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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills.

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[quote]four60 wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ Pray[/quote]

Yea and you are not going to get a forecast or weather advisory, so if you are on a boat you better be better than the Skipper or your ass may be Giliganed.[/quote]

Take a page out of the movie’s playbook and go underwater. Pray you don’t encounter any volcanoes, though.[/quote]

Well I always thought growing up Kill skipper and the professor is Gay.

Giligan has some fine ass woman on a tropical island, WHY the fuck you trying to get off?[/quote]

I will have to wish you guys the best. I’m one of those that is up in the years has some elderly I would have to watch over. So I will be stuck. I will take up some land with 20 family members and protect that shyt like “Bonanza” until the end comes. AR-15 check, Arsenal AK variant check, Glock 20 & 17 check, check. Not sure how the rest of the family will be packing. [/quote]

See my post to HG, I have my parents 100 acre ranch and compound, and like you we are heavily armed.

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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

This seemed relevant.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills. [/quote]

This is a very serious topic though Derek. I have two years worth of food stored up, an extra motor for the boat, gallon drums of gasoline, an army survival guide, a few knives, my guns of course and seed packets just in case. I mean with the Koreans and Chinese and whoever else you never know. Plus those Mayans were pretty fucking smart.

Just kidding.

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[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

This seemed relevant.[/quote]And all this time I thought you were referring to “Water World”. I will have to watch this movie.

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[quote]pushharder wrote:

[quote]fraggle wrote:
Well, seeing as this is all for discussion purposes, I’m going to say that your best bet is remote areas in northern Canada and possibly the midwestern states.

As others have pointed out, Canada has large cities. However, most densely populated areas are clustered together, and would act as bottlenecks for those fleeing nearby. It would be pretty difficult for the population of say, Philadelphia for example, to filter out through the shitshow that would be New York or Michigan, let alone southern Ontario or Quebec. Fleeing to the midwest would be similar, as only those densely populated areas nearby wouldn’t have these other large cities to bypass.

The second reason is that even for those large cities near a sparsely populated area, the people would need to have sufficient ability to reach them. Assuming a full tank of gas, the average refugee could go 500kms (300 miles) without having to fill up, as driving conditions would be less than optimal. This assumes that most people are prepared with a full tank, and are more focused on fleeing than fighting, which probably won’t be the case.

At this point in time, fuel supplies in the area would be low, and there would be difficulty for most to access them. Running low on fuel and having difficulty securing more, a lot of people would probably try and hunker down somewhere safe until things settled down.

So most people would end up in an area around 500km’s away from a big city, because who are we kidding, how many are able to ruck another 100km. Sure, over time some would slowly spread out, but by then it would be more likely thousands rather than millions.

This would leave most of Canada, and good chunks of Montanna, North Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming with a population density of less than a person per square mile, and plenty of fishing and hunting.

Bottom line, come live near me, I need a decent training partner.
[/quote]

There’s a reason much of Canada, Montana, North Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming are sparsely populated and wouldn’t necessarily be capable of supporting large amounts of apocalypse refugees - the long, harsh winters. That’s the way it’s always been since North America was first settled thousands of years ago and that’s the way it would continue after the hypothetical 2012 collapse.

Along that line the climate is simply not agriculture friendly enough to feed large numbers of people. [/quote]

Are you disagreeing with me about it these regions being a good place to be? I can’t really tell. I do agree about these places not being suitable for large populations. I was trying to say that for someone with half decent survival skills, you would probably be better served being in these areas.

I have disagree about the climate and agriculture though, as I live in a major agricultural region that is also pretty far north. It is probably more correct to say they aren’t agriculture friendly enough to support the massive infrastructure requirements needed for a large population.

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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills. [/quote]

This is a very serious topic though Derek. I have two years worth of food stored up, an extra motor for the boat, gallon drums of gasoline, an army survival guide, a few knives, my guns of course and seed packets just in case. I mean with the Koreans and Chinese and whoever else you never know. Plus those Mayans were pretty fucking smart.

Just kidding.
[/quote]

Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.

My uncle in Georgia actually has over 15,000 rounds and a reloader, plus is secluded on a lake.

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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
an army survival guide
[/quote]

I giggled.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.

My uncle in Georgia actually has over 15,000 rounds and a reloader, plus is secluded on a lake. [/quote]

<----blends in with the shadows. Wouldn’t see me coming.

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills. [/quote]

This is a very serious topic though Derek. I have two years worth of food stored up, an extra motor for the boat, gallon drums of gasoline, an army survival guide, a few knives, my guns of course and seed packets just in case. I mean with the Koreans and Chinese and whoever else you never know. Plus those Mayans were pretty fucking smart.

Just kidding.
[/quote]

Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.

My uncle in Georgia actually has over 15,000 rounds and a reloader, plus is secluded on a lake. [/quote]
Damn!

I always knew pirateering Texas was out. I think I’d hit the NE or sail my way around to the NW maybe. Some place hippyish. Actually Canada sounds perfect. Easy peasy. I would just have to punch Raj in the face and done.

My Viking ancestors would be proud. I kind of hope this happens in a small place in the back of my mind. Is that weird?

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[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills. [/quote]

This is a very serious topic though Derek. I have two years worth of food stored up, an extra motor for the boat, gallon drums of gasoline, an army survival guide, a few knives, my guns of course and seed packets just in case. I mean with the Koreans and Chinese and whoever else you never know. Plus those Mayans were pretty fucking smart.

Just kidding.
[/quote]

Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.

My uncle in Georgia actually has over 15,000 rounds and a reloader, plus is secluded on a lake. [/quote]
Is that weird?[/quote]

Well that is being a man in todays society, we have adapted to overcome our environment, which is financial in origin. A basic instinct to return to a more rural and basic necessities is understood if you grow up in the South (I cant attest to the north didnt grow up there).

My advice is plan on your retirement to be in that rural setting. I am following what my parents did, 100+ acres with some cattle in the middle of no where.

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[excerpt from The Last Three Minutes, by Paul Davies]

The date: August 21, 2126
The place: Earth

Across the planet a despairing population attempts to hide. For billions there is nowhere to go. Some people flee deep underground, desperately seeking out caves and disused mine shafts, or take to the sea in submarines. Others go on the rampage, murderous and uncaring. Most just sit, sullen and bemused, waiting for the end.

High in the sky, a huge shaft of light is etched into the fabric of the heavens. What began as a slender pencil of softly radiating nebulosity has swollen day by day to form a maelstrom of gas boiling into the vacuum of space. At the apex of a vapor trail lies a dark, misshapen, menacing lump. The diminutive head of the comet belies its enormous destructive power. It is closing on planet Earth at a staggering 40,000 miles per hour, 10 miles every second, a trillion tons of ice and rock, destined to strike at seventy times the speed of sound.

Mankind can only watch and wait. The scientists, who have long since abandoned their telescopes in the face of the inevitable, quietly shut down their computers. The endless simulations of disaster are still too uncertain, and their conclusions are too alarming to release to the public anyway. Some scientists have prepared elaborate survival strategies, using their technical knowledge to gain advantage over their fellow citizens. Others plan to observe the cataclysm as carefully as possible, maintaining their role as true scientists to the very end, transmitting data to time capsules buried deep in the Earth. For posterity…

The moment of impact approaches. All over the world, millions of people nervously check their watches. The last three minutes.

Directly above ground zero, the sky splits open. A thousand cubic miles of air are blasted aside. A finger of searing flame wider than a city arcs groundward and fifteen seconds later lances the Earth. The planet shudders with the force of ten thousand earthquakes. A shock wave of displaced air sweeps over the surface of the globe, flattening all structures, pulverizing everything in its path. The flat terrain around the impact site rises in a ring of liquid mountains several miles high, exposing the bowels of the Earth in a crater a hundred miles across. The wall of molten rock ripples outward, tossing the landscape about like a blanket flicked in slow motion.

Within the crater itself, trillions of tons of rock are vaporized. Much more is splashed aloft, some of it flung out into space. Still more is pitched across half a continent to rain down hundreds or even thousands of miles away, wreaking massive destruction on all beneath. Some of the molten ejecta falls into the ocean, raising huge tsunamis that add to the spreading turmoil. A vast column of dusty debris fans out into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across the whole planet. Now the sunlight is replaced by the sinister, flickering glare of a billion meteors, roasting the ground below with their searing heat, as displaced material plunges back from space into the atmosphere…

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[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:

[quote]four60 wrote:
^ The boat trip sounds Nice, some may survive using this plan. But if any sailing is not like driving a car or navigating a power boat. It does take training that the majority don’t have. Not to mention the few boats compared to people.

So what is the main idea behind this thread. How to survive a disaster of what form? [/quote]

And what do you do during a Hurricane in a boat?[/quote] I suppose this could happen but I still think the open ocean gives you a better chance for survival than a post apoplyctic mainland.

When the weather gets choppy I suppose you could just move. Hurricanes have some fast circular winds but the storm systems themselves don’t move all that fast. You could outrun them, especially in a sailboat.

Just unfurl and it will keep you one step ahead of itself. Large waves may slow you down but hey, you need some excitement after months on the sea. Plus you would ideally have taken over an island at this point and while you could experience some serious wave lashings, Islands are not massive enough to well up massive quantities of water surges.

And you’re already living primitively, it’s not like the hurricane would cost you much after it passed.
[/quote]

HG my only nautical experience is taking a shower daily, was a semi serious question. I am a hillbilly from East Tennessee so when shit goes down I head for the hills. [/quote]

This is a very serious topic though Derek. I have two years worth of food stored up, an extra motor for the boat, gallon drums of gasoline, an army survival guide, a few knives, my guns of course and seed packets just in case. I mean with the Koreans and Chinese and whoever else you never know. Plus those Mayans were pretty fucking smart.

Just kidding.
[/quote]

Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.
[/quote]

Dude thats right by me! My family ranch is 500+. South Texas is a great place to be. Very low population, too hot for most people, and with people killed off, hunting and fishing should stay adequate. In fact I just got back from dove hunting on our place and bagged 11. If you ever come this way, let me know.

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Nobody is discussing the marshall law and attempt to herd the populous that will no doubt ensue such a catastrophic event.

The thing with this scenario is that unless most people are instantly killed off, “technology” will rebound relatively quickly. Maybe not at the digital level it is now, but mechanical technology.

It’s already been invented and proven, it’s not like someone will have to reinvent the combustion energy. Many people understand that once some kind of equilibrium is reached (ie. those that rely on electric devices and prescriptions to live, elderly and sick die off, weak children, infection die offs, etc) and crops start growing that primitive diesel/organic fuels can be used to power simple motors as well as steam. It would probably take years, but given that power technology has been around for well over a hundred year, the rebound wouldn’t take forever.

People will still understand that germs exist, not like before the late 1800’s when “germ theory” was still getting batted around.

I mean, people in third world countries get by somehow. There would be a nasty population adjustment period though…

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[quote]chillain wrote:

[excerpt from The Last Three Minutes, by Paul Davies]

The date: August 21, 2126
The place: Earth

Across the planet a despairing population attempts to hide. For billions there is nowhere to go. Some people flee deep underground, desperately seeking out caves and disused mine shafts, or take to the sea in submarines. Others go on the rampage, murderous and uncaring. Most just sit, sullen and bemused, waiting for the end.

High in the sky, a huge shaft of light is etched into the fabric of the heavens. What began as a slender pencil of softly radiating nebulosity has swollen day by day to form a maelstrom of gas boiling into the vacuum of space. At the apex of a vapor trail lies a dark, misshapen, menacing lump. The diminutive head of the comet belies its enormous destructive power. It is closing on planet Earth at a staggering 40,000 miles per hour, 10 miles every second, a trillion tons of ice and rock, destined to strike at seventy times the speed of sound.

Mankind can only watch and wait. The scientists, who have long since abandoned their telescopes in the face of the inevitable, quietly shut down their computers. The endless simulations of disaster are still too uncertain, and their conclusions are too alarming to release to the public anyway. Some scientists have prepared elaborate survival strategies, using their technical knowledge to gain advantage over their fellow citizens. Others plan to observe the cataclysm as carefully as possible, maintaining their role as true scientists to the very end, transmitting data to time capsules buried deep in the Earth. For posterity…

The moment of impact approaches. All over the world, millions of people nervously check their watches. The last three minutes.

Directly above ground zero, the sky splits open. A thousand cubic miles of air are blasted aside. A finger of searing flame wider than a city arcs groundward and fifteen seconds later lances the Earth. The planet shudders with the force of ten thousand earthquakes. A shock wave of displaced air sweeps over the surface of the globe, flattening all structures, pulverizing everything in its path. The flat terrain around the impact site rises in a ring of liquid mountains several miles high, exposing the bowels of the Earth in a crater a hundred miles across. The wall of molten rock ripples outward, tossing the landscape about like a blanket flicked in slow motion.

Within the crater itself, trillions of tons of rock are vaporized. Much more is splashed aloft, some of it flung out into space. Still more is pitched across half a continent to rain down hundreds or even thousands of miles away, wreaking massive destruction on all beneath. Some of the molten ejecta falls into the ocean, raising huge tsunamis that add to the spreading turmoil. A vast column of dusty debris fans out into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across the whole planet. Now the sunlight is replaced by the sinister, flickering glare of a billion meteors, roasting the ground below with their searing heat, as displaced material plunges back from space into the atmosphere…

[/quote]

*Jizzes pants.

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This thread is depressing fuck all of you guys.

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[quote]Otto the Ecto wrote:

[quote]chillain wrote:

[excerpt from The Last Three Minutes, by Paul Davies]

The date: August 21, 2126
The place: Earth

Across the planet a despairing population attempts to hide. For billions there is nowhere to go. Some people flee deep underground, desperately seeking out caves and disused mine shafts, or take to the sea in submarines. Others go on the rampage, murderous and uncaring. Most just sit, sullen and bemused, waiting for the end.

High in the sky, a huge shaft of light is etched into the fabric of the heavens. What began as a slender pencil of softly radiating nebulosity has swollen day by day to form a maelstrom of gas boiling into the vacuum of space. At the apex of a vapor trail lies a dark, misshapen, menacing lump. The diminutive head of the comet belies its enormous destructive power. It is closing on planet Earth at a staggering 40,000 miles per hour, 10 miles every second, a trillion tons of ice and rock, destined to strike at seventy times the speed of sound.

Mankind can only watch and wait. The scientists, who have long since abandoned their telescopes in the face of the inevitable, quietly shut down their computers. The endless simulations of disaster are still too uncertain, and their conclusions are too alarming to release to the public anyway. Some scientists have prepared elaborate survival strategies, using their technical knowledge to gain advantage over their fellow citizens. Others plan to observe the cataclysm as carefully as possible, maintaining their role as true scientists to the very end, transmitting data to time capsules buried deep in the Earth. For posterity…

The moment of impact approaches. All over the world, millions of people nervously check their watches. The last three minutes.

Directly above ground zero, the sky splits open. A thousand cubic miles of air are blasted aside. A finger of searing flame wider than a city arcs groundward and fifteen seconds later lances the Earth. The planet shudders with the force of ten thousand earthquakes. A shock wave of displaced air sweeps over the surface of the globe, flattening all structures, pulverizing everything in its path. The flat terrain around the impact site rises in a ring of liquid mountains several miles high, exposing the bowels of the Earth in a crater a hundred miles across. The wall of molten rock ripples outward, tossing the landscape about like a blanket flicked in slow motion.

Within the crater itself, trillions of tons of rock are vaporized. Much more is splashed aloft, some of it flung out into space. Still more is pitched across half a continent to rain down hundreds or even thousands of miles away, wreaking massive destruction on all beneath. Some of the molten ejecta falls into the ocean, raising huge tsunamis that add to the spreading turmoil. A vast column of dusty debris fans out into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across the whole planet. Now the sunlight is replaced by the sinister, flickering glare of a billion meteors, roasting the ground below with their searing heat, as displaced material plunges back from space into the atmosphere…

[/quote]

*Jizzes pants.[/quote]

Aye. In that sort of scenario I’m just going to accept my fate as a doomed ant, hug my woman hard and give a stiff finger to the sky.

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on that day next year I’ll either be at a) the gym, or b) a metal show

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[quote]Rodimus Black wrote:

[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[Lol. Well we have a hundred acre ranch in the middle of 1000’s of acres in Karnes county, with to many guns to count with enough ammo for months.

My uncle in Georgia actually has over 15,000 rounds and a reloader, plus is secluded on a lake. [/quote]

<----blends in with the shadows. Wouldn’t see me coming. [/quote]

Rod you got a free invite, military knowledge would be a commodity just like all my family being in the medical field.

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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Nobody is discussing the marshall law and attempt to herd the populous that will no doubt ensue such a catastrophic event.

The thing with this scenario is that unless most people are instantly killed off, “technology” will rebound relatively quickly. Maybe not at the digital level it is now, but mechanical technology.

It’s already been invented and proven, it’s not like someone will have to reinvent the combustion energy. Many people understand that once some kind of equilibrium is reached (ie. those that rely on electric devices and prescriptions to live, elderly and sick die off, weak children, infection die offs, etc) and crops start growing that primitive diesel/organic fuels can be used to power simple motors as well as steam. It would probably take years, but given that power technology has been around for well over a hundred year, the rebound wouldn’t take forever.

People will still understand that germs exist, not like before the late 1800’s when “germ theory” was still getting batted around.

I mean, people in third world countries get by somehow. There would be a nasty population adjustment period though…[/quote]

Very true on the plague scenerio Steely its not like being set back to the middle ages.

I believe you will have two types of people those who want to rebuild and those that love the madness and will rape and pillage.