Life After People
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Tim Merrigan@21:1/5 to
All on Tue Aug 19 00:40:20 2025
I suppose future speculation documentary counts as SF.
I was watching tonight's episode "The Underground Rises" and I think
they got something wrong. They were talking about NYC's steam "tunnels"
and how after a while, a few weeks, or months, without maintenance,
they'd start to explode.
My problem with that is that that's not natural steam, it's made in
steam generation plants which would run out of fuel, or otherwise fail,
so that by the time the show's writers had the most of the pipes
exploding, they wouldn't have steam in them anymore.
Now, if they'd made that Reykjavik instead of New York, I'd have no problem.
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