<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141555.msg6545547#msg6545547">Quote from: Caitlin on 06-07-2012, 08:21:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">That'd help yeah, but I didn't say that was completely gone. Just that it was far less than it had been in years. ^_^<br/><br/>Millions of cars not polluting the city for a week has a big impact, when the Olympic Games were in China entire cities were the games were held were shutdown to make them smog as free as possible and it had an immediate effect. I followed the news reports daily back then and it was an interesting development. There hadn't been any rain at the time, so though rain will undoubtedly help, it's not a prerequisite. <br/><br/>For the smog to be gone completely it'd likely take months, maybe even years.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>Huh, interesting fact of the day.   ;)   I've always wanted to watch that show on the Discovery Channel that talks about what would happen if humans disappeared from the planet and how long it'd take for nature to stabilize, etc.  I've just never had the chance.<br/><br/>Small comment, can we get the last 2 time stamps to line up.  I think the time of the current conversation is 9:05 or there about.  It's a bit difficult to reply to a current conversation 30 minutes before hand.    :P