The thing that bothers me is that there shouldn't be that much scarcity with a
metro area of a 2 million or so people to scavenge. Idiots take over one store
or mall? Move further out and scavenge somewhere else. There are thousands of
empty homes raid their cabinets and pantries.
Where are th
And scavenge generators and fuel, solar panels and camping type appliances that
can run on dc power in order to preserve their fresh food for as long as
possible.
The water thing is stupid. Carbon is readily available and they can boil the
filtered water or set up a small still to further purif
Give it an episode or two and everything you guys mentioned will start to be
answered. This was an intro episode and they spent more time introducing
characters than getting to the nuts and bolts of survival.
The survivors we have met so far are by an large urbanites who are pretty
clueless ab
I haven't seen the original either.
I've seen the first three episodes and the crew starts to wise up pretty
quickly. I think Martin hit the nail on the head that seeing 99% of humanity
die would throw most folks into a deep depression. The doctor seems shell
shocked but I imagine she's been on
No because American roads would be vast parking lots filled with stalled cars
and rotting corpses. ;)
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d books and libraries as I mentioned before
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> I liked The Colony but they were too competent. Their group had engineers, a
> couple of scientist
Some of the plants would continue to operate for a while but if the grids go
down it's a moot point. Also the bulk of their plants or coal and natural gas
powered.
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> I can understand power plants like a nuclear plant, but power plants like
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> > > Well you took Buckingham Palace first thing and you love books, so you
> > know you are on team Scifi!
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of the cities or flee to the country-side?
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> I think there would be
's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
> hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
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I was thinking that too. Most of the population died in three days so all of
animals are still there unless they were infected as well. There was a scene
where the boy saw a dead sheep in the water where they were living, but
nothing came from it.
Also in another episode they came across a small f
B, I'd be afraid to handle the cattle, for fear that the disease that killed
everyone might be loitering in them.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, B Smith wrote:
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> The thing that bothers me is that there shouldn't be that much scarcity
> with a metro area of a 2 million or so people to scave
But you're spot-on, re scavenging. There should be tons of canned goods
lying about.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Martin Baxter wrote:
> B, I'd be afraid to handle the cattle, for fear that the disease that
> killed everyone might be loitering in them.
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, B S
Not to mention other food distribution centers that they could have taken
advantage of. There are bakeries, meat plants, frozen food factories, cheese
factories etc all they need is a phone book and a map. Their water problems
would be over if they just dropped by the avion factory or Sharper Image
ed it, so I was not going to abandon it,
but the characters' motivation still irks me
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LOL! You got that right
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No because American roads would be vast
B, I missed "The Colony" almost completely (working). As for contributing to an
apocalypse sitch, I wouldn't have much to toss in the hat. I've always had the
gift of being able to manage. That's probably where I'd show up.
_
ived in the library.
Thus my inclination to raid books and libraries as I mentioned before
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ector?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:58:46 +0000
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Survivors?
No because American roads would be
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I liked The Colony but they were too competent. Their group had engineers, a
couple of scientists, a mechanic, a doctor, a nurse and two handymen. The
only "deadweight" they had was a personal trainer/martial arts instructor
who happened to be
I can understand power plants like a nuclear plant, but power plants like
Hoover dam could run for some time until there are failures of the turbines.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:58 AM, B Smith wrote:
> Give it an episode or two and everything you guys mentioned will start to
> be answered. This
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> Give it an episode or two and everything you gu
tv, but maybe this would be good. How do you think we
> > would do as a survivor group?
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> > Behalf Of B Smith
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I want you on my team!!! :-)
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Behalf Of B Smith
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we have a pretty good cross section of
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> we have a pretty good cross section of folks that post. I think we might be
> lacking a few skillsets but with books and hard work we could m
16, 2010 2:53 PM
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we have a pretty good cross section of folks that post. I think we might be
lacking a few skillsets but with books and hard work we could make a go.
I'm pretty well versed in agriculture and could handle the b
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From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:23:53 -0800
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I can understand power plants like a nuclear plant, but power plants like
Hoover dam could run for some time
They have 16 nuclear plants in the UK. Unless they shut them down the
reality is that anyone that is left would find out what multiple meltdowns
would look like.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM, B Smith wrote:
> Some of the plants would continue to operate for a while but if the grids
> go down
That's why seeds was on my list after books
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We'd have to
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> wrote:
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> > Well you took Buckingham Palace first thing and you love books, so you
> know you are on team Scifi!
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> >
> >
> > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On
>
content/life_after_people/about-the-series
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From: "B Smith"
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Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:11:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Actually modern dairy cows are fed mixed ration
I think America would return to its basic self. Do you remain in the vast
tombstones of the cities or flee to the country-side?
From: B Smith
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, February 19, 2010 1:19:19 PM
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Survivors?
I
As much as I'd hate to, I'd go to the countryside. (City kid, born and bred.)
I suddenly have a thought. What happens to those who need daily meds? I'm in
that number and, without a pharmacy to dispense... guess I'd have to stage a
few break-ins before departing.
ey fade into oblivion.
>
> Fascinating stuff.
> http://www.history.com/content/life_after_people/about-the-series
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> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
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.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:33:20 -0800
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I think that the things would eventually go back to how they were before
ayers, who in
> bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
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> --
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
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outube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:08:11 -0800
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Survivors?
I saw on the news that there were bears living in abandoned homes in
Detroit
problem.
> > >
> > > We'd have to make sure we'd have enough self pollinating
> non-genetically
> > > modified varieties of plants to make 2nd generation agriculture
> effective.
> > > All these wonderful GMO crops don't breed true
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:12:29 -0800
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Survivors?
We have a lot of organic farmers in California so that's what I was
thinking of when I wrote that post. There is an organic d
> From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:12:29 -0800
>
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Survivors?
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> We have a lot of organic farmers in California so that's what I was
> thinking of when I wrote that post. There is an organic dairy farm only
&
a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:08:58 -0800
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right, but Life After People's premise is that *all* humanity dies, not a
single man or woman left
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