RE: What would you do if you woke up one day to find you were the last person alive?
October 13, 2017 at 3:19 pm
(October 13, 2017 at 11:55 am)Hammy Wrote:(October 13, 2017 at 3:51 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: No, I have nice tits, too!
Seriously guys... what would you do? c172 gave a serious answer. He said he would hang out at the supermarket. I don't get the part about then dying because no agriculture though.
Oh I see, the food would run out.
Okay let's reframe the question:
You have infinite food, drink, oxygen. You are able to live your whole life perfectly healthily. At least physically healthily. You just have no people or animals to associate yourself with. You're completely alone.
I say at least physically healthy because one of the questions is... would you go insane? Would you get depressed? Would you eventually commit suicide? Would you end up drawing a face on a football ala Wilson from Castaway?
Would you be bored forever?
Would life be meaningless without persons and animals there to keep you company?
Or would you find ways to entertain yourself and be happy while completely and utterly alone?
Yeah, the food situation. That's what I was getting at.
As for the reframed question, I have very low mobility, so I'd kind of be inclined to keep around my condo, and I think it would be sad. No AF folks. No NPR. If my computer runs into issues, no one to call about it.
If I didn't have the mobility problem, I'd probably just walk all the way down the several miles of Washington Street that lead to San Diego International Airport's cargo and private plane area and jump the fence, walk the tarmac for a little while, just because I'm an aviation buff and I like creepy industrial areas that are off limits to the rest of us. I love the mystery of it.
One issue that you might have overseen is failing health. Even with food, water, and oxygen, where are the doctors? Where's AMR for a trip to to ER when I get a kidney infection or hurt myself in a fall? Not sure I could live all that long without health maintenance and emergency services. Even if I didn't have spina bifida.
Very interesting hypothetical, though. It's something I'd like to live for maybe a day (but with normal transit offerings).
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan