except for me... how long would the power stay on? In other words, how much of the power grid is automatic and how much requires human interaction?

11/15/2007 12:43:28 PM

fap

11/15/2007 12:44:00 PM

i've never thought about this.

plz2answr

11/15/2007 12:44:37 PM

go to the store and stock up on batteries

[Edited on November 15, 2007 at 12:45 PM. Reason : cuz no one would see u steam em]

11/15/2007 12:44:57 PM

11/15/2007 12:46:29 PM

About 7 days according to http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html

After 7 days the supply of fuel to the diesel generators that circulate water to cool nuclear cores runs out.

Don't know about other power plants - probably the same type of situation though where some component shuts down after a week which sends stuff all to crap.

11/15/2007 12:52:15 PM

well there would be plenty of gas to use... but those electric pumps

11/15/2007 12:54:19 PM

i wish there was a class that would teach you how to survive if you were the only person left on earth.

11/15/2007 12:57:08 PM

The nuclear meltdown wouldn't be pretty either. Best to find a good area to locate to asap.

11/15/2007 12:58:03 PM

Quote :

"i wish there was a class that would teach you how to survive if you were the only person left on earth."

GrumpyGOP can write an article.

11/15/2007 12:59:31 PM

life would be pretty sweet if the power grid continued to work (and my gf was still around). I'd probably go pimp out a N. Raleigh mansion for a while before driving to New York to bust into a penthouse luxury condo.

11/15/2007 1:01:27 PM

The Homega Man




[Edited on November 15, 2007 at 1:08 PM. Reason : Now, this baby is called "The Withstandinator"]

11/15/2007 1:07:28 PM

When would the TWW server kick offline?

I would have to firefusk some things before that.

11/15/2007 1:07:58 PM

ha, I WOULD WIN THE "LAST" THREAD ONCE AND FOR ALL!

11/15/2007 1:09:03 PM

cool slideshow

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-31-wild-new-orleans_N.htm

about how nature has reclaimed the lower 9th ward in New Orleans



[Edited on November 15, 2007 at 1:11 PM. Reason : .]

11/15/2007 1:09:48 PM

^^

dnl would still be online and post from the grave

11/15/2007 1:23:59 PM

?

11/15/2007 1:26:22 PM

11/15/2007 1:28:04 PM

has anyone ever read that book? sounds muy interesante

11/15/2007 1:35:35 PM

Quote :

"The nuclear meltdown wouldn't be pretty either. Best to find a good area to locate to asap."

well there wouldnt be one

the control system is pretty much automatic

hell, it can scram itself if it needs to

11/15/2007 1:58:15 PM

Quote :

"well there would be plenty of gas to use... but those electric pumps"

You could siphon gas out of any car that you find.

Or you could just learn to hotwire and pick up a new car whenever yours ran out.

11/15/2007 2:08:00 PM

I'd do some crazy shit




like take a piss in the oval office.

11/15/2007 2:09:24 PM

if everyone suddenly disappeared, there would be plenty of cars with keys still in them.

of course most of them would wreck very quickly

11/15/2007 2:09:29 PM

^ Or would idle until they ran out of gas.

11/15/2007 2:13:21 PM

i think being the last person on earth would get really fucking boring




really quick

11/15/2007 2:14:17 PM

now if all the other dudes in the world evaporated



it'd be a different story

11/15/2007 2:14:52 PM

just break into someone's home. They always have a spare key to the car in one of the kitchen drawers

11/15/2007 2:14:57 PM

Quote :

"now if all the other dudes in the world evaporated it'd be a different story"

That would be a tough career.

11/15/2007 2:25:06 PM

So if you think everyone on earth has dissapeared except you - do you spend your life adapting and living with nature or searching to try and find someone else who still exists? Or do you just jump off of a cliff?

11/15/2007 2:27:10 PM

I would go to the grocery store, gather all of the pudding, and stick my ass in it.

11/15/2007 2:40:12 PM

i would go through famous women's panty drawers.

11/15/2007 2:42:14 PM

id play augusta (quick, while the grass was still good and mowed), a couple other great courses, then go steal a kickass boat and cruise for awhile.

Id have to go north a lot to stock up on ice cause when the power goes out, there won't be any cold beer (ftl)

Id probably be ok with it for the first year or so, then id get super bored

oh, id probably get a small farm going so i could eat meat too. id figure out some way to feed/breed the cows and hogs

without consistent power, life would kinda suck

11/15/2007 2:46:17 PM

You might be alright if you were on a power grid that included a wind farm or solar power.

11/15/2007 2:47:51 PM

Quote :

"After 7 days the supply of fuel to the diesel generators that circulate water to cool nuclear cores runs out. After 7 days the supply of fuel to the diesel generators that circulate water to cool nuclear cores runs out. "

wat?

you mean to think, and indeed say, that a nuclear power plant doesn't power its own coolant pumps? i mean, there is probably diesel back up but.... yeah man, think about just how much sense that makes.... wow.

11/15/2007 2:48:11 PM

11/15/2007 2:49:15 PM

Quote :

"now if all the other dudes in the world evaporated it'd be a different story "

?

11/15/2007 2:52:14 PM

if we learned anything from Jurrasic Park, it's that even if all the males in the world were to disappear, life would find a way to repopulate.

11/15/2007 2:53:23 PM

bitches would grow cocks?

11/15/2007 3:04:15 PM

^^ -3 FOR THAT POST

11/15/2007 3:05:12 PM

it'd be cool to rely on batteries

think about it, you'd have the entire world's supply of everything

just would suck tryin to get overseas, though i suppose you could do it through alaska

11/15/2007 3:20:18 PM

^^OH YEA, well -4 for you

11/15/2007 3:21:07 PM

Pretty good book from what I hear. The author kills us off in the first two pages.

And yes he does answer the question about how long the power would stay on. It would not be long because the world's nuclear reactors despite their safety features would overheat and explode.

Interesting fact that the New York subways would flood because no one would be around to operate the pumps that pump out over a million gallons of water per day.

11/15/2007 3:21:32 PM

I'd eat all the ice cream I could in the 7 days of power

11/15/2007 3:31:02 PM

Most gas in tanks and storage would be unusable after about a year.
Most paved surfaces would be mountable only by 4wd after 2 years, unpassable by anything after 4.
Most nuke plants would auto-scram, but older ones and those in china/russia would meltdown.
Most humans left alive after a planet-wide catastrophe would quickly find ways to kill themselves (e.g. bust into a drug store and take what they thought was penicillan).
FEMA has several binders of plans on just such an event. If I'm the last dude on earth, I'm heading to the NC DEM office...

11/15/2007 5:05:11 PM

My knowledge of nuclear energy is not smarter than a 5th grader - but even after a scram wouldn't the decay heat be a problem?

11/15/2007 5:39:23 PM

The diesels at the nuke plants aren't to put power on the grid, they are to keep the core from coming out the bottom in the event that the plant loses offsite power

11/15/2007 5:42:19 PM

the night folks need to think about this.

11/15/2007 7:45:25 PM

amazing

11/15/2007 8:06:54 PM

I'm gonna have to start learning some post-apocalyptic skillz.

Is there an anarchist's cookbook style thing for this topic?

11/15/2007 8:20:24 PM

set'em up

11/15/2007 8:21:36 PM