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Post by swankivy on Jan 21, 2011 19:25:52 GMT -5
Survival
If you had to survive for a week in an environment like that of these characters, what items would you bring with you? What if you couldn't bring food or water, but only tools for acquiring them? Do you think you'd fare well in the short term, or do you think it would be a miserable experience?
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Post by SHO! on Jan 22, 2011 7:11:18 GMT -5
SurvivalIf you had to survive for a week in an environment like that of these characters, what items would you bring with you? What if you couldn't bring food or water, but only tools for acquiring them? Do you think you'd fare well in the short term, or do you think it would be a miserable experience?
I've always been confuse by these reality shows where people are away from their families for like a month and wind up balling their eye out for a phone call. Seriously, what kind of weird adult-babies is modern society churning out? And I'm not even talking about shows like Survivor where they have to live in the wild. I mean these shows where people live in freaking houses or luxury apartments with hot tubs and pools! The one where people are such babies that having only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to eat for a week makes them want to quit when their are people in the world that are forced to eat AIR for week or longer!
Sorry, off topic. If I had a chance to prepare and was allowed to bring any equipment I wanted then here's a short list of the first few things I'd think of off the top of my head:
first aid kit, first aid book, book on living wild, book identifying edible and poisonous things as well as how to prepare food, collapsible water containers, water filter hand pump, water purifying tablets, camp fire flint and steel, survival knife with kit in the handle, battery/dynamo flashlight/radio combo, cell phone, universal solar recharger, entertainment e-books, GPS unit, water proof tent, mylar blankets, sleeping bag or bed roll, lots of 550 parachord, a waterproof backpack that could hold everything, a gun and ammo, hatchet, collapsible shovel/pick-axe combo, water proof matches, a camping stove with cooking kit, at least one extra outfit in a water proof bag (the kind you can roll the air out of a one-way valve)...
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Post by blondiviolette on Jan 28, 2011 16:51:18 GMT -5
I wouldn't have much of a clue what to bring or what to do with the items even if I bought everything required. I am not good with my hands when it comes to mechanical/hard to open/or complicated tools. Having been someone who has done the camping out experience and never again thank god, it didn't go very well. No good at setting up tent for one thing, if there was no-one there to help, would probably have to get in a sleeping bag and just throw the damn tent on top of me for protection and end up suffocating, short of that just lying in the sleeping bag in the cold night air, freezing and being bitten by ants or other bugs or maybe sniffed at by an animal. Lovely. As for aquiring food, presuming that means picking berries or catching fish/hunting wildlife, it'd be a gamble to know what berries were poisonous and which weren't so if I was allowed to bring a book on such matters then that'd be handy but if not I'd could end up picking some poisonous thing and end up being found by hikers some time later in a non-moving state, unless there were coconuts around or pineapples or obviously fine to eat stuff like that. I'd have a hard time being able to kill animals and wouldn't be able to do it both mentally and physically so hunting skills would be useless, I don't like the thought of killing animals but am not a vegetarian, just couldn't actually do it. As for water, if you were weren't able to bring your own that would be difficult... can you bring sodas or juice? I like sodas and juice much better than water! mmmm... if not, i'd probably end up dehydrating; not filtering the water properly OR not getting the filter to work more than likely above everything else. As for the tools well as said above I'm no good with tools but would try very hard and hopefully get them to work. The simple thing to do would be bathing! Just go into the river and bathe in the water but what if there were crocodiles and I don't have a gun to scare them off... oh great, now I've been dragged under the water... I'm so glad this is hypothetical, Ivy. Really really I am. Because I'd probably be either unconscious, eating by animals, frozen to death, or dead after a week. But at least I'd be giving emergency services and an undertaker a day's job, ay. The circle of liiiife... So... anyone wanna go camping with me? Come on you know you want to...  |
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Post by SHO! on Jan 29, 2011 3:50:29 GMT -5
So... anyone wanna go camping with me? Come on you know you want to... eat...  errr... I mean[glow=red,2,300]talk[/glow]to when you run out of food and stuff. ;D <---what a big smile you have, Grandpa |
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errr... I mean[glow=red,2,300]talk[/glow]to when you run out of food and stuff. ;D <---what a big smile you have, Grandpa