You want to know something? Where I am is flooded, so I have the perfect answer for the average joe: Most people would start looting, rapes would become common, and the world would generally be a less nice place to live.
I'd be more concerned with what I'm gonna eat then anything, land animals are all going to die and the salinity would fluctuate horribly with all lakes and oceans mingling prolly killing off most fish to. So... I suppose I'd figure out how to cultivate small gardens on boats
If we don't die horribly from the initial flooding
Or from the dehydration as there will be no fresh water left to drink,, and starvation, as farming (even on aircraft carrier surface area scale would be completely useless due to the massive salt depositing that would occur (rain becomes all saline, deposits salt onto the soil, soil becomes barren)
Then the insane weather that results from the rapid climate change would probably get us.
As for me, I'd get a submarine, and learn to speak whale!
They always get clogged in the vent ports, its better to blow them up before they get stuck in there than to have to surface and have someone scrape them out...
They always get clogged in the vent ports, its better to blow them up before they get stuck in there than to have to surface and have someone scrape them out...
>implying merfolk aren't smart enough to move out of the way if not completely avoid humans.
May I throw a small spanner in the works? if the world floods then i'm guessing that a lot of chemicals and other toxic matter would get mixed into the water thus creating a weird cocktail that could well create this....... SHARKTOPUS!
OMG!
nerdfest09 wrote:May I throw a small spanner in the works? if the world floods then i'm guessing that a lot of chemicals and other toxic matter would get mixed into the water thus creating a weird cocktail that could well create this....... SHARKTOPUS!
OMG!
And probably kill it straightaways too. What could live in that gak?
nerdfest09 wrote:May I throw a small spanner in the works? if the world floods then i'm guessing that a lot of chemicals and other toxic matter would get mixed into the water thus creating a weird cocktail that could well create this....... SHARKTOPUS!
OMG!
And probably kill it straightaways too. What could live in that gak?
FITZZ wrote: Wait...what was wrong with mermaids again??
That's all well and good FITZZ, but what are you gonna do, tickle her?
he has a point there FITZZ. not much you can do with a mermaid,or a merman if your like that.
.... Well..( how to say this and not get banned).. ...um..there are other ways to " engage" in " relationships" that don't involve actual intercourse....
(Weirdest thing I've ever typed in the context..)
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Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:It's not what you can do with mermaids...
it's what mermaids can do with you!
hubba hubba bubble bubble
I should have just waited on Chibi...he summed it up much better than I did.
Make sure scientists have the technology to build underwater colonies big enough for hundreds of people, and have everybody cruisin around in submarines fighting mutates fish... which happens to be the idea behind a game i play occasionally.
I would do nothing, I live 1 mile above ground level, if the icecaps all melt it only raises 75 meters if not, I can move to the 'hills' (each as big as one of the Appalachians)
I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.
Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...
I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.
Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...
One day you would just wake up and would have water everywhere (and a magic ladder taking you to the roof of your house ).
ineptus astartes wrote:I would do nothing, I live 1 mile above ground level, if the icecaps all melt it only raises 75 meters if not, I can move to the 'hills' (each as big as one of the Appalachians)
75 meters??? The wildest estimates currently put sea level increases of 2 meters over the next 100 years. And, we're talking 6 meters or so in a very long term setting.
It really sucks for people currently living right along the coast, or on small islands. But, for the vast majority of the population, flooding won't be an issue.
I think I would just get a rowboat somewhere near (since I'm in finland ) and go fishing.
Dependsd on if I had warning. If I did, I'd go save up to buy (or steal) a suitably sized boat of some sort-- probably a cargo ship-- along with some solar cells and industrial batteries (to discharge whenever I didn't have enough sunlight). I'd use its surface area to provide power while its interior was dedicated to an interior farm for nutrients I couldn't get through fish. Then I'd try to live off of fish supplemented by the fruit I'd be growing. The main problem would be water purification, but I think there'd be enough space for a system to remove salt from the water at least...
One day you would just wake up and would have water everywhere (and a magic ladder taking you to the roof of your house ).
Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.
Melissia wrote:Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.
I'd think most people would have died of drowning.
Melissia wrote:Then, like most people, I would probably eventually die of dehydration, disease, pneumonia, starvation, malnutrition, or any combination of the previous.
I'd think most people would have died of drowning.
...Or being eaten by sharks...
But..I believe that Melissa is probably referring to those who avoided the whole shark/drowning related deaths...
Grakmar wrote:It really sucks for people currently living right along the coast, or on small islands. But, for the vast majority of the population, flooding won't be an issue.
Or cities built below sea level! *looks at New Orleans*
again, not move, or simply stockpile weapons, teal a gakload of money, hire a pirate gang, hijack a few big ships and live out the rest of my days as Pirate King...yo ho ho.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
But what is the context and extent of the flood? The ice caps (and all of antartica) instantly melt over-night? 40 days and nights of rain? What kind of time do I have?
I'll assume it's instantaneous, at night in the Central Time Zone while I'm asleep, and causes the sea level to increase by 200 feet. My house is 20 miles from Galveston Bay and only 23' above sea level. The sudden wall of water would engulf my home, drowning me, my gaming stuff, and my cats.
So, in this situation, I'd die in my sleep. I might possibly be awoken by the surging wall of water, which I imagine would sound like a freight train. It would probably cause tremors in the earth that would also shake me from my sleep. In which case, I'd still drown, but have a horrific sense of forboding and fear immediately before the water hit me.
1 : Rise my city up on gigantic hydraulic legs, roaming the oceans like a king.
2 : Build a longboat and roam the seas, burning and pillaging.
3 : Flee to China and build my fortune. Use it to build a stupidly improbable underwater Art Deco city filled with the worlds great thinkers.
4 : Sand bags. Lots and lots of sand bags.
5 : Take to the skies in an airship.
6 : Have surgery to make myself into a dolphin.
Well, being a true Englishman, I would simply not give in to this uppity water. I would continue my daily life, defiantly breathing the water and walking at full speed along the sunken pavements. Resistance be damned! Drowning is for foreigners!
htj wrote:Well, being a true Englishman, I would simply not give in to this uppity water. I would continue my daily life, defiantly breathing the water and walking at full speed along the sunken pavements. Resistance be damned! Drowning is for foreigners!
htj wrote:Well, being a true Englishman, I would simply not give in to this uppity water. I would continue my daily life, defiantly breathing the water and walking at full speed along the sunken pavements. Resistance be damned! Drowning is for foreigners!
We shall fight them on the beaches! We shall fight them on the...er, new beaches?
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Boat's 40 feet long, and has one way up from the water: A ladder. Which, as we know, is the Zombie's natural enemy.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Boat's 40 feet long, and has one way up from the water: A ladder. Which, as we know, is the Zombie's natural enemy.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Boat's 40 feet long, and has one way up from the water: A ladder. Which, as we know, is the Zombie's natural enemy.
Where are you getting a 40ft yacht from, Chowder?
Melted down from all the miscast resin models GW just released.
Chowderhead wrote:4 pages and I'm still the only one with a reasonable plan. Wow. This is scary.
I've spent too long planning for dragon/zombie/dinosaur/viking/machine related apocalypses to plan for flooding...
That's the thing. My answer to all of those is "get on my boat and leave". Quite annoying.
A boat is the swiss army knife of disaster plans.
Hmmm...
Dragons can fly, vikings are water-borne amphibious warfare experts, skynet could kill your boat with multi-laser death.... Really the only thing on that list that boats are useful for is the zombie thing.
Unless the zombies get on board, in which case you got yourself a floating zombie prison.
Boat's 40 feet long, and has one way up from the water: A ladder. Which, as we know, is the Zombie's natural enemy.
Where are you getting a 40ft yacht from, Chowder?
The harbor where it's moored?
I own a 40 foot sailboat, that's why I said what I said.
Technically they cant swim like humans can but according to the book, they can walk along the ocean floor (even beyond crush depth) and some can float...
But yes, they can survive in water for long periods of time.
ineptus astartes wrote:live in a treehouse (A real one, not a dinky kid's fort)
Like the one in WARORKSs FF.net story.
If the world was flooded, that would have to be a pretty high tree...
Actually, the world has indeed been flooded before. It happened around 5600BC, give or take a few decades. It was an event that occured in a most unexpected location, the environs of what is today the Black Sea. And it was so massive and devastating that it arguably spawned not only the 'Noah' Flood story but also the Flood stories that have been preserved in a number of other cultures besides. The general consensus that is pretty much know known as fact is that around the afore mentioned date the Mediterranean broke through the land barrier and salt water poured through with a force 200 times that of Niagra Falls! This raised the level of the Black Sea by over 300 feet! And as if that wasn't bad enough, it has been discovered that between 14,000BC and 5000BC the WORLD'S sea levels rose by no less than 120 to 130 metres! Thats around 400 feet! But could it happen again? The short answer is yes and it may be closer than you think too! But that's another story...what would I do though? I think that I best keep that a secret. But it would be very wrong, very very wrong indeed...
) and go fishing.
...um..there are other ways to " engage" in " relationships" that don't involve actual intercourse....
