The "death" of Wrigley Field explained in History Channel Special

by Galvan316 on May 5, 2009 11:40 PM CDT Comment 51 comments

History Channel's "Life after People: The Series" chronicles what happens to our planet and more specifically its landmarks, buildings and other human made objects after people are gone forever.

In one specific episode known as "Life After People the Series: Outbreak" The program explains what would happen to Chicago, Atlanta and London after people are gone for segments of time from 1 day after people are gone to up to 5000 years+ into the future.

Highlighted in this episode is our beloved Wrigley Field along with the Chicago skyline and what will happen to the most notable icons of humanity long after we are gone.

This program is perfect for family viewing and answers alot of questions that children may have about the world in which we live.

For Comcast customers who have a Digital Package with On-Demand you can watch this program right now by axcessing On Demand - Selecting the News and World Section - History Channel - Life After People - Episode #2

I highly recommend checking out this program and this series for that matter, but most specifically this episode since it does focus attention on Chicago and Wrigley Field.

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there is a repeat on of this episode right now

As soon as I saw the ivy I said to myself “that’s Wrigley” and sure enough it was. This show is pretty interesting it was really crazy seeing how the ivy will completely take over Wrigley if humans were no longer alive.

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."

by All The Way on May 6, 2009 12:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What's the rest of the schedule for repeating this show?

I’ve been meaning to watch but forgot to DVR it in its previous showings.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 6, 2009 3:53 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The series is on Tuesday Nights at 9PM CT

by Galvan316 on May 6, 2009 9:30 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The specific Outbreak episode is scheduled

for 5/17 at 3:00p if my Tivo listings can be believed. I’m set to record it!

by madcow256 on May 6, 2009 2:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This show is available on itunes

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?i=313374832&id=311277449&s=143441

I’m going to purchase the Chicago episode and might make it a season pass if I like it. Hopefully like most History Channel shows skipping E1 won’t be a big deal.

The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.

by sanantonecub on May 6, 2009 6:17 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Easily one of the more depressing shows out there

Strangely enough, I like it though, as it’s a bit of a gut shot and makes me want to do what I can to prevent what sometimes feels unavoidable.

by Craig in South Bend on May 6, 2009 7:35 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't find it so depressing.

I find it humbling, and at the same time amusing how much power we arrogantly believe we have. We are mere mites on the skin of the earth. As the late George Carlin used to say:

“The planet’s not goin’ anywhere. We are.”

"I'll never forget how I felt last October." ~Kosuke Fukudome

by Goodie1969 on May 6, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

"The next time you pull up to a toll booth, bargain with the guy!"

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by dat cubfan daver on May 7, 2009 10:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tears rolled down my eyes...

had to make the wife change the channel – Only because I didn’t see any World Series pennants flying!

by socalicubsfan on May 6, 2009 8:19 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Eaten by rats.

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by dat cubfan daver on May 6, 2009 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

mutant

white-sox fan rats.

"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella

by drewishdrewid on May 6, 2009 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you like that read

The World Without Us

Okay, just so I understand it... in your wildest fantasy, you are in hell. And you are co-running a bed and breakfast with the devil.

by bren on May 6, 2009 8:37 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

12/21/2012

n/t

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 6, 2009 8:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

A few short months after the Cubs 4th WS....

by Tangled Up In Blue on May 6, 2009 9:26 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is the silver lining we can all hope for

then again who said the Mayans would be correct anyway?

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 6, 2009 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

The ancient Chinese said the same, though

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on May 6, 2009 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Same reasoning?

Obscure alignment of the planets…

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 6, 2009 2:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't recall

The History Channel had some decent stuff on this, too. But then they weaved the Nostradamus stuff in . . . . I love the HC, but some of the stuff they show is really out there!

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on May 6, 2009 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey!

Winter Solstice! Can’t wait!

Also, if nothing else, atleast we’ll see the Cubs sweep the World Series in 2015.

by Craig in South Bend on May 6, 2009 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nostradamus predicted it

“In the first decade of the new milenium the little blue bears from the 3rd city of the new world will rise up after long being opressed to take the flag so denied them for 100 plus years past. They will be lead by heroes new and old including one from the Land of the Rising Sun”

Jay is our Quarterback. I REPEAT JAY IS OUR QUARTERBACK. Did I mention we have a Quarterback who happens to be named Jay?.

by cubstoseriesby100 on May 7, 2009 6:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know you're being funny

and can really appreciate it.

The theory Nostradamus predicted so many events is just such a joke. It’s like someone curve-fits some random data with a bunch of silly premises, then says, “see, this quatrane means yadda, yadda, yadda”.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 7, 2009 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Classic example

of creating a model first and then looking at your data in such a way that the model will fit..

Oriole by nurture. Cub by marriage.

by wax eagle on May 7, 2009 9:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Managers here do that

I remember once as a summer intern I created a file of what could be valid but a bit puzzling data on a quartz crystal filter, curve fitted, graphed and presented to mgmt. I called it an outlier and stated there was an anomaly with the test data acquisition system just so I can write-off its performance.

One clown upper manager – who’s daughter just so happens to still work here with a nice paycheck by the way – attempted to explain what happened.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 7, 2009 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Absoultely

Like Penn & Teller said (well, Penn, anyway), if these people that claim to be followers really knew what was going to happen, and they didn’t try to prevent the disasters, they’re evil.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on May 7, 2009 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the headsup

will set the DVR. Although, it sounds to me like Wrigley is still standing in the future, thus the only thing that dies are the Cubs fans.

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by Gibbon Jockey on May 6, 2009 10:20 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

for some reason I didn't think to post anything about this after I watched it

its an interesting series. I especially liked when they were showing the flooding that would take place because of the reversal of the river and all the locks and dams that would fail.

---AC 00 00 00 - Believe

by mjk83 on May 6, 2009 10:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This show is AWESOME!

I highly recommend it.

Brian McRae's 5 o'clock shadow

by PurpleLineToWrigley on May 6, 2009 11:35 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Show

I had been meaning to make a Fanshot about this so thanks for doing it!

The show is awesome as is the book The World Without Us.

Jay is our Quarterback. I REPEAT JAY IS OUR QUARTERBACK. Did I mention we have a Quarterback who happens to be named Jay?.

by cubstoseriesby100 on May 6, 2009 1:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have read that book.

rats! the itunes preview cuts it off a second before they show Wrigley

well, i’ll wait isntead of paying for it..

Movement to make Jeff Samardzija our closer!

by Chanman25 on May 6, 2009 3:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

wait, found pics here:

http://www.mouthpiecesports.com/blog/2009/04/30/history-channel-imagines-wrigley-field-when-humans-are-dead/

pretty sweet

Movement to make Jeff Samardzija our closer!

by Chanman25 on May 6, 2009 3:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

yikes

Movement to make Jeff Samardzija our closer!

by Chanman25 on May 6, 2009 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bright side: No more Ronnie Woo Woo (presumably).

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by dat cubfan daver on May 6, 2009 3:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

He'll outlive the cockroaches, Dave

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on May 6, 2009 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I kinda had that feeling, too.

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by dat cubfan daver on May 6, 2009 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

LMAO

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 6, 2009 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually

Actually it was predicted he is the 3rd anti Christ and causes the end of the world.

Jay is our Quarterback. I REPEAT JAY IS OUR QUARTERBACK. Did I mention we have a Quarterback who happens to be named Jay?.

by cubstoseriesby100 on May 7, 2009 6:35 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

See that's how stupid those depictions are

I say the scoreboard stays up and in good – rather faded – condition. Look at the bldgs in the background. Only some windows out? Hmmm

What’s the number of years after mankind this pic is supposed to depict?

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 6, 2009 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well the theory

Is that termites ate the scoreboard. But the graphics never really matched the show and instead done “one building at a time”… for example, when they show the ~~Sears~~ Willis Tower and Hancock Center finally collapsing, the other buildings in town are still up. Surely for the same reasons the major skyscrapers would collapse would of affected all the other shorter buildings long before.

The day we lose our will to fight - Is the day we lose our Freedom.

by sanantonecub on May 7, 2009 5:18 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I didn't know the old scoreboard

had any appreciable amount of wood in it.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 7, 2009 6:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

TWSS

if this was still new to me, i wouldn't understand

by N Oakley on May 7, 2009 8:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm gonna need to sleep on this one.

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by dat cubfan daver on May 7, 2009 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's not the worst one I've read

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson

by Shanghai Badger on May 7, 2009 10:26 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

TWSS

by Villeslgr on May 8, 2009 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Make that lumber

Man you guys are good with the TWSS line.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 7, 2009 1:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can see the ivy growing upward

but not the decay of the METAL scoreboard structure all the while masonry-based bldgs and structures in the background are doing much better.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 7, 2009 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Right.

It would probably rust, though.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al on May 7, 2009 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly

and when metal structures eventually decay via rust, they’re much more likely to collapse due to force on the lower members, not decay from the top.

The body of water just east isn’t a salt water body, so corrosion due to dendrite growth or intermetallics – phenomena more associated with simple decay as pictured – their interpretation is totally inadequate.

This is the same production company that put together the 7 possible ways the world can come to an end and ranked global warming #1; totally ignoring the fact that during Medieval times, the planet was notably warmer than the 1998 “spike”.

I find these productions have little scientific basis and are produced to induce fear, nothing else. I get amped up with crap like this since it’s my hometown ballpark they show in ruins. If they’re going to depict it, at least have the common scientific sense to provide a reasonable illustration. This simply is not the case.

Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.

by blackhawk24 on May 8, 2009 7:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

From watching, it appears the

show believes the interior frame is wood. I realize the exterior is metal and would rust, but does anyone know if the interior frame is wooden?

if this was still new to me, i wouldn't understand

by N Oakley on May 8, 2009 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Interesting

saw the show the other day.

Someday we'll go all the way.

by Cubbinstrongsince86 on May 6, 2009 4:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks for the heads up.

Watched it last night with my son.

As my wife and I always laugh a the varietal of ivy at the park, considering how voracious it is in the yard and neighborhood, none of us were surprised at the fate of the poor park.

As for the Sears/Willis tower, I understood they had that going first because of the large number of underground floors and the importance of the piers on the stability of the tower. When the river/downtown floods, more that building supposedly had more piers exposed to the water. The piers coupled with the 100+ elevators periodically giving way over time combine to help it come down first.

Regardless, facinating tv. Then watched the game and caught up via DVR.

if this was still new to me, i wouldn't understand

by N Oakley on May 7, 2009 8:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs