While reading the Wikipedia article about the Pennsylvania Railroad's Hell Gate Bridge, I stumbled across the reference to it lasting a thousand years if humans vanished tomorrow.
The assertion is made by a man interviewed for a Discover magazine article about what would happen if we suddenly weren't here. It doesn't sound like one of those fringe ecological articles that hopes we're gone; rather, I picked up that it was merely a statement of supposed fact.
Anyways, it's kind of creepy reading what the City of New York would look like as the years ground on. Read the whole thing.
Posted by Country Pundit at April 9, 2007 10:32 PM | TrackBack