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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Even so, all the research I've done while writing and preparing for my doomsday books has lead to a LOT of interesting information on how to do normal day to day things better. Those in turn can both be translated into your day to day life, as well as that of your characters. Even though you're unlikely to focus very heavily on what people do from day to day in an extreme survival scenario, it's still good to know WHAT they would do and WHY. Things like collecting food and water, fending off roving gangs, dealing with formerly docile wildlife, or even naturally hostile ones such as wolves, providing heat, cooking, and just generally living without all the modern conveniences we take for granted every day.
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For further research:
http://www.instructables.com/tag/typ...nnel-survival/
These are my kinda people!
Actually, I'm not really a survialist, but I do have the skillset to turn a pnuematic cylinder into a fire piston (and could pretty much locate said cylinder in the ruins of any major town or city). Trouble is, for a lot of people in the "information age", getting the info AFTER the internet is down. I always loved the part in "Lucifer's Hammer" (Niven and Pournelle) where Dr Forrester hid a cache of how to books in a septic tank. So, when distaster strikes, 5thWiggle is raiding the library right after the grocery and gardening stores.
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