"All we are is dust in the wind..."

This is another link I originally saw on Fark.com.

It answers talks about what will happend to the earth if humans suddenly vanished.

"The sad truth is, once the humans get out of the picture, the outlook starts to get a lot better," says John Orrock, a conservation biologist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, California. But would the footprint of humanity ever fade away completely, or have we so altered the Earth that even a million years from now a visitor would know that an industrial society once ruled the planet?

Homo What-iens?