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Posted: 6/12/2009 8:30:17 AM EDT

Ive been watching this on the History Channel and got to thinking. If you woke up tomorrow and every human being on the planet was gone except for you...What would you do? Where would you go? You still have electricity for the time being so gas and vehicles would be plentiful , even airplanes for people that know how to fly. Just curious what people would do.

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:35:30 AM EDT

[#1]

Enjoy some peace and friggin quiet

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:38:29 AM EDT

[#2]

I hate that show....

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:39:24 AM EDT

[#3]

Mourn my family and friends.

Then live large.

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:45:17 AM EDT

[#4]

Hookers and blow, er, wait....

Seriously, depends. If I wanted to live and survive (not sure I would, but if I did), I'd be so freaking busy trying to gather as much medicine, food, medical supplies, generators, fuel, arm myself against the packs of wild dogs that would develop, etc etc etc that I probably would not have time to do anything else.

On the fun side, maybe take a backstage tour of the White House? Go check out Area 51 and see what's out there? Move into Bill Gates' house for a few weeks until I got bored with it and moved on? Drive Indianpolis speedway in an Indy car? Shoot as many guns with the fun switch as I could find?

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:54:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Probably start faping

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:56:14 AM EDT

[#6]

Lost of angry masturbation!

Posted: 6/12/2009 8:59:01 AM EDT

[#7]

Even if that show only allowed for a small population of humans, the outcome would be very similar for a few thousand years.

If I were one of the last? I don't know. Probably start working on a water supply, fuel, shelter, and food. Then I'd go slowly insane like our Hero in "I Am Legend".

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:24:54 AM EDT

[#8]

Probably start lookin' for folks. No way to know I am the last on the whole planet, so I'd be seeing if there was anyone else.

Though the first thing would likely be to head for a place where there weren't any, or weren't many, poeple beforehand. I'd rather stay away from all the rotting corpses, you know.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:26:03 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Enjoy some peace and friggin quiet

This, and immediately locate the RealDoll (tm) factory in California.... I'd need "playmates" to keep me company.

ETA: Exhibit A

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:27:26 AM EDT

[#10]

Explore the world starting with the USA.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:27:45 AM EDT

[#11]

I would round up as many guns as I could just to have spare parts and replacements because there are not going to be anymore guns being made. I mean if you know what you are doing you could probably access the machinery but you have got to figure power on coal generated plants would last what 48 hours or so. Nuclear probably would last longer than that but they would eventually lose power and you will need weapons to hunt and protect yourself from wildlife.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:34:34 AM EDT

[#12]

I suspect a big problem would the packs of hungry dogs. After all there are millions of dogs in the US.

I would gather as much ammo as I could and when I wasn't gathering food I would be shooting the dogs.

Not only would the dog packs be a threat to a human but they would quickly hunt and decimate any game in the area.

Maybe I could be like Lewis and Clark or the Koreans and develop a taste for dog meat and use them as a source of food.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:40:33 AM EDT

[#13]

Have some coffee and spray paint the toilet bowl like usual.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:47:03 AM EDT

[#14]

I'd set mannequins up at various favorite locations to give myself a semblance of human interaction.

Posted: 6/12/2009 9:58:16 AM EDT

[#15]

I would grab a U-haul from down the street then hit up Bass-Pro and Wally World for supplies then find me a nice big house to move into.

According to the original show (aired last year before they started the series) the Vegas area would be the last place on earth with power after the first few months. (I think they said the Hoover Dam would continue to provide power with no humans maintaining it for about 5 years.)

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:00:25 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

I would grab a U-haul from down the street then hit up Bass-Pro and
Wally World for supplies then find me a nice big house to move into.

According
to the original show (aired last year before they started the series)
the Vegas area would be the last place on earth with power after the
first few months. (I think they said the Hoover Dam would continue to
provide power with no humans maintaining it for about 5 years.)

Just move into a house with a solar kit. Good to go for decades of power. Go take any repair supplies you ever need from your local solar place. All the propane cannisters from the gas station, a gas grill from Walmart, etc.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:03:13 AM EDT

[#17]

I'd probably still have to get up and go to work

But really, I'd start looking around for other people, because I'd never buy the idea that I was somehow the last person left on the planet.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:03:16 AM EDT

[#18]

I live next to Washington DC.

What wouldn't I do?

_MaH

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:11:23 AM EDT

[#19]

I think you'd want to get the f away from any nuke plants, or as far upwind as possible.

You need to find a large tank of fuel and add stabilizer to it, then get on a radio transmitter and start looking for pie.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:15:56 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

I think you'd want to get the f away from any nuke plants, or as far upwind as possible.

You need to find a large tank of fuel and add stabilizer to it, then get on a radio transmitter and start looking for pie.

Would the nuke plants really melt down? Don't that have safety measures built in to automatically shutdown to prevent that from happening?

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:19:28 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
I would grab a U-haul from down the street then hit up Bass-Pro and Wally World for supplies then find me a nice big house to move into.

According to the original show (aired last year before they started the series) the Vegas area would be the last place on earth with power after the first few months. (I think they said the Hoover Dam would continue to provide power with no humans maintaining it for about 5 years.)

This, and I would spend 4 years reading all the manuals on how to maintain that power equipment.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:22:03 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

I would gather as much ammo as I could and when I wasn't gathering food I would be shooting the dogs.
.

Taken out of context, this is one of the funniest quotes I've read in a while.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:26:17 AM EDT

[#23]

Move into the white house.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:32:49 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I think you'd want to get the f away from any nuke plants, or as far upwind as possible.

You need to find a large tank of fuel and add stabilizer to it, then get on a radio transmitter and start looking for pie.

Would the nuke plants really melt down? Don't that have safety measures built in to automatically shutdown to prevent that from happening?

IDK, I didn't watch the show, and I seldom know what I'm talking about.

I don't trust nuthin' though...

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:35:36 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Move into the white house.

Make sure you bring a large amount of Lysol spray.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:40:47 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I would grab a U-haul from down the street then hit up Bass-Pro and Wally World for supplies then find me a nice big house to move into.

According to the original show (aired last year before they started the series) the Vegas area would be the last place on earth with power after the first few months. (I think they said the Hoover Dam would continue to provide power with no humans maintaining it for about 5 years.)

I'd just go state to state living IN the Bass Pros! And Cabelas and...

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:42:05 AM EDT

[#27]

Have it all planned. I'd go down to the TXARNG armory, get that propane powered Emergency Services truck and turn it into the RV from hell.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:45:20 AM EDT

[#28]

I'd break into the vault the holds the recipe for Colonel Sanders 11 herbs and spices, just because I'm curious.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:46:36 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I'd break into the vault the holds the recipe for Colonel Sanders 11 herbs and spices, just because I'm curious.

I worked there. I guaran-frickin-tee the recipe is like paprika, salt, and 9 varieties of pepper.

I tried not to sneeze in your chicken... really I did...

(kidding

)

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:50:54 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I would grab a U-haul from down the street then hit up Bass-Pro and Wally World for supplies then find me a nice big house to move into.

According to the original show (aired last year before they started the series) the Vegas area would be the last place on earth with power after the first few months. (I think they said the Hoover Dam would continue to provide power with no humans maintaining it for about 5 years.)

I'd just go state to state living IN the Bass Pros! And Cabelas and...

Shit. I could do that and have the benefit of the Bass Pro being attached to a hotel and casino.

Not to mention I could probably live for a decade or so on the canned food in the Wally Worlds and other supermarkets around here.

Posted: 6/12/2009 10:59:52 AM EDT

[#31]

I just thought of another benefit of being here in Vegas. I would probably be dead before I ran out of booze.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:00:52 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Ive been watching this on the History Channel and got to thinking. If you woke up tomorrow and every human being on the planet was gone except for you...What would you do? Where would you go? You still have electricity for the time being so gas and vehicles would be plentiful , even airplanes for people that know how to fly. Just curious what people would do.

How would you know there were no other people? How long would electricity last with no one at the plants?

I think if I woke up and there had been a mass die-off, I'd set up a base of operations and start searching for survivors.

I'd also hit up the library to fill in my "how-to" collection of knowledge.

I'd find a wrecker and clear some roads.

I'd find a dozer for some mass graves.

I'd move the FL and get set up before the winter hit and start my searches again.

If, on the other hand, I woke up alone and no bodies were to be found, I'd freak out. When I came to my senses, I'd then do everything the same.

If I somehow "knew" I was the last man on earth, I'd probably move to FL right away. At some point, I might start traveling to see as many natural wonders as I could. I probably hunt and fish a lot. Plant a big ol' garden. I'd pray a whole lot more. I'd read alot - especially out-loud. I'd be waiting to die.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:01:41 AM EDT

[#33]

I have dreamt of this ever since I saw Charlton Heston in The Omega Man back in the 70's.

I could handle being the last man alive, no problemo...

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:12:03 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

I hate that show....

+1

That show is nothing but a bunch of so called experts trying to impress us with their so called intelligence. Some stuff makes sense but a lot of it is bullshit.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:13:35 AM EDT

[#35]

I'd recommission all four Iowa-class BBs, and their wouldn't be a godamn thing anybody could do about it! HAHA!

In fact, I'd do the same for the USS North Carolina and the USS Alabama, just to rub it in everyone's face.

So there.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:14:54 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
I'd recommission all four Iowa-class BBs, and their wouldn't be a godamn thing anybody could do about it! HAHA!

In fact, I'd do the same for the USS North Carolina and the USS Alabama, just to rub it in everyone's face.

So there.

That's a lot of work for one guy.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:18:30 AM EDT

[#37]

I'd burn shit.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:23:31 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'd recommission all four Iowa-class BBs, and their wouldn't be a godamn thing anybody could do about it! HAHA!

In fact, I'd do the same for the USS North Carolina and the USS Alabama, just to rub it in everyone's face.

So there.

That's a lot of work for one guy.

(scratches head, looks confused)

Oh, yea.....

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:23:55 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
Ive been watching this on the History Channel and got to thinking. If you woke up tomorrow and every human being on the planet was gone except for you...What would you do? Where would you go? You still have electricity for the time being so gas and vehicles would be plentiful , even airplanes for people that know how to fly. Just curious what people would do.

I still wouldn't drive a post-Obama, UAW built GM or Chrysler.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:25:36 AM EDT

[#40]

I would read every classified document and scandal that I had ever wondered about! I would learn how to clone people via a genetics laboratory, too and create new people.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:33:40 AM EDT

[#41]

I've actually thought about this. First, I would go about setting up a palace for me to live in somewhere in Beverly Hills or something. Stockpile fuel, electric generators, etc so that when the electricity did go out I would be able to maintain the comforts. Then I would busy myself with the task of preserving out culture for some future generation or race to find and learn about. Then I'd go on long range foot treks to all across the country. Walk from one ocean to the next. When I got back to my palace in Beverly Hills I'd finish the task of telling humanity's story to whoever finds it in the future.

This idea of preserving humanity's story is something that I have thought about a great deal and something that I think we should be going about trying to do anyways. Our culture has spent a lot of time digging up, pondering, studying, interpreting, guessing about and trying to figure out past cultures. In some things I'm certain that we are dead wrong about certain aspects of dead cultures. If we deliberately set about the task of doing so, then we could find a way to communicate with a future race and tell them about ourselves by setting up the learning process now. It would be easy really. We already know how to teach illiterate children to read and write in English. If we prepared learning materials and set them somewhere to be found and studied along with the stories that we want to tell the future race, then we could teach them to read our language and leave them a written account of our lives. Pictures with words, our alphabet, pictures from our culture, etc. We could preserve something of ourselves for a future race to know who we were, and in that way we would always be remembered. If I were the last person on Earth the I would see it as my responsibility to do this, and it would give me a task to keep myself busy and have a reason to live.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:35:39 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
I'd burn shit.

Oh yeah! I would burn San Francisco to the ground. Everything, nothing but ashes and rubble. Wipe it off the face of the Earth completely and erase it from history. It never existed. Gone!

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:40:20 AM EDT

[#43]

There wouldn't be an Obama, so I'd be happy.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:44:33 AM EDT

[#44]

I don't know, but I'd get awfully bored awfully fuckin fast.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:46:25 AM EDT

[#45]

I would find a SP Howitzer and drive to the southern border, shell Mexico until I was bored. Then I would invade and conquer. Then I would head north to the Milk River, rinse, repeat. Damn Canadians.

Probably give NYC the same treatment, and then burn down Bloomburgs house out of spite. Id swing by McCarthy's house and check out her gun collection and post pix.

Seriously though, I would want to make sure that I was mobile, bone up on my aircraft operating skills, and have several bases of operation.

Northern California would probably suit my needs for farming and climate. I would need to travel to get the meat I desire.

What would suck, is that I probably wouldn't live long, as the smallest thing could kill you. such as flu, infection, snake bite, broken bone, cut, etc.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:46:53 AM EDT

[#46]

I'd throw this on the VCR.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:51:01 AM EDT

[#47]

So far everyone would stock up on gun stuff, burn shit, and jerk off a lot.

So.....

Nothing would really change.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:56:10 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
Probably start faping

Constantly, buck nekkid at high noon on the steps of the Capitol.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:56:14 AM EDT

[#49]

Begin my trek to the Swedish Fish factory where I would live out my days.

Posted: 6/12/2009 11:56:21 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:
I would find a SP Howitzer and drive to the southern border, shell Mexico until I was bored. Then I would invade and conquer. Then I would head north to the Milk River, rinse, repeat. Damn Canadians.

Probably give NYC the same treatment, and then burn down Bloomburgs house out of spite. Id swing by McCarthy's house and check out her gun collection and post pix.

Seriously though, I would want to make sure that I was mobile, bone up on my aircraft operating skills, and have several bases of operation.

Northern California would probably suit my needs for farming and climate. I would need to travel to get the meat I desire.

What would suck, is that I probably wouldn't live long, as the smallest thing could kill you. such as flu, infection, snake bite, broken bone, cut, etc.

Then Ft. Bliss is the base for you. You could set up your own ASP right there on the ramp (assuming they have FA units on base), and fire as much arty as your heart desires without the all the fuss of moving your artillery to a GP. Think of it-no calling range control to request permission to go "hot", no worrying about RSOs, OICs, OPs, radio checks every half hour, check fires-non of that shit. You wouldn't have to leave a guard with the guns and ASP at night, and you could just walk away without giving it a single thought. In fact, you could get gloriously drunk while on the "range"-after all, no range inspector is going to make you cease fire. Oh, and you won't have to wear a helmet and flak either. Loafers and a polo shirt could be the uniform of the day.

Live would be good.

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