(22 January 2012, 17:46)bigpaul Wrote: some people on another forum have said they would rather commit suicide than live a life they felt unbearable!
I think, by the definition of the word unbearable, they would be right. If you couldn't bare it, you would commit suicide.
Personally, I think....take each day as it comes. As long as there aren't mutant vampires, I'm happy, wait....or warewolves! I don't like dogs much. Give me zombies, or marauding gangs, and I'll be okay.
In all honesty, disease will be the biggest danger I could imagine. That would be the one thing that I would hate. To live in a world full of sickness and disease. I don't mind the danger that you can see. It's those that you can't see that freak me out. Other things, like dead bodies, violent gangs, that kind of thing, I'm not too worried about. As long as AlyBear is safe, I'm okay. But I can't protect her against things I can't see.
To answer your question properly, providing my views more intensely.
Life after TSHTF will be much quieter.
If there is a virus that kills off loads of people, then the quality of like would be depending on who was left. If people were able to run the grids that we so helplessly depend on, than providing we could supply ample protection to them and their families, life would be similar. But still quite different.
The likelihood is that life will be pushed back to a time before everyone had electricity, cars, and other readily available sources of fuel. The Armish will rise up and rule! haha. But in fairness, if the whole world was effected by this fan-smearing-via-faeces, then we would be back to advanced man-power, and technical know how. We would be able to attach a car's alternator, run a small aa battery to it (you need a small charge to start the alternator, or it won't work) then plug that into a normal car battery. That would provide you with a basic 12 volt electrical system that could power LED's for light during night time. People with solar panels would also have similar abilities. But transport would be the biggest changed factor. It's feet or bikes. That would be not only the form of transport, but it would also be the rate of commerce in the area. And the rate of farming. However, there is a good chance that people would band together and start working farms together, providing each other with safety, man power, and technical knowledge.
Really that is one of the reasons the Bristol Batallion is being meeting up. We all know we can't survive AFTER TSHTF without the help of other people in the team.
Maybe there is someone in the area that knows how to plant crops. Another that knows how to make bio-diesel (maybe I won't sell my car. I'll just put it as being off the road) from those crops. Another is a mechanic that can keep the car running smoothly. This is what people will band together for. Small communities will be the safest and 'wealthiest' places.
I highly doubt there will be no running water and things like that. The earth is 70% water. For all that water to evaporate, there would be so much liquid in the atmosphere, you would be slowly drowning as you inhaled. However, unless we moved closer to the sun, the natural heat in the atmosphere would make relative humidiy 100%, and it would rain. Possibly causing massive floods. But by the end of a few years the water system would have stabilised again.
The idea of a Waterworld is more probably. An increase in temperature causes a volume of water to increase. This is more likely to happen. However, that would also reduce relative salinity (saltieness) of the oceans which would cause the North Atlantic drift to chance and (althought massively exagerated in the film) a thing, similar to The Day After Tomorrow scenario would occur.
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