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ToxicFire
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Posted - 2009.01.11 11:40:00 -
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That post is a lil dated now if you were following the activity in realtime you'd know that the specific swarm stopped a few days back there was a light pause and a light swarm has started up somewhere else.
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ToxicFire
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2009.01.11 12:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Vabjekf
Edited by: Vabjekf on 11/01/2009 12:16:27
Edited by: Vabjekf on 11/01/2009 12:15:57
Lets say you have 10 thousand people, how long could they last by eating each other in the most conservative way possible with out any external food source?
Also could we survive a GRB if we made some underground habitats properly shielded that had their own sustainable ecosystem?
Like a vault perhaps?
A rough estimate for survival without food is 3 weeks so assume each person eats one person to survive another 3 weeks therefore population halves every 3 weeks so the population would halve 5000 times roughly around 288-289 years of course, ppl would die off far earlier because of diseases limited diet and natural aging.
Survival of GRB is possible in a self contained ecosystem the issue is shielding against the gamma rays though which will penetrate almost all known shields to some extent, to provide adequate shielding we wander into the realms of electromagnetic based shielding which we're only starting to explore and develop atm one of the primary causes for its development will be the shielding for spacecraft during long interplanetary voyages to protect the crew from solar radiation exposure needless to say the power requirements for producing these types of shields atm is vast. |
ToxicFire
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2009.01.11 13:21:00 -
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Originally by: Vabjekf
thats not a satisfactory answer, i dont think youve properly worked out how much of a person another person needs to eat to survive a given period of time in a sustainable fashion
Also what if everyone ate a couple of their own limbs? that's not only food for them, but less of themselves they need to continually sustain, so they need to eat less.
This is an interesting question that i am strangely very curious about.
You need to throw in quite a few more variables if you want a more specific answer, yes I did take one human corpse as an arbitrary amount enough to sustain someone for another 3 weeks
In reality during the first 3 weeks you burn off fat reserves and most likely some muscle mass.
You've got to consider variables such as
ambient temperature
how much a person is moving between each meal
their starting reserves how fat, skinny
whether there fit or unfit
how healthy they are
whether they have a high or low metabolism
the percentage oxygen in the atmosphere.
probably many more i can't think of atm.
the nutritional value of a corpse would also decrease over time as ppl got skinnier and unhealthy from eating a limited diet and the onset of diseases. ppls nutritional input for survival varies greatly so theres not one specific answer you can give to what they would need to continually sustain a large group.
Chopping off a limb and eating it is actually more of a drain on a persons resources than simply keeping it if its healthy, the person would undergo a major trauma unless the wound cauterised as its cut the person is going experience some major blood loss which the body will replace using up more resources same is true for fighting off possible infection, in a weakened state further along its quite possible that the trauma of loosing a limb could outright kill the person.
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