Solar power isn't that hard on the very basic level. All you need are solar panels connected to a bunch of car batteries in series or series parallel depending on how much power you want to store and then run that DC voltage through an inverter to give you a nice standard 120V AC signal.

Although me? Car batteries are smalltime. I'd get me some giant batteries like the kind phone companies use to keep the phones working when the power goes out, or the big cells they use on submarines.

Well, I think I've brought this up a few times before... but the matter just keeps coming to the surface, it seems... :teehee:

Yup, forgot those necessities. Definitely hit the pharmacies.
Some pain killers, antibiotics, and maybe some sleeping pills too.
I already have a pretty good crash kit, gauze bandages, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, snake bite kit, ace bandages, eye drops, this, that and the other thing... but I'd have to loot the hard core stuff.

And of course, I'm sure I'd knock the window out of a liquor store or two...
I'd need me a couple cases of Wild Turkey 101 to keep me warm on those cold nights, ya know.

Tobacco would be pretty low on my list. It would be more of a luxury than a necessity.
I'd be more intent on getting ahold of some high quality "long bottom leaf" seeds... :hehe:

I can't see myself pulling that either. Maybe if I had two broken legs, a broken jaw, or if a fever from gangrene was cooking my brain, I'd end it. But no... suicide is cheating.
Self preservation has always been my highest law. That is the reason I couldn't get too involved with Buddhism when I practiced it a few years ago.

Yup, I looked in to putting up some solar panels on my house, but the initial investment was just out of my price range.

But once you have everything set up, the maintenance is minimal, and the functioning and operation of the system is elementary.

I'd make explosives and set them on buildings, cars, trees, houses, whatever I could find, set the fuse and walk away without looking at the massive fireball that ensues.... Because cool guys don't look at explosions.

Actually, I'd take my dad's truck and load the horse trough into the back, go to the gas station fill the trough with fuel, then I'd head to Menard's and grab a generator, go to GameStop and get every 360 game they have, head back home, power my generator with the fuel and power my 360 with the generator, and get beat Stallion83's gamerscore.

I'd also hunt, pillage, and do other Fallout-raider type stuff, but my main priority would be the gamerscore. :hubbahubba:

Oh yeah I'd also go to D.C. and try to find out exactly what things they have been hiding, especially Area 51.

How long do you guys think it would take to drive from Thailand to Sweden?
I've just had an idea

Ever read "The Stand"?

I think you would make a good Tom (M-O-O-N, that spells "Tom Cullen") Cullen. :wacko:

Sskenrad, I would have gone with a good Trashcan man. Sounds like the right man for the job.

What's the job? Accidentally nuking the devil.

Yup, tough choice.

But Tom is the one that almost kills himself when he blows up the oil refinery.

If you want to find out what's at Area 51, just go to Groom Lake itself. If you go to some place like the Pentagon or Fort Mead the fact of the matter is that the comps will still be using AES encryption, and your screwed if you encounter a biometric lock. At least at groom lake you'd be able to drive trucks into the buildings to knock down the walls or doors.

Wait...its at Groom Lake? Cool that will be a hell of lot easier than breaking into the Pentagon. :biggrin:

Depends on how fast you're going... :facepalm:
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A couple days, at least. And that is if you don't take a wrong turn at Albuquerque.


Area 51, I think, is the best "gotcha" our government ever pulled on us.
It is where the Department of Defense designs and tests experimental... "stuff".
The people that work there don't even know what they're working on most of the time.

The mylar balloons and injected plastic that people were finding in the desert in the '60s and '70s were experiments looking for materials that were radar invisible.
And all the triangular shaped shadows moving across the desert night sky in the late '70s early '80s were test flights of the then top secret Stealth program, when they were flying "blacked out".

The native Americans eventually all learned about the Europeans landing on their eastern shores. I doubt if Earth is ever colonized by an alien civilization, there would be much secrecy or government cover-up going on. They'll have us on "reservations" so fast, we won't know what hit us....

@ssenkrad, yep, that's a pretty accurate summary. But still, if one wanted to find out what Area 51 was doing right before the whole of mankind dissapeared, simply going there is much easier than trying to break into washington computer networks. Though the easiest method would be to conclude "same-old same-old airplane testing."

That-that was a really bad thing to say over the Internet....

As for me, easy: Africa.

I can't have any human friends cause they all disappeared, then dammit, I'll go make friends with some chimpanzees!

Yeah Ssenkrad is right at Area 51 you are less likely to find aliens more likely to find experimental stealth jets. It was Area 51 they tested the SR71 Blackbird and Lockheed U-2. If your interested in stealth planes it will be great for you but if you are going looking for aliens you'll be disappointed.

In the short term I would locate a suitable property not too far from a major population centre with a fireplace and chimney and enough land for me to grow food. I would gather as much coal/firewood, seeds, tinned food, bottled water, medicine, clothes, cooking utensils and other essentials as possible from multiple locations and store them nearby. I'd mark a map with locations where I found stores of items that I would need.

I'd head to a library to get as much info as I could on survival and medical treatment. I'd also drive to the nearest army base and grab myself some weapons and ammo to use against wild dogs who try to attack me or eat my crops.

In the long term I'd probably go insane.

But I don't want to make my life a Micheal Bay movie :sadvaultboy:

I haven't. I just made that post off of an SNL Digital Short. :wink_smile:

It's an excellent book, by an outstanding author. Especially if you like sick humor. S.King is the master of making you laugh at other people's misfortunes.

It's subject matter is also quite fitting for the topic of this thread.

Get some family photos my take my dogs. Grab a nice car. Lots of gas, go to the local gun or army base store get a machete, .22, .303 and if I could, find an automatic weapon. Then I would go the local library get some good books. The hospital is next, stock up on medical gear. Get generators so I can play some games, dead rising maybe. Hey Im the LAST person. But there is still animals. Then I would head to Area 51. Check out the secrets there. Shoot everyday. Try and find where the nukes are located then launch one. Then I would watch the world end as nature took it over again.

Edit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPN7PwW8hs
Also I would try and keep something that says that intelligent creatures lived here. I would make something that commemerates humanity.

Realistically... probably this.

That wouldn't be much use for all my 240V electronics.

Suicide is a sin. You people take the easy way out.

In the panic and loneliness of it all, I'd probably kill myself. Cheerful, aren't I?

The name " Crazy cat person " comes to mind.


I will probably get a lot of cat so i don't feel alone.


Or i could get into the military base and blow [censored] up.

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Damn you double post !! i will conquer you !!!