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Suity nuts. I'm sure if one were armed with these the post apocalyptic world would hold no fears...
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Fishing line. Split shot. Strike anywhere matches (heads sealed in candle wax). Head torch. GPS. Fly stiches. Potassium permanganate. Plasters. Map.
All in a 2g backy tin. With the inside of the lid polished to a mirror finish. For signalling like.
Suity Grylls.
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostSuity should be fine. He can just regale them with his last few contract experiences then tuck in once they enter the coma.
More seriously, people ought to stock up on tampons and condoms before bugging out.
The condoms are very lightweight yet can be used to carry and store fresh water. The tampons are impregnated with mild alcohol which makes them ideal firestarters, and again, very lightweight to carry around.
I could go on, but I might have to kill someone if I divulge too much.
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If it gets to the point where we really need to worry about fallout at anything more than increased risk of cancer level we're pretty ****ed i'd say. I'd be more worried about the effects on global food supply of a 'nuclear winter' that would result from even a fairly small scale nuclear exchange. That will mostly affect the poor though so we should be alright.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIf you could anaesthetise it first you'd be OK.
More seriously, people ought to stock up on tampons and condoms before bugging out.
The condoms are very lightweight yet can be used to carry and store fresh water. The tampons are impregnated with mild alcohol which makes them ideal firestarters, and again, very lightweight to carry around.
I could go on, but I might have to kill someone if I divulge too much.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostBut there's a huge potential extra factor that doesn't take account of - fallout.
In most of the UK after a nuclear exchange, to avoid an inevitable and horrible death you and dependents and pets couldn't spend any time outdoors and you certainly couldn't ingest any food or water collected outdoors, or animals that had, for at least two or three weeks.
Maybe the fallout would be lower in some western parts, with a south westerly wind from the Atlantic. But even there you'd have fallout from the US, not to mention one or two possible nukes over the naval base in Plymouth, the GCHQ site in Cornwall, and a few other sites dotted around. (There's probably a map online somewhere, showing all possible or probable targets.)
In reality, there are very few end-of-civilisation threats that a typical person is likely to survive for long. The only ones are the pandemic super-virus types that you either avoid because you're a hermit or you're one of the very rare people who is immune. You'd probably die anyway of the resulting diseases coming from all the dead people, for example someone falling dead upstream of a river and polluting it with other nasties.
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Originally posted by craig1 View PostDuring my army career, we did an escape and evasion course as part of a leadership course, much like the one RAF pilots have to take. ...
In most of the UK after a nuclear exchange, to avoid an inevitable and horrible death you and dependents and pets couldn't spend any time outdoors and you certainly couldn't ingest any food or water collected outdoors, or animals that had, for at least two or three weeks.
Maybe the fallout would be lower in some western parts, with a south westerly wind from the Atlantic. But even there you'd have fallout from the US, not to mention one or two possible nukes over the naval base in Plymouth, the GCHQ site in Cornwall, and a few other sites dotted around. (There's probably a map online somewhere, showing all possible or probable targets.)
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Originally posted by Pondlife View PostWhat is it with you valley boys and weaponry?
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Originally posted by Pondlife View PostWhat is it with you valley boys and weaponry?
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