What If You Were the Last Human? (Day 365)

At 7:40 one morning, everyone on Earth disappears. Everyone but you. For 365 days, every store, every stadium, every record on Earth is yours. Four minutes before it happened, your mom called. You let it ring. Is it real? The sources behind the facts in the video: • The 2003 blackout: power lines in Ohio sagged into overgrown trees, an alarm system had failed, and about 50 million people lost power (U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force, final report, 2004): https://www.energy.gov/oe/articles/bl... • Supply and demand on a power grid must be balanced second by second (UK National Audit Office, "Electricity Balancing Services"): https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/electr... • Nearly 80% of North Americans can't see the Milky Way from home (Falchi et al., "The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness", Science Advances, 2016): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... • Alexander Selkirk, rescued in 1709 after more than four years alone on an island, had nearly forgotten how to talk (Woodes Rogers's account, via Lapham's Quarterly): https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/node... • Around Chernobyl, wolves are more than seven times as abundant as in nearby nature reserves (Deryabina et al., Current Biology, 2015): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.08... • Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914 (Smithsonian Magazine): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths... • Lonesome George, found in 1972, died in 2012, the last of his kind; his longtime keeper found him that morning (AP, via CBC News): https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/famed-g... • A lack of social connection can raise the risk of dying early about as much as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day (the U.S. Surgeon General's advisory, 2023): https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/re... If you were the last person on Earth, who would you call first? Tell me in the comments. Next: you go back ten years. (Coming soon.) Subscribe for more impossible changes:    / @papertrailanimated   #whatif #animation #lastpersononearth