[Fwd: Re: [meteorite-list] RE: Survival after a large impact event (Delete if you don`t wish to know)]

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:28 2004
Message-ID: <403E2B74.5010803_at_fascination.com>

Dear List, Mark, Dirk;
I trend to agree more with Mark ...somewhat. Yes the majority of us
are stupid people but indeed some are smarter type zealots. There are
the "remember when's" too. Anyone over 65 that lives in a rural part
of America still lives in fear of another great depression and has
canned goods enough to eek out a year or even a couple.
Anyone living the true Mormon lifestyle as good Mormons has a five year
supply of food tucked away. Believe me, being near to the chosen place,
there are plenty around that do. I tend to believe that technology
 might save some...first 7 days would be exciting, the next 7 would be
the stark reality, after that, the strong willed, the strongly armed,
those with strong convictions would eek along for a while.
The U.S. military has enough stuff tucked back to support select groups
for quite a while. Submarines can go for 6 months+ with out any help
from anyone. If they made it through the initial impact, they would be
around for 6 months. Long as there was oxygen around to breathe, some
one (s) would be here to reproduce and off we go again....
Bright sunny days,
Dave F.
ebay user ID mjwy

mark ford wrote:

>Dirk,
>
>I take a different view. I think that post impact, you'd be supprised, whilst developed society would certainly breakdown, the advantages of technology shouldn't be underestimated, heating, lighting water purification, vaccination - all rely on technology the third world (on the whole) simply doesn't have.
>
>It's hard to imagine even the third world countries surviving and growing food when it's -30 degrees C, even if their survival skills where better on average than those in developed countries.
>
>Basically any society that can generate electricity can grow grops make heat for plants and people and provide protection, that's if civil war didn't break out before then!
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>It would be the quickest ones to adapt to a new climate that would survive, that is where technology comes into it's own!
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>Mark
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: drtanuki [mailto:drtanuki_at_yahoo.com]
>Sent: 26 February 2004 14:42
>To: mark ford; meteorite-list
>Subject: Survival after a large impact event (Delete if you don`t wish to know)
>
>Dear List Members,
> Survival of such event for most of the "civilized" world will suddenly become impossible. Imagine no food, water, heat, communications, transportation, and etc. Only those in the so-called third world will have the best chance at survival. The average person in most countries does not have the ability to grow food, use tools or make shelter, let alone survive the "shock and awe" (I hate to use the words of tyrants.) of such a global event. Suddenly most of the world will be in the dark, cold and starving.
> Suddenly the world with "backward" and "uneducated" lifestyles will have a better advantage to survive than the elite of the world. Peoples in sparsely populated areas and living as hunter-gatherers will have the highest probability of survival followed by low technology agriculturalists. Both upper northern latitudes and lower southern latitudes will be thrown into deep freeze. Acid rain and dust will rain for months.
> Such a happy future to be a dinosaur. Man will finally be humbled; but some life will continue certainly different as we know it now.
> NO GOVERNMENT in its right mind would give advance warning even if scientists do detect the object in time. So far, our best science is not even near early detection and even if it were there would be no plus gain.
> Modern technology will not be the savior of mankind that it appears, nor will capitalism or any conventional system; it will be mans' downfall.
> Sorry for the burden of knowing for those that didn`t want to know. I will take my meditation now. Sincerely, Dirk Ross....Japan
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Received on Thu 26 Feb 2004 12:23:00 PM PST