Knowledge decreases weight

[NorthernRaider]

You have a built in survival supply.

[Timelord]

More knowledge = less kit.
More knowledge = less chitter.
Those that are regarded as a bit overweight probably have a "normal" metabolism. If you cut out all the modern bad calories, then those peoples weights would probably be about right. For the people who eat the modern crappy diet but still remain thin, then reverting to a natural/subsistence type diet could be a problem! Their higher metabolism could well burn through the calories too fast or if a lower calorific utilization then not enough calories might be taken on board.
(This does not apply to those already on a healthy diet without the modern crap who are not overweight.)
Animals fatten themselves up ready for Winter. It is not a bad thing. Just using it up in the summer months is the seriously hard thing mentally! Creatures of habit and comfort lovers r we humans.. lol.

[NorthernRaider]

(2 December 2013, 19:03)Timelord Wrote: More knowledge = less kit.
More knowledge = less chitter.

So what would happen if we put Carl Sagan, Sheldon Cooper or Steven Hawking out in the boonies with their massive IQs and only a knife in mid winter?

[Scythe13]

(2 December 2013, 19:16)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(2 December 2013, 19:03)Timelord Wrote: More knowledge = less kit.
More knowledge = less chitter.

So what would happen if we put Carl Sagan, Sheldon Cooper or Steven Hawking out in the boonies with their massive IQs and only a knife in mid winter?

Having a high IQ and thus being able to process and analyse information is very different from having a specific skill set for a specific situation. That's like saying having a high IQ makes you good at music, when a person's musical capability is not judged by the standard IQ testing system, which is based on patterns and processing styles.

However, if you taught them the basic skills and principles, they would, in theory, be better able to devise ways to survive than a person with average IQ.

Please note IQ, as we know it, does not test a person's hand eye coordination, nor their work ethic, or desire to survive.

[Timelord]

IQ is not a measure of Wisdom!

[Midnitemo]

over the years I've done the iq test a number of times and the variation in results is astonishing from the low hundreds to the high oneforties ???????? so not convinced by iq but if anyone asks mine is 148 lol

[Mortblanc]

(2 December 2013, 19:16)NorthernRaider Wrote:

(2 December 2013, 19:03)Timelord Wrote: More knowledge = less kit.
More knowledge = less chitter.

So what would happen if we put Carl Sagan, Sheldon Cooper or Steven Hawking out in the boonies with their massive IQs and only a knife in mid winter?

Carl Sagan is dead; dead can't compete.

Steven Hawking is confined to a wheel chair; crippled cant compete.

Sheldon Cooper is a nerd from Texas. He would gain ten pounds, build an airplane and fly his ass out of there.

[Timelord]

he flaps too much!

[Skean Dhude]

(2 December 2013, 19:16)NorthernRaider Wrote: So what would happen if we put Carl Sagan, Sheldon Cooper or Steven Hawking out in the boonies with their massive IQs and only a knife in mid winter?

We would end up with another series similar to Bear Grylls where they all went back to hotels after a 10 minute filming session with intellectual talking.

[Mortblanc]

Come now, you fellows are not watching the show closely!

Sheldon Cooper is a prepper. He keeps a 72 hour kit and BOB ready at all times. In fact he keeps one for each resident of his apartment and possible guests. He forces his friends to take part in emergency drills and evacuation plans. He was forced to learn woodcraft and hunting skills while a child. He also was taught to shoot to an expert level by his late father, especially the use if a shotgun, by shooting skeet using his mom's dinner plates as targets. He is also proficient enough with a rifle to "shoot close enough to a raccoon to make it crap itself" without hitting the beast intentionally.

Even a "nerd" from Texas is a formidable outdoorsman, imagine what the dedicated ones are like.