Comments on: The Post-Apocalyptic Workout http://netninja.com/2008/01/09/the-post-apocalyptic-workout/ The personal web log of Brian Enigma Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: brian http://netninja.com/2008/01/09/the-post-apocalyptic-workout/comment-page-1/#comment-405 brian Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:17:27 +0000 http://netninja.com/2008/01/09/the-post-apocalyptic-workout/#comment-405 I agree--some of them don't make sense and some of them only make sense in very specific situations. Maintaining a garden is pretty good, but only in a handful-of-people-left-on-Earth scenario, not a martial-law-people-steal-my-food scenario (or maybe that's where the riflery comes in?) For me, it served as a reminder that I should probably polish up on my first aid and maybe get a new CPR certification, as those are good for "day to day" scenarios like traffic accidents and hiking/camping accidents. I also want to take a rock climbing class, not because it's on the list (WhyTF would you need rock climbing in a zombie apocalypse???), but because I was taught basic boldering long ago in Joshua Tree and want to brush up on that as well as learning more advanced climbing with harnesses and ropes, and could use the exercise. I agree–some of them don’t make sense and some of them only make sense in very specific situations.  Maintaining a garden is pretty good, but only in a handful-of-people-left-on-Earth scenario, not a martial-law-people-steal-my-food scenario (or maybe that’s where the riflery comes in?)

For me, it served as a reminder that I should probably polish up on my first aid and maybe get a new CPR certification, as those are good for “day to day” scenarios like traffic accidents and hiking/camping accidents.  I also want to take a rock climbing class, not because it’s on the list (WhyTF would you need rock climbing in a zombie apocalypse???), but because I was taught basic boldering long ago in Joshua Tree and want to brush up on that as well as learning more advanced climbing with harnesses and ropes, and could use the exercise.

]]> By: feedle http://netninja.com/2008/01/09/the-post-apocalyptic-workout/comment-page-1/#comment-401 feedle Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:59:56 +0000 http://netninja.com/2008/01/09/the-post-apocalyptic-workout/#comment-401 I'm amused by some of their choices, and the lack of choices in other areas. Hotwire a car is a good example. I don't care what the disaster is, the reality of the situation is that hotwiring a car is not likely gonna make a lick of difference in just about any doomsday scenario I can really think of. On the other hand, knowing how to manufacture biodiesel from raw vegetable matter is missing (doubly so, because the extraction of vegetable oil from common garden plants has other uses besides as a fuel). I've never read one of these lists where things were completely thought out. We have increased (you and I) our chances of survival in a doomsday scenario just by moving to a climate where water is plentiful; and even given a "global warming" scenario is likely to continue being so. Most of these sorts of lists concentrate on the "give a man a fish" problem solving, rather than "teaching a man to fish." Learning how to hotwire a car is probably a great "oh shit" strategy. Knowing how to make biodiesel and owning a diesel-powered automobile is a "I'm going to continue living for 30 years" strategy. I’m amused by some of their choices, and the lack of choices in other areas.

Hotwire a car is a good example.  I don’t care what the disaster is, the reality of the situation is that hotwiring a car is not likely gonna make a lick of difference in just about any doomsday scenario I can really think of. 

On the other hand, knowing how to manufacture biodiesel from raw vegetable matter is missing (doubly so, because the extraction of vegetable oil from common garden plants has other uses besides as a fuel). 

I’ve never read one of these lists where things were completely thought out.  We have increased (you and I) our chances of survival in a doomsday scenario just by moving to a climate where water is plentiful; and even given a “global warming” scenario is likely to continue being so.

Most of these sorts of lists concentrate on the “give a man a fish” problem solving, rather than “teaching a man to fish.”  Learning how to hotwire a car is probably a great “oh shit” strategy.  Knowing how to make biodiesel and owning a diesel-powered automobile is a “I’m going to continue living for 30 years” strategy.

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