Survivors

I'm with Burnsey on this one, I love these doomsday scenrios.

First I'd try to find some decient people to work with.

In an event like this I'd find a remote farm with lots of out buildings for stock pilling tinned foods and weapons.

I'd take a truck with a hiab crane and lift as many diesel generators as possible, then secure huge quantitys of petrol and diesel to run them. the spare generators would be stored in the farm buildings as back ups or for spare parts.

Most remote farms do have there own water supplies so water shouldnt be a problem. Once settled I'd look into cultivating the land and keeping animals for meat, milk and eggs.

Hopefully once the aforementioned ground work is done we could get onto the fun things like repopulation and defending our territory from would be thieves and interlopers.

One problem in the long term might be nuclear radiation from crumbling power stations, cant really think of a solution to this other than getting as far away from it as possible.
 
Tombo said:
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Original Survivours episode about the rape and murder of a young girl. Tom Price did it, but the whole group sentenced a young lad whop wasn't the brightest to death. They then found out it was Tom Price who did it.

This latest episode had a new character carry out the sentence on some robbers.

The thread has also merged about 2 different things ;)
 
Moses99p said:
They stopped at the bookshop because those two people had broken into it in order to look at medical books...
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Right.

They said that the front door had been smashed recently, implying it wasn't smashed last time they went past on patrol. Would give them pretty good reason to stop, i'd have said!
 
I enjoyed the first episode, was worried by the second episode that it could become rubbish and had my worries confirmed in the 3rd episode.

Terrible writing imo, the characters are being driven by the plot, not their personality traits if you see what i mean.
 
Ranger07 said:
I'm with Burnsey on this one, I love these doomsday scenrios.

First I'd try to find some decient people to work with.

In an event like this I'd find a remote farm with lots of out buildings for stock pilling tinned foods and weapons.

I'd take a truck with a hiab crane and lift as many diesel generators as possible, then secure huge quantitys of petrol and diesel to run them. the spare generators would be stored in the farm buildings as back ups or for spare parts.

Most remote farms do have there own water supplies so water shouldnt be a problem. Once settled I'd look into cultivating the land and keeping animals for meat, milk and eggs.

Hopefully once the aforementioned ground work is done we could get onto the fun things like repopulation and defending our territory from would be thieves and interlopers.

One problem in the long term might be nuclear radiation from crumbling power stations, cant really think of a solution to this other than getting as far away from it as possible.
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You have an excellent plan except you fail to mention how long it would take to get the telly back on. Food and fuel is important but what am I suppose to watch in the evening after milking the cow?
 
Ranger07 said:
One problem in the long term might be nuclear radiation from crumbling power stations, cant really think of a solution to this other than getting as far away from it as possible.
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I don't believe the nuclear power stations will go into meltdown, merely shutdown with no demand, so you should be fine on that front.
 
Gooner14 said:
I don't believe the nuclear power stations will go into meltdown, merely shutdown with no demand, so you should be fine on that front.
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They will probably go into meltdown because the cooling system needs to be monitored all the time, if it fails. nobody will be there to fix it.
They need cooling 24/7 iirc.


I guess they have autonomous ways of removing rods away from each other, then it wouldnt need cooling? you could be right!

Honestly, find a boat and come to Jersey ;) Surrounded by sea...low population, not many people would come!


If anything happened like that here, I'm part of a shooting club that uses a bunker with ventilation, it's inside a big hill made of granite it could probably survive low yeild nuclear blasts (not direct).

That would be my first port of call, security/safter guns & ammo. LOADS of tunnels and storage areas, generators (to last you a while) vehicles.

I dont think anyone could get in, even with a tank, the door is //massive//.
right near the harbour too, i'd set up a boat with supplies in case of emergency, and a light aircraft to go to uk/france. Lucky I know the basics of how to fly!

Then get a truck and load up everything into the bunker, sort out the fact it wont last forever later.
Would probably start wiring voltaic arrays around the top of the hill/cliffside where nobody could damage it.

Probably find a way to power local radio station or a transmitter/receiver of some sort too.

Yes, i've thought about this..zombie survival plan!
 
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Ranger07 said:
Once settled I'd look into cultivating the land and keeping animals for meat, milk and eggs.
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...and of course you know exactly how to do that! :rolleyes:

The original series of Survivors covered this sort of thing very well. A couple of failed crops and they were basically starving. Even though they new a little bit about agriculture (probably more than you) they were still planting things at the wrong time, and allowing cattle to feed on the wrong sort of pasture (which can be fatal to them)...

In short, I suspect like most of us, if you had to made a go of farming yourself, you'd starve...

Not to mention if you happened to hurt yourself one day? A badly twisted ankle? No work for X days... Bad cut on some farming tool? Who's going to clean & stitch the wound? Hmm...
 
Doctor.Bob said:
.... I would ;)
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Maybe so, but the problem is - and the original Survivors was big on this point - is in modern day society we are all so specialised that singularly, or even in small groups, were stuffed when we haven't got the safety net of modern society to loko after us!

Relying on anything mechanical means you have to be able to fuel, service and replace EVERY part of those machines.

Even further down the technology ladder, could you make a plough? Could you even make a spoon!
 
NeilFawcett said:
...and of course you know exactly how to do that! :rolleyes:

The original series of Survivors covered this sort of thing very well. A couple of failed crops and they were basically starving. Even though they new a little bit about agriculture (probably more than you) they were still planting things at the wrong time, and allowing cattle to feed on the wrong sort of pasture (which can be fatal to them)...

In short, I suspect like most of us, if you had to made a go of farming yourself, you'd starve...

Not to mention if you happened to hurt yourself one day? A badly twisted ankle? No work for X days... Bad cut on some farming tool? Who's going to clean & stitch the wound? Hmm...
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Your spot on, I cant farm or carry out first aid but hopefully by the time everything is set up i'd have found some like minded useful people who could bring the relevent skills. I live in a rural area anyhow so a farmer might not be a hard thing to find. A surviving doctor might be a different story though.
 
Ranger07 said:
Your spot on, I cant farm or carry out first aid but hopefully by the time everything is set up i'd have found some like minded useful people who could bring the relevent skills. I live in a rural area anyhow so a farmer might not be a hard thing to find. A surviving doctor might be a different story though.
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You'd just have to hope any farmer would be willing to nursemaid a city folk type of course... And don't forget, he's somewhat up the deck of cards too... ie: He's very reliant on machinery, power and manufactured feeds and the like. That's all gone too...


I don't think people realise quite how stuffed society would be if a major cataclysm hit. House of cards, with a load pulled out from the bottom!
 
If this kind of thing happened, I assume society would collapse so I'd have no job, therefore I could stay in all day and get good enough on Guitar Hero to finish it on Expert! :D
 
scaramanga182 said:
If this kind of thing happened, I assume society would collapse so I'd have no job, therefore I could stay in all day and get good enough on Guitar Hero to finish it on Expert! :D
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Yep, at least until:-
- couple of minutes later the power turns off
- couple of hours later the water turns off
- couple of days later you run out of food
- couple of weeks later you get cholera/typhoid

Good plan otherwise though!
 
fail at the internets said:
What was so bad about episode 3?
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Well firstly.. I didn't believe the whole "utopia" thing, why would everyone follow the government woman if she was clearly losing it? Also why wouldnt other people with guns try to take it over, assuming they have water/power/food etc? Not just some chavs trying to get a bit of food.

The whole chicken coop storyline seemed like filler material, felt like flicking round when these bits came on.

The only good bit was that family the guys found. Was a nice little insight into the real world effects of it all and what would happen to them - stay in and starve eventually or go out and almost certainly catch the infection. In the end they just accepted it.
 
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