Life After People -edith S03E05 Subtitles

At 00:00:04,250, Character said: [suspenseful music]
[birds chirping]

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At 00:00:07,250, Character said: - [James] What would happen

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At 00:00:08,667, Character said: if every human being on earth...

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At 00:00:12,458, Character said: Disappeared?

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At 00:00:14,208, Character said: No matter how we might vanish,

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At 00:00:16,375, Character said: this is the story
of what could happen

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At 00:00:18,875, Character said: to the world we leave behind.

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At 00:00:21,042, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:00:22,167, Character said: [crow cawing]

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At 00:00:23,542, Character said: Now,

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At 00:00:26,208, Character said: life after
people hits home.

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At 00:00:29,083, Character said: [suspenseful music]
[graphic crackling]

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At 00:00:30,667, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:00:32,333, Character said: The buildings we live
in are our castles

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At 00:00:35,375, Character said: and they say, "Home is
where the heart is."

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At 00:00:38,000, Character said: But when we're gone,
what comes knocking?

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At 00:00:40,708, Character said: [water sloshing]
[fire crackling]

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At 00:00:42,125, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:00:43,458, Character said: In vast suburbs, modern
houses are under assault

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At 00:00:46,542, Character said: from the outside and
from the inside out.

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At 00:00:50,833, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:00:52,000, Character said: - It looks like the entire city

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At 00:00:54,917, Character said: was put in the
microwave on high.

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At 00:00:57,208, Character said: - This house has
turned to Swiss cheese.

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At 00:00:59,542, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:04,708, Character said: - [James] Condominiums
everywhere get new residents

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At 00:01:08,250, Character said: by the thousands.

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At 00:01:09,292, Character said: [cockroaches clattering]

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At 00:01:10,542, Character said: - Cockroaches will eat
literally anything.

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At 00:01:13,625, Character said: It's the home invasion
of your worst fears.

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At 00:01:16,250, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:17,833, Character said: - No matter how well-built,

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At 00:01:19,542, Character said: every home would be
swallowed by decay.

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At 00:01:23,542, Character said: It shows you how delicate
paradise really is.

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At 00:01:26,708, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:28,292, Character said: - [James] And in the heartland,

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At 00:01:30,083, Character said: farmsteads that were
once the cornerstone

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At 00:01:32,375, Character said: of the American dream
become beastly nightmares.

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At 00:01:36,875, Character said: - It's pretty incredible

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At 00:01:38,208, Character said: how quickly domesticated
pigs go feral.

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At 00:01:40,667, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:41,833, Character said: They look almost unrecognizable.

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At 00:01:43,750, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:46,083, Character said: - [James] In a world
without people,

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At 00:01:48,208, Character said: the places we lived are
taken over, taken down,

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At 00:01:52,208, Character said: and our most precious
memories are erased.

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At 00:01:55,000, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:01:56,167, Character said: [building exploding]

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At 00:01:57,708, Character said: Welcome to Earth.

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At 00:01:59,167, Character said: Population,

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At 00:02:00,542, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:02:02,792, Character said: zero.

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At 00:02:04,208, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:02:08,250, Character said: [graphic crackling]

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At 00:02:11,167, Character said: [suspenseful music]

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At 00:02:13,458, Character said: All around the globe,
homes are abandoned.

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At 00:02:17,125, Character said: From major cities like
Paris and Chicago

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At 00:02:20,708, Character said: to the suburbs and rural
areas that surround them.

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At 00:02:23,875, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:02:25,500, Character said: In Mesa, Arizona, the biggest
suburb in the United States,

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At 00:02:29,542, Character said: no children play in backyards,

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At 00:02:32,542, Character said: no parents stroll the sidewalks,

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At 00:02:35,875, Character said: the houses sit empty,

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At 00:02:38,667, Character said: every room is silent,

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At 00:02:40,208, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:02:42,458, Character said: every hallway eerily still.

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At 00:02:46,250, Character said: But one sound remains:

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At 00:02:48,917, Character said: the low hum of what once made
life in these homes possible,

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At 00:02:53,542, Character said: even in the brutal heat
of the Sonoran Desert:

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At 00:02:58,083, Character said: air conditioning.

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At 00:03:00,167, Character said: - These deserts shouldn't
be fit for human life,

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At 00:03:03,000, Character said: but somehow, people
call them home.

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At 00:03:05,500, Character said: - Air conditioning
is absolutely crucial

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At 00:03:07,875, Character said: in places as hot as Mesa.

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At 00:03:09,958, Character said: Lifeless and
scorched by the sun,

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At 00:03:12,000, Character said: humans rolled the
dice on the desert

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At 00:03:14,083, Character said: and forced it to
bend to our will.

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At 00:03:17,042, Character said: - Most of these large houses

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At 00:03:18,542, Character said: are built with
black shingle roofs

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At 00:03:20,292, Character said: and giant picture windows.

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At 00:03:22,208, Character said: They look great
from the outside.

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At 00:03:23,458, Character said: Without air conditioning,

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At 00:03:25,042, Character said: those roofs s***k up
heat from the sun

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At 00:03:27,125, Character said: and turn those upper
floors into a heat sink.

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At 00:03:29,542, Character said: Then, those picture windows
act like panes in a greenhouse,

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At 00:03:32,500, Character said: letting in sunlight and
trapping the heat inside.

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At 00:03:35,542, Character said: - [James] In the time of people,

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At 00:03:37,708, Character said: air conditioning was the
lifeblood of every home.

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At 00:03:41,542, Character said: Now, there's no one left
to adjust the temperature,

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At 00:03:46,042, Character said: no one to enjoy the cool.

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At 00:03:49,208, Character said: But 70 miles away,

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At 00:03:51,625, Character said: the electric heart of the
biggest nuclear power plant

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At 00:03:54,958, Character said: in the country still beats,

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At 00:03:57,125, Character said: powering the
surrounding suburbs:

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At 00:04:00,208, Character said: the Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station.

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At 00:04:03,708, Character said: - Palo Verde is the only
desert nuclear plant

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At 00:04:06,208, Character said: in the Western Hemisphere

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At 00:04:07,458, Character said: and the only one in the country

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At 00:04:08,833, Character said: that's not located next to
a natural body of water.

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At 00:04:13,000, Character said: - Most plants are built near
rivers, lakes, or oceans,

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At 00:04:16,375, Character said: so they can use that water
to cool their reactors.

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At 00:04:20,500, Character said: - [James] In the parched and
sweltering Arizona desert,

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At 00:04:24,000, Character said: humanity found another way to
cool Palo Verde's fuel rods,

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At 00:04:28,875, Character said: one that flows not through a
riverbend or along a coastline,

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At 00:04:33,167, Character said: but through the sewers.

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At 00:04:34,667, Character said: - Instead of a
natural water source,

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At 00:04:36,667, Character said: Palo Verde has an
automated system

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At 00:04:38,958, Character said: that pulls treated sewage water

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At 00:04:40,583, Character said: from cities like
Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe

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At 00:04:43,833, Character said: and pumps it into reservoirs
and cooling towers.

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At 00:04:46,708, Character said: [water sloshing]

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At 00:04:47,958, Character said: - Going to the bathroom in Mesa

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At 00:04:49,750, Character said: is almost like
performing a civic duty

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At 00:04:52,750, Character said: because every time
you flush your toilet,

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At 00:04:54,708, Character said: you're helping to cool
a nuclear reactor.

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At 00:04:57,750, Character said: [pensive music]

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At 00:04:59,625, Character said: - [James] The reactors
still hum with power

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At 00:05:02,417, Character said: not because of human hands,

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At 00:05:04,542, Character said: but because of the
systems they left behind,

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At 00:05:07,625, Character said: a web of automated fail-safes

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At 00:05:10,250, Character said: designed to keep the
unimaginable at bay.

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At 00:05:14,625, Character said: - We all know the
names Chernobyl,

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At 00:05:16,500, Character said: Three Mile Island, Fukushima.

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At 00:05:18,667, Character said: 'Cause they were
unbelievable disasters

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At 00:05:20,875, Character said: with far-reaching and
long-lasting consequences.

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At 00:05:24,167, Character said: [pensive music]
[graphic crackling]

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At 00:05:25,958, Character said: Palo Verde Nuclear Plant

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At 00:05:27,458, Character said: was designed to prevent
exactly that kind of disaster.

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At 00:05:30,667, Character said: - [James] The Chernobyl disaster

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At 00:05:32,042, Character said: caused nearly 200,000
homes to be evacuated,

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At 00:05:36,375, Character said: many of them
eventually destroyed.

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At 00:05:38,875, Character said: [suspenseful music]
[graphic crackling]

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At 00:05:43,167, Character said: Two days after people,

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At 00:05:45,083, Character said: there's no one in Palo
Verde's controller room,

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At 00:05:48,167, Character said: no technicians keeping watch,

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At 00:05:50,250, Character said: and the plant's automated
systems rely on human oversight.

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