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The Elizabeth Tower, more popularly known as Big Ben, the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock, is a clock tower in London, United Kingdom. The clock is a symbol of the United Kingdom and was the most popular landmark in the United Kingdom according to surveys. The clock tower has been part of a Grade I listed building since 1970 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.[1]

Coverage[]

Big Ben is featured in Outbreak, while it makes a cameo in the documentary.

Documentary[]

Big Ben is seen 25 years after people when London is flooded from the Thames River created by storms of the North Sea. It is shown that Big Ben is already covered in vegetation and one of the clock faces is already broken.

Outbreak[]

In Outbreak, Big Ben firstly featured in one week after people when time is running out.

Gordon Masterton stated that Big Ben was working continuously for 150 years and taken through extremes [of] weather, storms, and the London Blitz during the Second World War. The clock had to be wound 3 times a week in the time of humans, a task that took 2 royal clock-mechanics several hours to complete with the aid of an electric motor. Gordon Masterton stated that without people, the clock will stop working within a matter of days and the for the first time in 150 years with the chimes stop chiming. While the clock stops, the tower stands, but a construction quirk has it leaned 8.6 inches to the northwest, foreshadowing that it will get worse.

Its fate is revealed in 100 years after people as Big Ben is covered with vegetation, windows blown out, and chunks of decorative stonework chipped away, the tower leaned 8.6 inches to the northwest have already gone worse since over decades without humans to manage the water level in the Thames River, it continually folds the surrounding banks causing the foundation of Big Ben to slowly rot. Gordon Masterton stated that after a hundred years, the tilt within the tower increase and gradually the tower become more unstable until gravity takes over and the tower, itself, collapses into the ground.

Trivia[]

  • Since the broadcast of Outbreak in 2009, the tilt of the tower has since increased to 9.1 inches (23 cm).
  • Gordon Masterton stated that Big Ben would stop working for the first time ever, should a Life After People occur. However, the clock has actually stopped several times, including a major breakdown that occurred on 5 August 1976.

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