Life.After.People.S03E05.1080p.WEB.h264-EDITH_track3_[eng] Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:04,250 --> 00:00:07,125 [suspenseful music] [birds chirping] 2 00:00:07,250 --> 00:00:08,500 - [James] What would happen 3 00:00:08,667 --> 00:00:11,250 if every human being on earth... 4 00:00:12,458 --> 00:00:14,042 Disappeared? 5 00:00:14,208 --> 00:00:16,208 No matter how we might vanish, 6 00:00:16,375 --> 00:00:18,708 this is the story of what could happen 7 00:00:18,875 --> 00:00:20,875 to the world we leave behind. 8 00:00:21,042 --> 00:00:22,042 [suspenseful music] 9 00:00:22,167 --> 00:00:23,417 [crow cawing] 10 00:00:23,542 --> 00:00:26,042 Now, 11 00:00:26,208 --> 00:00:29,000 life after people hits home. 12 00:00:29,083 --> 00:00:30,500 [suspenseful music] [graphic crackling] 13 00:00:30,667 --> 00:00:32,167 [suspenseful music] 14 00:00:32,333 --> 00:00:35,167 The buildings we live in are our castles 15 00:00:35,375 --> 00:00:37,875 and they say, "Home is where the heart is." 16 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,583 But when we're gone, what comes knocking? 17 00:00:40,708 --> 00:00:42,000 [water sloshing] [fire crackling] 18 00:00:42,125 --> 00:00:43,333 [suspenseful music] 19 00:00:43,458 --> 00:00:46,417 In vast suburbs, modern houses are under assault 20 00:00:46,542 --> 00:00:50,667 from the outside and from the inside out. 21 00:00:50,833 --> 00:00:51,833 [suspenseful music] 22 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,750 - It looks like the entire city 23 00:00:54,917 --> 00:00:57,042 was put in the microwave on high. 24 00:00:57,208 --> 00:00:59,417 - This house has turned to Swiss cheese. 25 00:00:59,542 --> 00:01:02,500 [suspenseful music] 26 00:01:04,708 --> 00:01:08,042 - [James] Condominiums everywhere get new residents 27 00:01:08,250 --> 00:01:09,125 by the thousands. 28 00:01:09,292 --> 00:01:10,417 [cockroaches clattering] 29 00:01:10,542 --> 00:01:13,458 - Cockroaches will eat literally anything. 30 00:01:13,625 --> 00:01:16,125 It's the home invasion of your worst fears. 31 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:17,667 [suspenseful music] 32 00:01:17,833 --> 00:01:19,458 - No matter how well-built, 33 00:01:19,542 --> 00:01:23,375 every home would be swallowed by decay. 34 00:01:23,542 --> 00:01:26,542 It shows you how delicate paradise really is. 35 00:01:26,708 --> 00:01:28,167 [suspenseful music] 36 00:01:28,292 --> 00:01:30,000 - [James] And in the heartland, 37 00:01:30,083 --> 00:01:32,250 farmsteads that were once the cornerstone 38 00:01:32,375 --> 00:01:36,750 of the American dream become beastly nightmares. 39 00:01:36,875 --> 00:01:38,083 - It's pretty incredible 40 00:01:38,208 --> 00:01:40,500 how quickly domesticated pigs go feral. 41 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:41,667 [suspenseful music] 42 00:01:41,833 --> 00:01:43,625 They look almost unrecognizable. 43 00:01:43,750 --> 00:01:45,958 [suspenseful music] 44 00:01:46,083 --> 00:01:48,125 - [James] In a world without people, 45 00:01:48,208 --> 00:01:52,042 the places we lived are taken over, taken down, 46 00:01:52,208 --> 00:01:54,875 and our most precious memories are erased. 47 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 [suspenseful music] 48 00:01:56,167 --> 00:01:57,625 [building exploding] 49 00:01:57,708 --> 00:01:59,000 Welcome to Earth. 50 00:01:59,167 --> 00:02:00,417 Population, 51 00:02:00,542 --> 00:02:02,667 [pensive music] 52 00:02:02,792 --> 00:02:04,000 zero. 53 00:02:04,208 --> 00:02:07,083 [pensive music] 54 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:11,000 [graphic crackling] 55 00:02:11,167 --> 00:02:13,333 [suspenseful music] 56 00:02:13,458 --> 00:02:17,000 All around the globe, homes are abandoned. 57 00:02:17,125 --> 00:02:20,583 From major cities like Paris and Chicago 58 00:02:20,708 --> 00:02:23,708 to the suburbs and rural areas that surround them. 59 00:02:23,875 --> 00:02:25,042 [pensive music] 60 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,375 In Mesa, Arizona, the biggest suburb in the United States, 61 00:02:29,542 --> 00:02:32,375 no children play in backyards, 62 00:02:32,542 --> 00:02:35,792 no parents stroll the sidewalks, 63 00:02:35,875 --> 00:02:37,625 the houses sit empty, 64 00:02:38,667 --> 00:02:40,125 every room is silent, 65 00:02:40,208 --> 00:02:42,333 [pensive music] 66 00:02:42,458 --> 00:02:45,458 every hallway eerily still. 67 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:48,750 But one sound remains: 68 00:02:48,917 --> 00:02:53,417 the low hum of what once made life in these homes possible, 69 00:02:53,542 --> 00:02:57,250 even in the brutal heat of the Sonoran Desert: 70 00:02:58,083 --> 00:03:00,000 air conditioning. 71 00:03:00,167 --> 00:03:02,833 - These deserts shouldn't be fit for human life, 72 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,333 but somehow, people call them home. 73 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:07,750 - Air conditioning is absolutely crucial 74 00:03:07,875 --> 00:03:09,833 in places as hot as Mesa. 75 00:03:09,958 --> 00:03:11,875 Lifeless and scorched by the sun, 76 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:13,958 humans rolled the dice on the desert 77 00:03:14,083 --> 00:03:16,167 and forced it to bend to our will. 78 00:03:17,042 --> 00:03:18,458 - Most of these large houses 79 00:03:18,542 --> 00:03:20,125 are built with black shingle roofs 80 00:03:20,292 --> 00:03:22,000 and giant picture windows. 81 00:03:22,208 --> 00:03:23,333 They look great from the outside. 82 00:03:23,458 --> 00:03:24,917 Without air conditioning, 83 00:03:25,042 --> 00:03:26,958 those roofs s***k up heat from the sun 84 00:03:27,125 --> 00:03:29,375 and turn those upper floors into a heat sink. 85 00:03:29,542 --> 00:03:32,333 Then, those picture windows act like panes in a greenhouse, 86 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,417 letting in sunlight and trapping the heat inside. 87 00:03:35,542 --> 00:03:37,542 - [James] In the time of people, 88 00:03:37,708 --> 00:03:41,375 air conditioning was the lifeblood of every home. 89 00:03:41,542 --> 00:03:45,917 Now, there's no one left to adjust the temperature, 90 00:03:46,042 --> 00:03:49,083 no one to enjoy the cool. 91 00:03:49,208 --> 00:03:51,500 But 70 miles away, 92 00:03:51,625 --> 00:03:54,833 the electric heart of the biggest nuclear power plant 93 00:03:54,958 --> 00:03:57,000 in the country still beats, 94 00:03:57,125 --> 00:04:00,042 powering the surrounding suburbs: 95 00:04:00,208 --> 00:04:03,583 the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. 96 00:04:03,708 --> 00:04:06,083 - Palo Verde is the only desert nuclear plant 97 00:04:06,208 --> 00:04:07,375 in the Western Hemisphere 98 00:04:07,458 --> 00:04:08,667 and the only one in the country 99 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:11,750 that's not located next to a natural body of water. 100 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,333 - Most plants are built near rivers, lakes, or oceans, 101 00:04:16,375 --> 00:04:19,583 so they can use that water to cool their reactors. 102 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,833 - [James] In the parched and sweltering Arizona desert, 103 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,708 humanity found another way to cool Palo Verde's fuel rods, 104 00:04:28,875 --> 00:04:33,042 one that flows not through a riverbend or along a coastline, 105 00:04:33,167 --> 00:04:34,500 but through the sewers. 106 00:04:34,667 --> 00:04:36,500 - Instead of a natural water source, 107 00:04:36,667 --> 00:04:38,833 Palo Verde has an automated system 108 00:04:38,958 --> 00:04:40,458 that pulls treated sewage water 109 00:04:40,583 --> 00:04:43,708 from cities like Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe 110 00:04:43,833 --> 00:04:46,542 and pumps it into reservoirs and cooling towers. 111 00:04:46,708 --> 00:04:47,833 [water sloshing] 112 00:04:47,958 --> 00:04:49,667 - Going to the bathroom in Mesa 113 00:04:49,750 --> 00:04:52,667 is almost like performing a civic duty 114 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:54,583 because every time you flush your toilet, 115 00:04:54,708 --> 00:04:57,625 you're helping to cool a nuclear reactor. 116 00:04:57,750 --> 00:04:59,500 [pensive music] 117 00:04:59,625 --> 00:05:02,292 - [James] The reactors still hum with power 118 00:05:02,417 --> 00:05:04,417 not because of human hands, 119 00:05:04,542 --> 00:05:07,500 but because of the systems they left behind, 120 00:05:07,625 --> 00:05:10,167 a web of automated fail-safes 121 00:05:10,250 --> 00:05:14,500 designed to keep the unimaginable at bay. 122 00:05:14,625 --> 00:05:16,333 - We all know the names Chernobyl, 123 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:18,500 Three Mile Island, Fukushima. 124 00:05:18,667 --> 00:05:20,750 'Cause they were unbelievable disasters 125 00:05:20,875 --> 00:05:24,000 with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. 126 00:05:24,167 --> 00:05:25,833 [pensive music] [graphic crackling] 127 00:05:25,958 --> 00:05:27,125 Palo Verde Nuclear Plant 128 00:05:27,458 --> 00:05:30,542 was designed to prevent exactly that kind of disaster. 129 00:05:30,667 --> 00:05:31,833 - [James] The Chernobyl disaster 130 00:05:32,042 --> 00:05:36,292 caused nearly 200,000 homes to be evacuated, 131 00:05:36,375 --> 00:05:38,792 many of them eventually destroyed. 132 00:05:38,875 --> 00:05:43,000 [suspenseful music] [graphic crackling] 133 00:05:43,167 --> 00:05:45,000 Two days after people, 134 00:05:45,083 --> 00:05:48,083 there's no one in Palo Verde's controller room, 135 00:05:48,167 --> 00:05:50,125 no technicians keeping watch, 136 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:54,667 and the plant's automated systems rely on human oversight. 137 00:05:54,792 -->...