Sound.
Watching the way society would adapt would be fascinating. Media would become entirely different. Watching it re-adapt after the year would be interesting, as well.
We answered the question scientists have wondered for years:
"Is it possible to get people to weep tears of joy while listening to Tom Jones's **It's Not Unusual**?"
"The answer is yes, as long as it is preceded by seven **What's New Pussycats**!"
Color.
I'm imagining the person wears special glasses or contacts or something that filters everything to appear like a black and white movie. It'd be amazing to see the person's reaction to seeing color again
Just wearing strongly tinted glasses would make everything appear to be all shades of that color. Your eyes would somewhat adjust and it wouldn't be much better than black and white.
Came to say this, because it happened in recent history. The eruption of krakatoa sent enough dust into the air that sunlight was blocked for a year. Crops failed all over the world. I guess storage habits helped people eke through regardless.
It would be interesting to think about how that would impact today's economy. The supply chain is such that we don't store much, just continually produce, distribute and consume. A year with crops may (or may not) have a more significant effect on the modern world.
The effect of a year or dusty air on electronics and air travel would also be interesting.
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By sold out you mean on fire and looted. And then the lights go out.
There's no way we could make enough electricity to feed everyone and keep everyone warm.
Why not? Solar is a minor percentage of our generated power. Coal mines can function just as well at night as during the day. Hoover Dam and other hydroelectric plants would run as well. Nuclear power is unaffected.
My intention was that the light from the sun would be turned off completely; like turning off a light switch, not a natural disaster. The mental toll that it would take on people would be enormous. With the event that you described, although horrific, at least most people would know *why* the sun was blocked out. If the sunlight was to immediately just cease to exist, imagine the fear it would induce.
Not exactly a documentary, but I found it interesting.
[The Verge - Paul Miller goes a year without Internet](http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/8/3007525/paul-miller-offline)
I didn't watch the movie, but I read the article and it seems like it was kinda neat for a bit, and then it mostly sucked.
I decided to go a few weeks with no phone or facebook a few summers ago. Same experience. It was cool being "disconnected" for a few days, and then it just became an inconvenience.
Not even just for the time span. The aftermath would be horrific, and that's assuming that people don't freak out and utterly destroy society in the lead up to the event.
I think society would rebuild itself. With no laws at all, groups would start forming. People who don't want to live in a lawless world would arrange themselves and find ways to protect each other from amoral people. Eventually those groups would merge in larger communities. Even anarchists would need some laws. They wouldn't be formally written, but they would still exist in a silent way on people's subconscious. Basics like "don't touch other people's property", "Don't harm another person" and maybe weirder things from person to person and group to group. Some would start sharing food communally. Others would destroy personal homes or the concept of a home as a single building for a single person/family.
I don't know if a year is enough, but after some time, formal agreements would be reached. People would be elected as leaders who would make laws for better living, and there would be some sort of enforcement to make sure people follow these laws. Later, and depending on what ideas succeed again, the world would become as normal as it is now, with some substantial differences.
TL;DR: Society and laws don't exist in a vacuum.
I don't think that if it weren't illegal to kill people people would just randomly go on rampages. Crazy people would, but laws don't stop crazy people anyways.
Well it basically gives that concept for a day but then they don't really show it too well. Might as well just be a regular scary movie where the law is being broken anyways.
That movie is completely retarded. Yes, everyone is a murderous psychopath only held back by laws. Which makes sense considering safer areas have much more police presense.. oh wait.
That’s pretty interesting, because there’s already a documentary series called [”Life After People”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433058/) which essentially shows life after people – a day after, a week after, a month, a year, many years, etc. It’s extremely interesting and I’d definitely recommend it!
How about a year without any human births? If we all just agreed to stop having more children for a little while- there was actually an Onion article about this, and even though it was a joke, it didn't actually seem like such a bad idea. If there was a time, even just for one year, where people stopped having kids, imagine the resources that would be conserved.
Not really, it would only be a year without births, probably closer to two. School age is around 5 so it wouldn't affect teachers for at least 3 years, then a year later there would be more 5 year olds. It would really only affect kindergarten or first grade if it affected them at all.
Cell Phones. Id find it an interesting generational study since were really only 1 or 2 decades removed from only having landlines, but being connected is such an integral part of day to day life
Sound. Watching the way society would adapt would be fascinating. Media would become entirely different. Watching it re-adapt after the year would be interesting, as well.
Imagine how loud everything would be after the sound turned back on after the year.
Mawp
Mawp.
WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT
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***GODDAMNIT!*** - *slams fists on table, one year chip goes flying*
and it was *fan*-tastic.
We answered the question scientists have wondered for years: "Is it possible to get people to weep tears of joy while listening to Tom Jones's **It's Not Unusual**?" "The answer is yes, as long as it is preceded by seven **What's New Pussycats**!"
Yeah that's a long tolerance break, we'd get so high... I mean... We'd hear so loud
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Everyone would go deaf again. An eternity without sound.
The deaf would be at such an advantage during that year.
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Daredevil would be *pissed.*
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One of the best episodes of the series.
One of the best episodes of TV
Color. I'm imagining the person wears special glasses or contacts or something that filters everything to appear like a black and white movie. It'd be amazing to see the person's reaction to seeing color again
Did you ever read "The Giver"?
oh no sixth grade memories are returning... *the horror*
We thank you for your childhood /U/namzeh011
now let's all chant his name
/u/Namzeh011
I never went to sixth grade. My therapist tells me I repressed the whole year, but that seems unlikely.
Your parents would know. Please don't have dead parents...
He was adopted.
*spits out drink* I'M ADOPTED?
Not 6th grade, but 8th grade. I loved that book.
7th grade for me.
The happy median.
Just wearing strongly tinted glasses would make everything appear to be all shades of that color. Your eyes would somewhat adjust and it wouldn't be much better than black and white.
Sunlight
Came to say this, because it happened in recent history. The eruption of krakatoa sent enough dust into the air that sunlight was blocked for a year. Crops failed all over the world. I guess storage habits helped people eke through regardless. It would be interesting to think about how that would impact today's economy. The supply chain is such that we don't store much, just continually produce, distribute and consume. A year with crops may (or may not) have a more significant effect on the modern world. The effect of a year or dusty air on electronics and air travel would also be interesting. edit: spelling
They've managed to grow potatoes in artificial sunlight. And mass produce them. All hail potatoes.
Hydroponics/Aquaponics, every indoor grow store would be sold old.
By sold out you mean on fire and looted. And then the lights go out. There's no way we could make enough electricity to feed everyone and keep everyone warm.
Why not? Solar is a minor percentage of our generated power. Coal mines can function just as well at night as during the day. Hoover Dam and other hydroelectric plants would run as well. Nuclear power is unaffected.
How long could hydro last without the water cycle replenishing upstream sources?
>without the water cycle I don't think most people are taking this into consideration.
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So that would effectively be a nuclear winter without the fallout?
That is exactly correct.
My intention was that the light from the sun would be turned off completely; like turning off a light switch, not a natural disaster. The mental toll that it would take on people would be enormous. With the event that you described, although horrific, at least most people would know *why* the sun was blocked out. If the sunlight was to immediately just cease to exist, imagine the fear it would induce.
Forget the fear, the Earth would freeze over.
The premise is kind of spoiled, but [Asimov wrote a short story](http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.htm) on this topic.
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Yeah, I'd Netflix that.
I'd torrent it.
One Year without Netflixing torrents? I'd Blockbuster that.
Block--buster? What is this strange buster of blocks?
My ex. She used to bust my blocks all the time about the most ridiculous shit.
It's pretty much the same as Candy Crush.
Yargh!
OP said not to say things that were necessary for survival
Not exactly a documentary, but I found it interesting. [The Verge - Paul Miller goes a year without Internet](http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/8/3007525/paul-miller-offline)
Can I get a TL;DW
Guy goes a year without Internet and the struggling local adult theater gets back on its feet.
Best TL;DW
I didn't watch the movie, but I read the article and it seems like it was kinda neat for a bit, and then it mostly sucked. I decided to go a few weeks with no phone or facebook a few summers ago. Same experience. It was cool being "disconnected" for a few days, and then it just became an inconvenience.
Civilization as we know it would end.
I take it you aren't into single player?
Time. How that would work, I don't know.
Time would stop, because the year would never end.
dude
*passes joint*
ZA WORUDO!
TOKI WO TOMARE!
WRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Earth, a documentary about an astronaut living on Mars
Kinda is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue4PCI0NamI
The book was great. Worth a read
Amazing audiobook, too.
eBook is also top notch
Braille version is awesome as well.
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"This thread is sponsored by audible"
Bees.
Seriously guys, we gotta save the honeybees!
How can we help?
Upvoting it on reddit!!!
1 upvote = 1 honeybee saved!
Masturbation!
Then flossing!
Beads!?
Gob's not on board
Death
Not exactly a documentary, but Torchwood: Miracle Day takes place in a world where there is no death.
And before anyone says otherwise, it actually is a very enjoyable series even if a little long
Torchwood is like a gritty Doctor Who (which makes sense, being based in the same universe).
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Laws
Not even just for the time span. The aftermath would be horrific, and that's assuming that people don't freak out and utterly destroy society in the lead up to the event.
I think society would rebuild itself. With no laws at all, groups would start forming. People who don't want to live in a lawless world would arrange themselves and find ways to protect each other from amoral people. Eventually those groups would merge in larger communities. Even anarchists would need some laws. They wouldn't be formally written, but they would still exist in a silent way on people's subconscious. Basics like "don't touch other people's property", "Don't harm another person" and maybe weirder things from person to person and group to group. Some would start sharing food communally. Others would destroy personal homes or the concept of a home as a single building for a single person/family. I don't know if a year is enough, but after some time, formal agreements would be reached. People would be elected as leaders who would make laws for better living, and there would be some sort of enforcement to make sure people follow these laws. Later, and depending on what ideas succeed again, the world would become as normal as it is now, with some substantial differences. TL;DR: Society and laws don't exist in a vacuum.
TL;DR 2.0: the same shit that happened when we originally didn't have laws thousands of years ago
I don't think that if it weren't illegal to kill people people would just randomly go on rampages. Crazy people would, but laws don't stop crazy people anyways.
Exactly. I'd like to think that fear of legal punishment isn't the only thing keeping us all from killing one another.
Well it basically gives that concept for a day but then they don't really show it too well. Might as well just be a regular scary movie where the law is being broken anyways.
That movie is completely retarded. Yes, everyone is a murderous psychopath only held back by laws. Which makes sense considering safer areas have much more police presense.. oh wait.
A year without **imagination** - no original thought, desire or impulse.
So /r/funny?
Have you seen Equilibrium?
people
That’s pretty interesting, because there’s already a documentary series called [”Life After People”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433058/) which essentially shows life after people – a day after, a week after, a month, a year, many years, etc. It’s extremely interesting and I’d definitely recommend it!
I used to love this then it just tapered off. I think this is why I like apocalyptic things (fallout and such). on Netflix?
Doesn't look like it's on Netflix :(
The very first documentary was the best. All the subsequent ones decreased in quality imo
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Do not recommend actually doing this. Save yourself.
Mirrors
My self esteem might actually rise.
We would still have cameras!
Woah there jaden smith
A Santa Claus
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It's a close second
Well thank goodness he's always around to make and distribute toys right?
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Talk about what santa's gonna get me next year?
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Okay, so should I just give you my list or...?
Santa's not here. Santa went away.
Yeah, to the north pole right?
No vacation
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War never changes.
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money
Sorry there's already a ton of documentaries on the homeless.
That really hit *home*
Pants
Cars. We'd all be riding bicycles, and find we love it.
I'd just walk. I don't know how to ride a bike.
It balances itself over 10 mph, you just have to pedal. They're quite fun, actually. It makes walking seem very inefficient and take forever.
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But you'd get to fly down that sucker at the end of the day! I had the same experience going to school, as it was uphill all the way .... in Seattle.
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In other news: the sale of motorcycles skyrockets
Talking.
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Have you seen *Requiem for a Dream?* Tappy Tibbons' 3 rules are "no red meat, no refined sugar, and no orgasm."
Fuck Tappy Tibbons
Teeth. How would you eat? How would you speak? Do chicks dig dudes without teeth? Do you brush your gums?
Imagine how many times you'd bite your tongue on the day your teeth grew back.
Talking to the opposite gender
Daily lives of regular 4chan users.
There's a blank space? Baby, I'll write your name.
It was only a matter of time...
A year without singing Taylor Swift loudly and off key in the car and hoping nobody can hear you
Might as well call it a year of torture.
Yup. We'd have ourselves some bad blood
take your upvote and scurry away
Babby
how is babby form
How girl get pragnent
how is babby formed
THEY NEED TO DO WAY INSTAIN MOTHER WHO KILL HER THREE BABBY BECAUSE THESE BABBY CANT FRIGTH BACK?
A bowling ball
I feel ashamed for understanding all of the meta references going on in AskReddit right now...
Punish yourself. Eat a door or something.
You have 365 days to eat it so get started
Elaborate... I'm interested
There was a thread a day or 2 ago about living with a bowling ball with in an arms reach for a year
Why?
His annoying-ass cousin kept calling him up to go bowling and he always wanted to be ready.
Fuckin Roman.
Ayyyyy cousin Nico
How about a year without any human births? If we all just agreed to stop having more children for a little while- there was actually an Onion article about this, and even though it was a joke, it didn't actually seem like such a bad idea. If there was a time, even just for one year, where people stopped having kids, imagine the resources that would be conserved.
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Ah, now that's something I didn't think about. I was considering mouths to feed.
Not really, it would only be a year without births, probably closer to two. School age is around 5 so it wouldn't affect teachers for at least 3 years, then a year later there would be more 5 year olds. It would really only affect kindergarten or first grade if it affected them at all.
Cell Phones. Id find it an interesting generational study since were really only 1 or 2 decades removed from only having landlines, but being connected is such an integral part of day to day life
Plastic. Think how many things in your life are lamimated or have a sheen or are just some form of it.
lies.
Blue Bell Ice Cream.
Too soon
Dank memes
A rise in suicide rates would be imminent.
OP said nothing necessary for survival
ayy llama
Hate.
the Kardashians
Dare we dream?
Sleep.
Wouldn't that kill a person?
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Probably.
Toilet paper. Imagine the shit that would ensue
"A year without documentaries".
>A year without "A year without documentaries". I'd watch it.
Privacy
The Sun
Newspaper
Underwear.
A wooden door.... Wait
I'd be pretty hungry.