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Post apocalyptic event, would you survive?
This is mostly a question about your genetics.
Let's say you were one of the lucky few that survived a giant meteor crashing into the earth. All human technology is destroyed, and all we have are our own two hands and the genetics our parent's bestowed upon up. Would you survive? I would absolutely not survive. Without contact lenses/glasses, I am a completely useless human being. I literally can not find my way around a room if I don't have my contact lenses on and I seem to have lost my glasses. In a hunting/gathering situation I think other humans would probably have to abandon me. Not to mention, once disease hit, I would be one of the first to die off. The minute someone coughs on me, I get sick. Sad, but true facts. Consider any medical conditions you might have that has to be regulated: Asthma, diabetes, etc. The main point I am trying to make here, is that we are so comfortable masking our problems. We can fix almost anything that is wrong with us...things that seem to minor now, but in a situation where those things were not available, we would not survive. Discuss. |
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Considering both sided of my family are extremely healthy I'm pretty sure I could make it a while. Most people in our family usually live into their 90's.
I'm prepared any day to survive a life without modern human technology. My blood sugar is 80 (average is 70-100). 20/20 vision. Not taking any meds that aren't for ADD or sleep. Good immune system. Everything else is decent - good. The only problem I would run into is being underweight. |
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No idea. I don't have any medical problems and my parents both had great vision until their late 40's and they still aren't that bad. I'm not very muscular but I'm sure that would change a bit if I had to kill my food every day.
Another thing that is interesting is how nobody today knows how to do simple things like cook a meal without an oven or wash their clothes without a washing machine. I think most of humanity would be screwed because of their dependence on technology despite how healthy and fit to survive they are. |
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I wrote a decent sized response to this thread but accidentally hit view previous thread so my response was deleted. In short though yes I am very confident id survive
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Considering how dependent I've been on the computer my whole life, I'm honestly not sure.
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I dunno. Mentally is where I might fail. I'd either have a new-found zest for life as a real struggle for survival takes over my apathy, or I'd completely shut-down and let myself die. I swear I've got some vitamin absorption problems or something. If I eat poorly now, which would still be way more nutrition than what I'd be getting after the world's toast, my body and mind totally feel that impact.
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I have no health problems. If the conditions were right, I'd survive.
As for my mentality: I almost wish this would happen. Conditions would change in a post apocalyptic environment. Life would change. Activity. Empty, fleeting moments would become meaningful. As a matter of fact, I'd welcome a death-by-meteor. |
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Sometimes I think about if computers were never invented I might be like... an Olympic sprinter, or an accomplished musician, or president or something.
But most likely I'd still be fat and lazy with poor vision. I'd be dead within a week. Devoured by my peers for valuable sustenance. |
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Would I survive? Hell yes I would survive! I have a impenetrable immune system, very healthy, strong, very strong willed.
I would do anything to survive if such a thing happened. I'd be dammed if a fkin meteor took out the human race. |
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While I'm not the strongest dude ever, I very rarely get sick and I'm generally in good shape. I have 20/20 (tbh 20/5) vision in each eye, and I have perfect hearing.
I think I would survive, but one never knows. EDIT: Is this meteor a damn EMP or something? |
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as long as there was somewhere to find beer and cigarettes id be ok for awhile
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I would kill myself. No human technology means no HRT. I could try to synthesize estrogen from organic sources, but have no idea how. I would have no way to inhibit testosterone. Unless I happened to immediately and random encounter someone who could love me for who I was in spite of everything, which might be a reason to live, but the chances of that are negligable.
Other than that I would have the means to survive just fine in most contexts. |
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I don't know but I'm preparing for it. If some major catastrophe happens in 2-3 years, I'll be ready. No medical conditions and hitting the gym 3 times a week. I want to be strong enough to lift someone if he's about to fall off a cliff or something. You never know.
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None of you will be ready and it doesn't really matter since you will die off anyways.
Because the situation will constantly be changing, nobody can ever be 100% prepared. Post apocalypses are long-term and tend to involve more than one major disaster. Consider this: your on a plane, suddenly out of nowhere a meteor hits the plane. you die. the plane crashes and kills more people where it landed, they die. The meteor flies off and leaves a big ol crater, the people dead. Suddenly the meteor impact causes a shift in the tectonic plates and causes possibly a tsunami or earthquake, then more people die and get injured. Lets say this earthquake hit a major city and there was a lab going on where people were experimenting with finding a cure to cyanide poisoning and whole lot of other diseases. Or maybe it was an oil tanker, who knows, and it explodes and oil catches fire and people burn. And maybe during this entire it was pre-war because of some government tensions and then bam everyone loses. |
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I would hope that I could survive, but probably die, but saying you would live would be pure luck
I just hope i don't fall into the group with the stereotypical religious bitch that goes on sacrificing people and goes on sayin shit like it's gods will, damn I hate those people in movies |
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I'm not sure. It's a hard question to answer unless your actually in the situation. But, I think I would survive. 20/20 vision. No health problems, not allergic to anything. The only hard part would be actually using my two hands to get food and other things need for life.
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I honestly am not so sure many people would live even if they had peek physical conditions, but I don't think it matters if you need glasses or not. Chances are if people are surviving some of them know how to make lenses for glasses. Also People would probably be prepared for a meteor impact. Unless it was invisible to us until impact. Not trying to down on the whole thing just stating some probable things. I probably wouldn't survive though. I'd go to where it was impacting, bring a guitar, and try to Fooly Cooly that shit.
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That depends from how is the environment that surrounds you, did the apocalypse only destroyed humans and everything that have been human related, leaving the area clean and safe ? Or did it also destroyed everything that allowed you to live ?
Looking at the different posts I'll consider the first conclusion. Your genetics will eventually help you to develop survival reflexes and allow you to live a longer time. I guess you will not be alone, like, 10 people for the whole town so, as the time goes, you could basically reconstruct your life from your personnal knowledge. Of course, knowing about the reflexes to have when you're in a survival situation is an enormous plus, because it will shorten the time you'll take to get the reflexes and, thus, reduce the chance for you to die from accident or distraction. In an utopic way to see things, it's what that would happen. However, I think most of us wouldn't even survive in an environment that is as cruel as that. If you're physically weak or handicaped for any reason, you will have no chance to survive. Because you have never been used to these circumstances and your physical health will prevent you to do so. From the first day, you will probably not eat if all you have are your hands and a natural environment around you : How will you learn about hunting a prey ? Knowing which plants are poisonous and which aren't ? Considering the right factors to deduce something correct ? Etc ? All of this depend from experience and personnal knowledge you randomly acquired by reading books or whatever on the matter. It will take a long time before you will get used to that way of life and most of us would probably die if we survived to the apocalypse. Also, think about the diseases that will pop out more freely because of the absence of any medication, your metabolism became accustomed to that kind of things, y'know, that clean environment you live in everyday, these pills you take when you're ill, these sterile bandages you put on a flesh-wound. You will be way more sensitive to harmful bacterias, viruses, and even simple infections or wounds since you will only have medical plants or survival-reflexe to - temporarily - treat you. PS : Considering every humain installations survived would led us to an "artificial death", since many, many entities would be still "running" with no maintenance or whatever (like : NPPs, sewer network...etc I'm kinda tired so I can't think about more examples). It's why I talk like everything have been destroyed with only nature living through. tl;dr If the world ends, except if you have a good fitness and trained for that kind of situation, you're ****ing done. |
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Looking at my family history, I'd probably live for a good while after the meteor crash. There aren't many health problems in my family except for 2 cases of cancer and one was due to smoking for many years. The oldest person alive right now is 92 and still holding strong with bladder cancer even though she hasn't had any surgeries because it's too risky because of her age.
If the meteor crashed right now though and I survived, I'm not sure I'd live through the birth of my baby because of no medicine. That would probably be one thing that would be the end of me. But if I survive that, I'd probably eat a lot of seafood because I can fish. If the baby survived, I'm not sure how long he/she would live though in those kinds of conditions. Probably wouldn't live much longer after birth. |
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Well I have a partial pneumothorax so the resulting dust of the impact would probably be too much for my lungs to handle.
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I am guessing that while most people are putting qualifiers to the environment, not sure what post-apocalyptic terrain you are meaning.
I am guessing you are saying that whatever the environment is, it is a survivable. It makes me think of a wilderness that you are putting us in. Maybe a bit closer to being in Gary Paulson's "Hatchet"? (That is still 6th grade required reading in CA, I think.) Physically, I would be fine. Mentally, I am good too. With other people, I would do well, as I adapt easily. Though, I believe my survivor skills are NOT up to par for a solo run. I can learn all that fast, but would need to have someone to learn it from. So, while I would be the 'noob' of the party, I would not be that way for long, as I am good at improving all skills that I already have. I'm not the fastest, or the slowest; strongest or weakest. I am one of the smarter ones though, when it comes to getting things to work, and I apply myself well. (McGyver is almost and unofficial middle name.) I'm the support character; horrible alone, but dang, you sure want me on your team. |
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I would probably live it through a while, but my physical features will get in the way, I'm a fatty, but I can still cover good ground. The only health related issue that has run in my family is the bursting of the appendix. I have good vision though, and a decent immune system. Low metabolism though, but that really doesn't have to do with much if you're trying to actually survive. I'm only allergic to sulfur drugs( possibly )
My only problem would be determination, I'd probably be like "**** it" and wait for my slow death. |
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I'm pretty sure most of us would suicide when confronted to that context because we couldn't handle everything that happened : all of your friend and family died, all of your supplies disappeared, every private property have been destroyed, your life will be radically different and you need to have a steel-mind if you want to survive. Otherwise your depression will disgusts you from any way to survive and you'll end up by dying since it would be for you a way to stop sufferings etc. Well, actually, everything depends from how much people survived. You need to be enough to create a community with a leader so you can be effective and begin to retrieve a floor state of confort and food according to the needs of everyone. All you need is to first retrieve the organization you were used to, you could thereby find your landmarks and settle to that second way of life. But you'll first of all need to mourn everything you lost, because you couldn't move forward if you're stuck in the past. It's interesting enough to see how we would act, since in these extreme conditions, your personnal thoughts and feelings doesn't worth anything as long as you and your group etablished satisfying standards. You basically have to proceed like you forgot your thoughts and intelligence to focus on what you have to do, in a sense, that means forgotting your human nature. Obviously, being supportive and hopeful are a good quality, but there are other ideas that would be a quality in these circumstances and that are considered as faulty or contemptible in our today's society. Like, eating any animals that you have around you when it's necessary : eating a deceased dog would be considered opprobrious (or pork, if you're muslim), but in this situation, it would save your life. Cannibalism would be a solution, but I don't think it would be any help because having to eat a person from your community is a sign the situation is getting hopeless. (Also, no, I don't encourage any form of cannibalism and I wouldn't eat my friend if he died and I had no other supply available, I grant way too much on moral principle to do such a thing.) It's basically rebuilding the History with incoherent knowledge compared to the situation our ancestors lived in, except you aren't accustomed in any way to what would happen. For the first time, human being would start his life from nothing, using just what earth gave him and his acquaintance (aka without the tool the human created). |
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I would die in 2 seconds, I can't survive without another human by my side, I go crazy
The end. Matt dies in 2 seconds |
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Come on am I the only one to make theoric and constructed posts instead of talking about my personnal case ?
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I'm reading your above post now ScylaX and I will be responding to it in a second XD
EDIT: Okay, I'll mainly reply to the baby part, because you brought up a very good point that I didn't think of. I don't know what my baby is at the moment, but if it's a boy, it would obviously be more beneficial because if we were to attempt to rebuild a community, obviously we need to reproduce more children. Yes, I know that is entirely disgusting to have sex with your child. But you have to think of the circumstance. Would you rather have the entire human race pretty much end because you thought having sex with your child was gross? It's the same thing with the cannibalism that you mentioned. It may be immoral to you now, but what if it was a life or death situation for yourself? You'd rather stick to your morales than survive another week or so? If the world was pretty much dead and you had deceased friends by you and you were on the verge of dying, your morales are likely to change in this kind of situation. |
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(It's one of the argument that explains why it's forbidden) Actually the problem of incest is really big in a situation of apocalypse since you need to be enough people to build a future community that would count enough people so you're sure there will not be any problem of that kind in the following generations. Otherwise, it's like dooming that project by yourself so... |
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at some point in time, in your family, there has been incest.
History would no doubt repeat itself. |
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cannibalism is not only immoral but its horrible for your body and could lead to some crazy stuff. i remember watching a video that discussed the minimum amount of people you would need to have in order to repopulate for more than a handful of generations. iirc it was something like 250 people at least
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Nerds shall finally get laid :3 :idea: |
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I'm relatively healthy, and I have a huge propensity to survive, so I would try anything and everything I can to do so. But I am not ruthless. If it had to come down to cannibalism I would probably be the one eaten because I dont have the spirit to subjugate the people around me, take command, or otherwise hurt anyone. If I somehow managed to survive through it all, I think the emotional trauma would kill me.
Read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy for the most brutal take on post-apocalyptic fiction I've ever seen. |
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