Survival of the fittest (49)

Oct 21, 2010 11:26 AM CST Survival of the fittest
wedward
wedwardwedwardlinz, Upper Austria Austria680 Threads 7,252 Posts
Tulefel: Couldn’t find Katyusha, so it’ll be a GRAD instead, the technique is the same, there’s just some 50 years between. And no, I didn’t mean a song – if you bind 12 rifles together and fire off them at once, it won’t be a song, but a home-made… GRAD?



go to google and simply put in the word katyusha
Oct 21, 2010 11:36 AM CST Survival of the fittest
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
wedward: go to google and simply put in the word katyusha


I’ve got only the song, and I meant this military thing (don’t know its definition in any language). Just compared 12 riffles with it, was meant as a joke, nothing more.
Oct 21, 2010 12:00 PM CST Survival of the fittest
wedward
wedwardwedwardlinz, Upper Austria Austria680 Threads 7,252 Posts
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing ok taken as one rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Oct 25, 2010 3:14 AM CST Survival of the fittest
gininitaly
gininitalygininitalyPadova, Veneto Italy23 Threads 2,454 Posts
Hmmm... wouldn't take much to put us into chaos mode, considering we have given ourselves to an electronic world. Target all power plants and we're done for.

I suppose grab all the seeds I could... considering of course that you may not survive winter. So that leaves; stock piling food, water, wood for heat and cooking, if you have a place to do that... and the ever present American solution of arming yourselves against marauders.

Basically we're done for, unless you already live on a farm... but even so you wouldn't survive the onslaught of hungry, armed city folk. Then a migration south, natives defending their territory.. then more screaming, violence and death...Stalemate.

Population growth solution #1... 2/3 die within a year.

An evolutionary replay... or a second chance?


dunno
Oct 26, 2010 4:38 AM CST Survival of the fittest
mikygr
mikygrmikygrNextToYou, South Aegean Greece8 Threads 2 Polls 575 Posts
robsantiago15: I'm not sure if anybody has created such a thread... But here goes.

What would you do if one day you woke up and the economy in your country completely collapse and you didn't have access to money or transportation and food was limited.

How would cope with it and how would you survive a situation like that? Are you even ready for a situation like this?


I would start planting potatoes and tomatoes and more, and I would have chickens and maybe also sheep. No problem at all for me. What about you? No space for that?
Oct 26, 2010 4:48 AM CST Survival of the fittest
mikygr
mikygrmikygrNextToYou, South Aegean Greece8 Threads 2 Polls 575 Posts
wedward: as an englishman who reads very much i do i call it the flowery language you can express in english so much better thanks conrad


I think, in here, I'm going to loose even my proficiency-English I had to pass through.
Oct 26, 2010 11:26 AM CST Survival of the fittest
robsantiago15
robsantiago15robsantiago15Lowell, Massachusetts USA11 Threads 713 Posts
If I had a piece of land I would actually grow my own stuff like my grandparents use to do, but right know I'm not financially where I need to be able to afford a piece of land. Prior to coming here to Germany I was twice laid off from my job because of the economic downturn. Most of my money I invested in my education, which I finished back in 2008. And yes I was working two part time jobs going to school and I still had to take a students loan to cover my studies and to pay my rent and food. An education in America is not cheap even if you go to state school.

Whether I made a mistake or not time will tell. All I can hope is that I can continue to hold on to my current job, that way I can pay my loan, be able to feed myself, and have a roof to sleep under.

Basically, if a crisis hit I may not be as prepare as I want to be.
Oct 26, 2010 1:06 PM CST Survival of the fittest
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
gininitaly: Hmmm... wouldn't take much to put us into chaos mode, considering we have given ourselves to an electronic world. Target all power plants and we're done for.

I suppose grab all the seeds I could... considering of course that you may not survive winter. So that leaves; stock piling food, water, wood for heat and cooking, if you have a place to do that... and the ever present American solution of arming yourselves against marauders.

Basically we're done for, unless you already live on a farm... but even so you wouldn't survive the onslaught of hungry, armed city folk. Then a migration south, natives defending their territory.. then more screaming, violence and death...Stalemate.

Population growth solution #1... 2/3 die within a year.

An evolutionary replay... or a second chance?


Not sure there ever been any scientific studies, but I have read more than once in different and independent sources that people who were caring for someone had higher probability to survive. And that was about really no-pun situations: concentration camps and besieged towns like camps on Kolyma or Osvenzim or Leningrad during the blockade. Might be that some people just are more robust than others and can go on longer on less food. Or can be “not by bread alone” effect.

hug
Oct 26, 2010 1:21 PM CST Survival of the fittest
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
Tulefel: Not sure there ever been any scientific studies, but I have read more than once in different and independent sources that people who were caring for someone had higher probability to survive. And that was about really no-pun situations: concentration camps and besieged towns like camps on Kolyma or Osvenzim or Leningrad during the blockade. Might be that some people just are more robust than others and can go on longer on less food. Or can be “not by bread alone” effect.


Like nurses and doctors ....... most, in epidemics, carry on working without succumbing to the contagious diseases they are working with.

Yes, there is "more in this world than what we can see"........ A state of mind also has influence over our bodies.
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