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Re: Planet Earth: The endgame.. [Re: Octavius]
#5680811 - 05/27/06 03:43 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Octavius said: Would be sweet to live in a rainforest.
I agree.Everything you need from food,medicnial plants and shelter is there.You would ne advanced "skills" to survive in such an enviroment.The weak would be weeded out quickly.
Indegenous tribes are going to flourish in such an event like peak oil.And I think anyone that doesnt revert to the lifestyle of indengenous groups of people,are going to slowly die off
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our regular suburbanite would not be able to cope.
The cities are all overpopulated and unsustainable in the event of a failure of the smooth flow of goods, failure of hospital facilities, stench and disease from uncollected corpses everywhere. etc. etc.
The less-densely populated country would be the only place where survival is even possible at all, and then that's where everyone would go too, so the population would spread out into the country and fight over resources there. Most will be unknowledgable in survival skills and some will resort to robbery and murder to survive.
Getting out of the United States would be of paramount importance while transportation methods are still available. North not south. Mexico would be an absolute bloodbath.
That's why I have my eye on Montana possibly. Very very underpopulated, and it borders on Canada, and there is deep woods access to the border.
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i always keep my to at least double the default. they should change it or something.
with the default, posts rarely last a couple hours on the top page.
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Re: Planet Earth: The endgame.. [Re: eris]
#5680860 - 05/27/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I maxed mine out I think
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Montana sounds like an ideal place.Also anywhere in unpopulated canada,that continent is huge and full of things a person would need to survive.
I agree,mexico would be hell.But the farther south you go the better it would be.Im not a fan of the cold.I would have to get use to it.I would be forced to.Either that or I could head to south america.But that there would be a completelty difernet set of "rules" to living in a tropical rainforset than there would be to living in a north american wooded enviroment.
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The Montana idea serves 3 purposes:
-The first one is in providing a relatively inaccessable area in which to dwell in.
-The second is that there is not a nearby high population area to bleed into it in the event of a U.S. system failure, providing nescessary time to make an escape from the burning country.
-The third is to provide deep cover of the woods backpacking access into Canada when needed for the said escape.
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If a person could adapt to desert living,that would be ideal.It wouldnt be the most compfortable place to live,but if secluding yourself from other human beings in the idea,then the desert is choice.It would just take a different set of survival skills to live in the desert.
As you said before,I plan to mobile anyway.Staying in one place is out of the question.Because you are probably not going to be alone,you will gain followers and travel partners,you will setup small community and small community/villages will attract scragalers and scavengers.
A means of travel is another great step to be taken.It would have to be by foot,bicycle or horse and buggie,which is slow moving.
Unless we all still grasop onto gasoline as a lifeline,which most people probably will.They will fight and kill eachother for gasoline for the first 10-20 years after such and event takes place.
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Not ongoing isolation from people, just initially to avoid all of the panicking paranoid people.
Then the set-up of a travelling community could be a very good option, travelling to and around low density areas in the north. after the hysteria has calmed down then perhaps we could stabilize in one location.
Just ideas I'm tossing around in my head.
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You can come live in my stabilized location.There will be a virgin for every man and we will be drunk on muscadyne wine while we laugh as conservative baptists run around looting grocery stores and fighting for gas.
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That sounds doable! I'll bring whatever Doritos I can grab from the food riots.
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Vienna sausages and canned tuna will go a long way.Keep the -no racism in the Pub, come on now..- away from the potted meat.It will be new orleans looting all over again.
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Don't get my thread locked with BS buddy, how we ever gonna get anything figured out then? 
Actually we would need to grow beans and rice, and fish or hunt. I'm going to assemble a full selection of fruit and vegetable seed packets to put in my survival kit.
Fishing gear can be stockpiled enough to last several generations relatively inexpensively as well.
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Woops.
anyway,yes a large supply of seeds would be good to have.The knowledge on how to collect seeds from the wild would be necessary.
As I said before,much practice would be needed.Maybe sit down with some local people of native american heritage and learn a few tricks.
Rope making is a must.Does anyone know anything about making rope?I think sage can be used.I use to make dream catchers and the sticky string used was sage I think sage as in white sage.It isnt a true sage but thats the name for it.
I think thats what was used to make the string for dream catchers but I dont know for sure.
I wonder what would be good types of wood for a long bow and spear.Also what could be used for bow string?
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I wonder if you can use real cannabis stalks to make hemp rope or if you really need actual hemp strain.
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I am pretty sure the strains used for smoking are usable for rope making.;) a "hemp strain" is probably bred for larger,thicker stems and of course low THC levels.
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doomsday isn't in the forseeable future. if it is, i suppose i'll just live off my bank out account until inflation gets too high and i can't afford to eat. at that point i'd become a robber.
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Re: Planet Earth: The endgame.. [Re: TODAY]
#5681018 - 05/27/06 04:53 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Your bank account wont exist.As a matter of fact money is going to become unimportant.Which it is anyway.But we are to stubborn to see that.
Your bank wont exist and your money will be worthless.
You wil be shot pretty quickly if you resort to mere thievery
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Re: Planet Earth: The endgame.. [Re: TODAY]
#5681027 - 05/27/06 04:56 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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However,you may be able to live inside your bank,and keep warm by burning money and paperwork.
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Re: Planet Earth: The endgame.. [Re: TODAY]
#5681034 - 05/27/06 05:00 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, you have to think with more foresight. If you take a look around at the world, you might reconsider. All that would have to happen for a "doomsday" type scenario would be a U.S. system failure.
Systems always fail eventually, and the U.S. one has become notably unstable and corrupted. It is inevetable that it will fail now because it refuses to be fixed. it will break down, yes probably soon, and there will indeed be dire consequences.
The system that sustains you in every way will cease to provide you with anything more. that means your bank doesn't exist, food stores are empty, abandoned trucks litter the interstates, you name it.
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i really like this thread, keep up the speculation and survival techniques
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