Hypothetical Hammerfall...
May. 10th, 2001 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermausOver lunch I'd been re-reading Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven. (It's about what would happen if the Earth got a massive comet strike.) I'd been reading about Hollywood and most of California dissapearing under a massive Tsunami. (Bye, Serendipity!!) London drowning, (there goes J and Richard!!) the East Coast disappearing under waves and rain, (Elllyyyy!!!) Glaciers coming down from the north, (Well, there goes Daruba and Ilona and JohnBoze and Me and Aphonia and Ana and Cyn and Kev!!)
Well maybe Glauko might survive, down in South America. But the rest of us would be toast.
Unless...
And here's my hypothetical bit: Suppose a bunch of us survived, for whatever reasons. Suppose we managed to get together. (Yes, this is *Very* hypothetical.* What skills would you have to keep a small community of people alive? You'd need doctors and sentries and farmers and possibly someone who knew about generators and electrical systems and building skills...
I tell ya: Besides what camping, canning, and herbalism skills I have, I don't know if I'd be particularly useful:) (Ummm, I can draw purty stuff, and I can cook?) Okay, mabe the herbs would help, especially since we wouldn't be making meds for a long time. Oh, and breeder stock. (*shudder*)
Ms Eff, scaring herself with a story of a giant *Ka-Boom!*
by Larry Niven. (It's about what would happen if the Earth got a massive comet strike.) I'd been reading about Hollywood and most of California dissapearing under a massive Tsunami. (Bye, Serendipity!!) London drowning, (there goes J and Richard!!) the East Coast disappearing under waves and rain, (Elllyyyy!!!) Glaciers coming down from the north, (Well, there goes Daruba and Ilona and JohnBoze and Me and Aphonia and Ana and Cyn and Kev!!)
Well maybe Glauko might survive, down in South America. But the rest of us would be toast.
Unless...
And here's my hypothetical bit: Suppose a bunch of us survived, for whatever reasons. Suppose we managed to get together. (Yes, this is *Very* hypothetical.* What skills would you have to keep a small community of people alive? You'd need doctors and sentries and farmers and possibly someone who knew about generators and electrical systems and building skills...
I tell ya: Besides what camping, canning, and herbalism skills I have, I don't know if I'd be particularly useful:) (Ummm, I can draw purty stuff, and I can cook?) Okay, mabe the herbs would help, especially since we wouldn't be making meds for a long time. Oh, and breeder stock. (*shudder*)
Ms Eff, scaring herself with a story of a giant *Ka-Boom!*
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Date: 2001-05-10 02:19 pm (UTC)Um, Cyn? You don't want any more kids, do you?
Ms Eff, studying hard. No Forceps!!!Nooooo forceps!!!