The End of All Things: Zombies, Pulsars, Caldera and More

[Gotham_Central]

I'm curious, do any of you have an apocalypse survival plan? Not asking if you're preppers, just curious of what you think would work.

 

[pointless]

nothing.

nothing would work.

you're dead no matter you do.

 

[Jamiegeo]

Rule No1: Train hard, Fight easy.
Rule No2: Have a plan.
Rule No3: Never divulge that plan to anyone.
Rule No4: Never list all your Strategies......

 

[pointless]

well, actually, surviving a zombie apocalypse would be easy. see the original night of the living dead when it was literally just one fucking night of shooting zombies in the head because, seriously, it's that fucking easy.

kinda why i don't fucking care about the walking dead even with the zombie virus is in everyone nonsense. just burn your dead, you dumb fucks. it's really not that big of a deal.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I'm 54 with a heart condition. I doubt there will be too many running pharmacies after the apocalypse. So unless you are in great health and have children, do everybody else a favour and die during the apocalypse.

 

[Sean]

Pulsars?

 

[Gotham_Central]

I agree, the Biblical End of Days is not survivable, but a man made collapse could be dealt with. Weather zombies or food riots or a serious plague, it could be ridden out until some new normal is established. Even a limited nuclear exchange could be survived, given a proper location at the time of the attack and with respect to prevailing winds.

 

[pointless]

Pulsars?

gamma ray bursts. theoretically they could kill all life on earth in an instant or just makes us all sterile.

 

[Gotham_Central]

gamma ray bursts. theoretically they could kill all life on earth in an instant or just makes us all sterile.

There is a name for the specific event, not just any pulsar. And I think it would affect just the side impacted, but I haven't read up on it in a while.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'm curious, do any of you have an apocalypse survival plan? Not asking if you're preppers, just curious of what you think would work.

See this page on Survivalism. In a nutshell: Make all preparations on the assumption that official help will arrive in a few days and you only need to get by that long. Ain't no prep that will help much if it don't, and the traditional survivalist prep might make things worse.

Argentina

One survivalist, Fernando "Ferfal" Aguirre, runs a blog called "Surviving in Argentina"[26] dedicated to his experiences with having lived in a developed country where a large-scale economic and societal collapse actually happened — Argentina, during that country's economic crisis in 2001-02 after the nation defaulted on its debt. His observations pointedly contradict many of the assumptions made by American survivalists:

* The logic of "bugging out" to a distant rural area to escape the chaos in the cities did not hold up in practice, as major cities like Buenos Aires and Cordoba were often the first places to see order and services restored. By contrast, rural survivalist compounds often found themselves outgunned and outnumbered by criminal gangs with nobody to help them for miles. Many such compounds were later discovered by the authorities looted and abandoned, sometimes with their would-be survivalist owners murdered.
* Government collapse is always temporary. By 2003, the crisis was over and Argentina's economy was booming again, partly as a result of the economic corrections triggered by the crisis.[27]
* Even at the height of the collapse, collective effort was often the most conductive way for many working-class and former middle-class Argentineans to make a living, as demonstrated by the proliferation of worker-owned cooperatives.
* The rich, rather than being thrown from their lofty perch, got richer during and after the collapse — income inequality rose between 2001 and 2005, and at the height of the collapse the upper classes managed to defend their wealth by hiring armed private security.
* Likewise, the decadent pop culture and lifestyles that should have been swept away (according to American survivalists) were only reinforced. To give just one example, Argentinean TV studios and networks, reeling from the economic collapse, cut costs in any way they could and went for the cheapest programming they could find. Yup — the economic meltdown led to an explosive boom in trashy reality TV, and a similarly sharp decline in educational programming.

In short, total anarchy and a return to rural subsistence living failed to materialize even in the midst of a worst-case economic meltdown scenario.