forum What do you think would happen if everyone disappeared off of the earth for two weeks?

Started August 18, 2019 by Deleted user

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Like every person, every animal other than bugs, all that jazz????
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if i'm being honest, and wasn't trying to help someone out and i was just randomly asked that question, than here's what i would say: nature. the bugs would reproduce, do their normal thing, ect. EXCEPT that the grass and flora and fauna would grow like crazy, with no herbavoires to eat the plants.and on top of that, there would be a lot of bugs all of a sudden too.

if i'm trying to help someone out, which in this case is you, than here's what i would say: [insert what i literally just wrote]

Assuming by bugs you mean all arthropods… not so terribly much I think? Bugs do most of the work in (terrestrial) ecosystems (you have plenty of herbivores left to eat the plants), and two weeks isn't really long on an ecological timescale. I agree there'd be somewhat more bugs but I wouldn't expect an extreme increase in such a short timespan. Many of the small, fast-reproducing ones are prey to other bugs, and the bigger ones usually have longer reproduction cycles.

The big thing that would noticably change is that most man-made machines would break, or at least temporarily stop. But again, I don't think just two weeks would make such a big difference.

Actually, hang on….living things emit heat. And carbon dioxide. Imagine if every living thing besides bugs just vanished all at once. Think of how fast the temperature might drop. And carbon emissions would be at rock bottom, especially without active cars and factories and airplanes and etc. etc. etc. The low co2 might be a good thing? But that and the temperature dip could be a little too extreme. What if it actually had a negative impact on the plants and bugs? Either a cold snap happens and freezes everything, or the plants produce a TON of extra oxygen and the bugs are suddenly able to grow to freakish sizes in the super-oxygenated air. Even in two weeks, there could be huge global changes, if we factor in heat and carbon dioxide.
Also living things create a lot of noise? I feel like noise pollution would drop by like 90 percent. And cities wouldn't be lighting up at night, so light pollution would be gone too.

I know this thread is old and probably dead, but it got me brainstorming and I couldn't help but share XDD

all the humans wouldn't be there lol obvi.

I like this thought.