What do you think would happen to the world if every human on Earth vanished for 24 hours?
Would it be pleasant?
Or would it be even worse?
What would happen to the plants and animals in such a scenario?
Can everything manage to go on if there are no humans around?
Well, here’s what’s likely to happen.
Planes falling to the ground one by one.
Wherever you look, there are damaged cars on the highways, some of which are destroyed
by fire, while others have pulled over to the side of the road messily or have fallen
into a swamp.
The railway is also in shambles, completely not suitable for transport.
Hundreds of thousands of trains have crashed all over the world.
And it doesn't stop there; there are overturned cars and tanks containing thousands of tons
of grain, coal, and oil, all of which have been spilled on the ground and have been unable
to reach their destinations.
How about the ocean?
Hundreds of ships have been sunk due to collisions with icebergs and rocks.
Due to the destroyed transport of goods, hundreds of tons of petroleum compounds have leaked
into the water, threatening the lives of innocent sea species.
Yes, this is really alarming.
This is something we should not ignore.
The concept of humanity vanishing isn't entirely new to us.
Indeed, there are numerous videos on the internet about humanity's disappearance from our planet.
There are even documentaries that describe what would happen if humans vanish, but they
all depict a world in which people disappear permanently.
Today, I would be talking about humans vanishing for only 24 hours, completely unexpectedly.
Let's imagine that on a normal day, everyone in the world is doing their own thing, and
then all of a sudden, for no reason, they all vanish.
What would happen now to the things they should be doing for that day?
This is going to be a lot of fun!
So I'm not going to keep you waiting.
Let's get this started!
As I previously stated, there would be hundreds of burning cars on the roadways, and this
is only the beginning of the terrible fire that may cover the entire globe.
All living organisms in close proximity to oil refineries would suffer greatly.
We all know that it’s the people who oversee all of the production processes, so if they
suddenly disappeared and one of the tanks ran out of oil, the pressure in the reactor
would rise, perhaps resulting in an explosion.
The fire created by the explosion would spread to nearby tanks, resulting in thousands of
tons of oil and refined goods exploding into the air.
Everything would burst and burn for a long time as a result of this.
Of course, firemen would be a great assistance if there were humans, but because there is
no one, nobody could respond and put out the fires.
Therefore, gas leaks and electrical wiring problems would become even worse, even burning
the cities.
Without firefighters, the fire would become worse, moving from object to object, from
house to house, destroying an entire street and maybe a village.
A global power shortage would also occur.
Because of the collapse of fossil fuel reserves, most fossil-fueled power facilities would
simply stop operating.
Power failures would start to spread.
As a result, places powered by hydroelectric power stations would be the only places on
the planet with light.
As a result, Las Vegas, which receives electric power from the Hoover Dam, will shine brightly
like a guiding star in space.
All chemical facilities in the world would face problems due to the power shortage.
This is due to the fact that for the gases to remain liquid inside the facility, it requires
a low temperature.
However, due to the power shortage, the gas storage tanks heat up since there’s nothing
to decrease the temperature, hence, the overpressure relief valves will open, and tons of different
gases are emitted into the environment.
This is just a small-scale disaster, what’s bigger than this is that the suffocation would
kill many creatures, as well as many plants in the world would be in danger.
Moreover, the gases released by the natural gas plants may also be the cause of major
impacts.
Since there is no one that can stop the plants from releasing gases into the environment,
the release would spread throughout the surroundings, eventually reaching abandoned cars and gas
stations.
It will just need a single spark for a massive explosion to happen.
A massive volume of hazardous materials would be spilled into the atmosphere.
However, there is some good news.
Nuclear power plants would continue to operate under a security mode.
In this case, nuclear power plants might run for up to ten days.
However, once the liquid in the nuclear reactor cooling systems has evaporated, there will
be a global disaster.
The consequences of the disaster could be similar to those of the Fukushima Daiichi
and Chornobyl nuclear power plant disasters, in which over three hundred thousand people
were evacuated and radionuclides were found all over the world for years.
The pumps that deliver water below the ground would quickly stop, so the water would instead
flood the subway tunnels.
More to this, the impact of people's disappearance on the operation of hydraulic structures could
be even more significant.
Without humans, there would be no one to keep an eye on the equipment.
A few hours of idleness would be enough to cause irreversible damage, such as the dam
collapsing.
If the scenario becomes worse, there would be no one to stop the rapid water flow.
This means that vast areas of land could be submerged in water, leading to the complete
destruction of woods, fields, and animals.
Although the production lines in plants and factories would continue to run without people,
however, there would still be problems.
Since there is no one to manage the process, conveyor lines would be stacked with commodities
and merchandise.
Many processes would run for an entire day until the equipment overheated or the system
failed.
The problem of products being stacked in conveyor lines may stop when the electricity went out,
but the issues would not stop there.
Businesses that lost electrical power would incur significant losses as well.
Small farms and stores that have no electric generators of their own wouldn’t be able
to keep their refrigerators at the proper temperatures, affecting their livelihood greatly.
Aside from these, the air would be thick with smoke as a result of the fires from the burning
cars and cities, both industrial and residential complexes.
It's worth mentioning that, except for occasional forest fires, the suburbs would be relatively
quiet.
Deforestation would stop for a while because there would be no humans to do it in the first
place.
Certainly, there would be many fish and other marine animals that would be preserved due
to humans’ 24-hour disappearance.
However, twenty hours is insufficient to make a real change to the Earth's vegetation and
wildlife on a worldwide scale.
We are all aware that humans have already released so many greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere that a day or even a month without them would not be enough to restore the planet's
balance.
On the other hand, any pets or wild creatures that remained without humans would absolutely
enjoy the beautiful night sky, as long as nothing was burning or smoking nearby them.
Additionally, the entire Milky Way would be visible in the sky since light pollution would
be less and there would be good weather conditions.
When it comes to space, there would be no one to oversee the international space station's
operations from Earth, such as altering its orbit to keep it at the right altitude to
avoid colliding with space debris.
Who knows if it collided with an asteroid or satellite or perhaps fell to Earth during
the day when there were no humans around.
In other cases, the world's most powerful observatories may miss a once-in-a-lifetime
event in space.
In 24 hours, anything might happen in space.
Perhaps the ninth planet will be discovered on that precise day.
Maybe Voyager 2 has important news to share with Earth.
A single day is enough to miss a significant scientific breakthrough.
I shared this information with you, not for the sake of imagining what it would look like
when civilization comes to an end.
However, I understood how much we impact the planet due to this content.
We have existed on the planet for less than three hundred thousand years.
If we compare it to the length of time the Earth lives, which is about four and a half
billion years already, that number is nothing.
This means that if we are to squeeze the entire history of the planet into twelve hours, it
will only be in the last two seconds that humans will appear.
Isn't it way too short?
But, unfortunately, humans are able to disrupt the forces of nature for that brief period
of time.
But if people were gone for twenty hours, there would be no one to manage the processes,
drive the cars, and even monitor space.
As we have seen, Earth would face tremendous losses when humans are gone.
In the same way that humans would require years of hard work to recover from the effects
of their brief disappearance once they returned to Earth.
How long do you think it would take humankind to repair everything that was damaged after
their 24-hour disappearance?
Leave your thoughts in the comments section.
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