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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nash on July 25, 2003, 07:10:26 AM
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Fridays tend to be boring days on the BBS for some reason, so here's something... maybe this will turn into an interesting thread...
I don't know how this came up, but a friend and I started talking about this bizarre rhetorical situation.
It's like this...
The alarm clock goes off tomorrow morning. You wake up, get showered, changed, chug a coffee and head out the door on your way to work. But something's off... there's no traffic.
The street lights are working, electricity is running and everything appears to be functioning as normal. As well, birds are flying and dogs are barking. But you don't encounter a single human being tomorrow. Or the day after that. Or the day after that. You have no idea why, but everybody's gone and they don't appear to be coming back. Ever.
So that's the scenario, and it raises a bunch of interesting questions.
What do you imagine you'd do tomorrow? Would you head down to the Porsche dealership and go nuts in a traffic-less city? Break into the music store and shred on the vintage Les Pauls? Back a Humvee into the front of the local video store and drive away with a year's supply of porn? Make your way to a military base and jump in a tank, fire off some rockets, shoot some guns? I mean, who is going to stop you?
It goes without saying that you'd probably be pretty freaked out by the whole thing. Eventually though, you'd just have to settle into it... to come to terms with it, and go about surviving.
But how long would the world's city's basic infrastructures such as electricity and clean water function without being maintained by people? Would the food in people's houses and grocery stores rot such that everywhere became overrun by rats? With the lack of people, would wildlife begin to encroach on and eventually overrun the cities?
Would you go looking for other people? You could drive across the continent, exchanging cars as you went. Exploring anything you wanted. It's not outside the realm of possibility that you could, if you really wanted, learn how to pilot a 747 and fly it to Europe, or Australia or anywhere with a large enough runway. Even if it took you two years at your flight school's simulator to teach yourself, you have the time. Or you could take a boat instead.
Would you make it your entire life's quest to try and find other people? Do you think you'd eventually give up?
Maybe you'd resign yourself to living simply. Setting up your life in a nice area, and spending your days painting and gardenning.
Do you think, on a physical level, that basic existence would become miserable as everything around you started to decay? Would you drift into insanity? Would the loneliness eventually drive you to suicide? How long until then, do you think?
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This kind of brings back memories of the Movie "Night of the COmet".....
Is there zombies in this dream and red dust all over the streets too????
:D
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I believe there was a movie written along those lines...
Scientific community was messing around with electrons (or something like that) openend up a rift in space time. Only the people were were in the immediate process of dying didn't disappear.
Very strange movie. I can't remember the name of it tho...
If it were me.... geez, I don't know what I'd do. Probably be on a week long drunk just to celebrate my good fortune of not having to deal with all the friggin' idots in the world (no one on this BBS of course :D)
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Originally posted by Modas
I believe there was a movie written along those lines...
Scientific community was messing around with electrons (or something like that) openend up a rift in space time. Only the people were were in the immediate process of dying didn't disappear.
Very strange movie. I can't remember the name of it tho...
If it were me.... geez, I don't know what I'd do. Probably be on a week long drunk just to celebrate my good fortune of not having to deal with all the friggin' idots in the world (no one on this BBS of course :D)
The Quiet Earth, staring Bruno Lawrence, a New Zealand production :)
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UH OH!
I would love to get into this thread but i aint got enough time!
good topic! :)
One thing tough, the first day i would still raid all the banks i possibly could, djust "incase" everybody else comes back tomorrow :D
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Night of the Comet... wow wierd movie for sure. I'd prolly go nutz..but then it wouldn't be a long drive.
Least I'd get to drive that lambo. And maybe learn to fly the F-14..and all the radio stations would play rock-n-roll :D
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Ok now that that's settled, take a stab at it! :) Just jot down one or two thoughts, or answer a couple of the questions above. Put yourself into that situation... how do you see yourself coping? What kinda things do you envision? How does it play out?
Edit: Ok y'all are starting to. It looked like it was becoming a 'name that movie' thread. Carry on! :)
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Originally posted by Vulcan
The Quiet Earth, staring Bruno Lawrence, a New Zealand production :)
Saw it. I think it was inspired by a similar TV plot from "The Twilight Zone", but was still fairly interesting, particularly the ending with the mushroom clouds on the horizon.
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Go to the airport, get in the G-5 and fly to LA, then drive a Maclaren over to Hef's place, just to make absolutely sure no others were on the planet.
Flying a fighter or two sounds good, probably play Augusta before it needs mowing, then head to Tahiti and go fishing.
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then drive a Maclaren over to Hef's place, just to make absolutely sure no others were on the planet.
Priceless! :D
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Doesn't gas have a finite shelf life? What is it, a year or two?
I would travel as much as possible right away to confirm that no one else is around, and to find the best fortification. I would think that within a couple of years wildlife would quickly begin to take over. Poodles would quickly become extinct.
I would also start reading up on wind turbine and solar power.
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Omaga Man
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Bob sat down in his chair. The realization that he was the only one left had set in.
...and then there was a knock at the door.
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I'd probably race around in increasingly fast cars, checking out this and that. I would probably drive to London in a TVR or maybe a ferrari from my local dealership. I think if there was no murmur of human activity within a week I'd be pretty convinced that there would be nobody in the world - afterall with nothing coming out of London somebody would have sent a plane to check out what had happened.
I'd then think about surviving - grabbing a couple of truckfuls of books, equipment and seeds and head for the country and learn how to grow crops and maybe keep animals.
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First I would drive to Steve's house, log into AH as him and trash his score.
Then I'd Go to Luke AFB, steal a General's uniform, get some pink pom poms and appear on T.V. declaring myself King of Spades.
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Night of the comet! Great for a cheezy 80's movie.
I suppose if this happened to me I'd do like most the first few days. Drive around in fast cars looking for others and doing whatever I please. My first stop after borrowing a ZO6, viper, etc.. would be the gun shop (just in case).
After a couple of days I'd probibly give up the search and start thinking of my survival. I don't know how long utilities would function with noone at the controls. Maybe a week at most? I know they are run mostly by computer. But I would think they would run out of fuel, or breakdown relativly quick. Hopefully none of the nuclear plants would melt down.
I'd head to the nearest military base and trade my car in on a good deuce and a half. I'd load it with all the supplies it could hold and head out into the country. I'd look for a nice cabin in the woods, someplace with lots of fish and game nearby. I'd probibly make a couple trips back to civilization for more supplies.
At that point I'd be out there all alone, and probibly go crazy. Maybe after a few months or a year head back to the city to see whats going on.
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or even before the 'night of the comet'.
remember the old 'twilight zone'? the poor old bastard who just wanted to be left alone to read.
he worked in a bank and one day he goes down to the vault to read during his lunch hour. something happens while he's down there and when he comes up everybodys gone.
so after setting aside food and other suplies he basicly moves into the library. for the first time in his life he can sit down for a nice long read with nobody to bother him. then he breaks his last pair of glasses and there's nobody left to make new ones.
BTW- I'd probably snag a good boat and haul bellybutton to Hawaii before the gps stops working. set up a nice sustainable, low-tech existance, and spend out my days diving and spearing fish.
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I would log onto AH and milkrun the MA! :D
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Sound like fun Nash.
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OMG I cant believe someone else thought of this :eek:
I have been mulling this over for about 5 years... it just came to me one night. What would you do?
Now when I am lying in bed and can't sleep this is what I think about. With the time I have spent on this I have found so many problems that go in circles it’s not funny.
My Plan
There are 3 basic things you need to deal with, food, shelter, and water. Of course the first few days would be having some fun, but mostly planning. My first stop would be a gun shop, then the local Hummer dealership. Read on to learn why. ;)
Food
I personally have a hard time killing and dressing an animal, not for moral reasons, I just think it’s kind of disgusting. Because of that I would get as much canned meat and Spam I could. You will need some place to store all these goods so the animals will not get into it, so you have to first secure some type of warehouse.
Once you realize you have to survive alone your first though should be location, location, location. Where are you going to live? Near the ocean? Far inland? In a climate with harsh winters? Where is the nearest nuclear power plant? Wisconsin is not too bad, but the climate makes for some unique situations. Near where I live there is a major food distributor’s warehouse; complete with a freezer you can drive a forklift into. I would first have to go there and secure the building.
Why secure the building? If there are no other people around creating garbage and other food sources for the local wildlife they starve. A starving raccoon is one mean SOB, and will get into almost anything not to mention the other animals. I figure there will be an explosion of creatures in the first year or two. There will be no cars to hit the fuzzy bunnies, basically no human blocks on their growth. Soon though they will start dying off fast. The food supply that we as humans create for them can not be replaced. They will starve in droves.
After you secure the building and dump anything that will rot and attract scavengers, you have to bring what you want to it. That means learning to drive a semi. I don’t know how to ‘double clutch’ or have a clue what it even means. I just know I need something to transport my goods.
All this has to be done in relative days after the realization (or test day as I call it). The reason is the perishables in the grocery store are just that, perishable. Within about a week the fruits will be growing parasites. Small mammals will break into the store to get food. It will basically become overrun with disease infected animals within a few weeks. Imagine walking down an isle looking for something to eat and a crazed, rabies infected raccoon jumps out and bites you. You’d be dead in a few weeks. Don’t forget about the smell and the gasses from the rotting food. You would need a gas mask just to go in the door. Basically you want to save all the food you can early on.
Eventually you will need to learn to cultivate crops. You can’t live on preserved food forever, it will run out or go bad. Also you can’t go around killing whatever you want and eat it. You won’t be able to test for diseases in the animal. After time you will have to worry about radiation poisoning too, but we’ll get to that later. Basically no matter how repulsive it sounds, you will become a vegetarian after about 10 years I figure, and you will need to sustain yourself.
Water
Once you have gotten all your food stores set up you need to worry about water. For the first few years you could drink all the bottled water at the grocery stores. It will eventually go bad though and you will need to find a clean water source. My thought is the library will be where I spend most of my time. You will need to learn how to work a well digging machine, and where to dig. You will also need to know how to maintain the equipment. Where this well is kind of dictates where you will live too. You might want to consider learning some basic masonry skills to be able to build a foundation near the well for a house of some kind.
Shelter
Personally I would build a small 15’ by 15’ house or there about. It would be underground too, to help with insulation, and protect from weather. It would be one of those half-buried homes, like a mound. You would also need to get electricity to it. The best bet is a generator. The only thing you need electricity for is lights and entertainment. If you dig a deep enough hole it can work as a crude refrigerator.
The design of the house is for basic protection. You will not be able to predict the weather, so you need to expect a tornado every day. Eventually you might want to find a storm chaser’s van with a Doppler radar attached to it, but that’s low on my list. Anyway, I would make 2 identical buildings next to each other, one for living and 1 for storage. Why two separate ones? That would be easier to build. The smaller the roof span the better for safety from storms. The reason for burying the house is two fold, insulation and protection. The earth above and next to the house will do both. Imagine a mound about ten feet high with a door and glass block window going into it. 3 sides of the building would be a 50’ long rise to the top of the mound.
As stated above location is the key. Where you are dictates what is most important. If you are in the south there are a lot of bugs and stuff you want to keep out (though you pretty much want that everywhere). There is more rain in the south so you need to think about drainage too. If you are near the Atlantic Ocean you need to think about hurricane force winds that last days at a time. The design I talked about covers all possibilities basically.
Back to the generator. A kerosene powered one would be best, but hard to find. Propane would work also, you basically need to stay away from gasoline. The reason to stay away from gas is that I have been told it goes bad in less than a year. If that is true get all your fast car driving out of the way early (and don’t hit a deer or something… wouldn’t want to get an injury and slowly die sitting in a car on the side of the road). You will need to learn how to run and wire up the generator, so back to the library. A generator is lower on the list depending what time of year it is. If it’s close to winter it’s more pressing, but as stated in the beginning of the scenario, electricity is still working… for a while. Somewhere along the line a transformer will blow and shut down the grid. Over time more and more will go out. The biggest concern is the nuclear plants generating the electricity. They WILL melt down eventually, and you need to be at least 500 miles away when it happens to avoid dying right away. That also means you need to find a Geiger counter, and learn how to use it. Learning to set up a solar power system would be helpful too.
Medicine
Medicine is a really tricky one to take care of. Most antibiotics and stuff degrade to not being effective in a few months, due to the organic ingredients. My cousin works at the blood center and they have a freezer like the kind you keep steaks in, but it keeps nitrogen solid and stuff. I think she said it goes to about –100° Celsius. That is cold enough to keep penicillin indefinitely. I am allergic to penicillin myself, so I need to get something else. You would also want to get some other basic medicines to cover anything that might happen. Then you have to transport this freezer back to your house and wire it up.
Miscellaneous
After all your basic necessities are taken care of you can work on learning more things to help you survive longer. I would learn how to do EVERYTHING on a car and motorcycle. I would have a large diesel four wheel drive truck. I would modify it by taking off everything cosmetic. Then add very high-powered lights in all directions (driving at night with animals about without seeing everything would be a bad idea). In the back of the truck (or the roof of the Hummer) would be:- A complete set of tools
- A small generator
- At least 50 gallons of fresh water
- At least 50 gallons of gasoline
- Enough food for 3 weeks (MRE’s taken from a nearby military base)
- An off road motorcycle for scouting and getting home if the truck breaks and I can’t fix it
- Ammo (yes I’d ALWAYS carry at least 2 guns… you never know what might attack you)
- Extra clothes for all seasons
Talking about a vehicle makes you talk about gas again too. I heard there are additives that you can add to extend the shelf life. I also believe diesel gas lasts longer. Either way there are alternative fuels out there. There was that truck that drove across America on used cooking oil. Supposedly it took only minor modifications. I would defiantly look into that.
Like I said I have given this a TON of thought, and I can expound on any part of it if you’d like. (I usually end up talking in circles about it so please forgive the randomness of this LOL ;) )
Oh well my 2¢
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
I would think that within a couple of years wildlife would quickly begin to take over.
Are sheep considered wildlife? Just curious.
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depends on how ya treat em Curval
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Interesting points JB. I think the deuce and a half would be good because it has a multi fuel engine.
As far as trying to maintain a more modern lifestyle, it seems like alot of work. Perhaps too much. Trying to maintain complicated equipment might work for a couple of years, but probibly wouldn't be feasable after that.
Man can certainly survive without electricity and other compforts. It would just take some adaption. I think one could survive off fish and game and a small amout of crops. As long as there was a fresh water source nearby that isn't contaminated you would be OK.
I like the your idea for shelter, seems simple and functional. Though, I'd probibly just do like I said and find a nice cabin.
The way I see it, I probibly wouldn't live more than a few years. Eventually something would kill me illness, accident, animal attack, radiation etc...
With no one to help a broken leg or a bad case of the flu could cause death. But if I was really alone, how long would I want to live anyway?
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How about this?
You wake up and it is snowing uncontrollably and does so for weeks on end. Everybody stays in there house and tries to stay warm. The snow goes on and on for weeks.
Then......You wake up from your dream and the earth is moving closer to the sun and the temps are rising by the hour! The earth will burn up in a couple of weeks. What would u do?:cool:
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you have to ask ?!?!
lol
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JB73 has covered most bases, and thought out the situation pretty thoroughly.
There is a good series of survivalist books called the Firefox Series, which describes how the pioneers lived back in the early days. It would be expedient to do certain things before the power plants shut down, making the world dark at night after the street lights no longer work. I'd be sure to go to a sporting goods store and load up on all the equipment needed, such as boots, running shoes, clothing, etc...before they were eaten up by insects or otherwise destroyed. Of course, I'd want to have a couple of firearms and plenty of ammo and reloading equipment.
I would try to find out if anyone was out there. One way to do this would be to go to the Empire State Building, for example, and broadcast on a short wave radio. I would have a recorder set up to grab messages that may arrive while I was out doing other things. I may consider making that my residence for awhile, because it would afford a good view, and would provide darn good shelter both for me and my vehicles in the garage. I would keep a hang glider on hand if I had to leave fast.
Since this is a fantasy, and we can do anything, short of moving to another world in a flying saucer, (LOL, I'd be sure to go to Area 51 and look just in case;) ), I would see what I could do about finding a nuclear submarine to travel about in. Make that my new residence, like Capt. Nemo's Nautilus. Then yes, off to Hawaii to live.
There would be an abundant supply of food there...yeah seafood baby!!! Pure rainwater and fresh water springs to drink from. Medicines such as Aspirin, the miracle drug, are made from a certain tree bark. Would learn about what I could use naturally by way of medicine and remedies.
Companionship, or lack thereof, would be the biggest problem to deal with. I would go to the zoo and kill the tigers.:( Would release everything else, and then drive around in a pick-up truck with my new orangutan buddy Clyde.:D
Les
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Interesting quandry, Who really knows? For me I guess I would take care of personal survival first (food, water, med kit, etc.). Then defense, I would access the nearest armory and get all of the good toys-guns and transportation. Then I would head for the mountain-Norad that is, and try to check on the state of the rest of the world and try to find any record of what happened while I was sleeping. Then I would rule MY world the way I want to.
My worst nightmare in this scenerio is that the only other person left alive would be my ex-wife-then it would be a race to the firearms
Might have to re-think that one under the only man/only woman left thing-but OH MY GOD!
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...i'd go to DisneyWorld and marvel at no lines!
...raid the "Real Doll" factory for, umm...well...if you have to ask... :) I'd grab lots of silicon repair kits too hehe
Reminds me, a bit, of the movie Langoliers (Stephen King). Kinda partial to it, I was an extra in it (I'm in the last scene for almost a full second! Who wants to touch me?)
:D
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the multi-fuel duce and a half is a good idea, i worked on them in the service , they will burn anything and you can mix the fuels and they are good off road, hual alot, easy to drive.
you could find enough MRE's at a mil base to last you for years, not gormay but we talking servival here, at least until you could grow somthing.
many large buildings have back up generators that would do in the short term.the nuke sub could provide fresh water, elect, secure place to live, would have to take a crash course in running the power plant, i would not plan to take it to sea, no crew.
as for ex wives, mine is a RN thats likes camping, so she would be a asset.
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Originally posted by LePaul
...the movie Langoliers (Stephen King)... I was an extra in it (I'm in the last scene for almost a full second!
how was it to work with broson pinoct :D
dunno if I'D brag abuot that though ;)
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I don't think it would be all that hard.
After all, the real question you're asking is, "Could I live the way people did back in the 1700's?". Or like any of the mountain men of the westward expansion. What with all the modern stuff that would be left laying around, it could be done.
BTW, you all might want to go find some horses. Good for transportation and for cultivating. And head to the library for a couple of "How to" books.
Me, I'd be living someplace near freshwater with a small field of veggies and eating a lot of fresh meat.
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most people would die,
not knowing how to raise their own crops
and/or slaughter and clean their own meat.
that's just the start... most people can't
even tie decent knots, much less exhibit
survival characterstics.
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Originally posted by TPIguy
As far as trying to maintain a more modern lifestyle, it seems like alot of work. Perhaps too much. Trying to maintain complicated equipment might work for a couple of years, but probibly wouldn't be feasable after that.
i didn't intend to keep it going forever... just for a while until you can wean yourself off of them. most of the "equipment" i discussed was just for living for about 10 years. i figure @ 30 yrs old like me 15 years is alot to ask with out going insaine or succumbing to a disease.
like i mentioned earlier ... the biggest thing about this particular scenario most miss is disease and radation. the impact man has on the animal world in the US is so enormous that the loss of man would be devastating.
sick and malnourished animals would spread disease unchecked, especially in the deer herds not culled by hunters. there is a brain disease in the deer here in Wisco. thats like the mad cow disease. they tried to kill all infected deer.. but all you need is 1 to get away.
also cows.... they dont milk themselves. they dont feed themselves. they dont give birth un-assisted. the giant cow herds would starve to death in their corrals and the rotting flesh would attract scavengers from miles away.
i would recommend against eating anything living except maybe fish from the ocean if this happened.
i wish i knew more about the fallout from chernobyl, but im too lazy too look up boring data reports lol. i would guess that the water table within 1000 miles would be ruined. not to mention the crops and animals.
somone mentioned hawaii... what about volcanos destroying waht took you years to build up? what about tropical bugs and diseases? is there a nuclear plant on the islands?
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Originally posted by Dune
Bob sat down in his chair. The realization that he was the only one left had set in.
...and then there was a knock at the door.
A WOMAN ALONE WITH HER SOUL
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1835-1907)
A woman is sitting alone in a house. She knows she is alone in the world: every other living thing is dead. The doorbell rings.
from The Book of Fantasy edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, and A. Bioy Casares
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Man that would really suck. Free everything, take what you want, etc, etc, etc - but I think I'd freak out without human contact after about a month.
How are you supposed to play AH online with only yourself?
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
How are you supposed to play AH online with only yourself?
fly with a twisty stick and use 2 PC's and 2 hands... can't say you dont have the time to learn ;)
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Originally posted by JB73
how was it to work with broson pinoct :D
dunno if I'D brag abuot that though ;)
The guy from Quantum Leap? He was cool, mingled with us lowly extras. The rest of the cast didn't talk to much to us. I was amazed at the sets tho. The airport terminal was everything from shells of IBM PC jrs to cardboard counters. The airplane cockpit was all lit up and looked neat, then they showed us how they did it. They bought the entire discount table of the local radio shack and used the little LEDs and other things to make the cockpit light up, etc. Very resourceful and neat.
Hey I got to be in the Screen Actors Guild for 2 days! Woohoo, and made $55 a day. If you wanna know more, lemme know. I've had a chance to be an extra twice and since I've always liked theater, video production, etc etc...its been a lot of fun.
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Originally posted by -dead-
A WOMAN ALONE WITH HER SOUL
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1835-1907)
A woman is sitting alone in a house. She knows she is alone in the world: every other living thing is dead. The doorbell rings.
from The Book of Fantasy edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, and A. Bioy Casares
That's how it goes! I knew I'd heard it before. Thanks
:D
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The first thing I would do would be to load up on the porn before it disappeared.....
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Originally posted by JB73
After time you will have to worry about radiation poisoning too, but we’ll get to that later.
you never did....
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Originally posted by Gadfly
The first thing I would do would be to load up on the porn before it disappeared.....
(checks list...)
People gone, check...
Sheep gone, check...
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"most people would die, not knowing how to raise their own crops"
No need to raise crops or hunt animals. An unlimied supply of canned foods, dehydrated foods, irradiated foods etc etc would sustain someone forever. Hell SPAM and fruit cake outlast radioactive isotopes and anyone can live on those two alone.
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"Everybody dies" is my all time favorite movie plot.
When I was younger I used to wonder about this kind of thing, but now that I have a family of my own, I'd probably just cry like a little squeak and die.
-Sik
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that's a big if Westy
well.. ok. the fruit cake and spam part is real..
just like cockroaches and rats...
oh yeah.. I wanna' live to see that
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Originally posted by Sikboy
"Everybody dies" is my all time favorite movie plot.
When I was younger I used to wonder about this kind of thing, but now that I have a family of my own, I'd probably just cry like a little squeak and die.
-Sik
Wait till she's a teenager.... the daydream will return!
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"Everybody dies" is my all time favorite movie plot.
oh yeah! just like the only redeeming part of T3 lol
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Originally posted by LePaul
The guy from Quantum Leap? He was cool, mingled with us lowly extras.
no not him.. Balchy (the bad guy in the movie that went nutz :D
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Originally posted by mosgood
you never did....
ya ...touched on it here:
...electricity is still working… for a while. Somewhere along the line a transformer will blow and shut down the grid. Over time more and more will go out. The biggest concern is the nuclear plants generating the electricity. They WILL melt down eventually, and you need to be at least 500 miles away when it happens to avoid dying right away. That also means you need to find a Geiger counter, and learn how to use it...
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Originally posted by JB73
no not him.. Balchy (the bad guy in the movie that went nutz :D
Didn't get to talk to him
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I'd go fishing.
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such a short reply LePaul...
i was funnin yas before, but i liked the stories of hob-nobbing with the stars.
what other movies have you been in?
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Originally posted by JB73
such a short reply LePaul...
i was funnin yas before, but i liked the stories of hob-nobbing with the stars.
what other movies have you been in?
Pet cemetary 2, extra. weee!
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LOL i didnt see that one... that evil kid wasnt in it :D
that first one really spooked me though. i was in HS at the time in the hospital and was bed ridden. my GF rented it so we could watch a movie in the room.
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Why is everyone so certain that there will be radiation everywhere? Nuclear plants should shut down automatically in case of malfunction and probably won't release radiation for a very long time.
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I'd drive myself to the Real Doll factory for some sort of company.
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I would probably head to the liquor store, collect as much of the $20 or more bottles of Merlot, Cabernet, Shirax as I could carry, then to the hospital to get some of the "May cause drowsyness" type drugs(vicadin, demeral, vallium, etc) because without human company, my sanity won't last long.
On a lighter note, I would go to a Chicago Gun Store, stock up on the most powerful weapons available and get ready for the coming of the anti-christ, space aliens, or C.H.U.D.s(Canabalistic Humaniod Underground Dwellers), which ever turns your crank.
Mac out
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Fly down to KSC and try to launch the Space Shutle with me in it :)
Shouldn't be too hard, it's all automatic. Chances are I'd blow up and die, but then again, who would want to live utterly alone :p
PS. Great thread!
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I would go down to the bay and get a large ocen going boat. Stalk it with everything I could think of and go see the world. Who cares if gps works, learn how to use a compas, just make sure you know how to repair the workings on the boat and go in search of life.
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I'd go fishing.
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Originally posted by ManeDog
How about this?
You wake up and it is snowing uncontrollably and does so for weeks on end. Everybody stays in there house and tries to stay warm. The snow goes on and on for weeks.
Then......You wake up from your dream and the earth is moving closer to the sun and the temps are rising by the hour! The earth will burn up in a couple of weeks. What would u do?:cool:
Sorry ManeDog...I remember that and you faint from the heat..and when you wake up the earth is moving away from the sun...GET IT RIGHT!
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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.
:D
but then, won't your children be inbred? the entire planet will be just like West Virginia!
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I'd figure out how to launch a nuke or 10 at the icecaps and see if the water levels came up.
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I'd go fishing.
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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..
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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 :)
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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...
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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.
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maybe halfway is a little understated...
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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.