Author Topic: Alone (Read 1809 times)

udet · « **Reply #60 on:** July 26, 2003, 12:49:48 AM »

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Originally posted by GScholz
Great thread!

I would do three things:

1. Start believing in God.

2. Change my name to Adam.

3. Start searching for Eve.

but then, won't your children be inbred? the entire planet will be just like West Virginia!

Tumor · « **Reply #61 on:** July 26, 2003, 02:02:29 AM »

I'd figure out how to launch a nuke or 10 at the icecaps and see if the water levels came up.

Steve · « **Reply #62 on:** July 26, 2003, 02:30:06 AM »

I'd go fishing.

10Bears · « **Reply #63 on:** July 26, 2003, 03:40:28 AM »

Good Lord!

Hope you guys don’t have to remove your own appendix or remove an abscessed tooth!.

In the book “The Stand” Stephen King writes several pages about the dog. What the dog thinks.. He gets the dreams too, but dumbed down doggie dreams.. He senses that he must travel the way the sun sets. It’s pretty cool how King goes into the minds of each character.

As for me.. I’d go insane the first day.. My brain simply wouldn’t accept it. The power grid would go off in a matter of days not weeks.. Family pets and farm animals would freak out and soon die of starvation. Because of the nuclear fallout from all the reactors going off line, rats would mutate to massive 9 feet tall creatures. Yeah.. you better load up on extra ammo.. either that or you need a bigger mouse trap.

Since nobody’s at the controls, potable water mixes with sewage. I suppose you would have a lifetime of bottled water.. since there’s no potable water, no showers or baths.. I guess you could empty a hundred bottles of water into the bathtub... that would take an hour or so. You’d have to heat the water with wood.. on account of there being no electricity. The fuel for the generator has long since dissipated.

In the end you sit ...Alone.. with a lone candle by the fireplace... eating a giant rat on a stick..

StSanta · « **Reply #64 on:** July 26, 2003, 03:54:59 AM »

Cilmate in Denmark is pretty good for survival.

That said, I'd take the usual preparations and when i get too bored with life on my own, I'd go to Norway and do some B.A.S.E jumping.

One way or another that would bring excitement into life

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #65 on:** July 26, 2003, 04:01:33 AM »

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Originally posted by 10Bears

As for me.. I’d go insane the first day.. My brain simply wouldn’t accept it. The power grid would go off in a matter of days not weeks.. Family pets and farm animals would freak out and soon die of starvation. Because of the nuclear fallout from all the reactors going off line, rats would mutate to massive 9 feet tall creatures. Yeah.. you better load up on extra ammo.. either that or you need a bigger mouse trap.

Sounds like you may be halfway insane already...

10Bears · « **Reply #66 on:** July 26, 2003, 07:13:40 AM »

Yeah Holden,

The first day is pretty wild what with all the airliners crashing all over the place, aircraft carrier smashing into the Golden Gate bridge, oil tankers running aground.. a real barrow of laughs.

Okay fine, you drive down to the store in your Bradley Fighting vehicle (you can’t be too careful on account of the massive over population of anacondas and sabre-tooth tigers running around) to pick up some canned goods.. anything that hasn't been trashed by the animals.. and your foot slips into a small crevasse.. a sprained ankle.. no biggie.. just walk it off.. Three days later your foot is three times it’s size and you have a 105 temp and your foot is turning yellowish green.. as in gangrene. You must amputate your own leg to save your life.

It worked.. you were able to apply a tourniquet before passing out from the pain so you didn’t loose all your blood. After a few days your able to fashion a peg leg from a sabre tooth..

Weeks pass. One night your fiddling around with your solar powered short wave like you do every night, to hear if anybody’s out there.. the endless bottles of Crown Royal doesn’t seem to do the trick anymore, there’s a limit to just how drunk you can get..

Suddenly there’s a faint SOS..

Now Nash said everybody is gone from Earth.. he didn’t say anything about the International space station.. They’re still there!!.. three French guys and a Russian babe.. seems their soyuz space capsule got stuck.. and they have no way back.. It’s up to you to travel to the Houston space center, set up a down link with them.. ask them how one goes about launching the shuttle.. They tell you to travel to Florida, find the shuttle, use a crane to place it on that bigass tractor.. sucker only goes 4 mph.. can’t it go any faster?!!.. Next, take that other bigass crane.. lift the boosters onto the launch pad.. attach shuttle.. full her up with rocket fuel... hobble over to the control center... read manual.. (quickly), set launch sequence for 20 minutes.. hobble back onto the tower.. take the elevator up..(hurry!!).. strap yer self in an’ light that candle!.. Did you forget the manual?.. you Idiot!.. now how are you gonna link up with the space station?..

OK OK.. amazingly.. incredibly.. you manage to link up with the station.. all aboard you leave for the return trip to earth.. Only one problem... you forgot to pick up the three French dudes.. You Idiot!.. Oh well.. we all make mistakes.. time to move on.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #67 on:** July 26, 2003, 07:25:52 AM »

maybe halfway is a little understated...

ccvi · « **Reply #68 on:** July 26, 2003, 08:38:43 AM »

I'd go watch the aliens at area 51. And investigate on what other lies whatever govermnet would have spread. Just to make sure I'm happy that everyone is gone.