How long would you live if....

Pirc Defense · #1 09-10-2004, 09:51 PM

This question has resulted in vigorous debate betwixt whomsoever cares to discuss it.

The question is: how long would you live if everyone else on the planet were to disappear instantaneously?

It's a lot deeper than it appears at first site.

Care to take a whack at it?

Kurn, son of Mogh · #2 09-10-2004, 10:12 PM

only long enough to locate a gun [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

shawn_p · #3 09-10-2004, 10:21 PM

I would live until the day I died.

Jimbo · #4 09-10-2004, 11:27 PM

Until the food supply that I was able to access was completely exhausted. In other words to a ripe old age.

Jimbo

Pirc Defense · #5 09-11-2004, 12:28 AM

Of course, site = sight. hehe

Anyway, you're not thinking hard enough about this. Jimbo, there's more to it than food supply.

NLSoldier · #6 09-11-2004, 12:33 AM

I think you would get really really bored within a few months and end up killing yourself.

Duke · #7 09-11-2004, 12:51 AM

There's a pretty good Twilight Zone episode with Burgess Meredith where this happens. He loves to read, and finally has all the books available to him with his willfully ignorant wife now dead (along with everyone else).

And then his glasses break.

I don't think the right question is: "How long would you live?" I think the more interesting question is what would you choose to do with that time? I could -live- a decently long time. Would I like it? I don't know. There'd probably be some semblance of depression, but I've lived with that long enough now to be basically immune.

~D

M2d · #8 09-11-2004, 12:58 AM

long enough to touch the ice 9 to my lips?

The_Tracker · #9 09-11-2004, 01:10 AM

Are we talking humans only, or all living things period.

I think it would be very hard to survive for any length of time if you were the only living thing left. Every thing would begin falling apart without human intervention. Food supply and electricity would certainly be a problem after time. As well as travel. No one filling up gas stations.

You would quite simply go mad.

2-3 years, tops.

Jimbo · #10 09-11-2004, 01:33 PM

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Of course, site = sight. hehe

Anyway, you're not thinking hard enough about this. Jimbo, there's more to it than food supply.

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Not for me, I need no social interaction in order to survive. Trust me you are taking a generalization and applying it to me personally. It is inapplicable. Socialogy is nice for groups but inaccurate for individuals.

Jimbo