Forum menu
Inspired a bit by the "rewilding" thread below, plus That Will Smith film, plus that BBC prog about how quickly Earth would revert to nature if we wiped out our species, i was thinking....
If I or my family were the only one or ones left, I think my first weeks jobs list might look like this.....
take over a farm with wood fired room and water heating, some space for just a few animals and a walled garden for growing veg, natural spring water and a large septic tank.
Get some rugged transport to last until the roads returned to nature
Go to police armoury and get tooled up for wild animal defence / hunting purposes
Go to hospital and stock up on medical supplies and manuals
Get a collection of generators and a fuel tanker full of diesel
Loads of tinned / dried foods.
Veg seeds.
But then I got thinking some more..would the earth actually remain habitable, or have we even booby-trapped it against a future without us? Im thinking along the lines of nuclear reactors / waste ponds that would melt down without human maintenance of cooling water supplies (a la Japanese sunami), stockpiles of CFCs, PCBs, Nerve gas, Biological agents...
Would the Earth "carry on regardless"?
I'd go shopping in a Stealth Bomber.
Which Will Smith film? I am Legend or After Earth?
I am Legend.
How do you know?
[quote=jimjam said]How do you know?
I just do.
Guns, shit loads of guns!
allthepiesI just do.
No you don't. Bet you haven't even seen After Earth. Lucky you.
There is a series on Amazon that is probably more like it. Get very lonely, go mad, use swimming pool as huge latrine...
It's called Last Man on Earth
Would anyone have sex with a fresh corpse?
How fresh?
Well that escalated.
Fussy bastards.
Yes, some bits may get a bit "hotter" but it'll be geographically localised to the reactor sites and the downwind plumes. PCB's and other persistent chemicals will eventually drop out of the food chain/top predators will adapt/die out.
Mankind and all its efforts will just become a thin seam in the geological record.
The only ones that I can see being a problem are an all consuming nanotech plague or a Satan Bug from biowarfare research.
I am Leg End...that's the one i meant. The list above was week 1. If I'm going to be slowly poisoned by humankind's legacy then i might spend the second week going sideways in V8 things. Maybe borrow a Eurofighter or two. Might as well have a go on some diamorphine too!
I am the only person on earth who saw After Earth.
[quote=plumslikerocks said]I am Leg End...that's the one i meant.
See 🙂
Bollocks.
olddog - Member
There is a series on Amazon that is probably more like it. Get very lonely, go mad, use swimming pool as huge latrine...It's called Last Man on Earth
See my earlier post....
I'd save that boring shite for week 23 or something. There may be no other people left but there will be still be plenty drugs, fast cars, explosives and other cool stuff to occupy weeks 1 through 22. Oh and sex robots. Don't forget to go save some sex robots.The list above was week 1.
Wood stoves indeed. Get a grip.
the trails centres would be much less busy.
Go to police armoury and get tooled up for wild animal defence / hunting purposes
How will you get in?
Find the keys on the zombified corpse of a police man. Or acquire some cutting torches / c4!
CaptainFlashheart - Member
I'd go shopping in a Stealth Bomber.
Trip to the National Motorcycle Museum with a very large truck.
Trackday roadtrip.
Perform my one man interpretative dance version of The Evil Dead live on stage at the Old Vic.
Score a goal at Wembley, a try at Twickenham, have a drink in the Pavilion at Lords wearing shorts.
Borrow a few paintings, some decent clothes, a large collection of jazz mags and embark on a tour of the distilleries.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
I'd go shopping in a Stealth Bomber.
who are you hiding from?
If I or my family were the only one or ones left...
Two very different scenarios.
If it was just me there would be no point in trying to be sensible, apart from the fact that I suspect my well developed sense of self preservation (i.e. cowardice) would stop me going out in a blaze of glory. Like to think I would set myself a challenge to see out my days, along the lines of See-how-far-I-can-get-round-the-world with what's been left behind (and my very meagre skills set). Not sure I'd get across the channel, tbh - would probably try to kayak, but how to get my kayak to the SE?
If my family were spared too I'd have to be Mr Sensible-Head. Might struggle.
I heard a very good interview on (I think) R4 ages ago along similar lines. The interviewee was all "I'd probably cope, reckon I could make a shelter and basic furniture", etc, etc. Was then asked, ok, but could you make a saw? That's the problem, there's 20,000 years of human development / specialisation to rewind!
ETA - would there still be broadband? And Audis?
If like me you remember The day of the triffids as a TV series as a kid in the early 80's about some wobbly nasty plants it's worth a read as an adult. Really good take on being part of a vastly reduced population and what you would do. The triffids were essential to the story, but not actually what it was about if that makes sense.
but could you make a saw?
I've got a saw.
See?I've got a saw.
If it was just you there would be more than enough stuff to last the rest of your life including tinned food and bottled water as well has fuel, hardware etc. If you could work out how to run a diesel generator and had somewhere properly dry to store stuff you'd be fine.
Still go bonkers with loneliness pretty quickly. And what's the point of driving a supercar around Silverstone with no one to enjoy it with
Yes, some bits may get a bit "hotter" but it'll be geographically localised to the reactor sites and the downwind plumes.
What, like Chernobyl was? "Downwind" is a fairly relative term, it should also be remembered that the liquidators pretty much buried all the contaminated topsoil to stop it spreading every time it rained for about a year afterwards.
Yes, I realise not every reactor could/would pop like that but I'd imagine if left unattended a fair few would be a problem. I'd be keeping well away from Suffolk for example (not that that's indicative of anything really).
Drac - seriously? A gas axe would probably be enough, the main reason for not getting into armouries is the human factor, remove that and it's just another metal box.
Personally I'd not be giving a crap, nothing would return to nature so much that it would impede me in my lifetime so I'd just pop into town when ever I needed supplies.
I'd have guns, lots of guns. Probably till I got bored. Or blew myself up. Or did something monumentally stupid like try to drive a tank through Cumbernauld (as in, straight through), get trapped and suffocate or starve to death.
Yes, some bits may get a bit "hotter" but it'll be geographically localised to the reactor sites and the downwind plumes.
What, like Chernobyl was? "Downwind" is a fairly relative term, it should also be remembered that the liquidators pretty much buried all the contaminated topsoil to stop it spreading every time it rained for about a year afterwards.
Yes, I realise not every reactor could/would pop like that but I'd imagine if left unattended a fair few would be a problem. I'd be keeping well away from Suffolk for example (not that that's indicative of anything really).
Drac - seriously? A gas axe would probably be enough, the main reason for not getting into armouries is the human factor, remove that and it's just another metal box.
Personally I'd not be giving a crap, nothing would return to nature so much that it would impede me in my lifetime so I'd just pop into town when ever I needed supplies.
I'd have guns, lots of guns. Probably till I got bored. Or blew myself up. Or did something monumentally stupid like try to drive a tank through Cumbernauld (as in, straight through), get trapped and suffocate or starve to death.
If it was just you there would be more than enough stuff to last the rest of your life including tinned food and bottled water as well has fuel, hardware etc
Unfortunately everyone else had died due to a chronic shortage of can openers and dry matches.
If I was the last person on earth I'd probably have a lot of explaining to do. I'm just not sure who to.
Perhaps I should just apologise in advance.
Soz.
Anyway - hey everybody - WATCH THIS!
[img] 
?1346150636[/img]
Go slowly mad.
who are you hiding from?
Carol Pilbasian
Poo on Wimbledon centre court.
I think most transport issues could be solved with one of these;
[img] 
[/img]
And one of these;
[img] 
[/img]
davidtaylforth - Member
Would anyone have sex with a fresh corpse?
Meh! been married 27 yrs so it's nothing new
Louise
who are you hiding from?
If I or my family were the only one or ones left...
The interesting thing about that question in this day and age is you'd know - you'd know you were the only ones left.
Thinking about the decline and extinction of Neanderthal man - theres evidence that a small population persisted in isolation around Gibraltar a long time after the rest of the species had vanished - up to 2000 years after the rest of the species was extinct. But those people didn't know they were the last of their kind, they also probably didn't know that there were ever any others either
thestabiliser - Member
Poo on Wimbledon centre court.
I've pissed in the Blue Peter garden already, so why not!
I'd have a poo on the Queen's throne.
Her porcelain one, not the state one, that's going in the Hi-Fi room.
Mankind and all its efforts will just become a thin seam in the geological record.
Good sentence, stored for future use
.
I'd just be pleased that my current bike would no longer be threatened with obsolescence due to new industry standards.
And what's the point of driving a supercar around Silverstone with no one to enjoy it with
I'd say that's very much a game for the single player.