>>1092 /boo/ is more about the paranormal. I admit that this isn't completely on topic but I often see posts here and elsewhere on britfa.gs about /eco/ surviving after [insert devastating event here]. Also, my main point of posting this is to see how people would go about growing their own food etc. after an event like this happening. So it is at least somewhat relevant and hopefully interesting to talk about.
>>1091 I was thinking about this a couple of days ago actually, particularly, about how to survive the electromagnetic pulses that would occur. We would have to rebuild every computer - from scratch, no data, no programs, everything remotely magnetic would be fucked. It would be a golden age of (re)programming.
I have no idea. I've got as far as raid the supermarket warehouse (that being more likely to yield food than the supermarket itself) and drive somewhere remote.
>>1095 Given that most modern cars depend on electronic engine management units, I doubt any of them would work. Those that did work would be older, entirely mechanical versions.
Yes, this was the conclusion I came to as well. As I said in >>1094 I began thinking about this a couple of days ago with regards to my own backups and archives, particularly with respect to old photographs and suchlike. I came to the conclusion that anything laser-burned (CD, DVD) would be fine, although you might have difficulty finding a device that can read them... ahem.
I'd probably accept the fact that with the layer of radioactive ash blotting out the sun, irradiated water and mud raining down, theres not a lot you can do.
If the government is wiped out then anyone in a town/city will be dead. That sort of saturation would be paramount to throwing the entire country in a nuclear reactor. You wouldn't survive.
>>1102 Bullshit, if London was wiped out but the rest of the country was untouched, we'd be pretty badly affected overall but the rest of the country has enough local government autonomy to carry on regardless.
You mean in the sense of "the only human left alive in the world"? If you were able to take that mental shock then hunting (for whatever is left), and salvaging what you could.
Sickness, depression, boredom or old age would quite possibly take you at some point. Depends on your character and what you can find to do.
It'd be a more interesting situation if it wasn't EVERYONE dead but me. With only myself I have essentially an unlimited food and goods supply through salvage and hunting and only have to worry about natural aging and illness. Easy going aside from social emptiness and the lack of any hope of family.
I'm going to read into this as the UK has been involved in a large nuclear war, it is 2 weeks later, London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester have all been hit. Other cities may have also been hit, there isn't enough infomation going around to be sure. the government doesn't exist any more, the police force has all but fallen appart with only a few stations having any police turning up at all. Looting is widespread with all food now gone from all obvious places. Not that you would want to go looting, it is highly dangerous and will likely end in your death a the hands of gangs which are emerging and are becoming more and more violent. Any cars that are found to be working are fought over with deadly conviction. Power is out.
Not the happiest scenario. I would hike over country to my grandads, he is an avid hunter and fisherman, I would borrow any guns and ammunition he could afford to spare, (this should easilly be a rifle and 2 shotguns one of which I would shorten the barrel and 100 rounds for each) as well as 10 fishing rods and accessories (when I say avid I mean nuts about it) With all this equipment I would trek out again towards a river that I know has a marina. I would proceed to steal the biggest unmanned sailing boat around. It would be getting late and I'd sleep till morning.
the next morning I would be hopping from boat to boat, armed with my rifle and sawn off I think this would be a safe enough excersise. I would be mainly collecting Gas bottles, diesel and any water filtration devices I can find. I expect I would be successful in finding enough supplies.
Next I'd head out towards the sea towing a little boat with an outboard behind me and would spend the next week living off fish while trying to get my head around wtf just happened, I would spend the rest of my life living like a viking, heading onto land only for water, women and stealing food.
I am pretty happy with my survival skills from the army. I'd head as far away from major urban centers for a few weeks and then see what I felt like doing. Ideally I'd meet people I could pass my skills onto.
Like starve or die of radiation poisoning? Doesn't seem like any skills other than being able to swim the ocean in the blink of an eye would help in this situation.
Survival speculation is one thing, but if the scenario is me teleporting into the sun it gets to the point of no chance.
The women were allowed, but back then they were few and far between and had mostly to be bigger and tougher (them being expected to deal with men and women). There weren't any targets or quotas. You'd have a handful of women at best and maybe one or two that would be a looker at the same time (though obviously still of a sort that was capable of looking after themselves). You might be very unlucky and none were on that shift when the warning came.
The most ridiculous part of their instructions back then was that they were meant to abandon their own families (even wife and children) to disappear into the retreats when war began. Idiotic. Who came up with that and what kind of man were they? Was never going to work (thank goodness it never came to testing it, mind). Can you imagine how cold blooded you'd have to be to just fuck off and leave the kids to die in a nuclear hell even if you had the time and chance? Of course, as the megatons kept going up many people grew more cynical at the chances there would be anything left or anything worth living for, having already seen or been told in the instructional videos what the smaller multi-kiloton bombs could do. Most realised that the best thing to do would be to sit at home with their families for the last few minutes and hope that they would be right under the bomb.
Of course the whole cold war era was such a mess when it came to these things. It's no wonder garbage like "duck and cover" was spread around and believed.
And to think that people got through that era with less paranoia and more freedoms and privacy than we do now when a handful of mongos burn or blow themselves up incompentantly! Crazy. After the Cold War era there aren't many acts that can follow and not seem a poor second best. People should remember those times to get a sense of perspective.
>>1120 > The women were allowed, but back then they were few and far between and had mostly to be bigger and tougher (them being expected to deal with men and women).
Not bigger and tougher per se, just as big and as tough (as the men); simple genetics limited their numbers. The only reason women are becoming more common in modern mixed armies is because the physical demands placed on them are lower than the equivalent for men.