of radiation onto the local ecosystem causing many animals to die. The radiation makes others mutate, creating new evolutionary lines. In a way, it's kind of soothing to know that the universe would carry on even without us, isn't it?