If World Ended??

[Ace Gunman]

if everyone died, then... electricity is die! nooo
I look for a tall bridge to jump off of


I'm actually with Zepp on this one. The world has ended, most people are dead. That means there's very few (if any) people to mate with, no one to run the TV companies, electric companies, etc. I'd pretty much look for a bridge to jump off.

Same here. I couldn't live without my basic necessities (TV, computer, GBAtemp)

Raid Honda and get a bunch of generators!

Electricity was just a basic example. Without power every grocery store's supply of food would rot, and there'd be no one to produce more food from factories and farms, since no one would be alive but you. Society keeps the world running, without the people to maintain the ISPs the internet would cease to exist, without actors to film all forms of live-action media would cease production, without... you get the idea. If you're the last person on Earth you're pretty much screwed.

 

[laminaatplaat]

if everyone died, then... electricity is die! nooo
I look for a tall bridge to jump off of


I'm actually with Zepp on this one. The world has ended, most people are dead. That means there's very few (if any) people to mate with, no one to run the TV companies, electric companies, etc. I'd pretty much look for a bridge to jump off.

Same here. I couldn't live without my basic necessities (TV, computer, GBAtemp)

Raid Honda and get a bunch of generators!

Electricity was just a basic example. Without power every grocery store's supply of food would rot, and there'd be no one to produce more food from factories and farms, since no one would be alive but you. Society keeps the world running, without the people to maintain the ISPs the internet would cease to exist, without actors to film all forms of live-action media would cease production, without... you get the idea. If you're the last person on Earth you're pretty much screwed.

Im beginning to think that you have never seen a tree in your life .........and a cow.

COME ON 1 person and a whole world to support it, i dont think food is gonna be a problem.

EDIT: I do tend to agree that you would be pretty screwed

 

[xcalibur]

Living alone with my dog Sam, trying to cure everybody? In that case, a lab and some generators would be nice.

LOL

I'd just try to look for survivors

 

[cruddybuddy]

if everyone died, then... electricity is die! nooo
I look for a tall bridge to jump off of

I'm actually with Zepp on this one. The world has ended, most people are dead. That means there's very few (if any) people to mate with, no one to run the TV companies, electric companies, etc. I'd pretty much look for a bridge to jump off.

Same here. I couldn't live without my basic necessities (TV, computer, GBAtemp)

Raid Honda and get a bunch of generators!

Electricity was just a basic example. Without power every grocery store's supply of food would rot, and there'd be no one to produce more food from factories and farms, since no one would be alive but you. Society keeps the world running, without the people to maintain the ISPs the internet would cease to exist, without actors to film all forms of live-action media would cease production, without... you get the idea. If you're the last person on Earth you're pretty much screwed.

Im beginning to think that you have never seen a tree in your life .........and a cow.

COME ON 1 person and a whole world to support it, i dont think food is gonna be a problem.

EDIT: I do tend to agree that you would be pretty screwed

EXACTLY. One supermarket would have enough canned goods to keep you alive for years. When you run out, walk 1 mile to the next supermarket and survive for another decade. As for killing one's self for lack of electricity: why that's just pathetic. Human companionship would be a huge loss, but your life would be a hell of a lot better without the addiction of modern entertainment. Enjoy being alive dammit!

 

[lagman]

All I know is that I would be naked, naked and eating canned tuna everyday. -I do half of that everyday,anyway-

 

[cruddybuddy]

All I know is that I would be naked, naked and eating canned tuna everyday. -I do half of that everyday,anyway-

Then if I'm a survivor, PLEASE don't come looking for me. ;-)

 

[ShadowStitch]

Come on guys, where's your ingenuity?

Step 1: Think of a location where you could live which has plenty of daylight and a temperate climate. You want it to be somewhat dry, but with readily available fresh water and rain, with sunshine and fertile soil, and probably as little ice and snow as possible. Preferably close to city of some size, so as to make procuring raw goods easier, but also away from anything that might become hazardous anytime soon...like an unmanned nuclear plant or a chemical factory.

Step 2: Collect canned goods and living necessities, set up a home somewhere appropriate and potentially defensible (if you think that will be a concern against other refugees, zombies, mutants, whatever). You only have a year or two, maybe 3 tops, before all of the canned goods in the stores start to become dangerous to eat. MRE's can sustain you a bit longer than that, but sooner or later you're going to have to start growing your own food.

Step 3: Once your basic survival needs are taken care of, hit up all the material goods you might consider needing. Tools, furniture, medicine, etc. Collect all the books you can, since information is going to be your best friend now: Manuals, guidebooks, maps, almanacs, medical books, everything you need to learn to survive. Stockpile anything you don't immediately need in watertight containers and make sure it's organized. Once all the stores start collapsing, and their stock is ruined by weather, you won't have a second chance!

Step 4: Provide for creature comforts. Pick up some nice TVs and computers and movies and games and whatever else your heart desires. Remember those manuals you picked up? Now it's time to learn how to build a solar array, or a wind turbine generator. You can have all the electricity you want if you just harness it from nature. There are portable solar generators capable of powering a laptop almost indefinitely, so with the proper application of technology, you'd have all the digital media you like.

Step 5: Now that you're prepared with supplies and knowledge, set up a homestead where you'll be comfortable living for the foreseeable future. Plant some fruit trees, set up a garden, learn to cook and clean and maybe raise livestock...generally go all Harvest Moon. Start brewing your own beer, learn to play an instrument... Personally, I'd pick someplace near the coast, maybe even get a nice big boat and an RV, so I can conceivably travel a bit before the gasoline stores in the stations breaks down.

 

[cruddybuddy]

Come on guys, where's your ingenuity?

Step 1: Think of a location where you could live which has plenty of daylight and a temperate climate. You want it to be somewhat dry, but with readily available fresh water and rain, with sunshine and fertile soil, and probably as little ice and snow as possible. Preferably close to city of some size, so as to make procuring raw goods easier, but also away from anything that might become hazardous anytime soon...like an unmanned nuclear plant or a chemical factory.

Step 2: Collect canned goods and living necessities, set up a home somewhere appropriate and potentially defensible (if you think that will be a concern against other refugees, zombies, mutants, whatever). You only have a year or two, maybe 3 tops, before all of the canned goods in the stores start to become dangerous to eat. MRE's can sustain you a bit longer than that, but sooner or later you're going to have to start growing your own food.

Step 3: Once your basic survival needs are taken care of, hit up all the material goods you might consider needing. Tools, furniture, medicine, etc. Collect all the books you can, since information is going to be your best friend now: Manuals, guidebooks, maps, almanacs, medical books, everything you need to learn to survive. Stockpile anything you don't immediately need in watertight containers and make sure it's organized. Once all the stores start collapsing, and their stock is ruined by weather, you won't have a second chance!

Step 4: Provide for creature comforts. Pick up some nice TVs and computers and movies and games and whatever else your heart desires. Remember those manuals you picked up? Now it's time to learn how to build a solar array, or a wind turbine generator. You can have all the electricity you want if you just harness it from nature. There are portable solar generators capable of powering a laptop almost indefinitely, so with the proper application of technology, you'd have all the digital media you like.

Step 5: Now that you're prepared with supplies and knowledge, set up a homestead where you'll be comfortable living for the foreseeable future. Plant some fruit trees, set up a garden, learn to cook and clean and maybe raise livestock...generally go all Harvest Moon. Start brewing your own beer, learn to play an instrument... Personally, I'd pick someplace near the coast, maybe even get a nice big boat and an RV, so I can conceivably travel a bit before the gasoline stores in the stations breaks down.

Umm, you lost me at zombies and mutants.

 

[moozxy]

Hmm... If you were the last person on earth, would you bother getting dressed in the morning? I mean, would you even bother wearing clothes?

EDIT:
Haha I didn't see lagman's post
I guess that answers my question

 

[JPH]

If the world ended, and I somehow survived(highly unlikely)...I'd build my own themepark, where I can ride them anytime I want - with no waiting lines

 

[Ace Gunman]

EXACTLY. One supermarket would have enough canned goods to keep you alive for years. When you run out, walk 1 mile to the next supermarket and survive for another decade. As for killing one's self for lack of electricity: why that's just pathetic. Human companionship would be a huge loss, but your life would be a hell of a lot better without the addiction of modern entertainment. Enjoy being alive dammit!

I disagree. Canned goods would get old after a while, eventually the very idea of another can of soup would sicken you. And what else are you going to do with your time, read? I hate reading books (most of the time). Not to say that books are bad, I'm just not much for them. Electricity is the foundation of everything I love. Video games, television, hell I even read my comic books online. Without it I'd quite literally go crazy. Human companionship would of course be a problem but I've found that media of some sort can indeed be a substitute for such things. For example if you don't have a girlfriend... there's pornography. Which outside of magazines is purely electronic media.

And in reply to someone else, farming your own food? Do you have any idea how difficult it is to run a farm? Most farms have farmhands (IE workers) to help out with such things. You expect any one human being to feed 80 cows, 30 chickens, till the ground by hand, plant seeds, pick the vegetables, spray the insecticide, kill said animals, wash all of this for consumption, find a way to keep it refrigerated (remember, no power), cook it, find a way to get water (no water treatment either), wash their dishes, etc... on a daily basis? It's impossible. No one person can do such a thing; it's exactly that reason that farmers have to hire workers.

 

[Psyfira]

A towel of course. Duhhhhh...

Awesome answer *brings the peanuts*

 

[ShadowStitch]

And in reply to someone else, farming your own food? Do you have any idea how difficult it is to run a farm? Most farms have farmhands (IE workers) to help out with such things. You expect any one human being to feed 80 cows, 30 chickens, till the ground by hand, plant seeds, pick the vegetables, spray the insecticide, kill said animals, wash all of this for consumption, find a way to keep it refrigerated (remember, no power), cook it, find a way to get water (no water treatment either), wash their dishes, etc... on a daily basis? It's impossible. No one person can do such a thing; it's exactly that reason that farmers have to hire workers.

SURE you could. I mean, you couldn't run a whole PLANTATION, but you could handle a small farm providing for yourself. People did it all the time a hundred years ago. A chicken coop, a cow or two....and a nice garden with vegetables and fruit/nut trees... Plant it, maintain it, can/preserve all you can, and get into a good cycle of crop rotation before your canned goods run out...and you could live indefinitely on that. Agrarian societies have done it for centuries.

And if you build your own power sources...windmill, water mill, turbine, solar array...you can power an entire household (refrigerators included) with ease. But then, I grew up in the sticks, so I'm the kind of person that this lifestyle kind of appeals to... I'd be more than happy to learn how to provide myself with clean water and electricity in the event of a disaster. And I DO read a lot, so having lots of books and such at my disposal would be fine for those times when I'm not playing computer games on the best PC I could build or watching movies on my giant plasma.

 

[Banger]

It would be llike a real life harvest moon. If I was the only person alive I would not see the point of living. But say there was group of people alive kind of like in 28 weeks later. Then maybe there would a reason to live.

 

[azotyp]

If the world had just ended and you survived what items or objects would you try to get??

I would propably search for food, or place where I can make food.
And of course guns , usually when world ends, there are lots of zombies and aliens around

P.S.
I read all of that post and have some replies
Some people say that human could himself build an electricity supplaing generator (for wind, water etc),
I saw those wind ones on TV and there is no chance that normal human would build that, they are very precise equipment, of perfect symetry, eaven bugs that splash on them and disturb theire symetrical shape make them work slower, so they are constantly cleaned by some precise water cleaning system. That technology is too much for a simple human , eaven if he read an instruction.

As for power for let's say Nintendo DS, there are solar chargers for nintendo ds and psp on the market, so for those you would not need to build a generator. Propably there are some solar chargers for laptops too on ebay but i''m too lazy to check it out.

 

[Hitto]

I'd look for a hammock.
Finally, some QUALITY TIME.

 

[VVoltz]

If the world ended?... mmm... probably I would look for a cute blond girl.

 

[Costello]

Interesting topic, and I believe ShadowStich's post is the most intesting I've read in a while. That's totally what I had pictured (yeah, I do happen to think about that kind of crap when I'm alone at night

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Now, to think about it... I think the situation would be incredibly cool.
On the one hand, you would feel extremely lonely and for the rest of your life. You would probably forget any language you know after a couple of years (unless you keep practicing and read books).
On the other hand, you would be able to go everywhere, see things you've never seen before, solve incredible mysteries...
You could go in government buildings and find out secrets (9/11, *cough* JFK)

The first couple of years of my life would probably be about finding a reliable, renewable source of energy. I wouldn't spend so much time caring about food because I would have canned food (food AND drink! woohoooo, unlimited everything!)
Then I'd spend time learning how to drive stuff like trucks, helicopters, boats, and eventually planes - not sure you can do that on your own though.
Anyhow, I would totally not be the type of person to jump off a bridge.

 

[jefffisher]

for me nothing would change nothing at all.
but i do have a question, would everyone else just be gone or would there be bodies everywhere?

 

[azotyp]

I would look for a cute blond girl.

Cute blodn dead girl (muhaha) because world ended and you are last human alive.