What if

[Dudebro]

This topic is about hypothetical situations, there are no wrong answers. Answers can be really stupid, but not wrong. Well I guess they could be wrong if they are off topic but you get the idea.

The first situation we'll be jawing about is zombie apocalypse! So what would you guys do if you found yourself dealing with zombie hordes?

[Kugyince]

Twitter (http://what-if.xkcd.com/)

[Dudebro]

Uh ok thanks? You gonna play along or what?

[DrunkN]

The first situation we'll be jawing about is zombie apocalypse! So what would you guys do if you found yourself dealing with zombie hordes?

Breed insects, probably flies. Zombies would be pretty vulnerable to any winged critter that eats decaying flesh.

[CrispyChicken]

This topic is about hypothetical situations, there are no wrong answers. Answers can be really stupid, but not wrong. Well I guess they could be wrong if they are off topic but you get the idea.

The first situation we'll be jawing about is zombie apocalypse! So what would you guys do if you found yourself dealing with zombie hordes?

Get a Katana and a Crossbow. Fight my way to the Oceanside, get a boat and live on the waters....

[Dudebro]

@DN- Interesting idea but it doesn't seem practical. How would you control them?

@Chrisp- Assuming you can find those weapons what would you eat once you're on the ocean? Have you ever went deep sea fishing? Would you be eating it raw?

[DrunkN]

Get a Katana and a Crossbow. Fight my way to the Oceanside, get a boat and live on the waters....

Are you really prepared to face life and death at sea though? Or are you waiting out there till' things calm down a bit?

[Jack Bando]

Are you really prepared to face life and death at sea though? Or are you waiting out there till' things calm down a bit?

Which makes me think:If the zombpocolypse hits, what do the guys from Deadliest Catch do? And Astronauts?

[DrunkN]

@DN- Interesting idea but it doesn't seem practical. How would you control them?

You wouldn't control them, you can only hope that your facilitation of the buggers will help boost their numbers in the local ecosystem.

[Tails]

Unsure where to go myself. Perhaps stay in my room until things calm down. Wouldn't make it I know but yeah.

[DrunkN]

Which makes me think:If the zombpocolypse hits, what do the guys from Deadliest Catch do? And Astronauts?

The fishermen would probably be able to return to the shores whenever they please.

I imagine that the astronauts were mentally braced for a situation in which they couldn't return home.

[Slime Slayer]

Teach them to dance and make a sweet music video.

[Dudebro]

Well this died quick for some reason.

If I found myself in this situation I'd stay put in my house and try to ride out the initial panic and chaos. Toss furniture down the stairs to block them(I live on the second floor) and ration what little food we keep on hand. Once the food got low I'd try to make a break for one of the many supermarkets nearby and see what's left.
If things dragged on for a long time with no hope of recovery I'd flee north to Maine since it has tons of land with no people for miles and it's not Canada.

[FudgyDRS]

Ponder: "what if this zombie apocalypse never happened"?

[Dudebro]

/FudgyDRS is eaten by a zombie while he ponders.

[Razeluxe]

Ponder: "what if this zombie apocalypse never happened"?
guess I'd be busy not playing games on RU

[Barra]

Id go Shaun of the Dead on those mofos and hold-up at the Winchester.

[FudgyDRS]

In the end at least those zombies will still be able to play video games...

[Mareeps]

Just sit inside my house and wait it out, zombies can't open doors.

[Dudebro]

They can smash through them though.

[Mareeps]

Since they are undead, and where I live is almost always freezing cold, whatever liquid in their bodies will freeze and they will be greatly slowed. Really as long as they dont attack in May, I'm good.

[kiwinavega]

I for one would welcome our new undead masters. Nothing else has worked so far so what is there to lose?

[Dudebro]

Ok new topic since this one didn't take off.


What if you found undeniable evidence of intelligent alien life. Revealing this information would almost certainly cause panic, civil unrest and even war. There would be no way to avoid people dying in one way or another. Would you tell the world or not?

[kernzy]

so, does the fact that multiple ufo's being witnessed every year for the past 50 years not pass for intelligent life already, and the majority of mankind ignores it, and laugh in the face of those who don't?
if finding out there is life out there more intelligent than ours is going to cause panic and war, it proves what a backwards civilisation we are, and deserve to not hold the top spot.

to be told this information and panic is stupid. if it's true, they must realise the AI has been there for centuries already, and never bothered us in the slightest...
i mean, are there really people who believe that our planet is the only rock in the universe out of countless millions to be the only one to have things moving about on it??
i would tell the world, and then they would all turn on pop idol again....
on the other hand, every one of our own governments already "certainly cause panic, civil unrest and even war."
bring on the aliens!!!!!!!

;)

[RevJ]

What if you found undeniable evidence of intelligent alien life. Revealing this information would almost certainly cause panic, civil unrest and even war. There would be no way to avoid people dying in one way or another. Would you tell the world or not?

Definitely tell. Solid proof of intelligent alien life would have to be THE biggest discovery our species could make.

However the vast distances and technical problems involved with interstellar travel would mean - I think - that initial contact with 'ET' would be soley by electromagnetic signals. For decades, if not hundreds or thousands of years. I think there'd be a massive cultural exchange whereby files for art, music, literature etc are swapped, with entities on both sides learnings the cultures and languages of the other. Best of all - what games do they like to play? The easiest 'electronic' games to transfer from one star system to another would have to be those easiest to emulate, meaning the earlier games from a civilization's culture. Yes, that's right (and I am quite serious), I'm hoping that one day we will be able to play emulated retro games made by aliens. And conversely, aliens will one day be kill-screening Donkey Kong and having their own high-score leagues.

I'd like to coin a term for the study and play of games of alien origin - "Astroludology". (So far it's a rather theoretical science.)

[Dudebro]

so, does the fact that multiple ufo's being witnessed every year for the past 50 years not pass for intelligent life already, and the majority of mankind ignores it, and laugh in the face of those who don't?

http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2013_04/2084.jpg

It's a fact huh? So I suppose you have undeniable proof from somewhere besides youtube or conspiracy sites? That was a rhetorical question please don't elaborate.


However the vast distances and technical problems involved with interstellar travel
That's assuming we're only talking about our current understanding of interstellar travel. Aliens could send us some ground breaking info, like in the movie Contact, and make our understanding obsolete.
That is a realistic theory about information exchange though. As far as we know that would be the easiest and quickest way to contact aliens far from us.

[kiwinavega]

Tell the world, and expect to be killed within months, if not weeks. But tell them! Knowledge will set us free and that knowledge could set us free from all kinds of things (cough *religion* cough).

[kernzy]

so, dudebro,
you believe earth is the only planet to exist in the "goldilocks" zone? i.e., close enough to the local star for warmth, and not far enough away to be too cold? there are millions. if there is ice in space, there is water. where there is water and stars, there is life. life on earth is the proof of this. (unless you believe god made it all in a week?) i am one of the lucky ones to not need proof. i am a witness.
to ask for proof without using a video of some sort is impossible. limit your sources and you learn nothing. "prove you actually exist without writing, talking or photo's."

Revj, we have no choice but to know only about transport systems we know about. humans get into space by burning what i would call "fossil" fuels. may as well fill it up with coal.
to understand a higher intelligence's elements and knowledge is impossible, but i gaurantee you, they would not "burn stuff" to travel. even we are on the brink of "ion drives", etc. what would we be using in 1,000 years? that's how to think of what "they" may have. interstella travel to them may be like jet planes for us. 100 years ago, we were all walking.
as for alien retro games,( good one!!) they would be much more accurate than ours, and they would probably be about humans killing each other for greed, rather than "space invaders"!! (even we have them games!!)

[Dudebro]

I actually believe that there probably is a lot of life in the universe. I also believe that our understanding of goldilocks zone is infantile, we just have no way of knowing better at this point. I do not believe in the current UFO conspiracy theories because they all lack proof, all of them. If you have some proof to counter that you should alert the media asap.
I am not limiting my sources I'm asking you to get real ones. We've been through this before, you do not provide evidence or proof, just gut feelings and assumptions.

This is not the topic for conspiracies. This is meant to be a fun topic. Don't go off the rails.

[kernzy]

Geezer,
the media have had many a video on the news, many. nothing changes though, as they portray it tongue in cheek, for the very reason you started this subject with.(panic, death, etc). usually the report starts with "if you believe in little green men...", making anyone who watches the "evidence" scared to admit what they saw for real, for fear of ridicule from their peers, which is what may happen here! lol!!
you either believe what you see, or believe what you don't see. i prefer to believe what i can see. same as anyone should. to see something with your own eyes and not believe you saw it is a mental problem. (not you, just in general)
"our understanding of goldilocks zone is infantile". how so? too close is too hot, too far is too cold. simple.
you said "I actually believe that there probably is a lot of life in the universe.", but before you said that you portray witnesses to this are all liars, and it is not factual. maybe because you were not present. you need to make a decision.
if more people spent more time looking up instead of down, maybe they'd see something other than dog poo. how many people spend no time at all looking at the skies? about the same number of people that believe we are alone.
conspiracies are only "labelled" to make people not take interest. this is not a conspiracy. to say it is is misleading and very deflective.
it is also not an assumption or a gut feeling.
NASA themselves have many video's (some of which are on youtube) of ufo's. is NASA untrustworthy for proof? see for yourself.

[Dudebro]

I am not going to go back and forth about this. I don't want anyone else to either. This is a topic derail.

I don't appreciate being called a geezer. You are not allowed to personally insult other members, cut it out.

[kernzy]

geezer is a London term used instead of "mate" or "dude".
what do you think it means?

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ok, i see your cnfusion.
"In the U.K.: A guy, a bloke, a person in general. The British equivalent of the American slang word "dude".

In the U.S.: An old man, particularly one who is either cranky or eccentric. Rather derogatory term."
lost in translation...

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so, Dudebro,
are you not going to accept that i was not insulting you?
remember, over here we say nappies instead of diaper. aluminIum instead of aluminum. it's an easy mistake to make.
i just read a thread where you insulted somebody. i suggest you practice what you preach. and now you actually tell people to not respond to your own thread? you are a total control freak and an ultimate hypocrite. those are not insults, they are true observations. if it doesn't go your way, you try to screw it up. you don't mind people having a mind, as long as it's not their own. it has to be the same as yours.
you prefer to talk about childish nonsense.
"what if people turned into bacon and started frying each other" should be your next one.

i'll leave you to it...

[Dudebro]

I didn't reply because I didn't wanna continue this pointless derail. I accept that the term means something different in the UK.

You need to calm down. If you have a problem with me talk to one of the other site mods about it. I told people not to respond to your off topic posts because I don't want this topic ruined by it. I did not tell people to stop replying to the actual topic.

This ends right now. If you wanna post about your conspiracy theories do it in the right places. We even have a social group for them-
http://www.retrouprising.com/groups/48/
It gets no activity because the community here isn't interested in them. Feel free to try and change that if you want. If you continue to go offtopic and get aggressive one of the other site mods will have to get involved and put an end to it. That is not a threat or an attempt to censor you.



@Everyone else- Please feel free to continue having fun with the topic. If you have any "what if" ideas let me know in a PM.

[RevJ]

What if the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, had an epiphany and suddenly understood his country's situation, and wanted to rejoin the world and advance his nation? How would he deal with the military who are assumably enjoying the status quo with their privileged positions? What would Kim Jong-un be able to do?

(perhaps think of it as you're playing an action adventure game, you're Kim Jong-un and you have to survive and save the country ... where would YOU go, what would YOU do?)

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I think I would ... You did have a think and maybe a post about it first didn't you, cos I want to see what others may think.. :D... try to gather as many of my key/trusted military personnel and defect to either China or South Korea. Make sure they set us all up with lots of money (if needed) and the chance to live out our lives anonymously down the track. Then use my cult status to explain to the North Koreans how the rest of the world is going to feed them and bring them into prosperity. War averted! Country saved! :in-love:

[Dudebro]

I think he'd be killed and the reason would be covered up as poor health or something. The higher ups have nothing to gain from him freeing his country.