What would you do if everyone just dissapeared?

Pish · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:34

I dont know why your all so desperate to survive and live a long life

"look at me im 70 and living in a world with no-one, im gonna die soon and pass on sweet FA. At least I have my pack of cats for company, allthought I cant touch, or let them out of their cage becuase I suspect they have rabies, yey for me"

You have spent 40 years creating an environment to survive and then die of old age.../clap

just go crazy and die, or try and clone a bird

Burnsy2023 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:38

Gaidin109 said:
I thought the OP was clear on the fact there is no-one else. If there is the chance of other survivors then that changes the entire thing completely. A more mobile survival strategy is required. Short wave radio etc..

Yes but how would you know for sure? If you survived surely there could be others? If someone said everyone else is dead surely you'd look anyway incase they were wrong?

Glaucus · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:40

Gaidin109 said:
there is nothing logical in your thinking.

How many pet dogs do you think there are in any given urban area?, what about the rats, they far outnumber humans now, with no control you will be over run in months.

why will they overrun something that
a) has no source of food
B) is secure

Gaidin109 said:
Tarmac and Concrete is notoriously bad at keeping nature at bay. Are you going to clear the roads of abandoned rush-hour traffic, or deal with the aircraft that fell out of the sky when the people disappeared, or the electrical appliances left running for weeks, ovens left on or fires left on causing widespread wildfire or the gas leaks from non repair when the people disappeared or the animals that escape from safari parks and suchlike, then breed wild. Cities are a haven for such things.

tarmac is notoriously bad for degrading not disappearing. Not a problem for 4x4 or tracked vehicles.

Surprisingly airports are not surrounded by other properties in close proximity and are highly flame retardant.

Fire is a good thing it removes rotting stuff and animals.

Gas is easy to turn of at the road side where needed. I don't know why you think I would need to maintain a whole city.

Gaidin109 said:
What are you going to do with the miasma caused by tonnes and tonnes of rotting rubbish citywide causing pestilence and disease. The spread of insects due to the rubbish and standing water. Local problems like the thames tidal bore, the thames barrier doesnt work without people for long.

Did I say london. Bristol airport would be good, out on it's own yet close enough for supplys. No problem from the city and rotting food.

Gaidin109 said:
You havent taken any of the minutae of problems that we deal with on a daily basis in maintaining any urban area, these small insignificant problems will become huge ones without the people to maintain and repair them.

Yes I have, I have just discarded them as I'm talking about keeping a small area weather proof, not pristine. I wouldn't be reliant on any services we currently have.

Pish said:
I dont know why your all so desperate to survive and live a long life
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perhaps because most of us could not kill ourselfs.

dekez · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:41

I'd probably think that the chances of the entire population vanishing and leaving only me are so slim that it might as well be impossible.

I'd then come to the conclusion I must be completely mental, or in some type of coma or dream.

I'd then try to prove scientifically somehow if this was true or not (which if I was mental would be very hard) And work out how to wake up.

Then like everyone else, descend in to fapping and trying to find guns.

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:41

Sirrel Squirrel said:
gaidin's alone world doesn't sound like much fun, I'd personally find the fastest car I could and shack up at a military base and experiment with all the equipment and then accidentally end up killing myself.

The reality of the situation would be much, much worse. Yeah it would be cool and fun for a year or so, but when the Petrol and Diesel has become useless, fires are burning uncontrollably across cities due to gas leaks or a hot summer or any number of other reasons, pestilence spread by insects and rodents, now out of control because no one is left to control them, or clean the rubbish and rotting food/animals from the streets. When flooding washes away infrastructure and powerstations go critical due to no maintenance. Roads blocked by traffic abandoned when everyone disappeared, domestic livestock running wild, All those critical disease research labs, suddenly no-one around to maintain the safetly protocols, the Nuclear arsenal left to degrade and pollute the water supply etc....

Fun, I dont think so.

Prophet · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:42

Gaidin109 said:
there is nothing logical in your thinking.

How many pet dogs do you think there are in any given urban area?, what about the rats, they far outnumber humans now, with no control you will be over run in months.

Tarmac and Concrete is notoriously bad at keeping nature at bay. Are you going to clear the roads of abandoned rush-hour traffic, or deal with the aircraft that fell out of the sky when the people disappeared, or the electrical appliances left running for weeks, ovens left on or fires left on causing widespread wildfire or the gas leaks from non repair when the people disappeared or the animals that escape from safari parks and suchlike, then breed wild. Cities are a haven for such things.

What are you going to do with the miasma caused by tonnes and tonnes of rotting rubbish citywide causing pestilence and disease. The spread of insects due to the rubbish and standing water. Local problems like the thames tidal bore, the thames barrier doesnt work without people for long.

You havent taken any of the minutae of problems that we deal with on a daily basis in maintaining any urban area, these small insignificant problems will become huge ones without the people to maintain and repair them.

I guess looking to live somewhere that naturally looks after itself is the way forward. Going back to nature as it were.

peetee · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:43

looking for other survivors would give you something to do.
Its that or xbox/ps3 till you die..

dekez · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:44

peetee said:
Its that or xbox/ps3 till you die..

But no multiplayer... :eek:

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:47

AcidHell2 said:
Did I say london. Bristol airport would be good, out on it's own yet close enough for supplys. No problem from the city and rotting food.

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This just prove my point, Bristol Airport is subject to Flood Risk, and once there is no-one to maintain the drainage system, bye bye airport.Just because you can maintain your imediate area doesnt mean that area is not subject to being affected by other areas not being maintained.

Oh and as for rats etc, you are the food.

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:48

Orange Peel said:
I guess looking to live somewhere that naturally looks after itself is the way forward. Going back to nature as it were.

Exactly the point I'm making.

peetee · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:49

This just prove my point, Bristol Airport is subject to Flood Risk, and once there is no-one to maintain the drainage system, bye bye airport.

Oh and as for rats etc, you are the food.

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Theres plenty of airports that would be fine.

shmacks · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:50

Find a nice chimpanzee called gloria to make your wife for the rest of you life.

Glaucus · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:50

Gaidin109 said:
Oh and as for rats etc, you are the food.

Not when there's is plenty of food elsewhere and no food to encourage them to come in. Rats eating a human is ridiculous. Unless the area is A) infested and B) you are unconscious.

Flood risk is hardly a problem and is hardly going to kill you. It;'s not going to suddenly swamp you in 30 meters of water. An industrial park would be almost as good.

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:53

AcidHell2 said:
Not when there's is plenty of food elsewhere and no food to encourage them to come in. Rats eating a human is ridiculous. Unless the area is A) infested and B) you are unconscious.

Flood risk is hardly a problem and is hardly going to kill you. It;'s not going to suddenly swamp you in 30 meters of water. An industrial park would be almost as good.

It just doesnt matter, An area the size of an Airport is just too large for one person to maintain for any length of time. You would be better off in the farm house or something similar.

And rats live around airports just as well as any urban area, they will breed, feed on your supplies etc, its just too impractical for one person. A group of people would be a different matter. A single person would be better off keeping it small and simple.

How long would it take to just find a specific fuse box somewhere so large. not so in a farmhouse.

Glaucus · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:54

Gaidin109 said:
It just doesnt matter, An area the size of an Airport is just too large for one person to maintain for any length of time. You would be better off in the farm house or something similar.

how is it to hard to maintain. you do not need to maintain all buildings and services. You only need to maintain what you need. With large parts of that being pretty much maintenance free.

You have pretty much an unlimited supply of building equipment and supplies.

_dogma_ · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:56

Gaidin109 said:
Oh and as for rats etc, you are the food.

Haha, lol!

Rats are opportunists, unless you decided to lie down and go to sleep in a place where it's infested the chance of the eating you alive is incredibly slim. Also, all the food that you won't be able to eat because it's gone off or it's too heavy to carry they'll have it so wouldn't need to eat you. Add that food to any carcasses lying around as well as natural food for them and I think you'd be pretty safe against death by rat.

Tummy · 28 Jan 2010 at 16:58

I'd probably freak the **** out for a while.

I'd then truck about doing random things and visiting places and look for other people.

I'd want a pet dog and a parker coat.

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 17:01

_dogma_ said:
Haha, lol!

Rats are opportunists, unless you decided to lie down and go to sleep in a place where it's infested the chance of the eating you alive is incredibly slim. Also, all the food that you won't be able to eat because it's gone off or it's too heavy to carry they'll have it so wouldn't need to eat you. Add that food to any carcasses lying around as well as natural food for them and I think you'd be pretty safe against death by rat.

notice the

in the post. :rolleyes:

Its more the damage to your supplies and health through the spread of disease.

Gaidin109 · 28 Jan 2010 at 17:09

AcidHell2 said:
how is it to hard to maintain. you do not need to maintain all buildings and services. You only need to maintain what you need. With large parts of that being pretty much maintenance free.

You have pretty much an unlimited supply of building equipment and supplies.

Can you use the building equipment without diesel fuel which after a year or so would be useless. Can you move tonnes of concrete or repair prefabricated structures on your own, without help?

The maintenance of the whole is neccessary, you cant just maintain one building and allow all its ancillary structures to degrade, Electrical, Water, Drainage are all probably connected.

Like I said before, how long would it take just to find the correct fuse box, there is no guarantee its in the building you are using. A hidden gas-leak and Kaboom, your gone.

There is no such thing as a maintenance free building or service. Just count the repairs in the road in which you live and how many times they are dug up to maintain other services.

If you are only going to use a limited area, then again a small-holding would be far better, easier to maintain and easier to power and far more comfortable.

stoofa · 28 Jan 2010 at 17:14

I would have approx. 5 days before poison levels got too high in my blood.
Then I'd say after a maximum of a fortnight I'd simply die.

Ah the pain of having kidney failure.

I used the love the idea of the "end of the world" and being one of the few left.
Now in reality I'd last 2 weeks at most