You realise this isn't gonna happen. You're getting your knickers in knot over something that's not going to happen. This thread was just a bit of fun and you're picking it apart like it's the most serious thing in the world!
What would you do if everyone just dissapeared?
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You realise this isn't gonna happen. You're getting your knickers in knot over something that's not going to happen. This thread was just a bit of fun and you're picking it apart like it's the most serious thing in the world!
where did I say petrol
deer god man, this is pointless it's a light hearted thread and you picked something apart in ways that are pointless ass I haven't said 99% of the things you suggest are problems.
Petrol or diesel is required for the heavy equipment you would need to maintain even a small airport. This is why I said if you wished to continue after several years you would have to convert those vehicles you mentioned to LPG or Propane as this doesnt degrade in the same way, to which you replied convert what/why?
Just because you havent mentioned the problems doesn't mean they don't or won't exist.
Yes it would be cool to live in an airport, flying about and stuff, but practical no.
for what maintenance?
Solid lumps of reinforced concrete do not suddenly deteriorate. Have some more
.Same as metal framed structures with corrugate steel roofs. they will stand for decades with no maintenance and with a little paint last hundreds of years.
Think you have missed everything I said and far to focused on non existent problems.
Roads only need loads of maintenance because they are designed to take millions of cars with little traction and no suspension and provide smooth travel. this is not need post apocalyptic world. All you need is something that does not have massive trees or obstacles in the way.
But I'm having Fun picking it apart like its the most serious thing in the world.
your doing a rubbish job, shall I bring back flooding and the rats.
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for what maintence?
Solid lumps of reinforced concrete do not suddenly detriate. Have some more
Think you have missed everything I said and far to focused on non existent problems.
Roads only need loads of maintence because theya re deisgned to take millions of cars with little tracktion and no suspension and provide smooth travel. this is not need post appcolu
but its not a long term solution either, Nature will encroach and begin to destroy infrastructure a lot sooner than you think.
If your airport has no real world problems then fine, its a great place to live your life, flying about on the endless supply of forever-lasting aviation fuel and nature will be kind and not encroach on you, the weather wont affect you, the collapseof infrastucture due to poor maintenance wont be a problem either.
It would be cool, just like living in a Mall full of Zombies....
As for the flooding, look up the figures for flooding related deaths in poor areas with pooly maintained infrastructure. Look what happens now, with flooding, and Bristol is one big floodplain. And as for Rats and rodents in general, disease is the main factor as well as them eating your supplies. But none of that would exist in your scenario so who cares.
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dig Latrines. Chemical toilets for the interim.
find housing estate, start at house number 2.....
Where did I say flying was the main aim? Microlights can be launched from anywhere.
Nature can be hacked back. it does not take a long time and is easy.
Infrastructure doesn't just collapse just look at building over 2000 years old with no maintenance at all. Things collapse for a reason. Ice damage, tree damage and the like. Certain types of buildings are extremely resilient and easy to maintain.
This is not a poor area with over crowding, with rubbish lying around with no way of getting out of fast flowing rivers that burst it's banks. Same with rats. You burn sources of food(rubbish) and keep your own food well secured and there is no rat infestation or disease. Especially as you are the last human, how is this disease going to spread?
You do not need infrastructure and you certainly do not need infrastructure at todays levels.
Take a normal toilet.
Take a water wheel, wind turbine or other form of energy and use a simple pump to pump water a few meters of the ground. Send the pipe into a river, cess tank or such like.
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'Hacking back Nature' as you say, would be fine on a small scale, but something as large as an airport.
As fro 2000 year old buildings, modern prefab structures such as airports are not the Pyramids.
But it would be poorly maintained as there are no people to maintain it. Rats are everywhere, Bristol included. There are almost definitely more rats in Bristol than people. Just one uncontained fire in the Bristol city limits would just burn until the city is more or less gone, pushing the rodents and any living thing out before it, directly into your airport.
You are correct, you do not need infrastructure to survive, but the airport or city does, and if you are going to use them for your support basis then you need to tackle this, and IMO its too big a job for a single person.
Or just dig a latrine.
It is small scale one warehouse and another structure to live.
You underestimate prefab strength and durability, especially on such low slung buildings. these are not 50 strorie skyscrapers. Preffabs will lost longer than brick construction. we are talking no longer than 70 years. Steal framed barns are still standing after 40+ years without even a lick of paint or any vegetation control. With nothing more than crumbling block walls and a few rust holes in the roof.
Buildings have to be close enough to catch fire from each other many are not including air ports. It is not poorly maintained for things like disease and rats. It is very easy to remove sources of food. Rats are only attracted by food. No food source they will leave you alone.
Again you are assuming everything is or needs to be maintained. Again this is a totally wrong assumption.
Why, you have 50 years or so to waste and build. It wouldn't be high on the list, but it would be on my list. With no people to chat or commune with i would spent a lot of time building and improving simple systems to help my life be easier and more pleasant.
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Christ man, stop going on about airports! why would you even need one.
Take a cessna or something smaller and land on a bloody field.
Why does ANYTHING that's being mentioned in the last few posts need maintaing
Toilets ??
What's wrong with ****ting on the ground or in the sea.
Take a cessna or something smaller and land on a bloody field.
Why does ANYTHING that's being mentioned in the last few posts need maintaing
Toilets ??
What's wrong with ****ting on the ground or in the sea.
i dont get why people are farming... the amount of tinned food in one supermarket alone.. and you'v got the full world's supply. You can just pop to out of town retail parks with supermarkets and loot them. Or supply depos.. or peoples cupboards?
fresh tasty food. Do you want to live on canned food for several decades.
no I wouldnt like to, but fruits and veg also grow on their own! and meat comes from animals.. which I can shoot, slaughter and cook!
Another brilliant idea, freezer lorries. Pack em full of wonderful food stuffs!
Possibly find a butchers or slaughterhouse with a biggggg freezer unit too, ram it full, and make sure its generator(a slaughterhouse or whatever is bound to have a backup generator after all.) has a hugeeee fuel tank
This is true but choice would be limited as would season. Making a glass greenhouse is simple and you can grow lots of "exotic stuff" not suited to our climate.
+ it's something to do. You have deacdes with nothing to do apart from survive and have fun. even driving fast cars and blowing stuff up would get boring pretty fast.
Live on the canned food until you'd established an eco system of survivability of your own I say.
Utilise the infrastructure while it lasts to set yourself up in a way that can be maintained by your "one man band" army.
There is no need whatso ever in maintaining say a cement plant or tarmacing facility to keep the roads intact.. What the hell for?
Go cut some wood and use that as your building material and find a horse to get around on if all the petrol has vanished.
Utilise the infrastructure while it lasts to set yourself up in a way that can be maintained by your "one man band" army.
There is no need whatso ever in maintaining say a cement plant or tarmacing facility to keep the roads intact.. What the hell for?
Go cut some wood and use that as your building material and find a horse to get around on if all the petrol has vanished.