Last person on earth..
 

Its the uncanny beginning to tons of horror and sci-fi movies, but I've always thought it was a neat idea. You're the last person on earth. What do you do? The assumption is that everyone has just dissapeared, and all possessions and places exist as they do now, subject only to their decay over time from unuse.

As I thought about it this morning it gradually evolved into more and more grandiose and neat plan.

Here's what I'd do:

Spent the first day doing research on the Internet. I figure that assuming everyone died yesterday many of the backbones and mainframes could still be operating and hosting websites, autonomously.

I'd research lockpicking, hotwiring, cloning, artificial insemination, general medicine, and flying. Why? You'll see.

The first task would be take every bit of food I had in my apartment and get it in a bag. I'm going to be on the move, and food in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of people is going to be difficult to find. Bag in hand, I'd hop in my car and head off in the general location of the zoo. During my trip, I'd be looking for faster cars. I'd gradually break into and steal nicer and nicer cars until I was satisifed that I had a car which was both comfortable and fast.

When I got to the zoo, I'd break down the gates and set free all of the animals. No human caretakers to feed them, but they'll be at least a little better off foraging for themselves. It's probably a moot gesture, but it'd be a nice first step.

My next desintation would be any hospitals or doctors offices I could find. I'd begin stocking up on painkillers, antibiotics, and surgical/medical tools.

Next, I'd head for the airports. I'd look for any flying manuals I could find and finish teaching myself flying. Once I had a relatively safe understanding of piloting, I'd take the most convenient aircraft and head for the previously researched Artificial insemination clinics. I'd see if there were any eggs or semen stored up, and if they were still viable. If so, I'd try to make between 15 and 20 "new humans" to repopulate the earth. The next stops would be raiding grocery stores for any food that I could find, and storage for it. I'd stock up 2 or 3 years of food for 15 to 20 people, and attempt to clear land to begin a farm. While the childen grew (9 months, at least) I'd research cloning and attempt to clone myself, in case the aritificial insemination would not succeed.

I'd spend the rest of the time locating as much historical text as I could in preparation for the children's future - explaining what had happened. And I'd found a city - New Jinn. And from there, I'd hope to repopulate the Earth. :)

What would you do?

I'd go to the zoo and eat all the animals.

Yeah, that was my thought.

I'd horde as much food as humanly possible that will last. Horde all the medicine. Print off as much information I can or move to a library close to a grocery store.

I would like to do something ludicrous like run around the Oval Office naked while flapping my arms making bird noises.

Well I already have enough fruit trees and veggies in the back yard to keep me alive, though I'd have to figure out how to get protien and animal fats. The scary thing is that the only real source of meat around here that wouldn't go bad immediatally is household pets. I'd either have to move to an area with more meat, or get over my urk factor over eating Rover and Spot for sustenence. I don't know if there is a zoo in my area. You'd need to eat herbavores in order for you to be able to maintain their health over a long period of time, and considering their life expectancy, you might need to try breeding.

Is something ludicrous if the President does it every day?

Hmmm would the animals know how to feed themselves? Be interesting to know. They came from the wild, but they've been fed instead of getting it themselves.

And the lions and tigers and bears (oh my!) would probably kill the other zoo animals for food, so some wouldn't suffer.

Just make sure you're in a safe spot when you release that Bengal Tiger! :-O

Has anyone considered hunting for proteins? Gun stores would be available and animals would be rampant, and after a long period of time (possibly) a threat.

Think about the dogs. They're used to being fed. You are walking around, and walk into their terrortitory. They're hungry, you're invading their home... whatchu gonna do?

Anyway, I'll come back and post what I'd do when I'm not on my mobile device.

I like posts like these! Thanks for creating it!

Does anyone know what would happen to the nuclear plants if everyone just disappeared? Do they have some sort of auto-shutdown?

I should know this, being a nuclear power fangirl, but alas...

Move to the south where its warmer, start a farm, live off boxed food until I get a good crop. Have a very large herbal garden, brush up on my herbology books for medicine. Make a heating and cooling system, aquire livestock for slaugher, milk, eggs breeding and clothing. Live life the good way.

I would become super moderator of the TFP and respond to my own posts under different usernames......then ban myself :D

I had NO idea you were a girl, I am an idiot!! You're still one of my "knights" though, I don't care what you say. But man, I feel stupid for not knowing that.
/end threadjack

Although my first thought was that I would just have a great time with other people's stuff, I am now considering that finding a way to survive would be the only real solution. I would treat it as if I was stranded on a deserted island. However, I realize that I would have some time to prepare for this and choose where to live and gather supplies and such. In fact, the safest place would probably be on an island that was easily accessible to the mainland by a rowboat, and I would make sure that I was the most threatening animal on it. I would gather as many supplies on the mainland as possible (food, wood, seeds, building materials, gasoline, weapons, etc.) for as long as I could (before dogs and other carnivorous animals got out of control) and bring them to the island. On the island I would be safe from dangerous animals, and if 1 or 2 somehow crossed the water and got on, I could easily control it. The more I think of it, living on the island wouldn't be so different than living on the mainland after a while (no electricity, farming for food, raising animals for food). I would not care about repopulation...I can live without other people.

I'd move into the White House and pretend I was president of the United States.

Why would people spend years of flight training if they could just research it on the internet or find some "flight manuals" laying around the airport? :confused:

Shit, and here I was spending all this money and I never knew it could be so simple.

If I were the last person alive, I would go to a gun shop or national guard armory and shoot all the interesting weapons. I'd probably just waste weeks doing all kinds of destructive things that are against the law right now. Yeah.

You can't ban yourself. Trust me. :D

I think it would be depressing to be the last person on Earth. You'd have no one to talk to or share what you're doing with except yourself.

With that being said..artificial insemination would be an interesting start, but wouldn't you need a host to actually breed? I guess I would have to conduct a lot of research on that.

But for fun, I would go into all the really expensive stores and try on all the clothes and shoes and choose an awesome outfit to wear...which would be sort of pointless since I'm the only person left, I could walk around naked I suppose. :lol: But it would be fun to shop without worrying about the prices. Then I would start heading south to better weather. I wouldn't want to get stuck in a Chicago winter without heat.

I would live on the beach until I went completely insane with loneliness and comitted suicide or died from lack of food or too much smoking. If I'm the last person on earth I would never have to hear about second-hand smoke again.

I guess I like to share my accomplishments and things I do with other people. If someone isn't around to talk with and learn from, what's the point? I wouldn't be a good candidate for the 'last person on earth' position. The human race would definitely go extinct.

Oh yeah, if people were still around, but just dead, I'd go find Natalie Portman and take a leaf from this post...

Everything that I would need, in the way of supplies, I can forage from Offutt AFB. Weapons, ammo, MREs, other misc equipment. Toss it all in an APC, and just drive. It doesn't matter where to, because there's really nowhere to go. Just..."be". And, of course, I'd always be on the lookout for the cute little nymphet that also survived the cataclysm. (Oh, c'mon...you know there's one in every cheesy "last person on earth" film)

But...before I do that...I'm going to the local Jaguar dealer, draining all the oil out of the nearest red XJ that I find, and run her hell bent for glory on I-80 till the motor blew. Why? Just...because I can.

I would just do copius amounts of LSD and pretend there were people around.

Then I'd probably do lots of other now legal things. Shit, it's not like there's any law to stop me. Then I'd re-write the laws and make drug use legal but all sales go to me then while I was still trippin nuts, I'd tell the aliens to come down and start a new civilization............


or I'd just drink myself to death.

When I was in gradeschool, I read a great book that was similar to your scenario, and somewhat plausible, I suppose. "Z for Zachariah" I believe was the title.

Anyway, I think artificial insemination would be difficult, since there isn't really anyone to inseminate - unless you're a chick.

What I think I'd do is first stock up on guns and ammo - it would be ironic if the last person on earth was killed by a household pet because the dog hadn't eaten in a couple of weeks.

After that, providing I KNEW that noone else was around, I'd probably head south so that I could survive the winter. Green Bay gets mighty frigid in the winter - I think it would be difficult to survive.

I'd probably live in a library, and obviously I'd stock up on food and what not, but learn as quickly as I could how to at least farm the essentials and breed a herd of cattle.

Oh, and I'd definately break into a high end dealership and steal a diablo.

And if I got bored? Well, I can imagine a number of different scenarios that would fufill my sense of destruction. Hell - I never liked L.A. anyway, and I think setting an entire city on fire would qualify as a planet-sized smoke signal for aliens to come and keep me company...

Stage 1: Go apeshit and do everything I ever wanted, a berzerk and gluttonous King of my own doomed world.

Stage 2: Realize the sheer existential horror of the situation and fall into a deep depression.

Stage 3: Struggle vainly to overcome and repopulate the earth.

Stage 4: Live out the rest of my days coming to terms with myself and trying to make the most of it.

I just mentioned this thread to a friend of mine, and he said he would do his best to repopulate the earth.

I asked him how he planned to do that since there weren't any other humans around...

His response?

Create a hybrid - half human, half sheep :lol:

I'm going to assume I know for sure that I'm the last. That makes this better for me.

1st- do a little grieving. I'm upset that I can't even have my Babes with me. And my TFP has disappeared... fuck.
2nd- drive around town and stock up on guns, ammo, food, and medicine.
3rd- and books. But they won't be the "learn your way to survival" books you guys want. I just want to read entertaining books.
4th- Find motorcycle, reliable/durable car, and a trailer to haul the former, as much gas as I can load in there, and my maintenance supplies..
5th- Travel the country/continent and see all that I can. When I feel I've seen enough, I might decide to try a boat until I find some island. If something goes wrong... at least I'll have gone having seen more of the world and trying to find yet more.
6th- Take naked pictures of myself with a digital camera and upload them everywhere on the internet that I can (before the power goes) with the vaguely morbid title of "Sexiest Man Alive."

1. Find guns. Lots of guns. I would become very paranoid, and would be on the lookout for everything. Get lots of ammo

2. Figure out if everyone is really dead. If dead bodies are everywhere, have some fun with a group of dead chicks. *it sounds weird now, but it wouldn't be at that time. And it wouldn't be good if it was a biological thing that killed everyone.

3. Learn taxidermy to keep a few humans around that look somewhat normal. Not for use if viruses killed everybody either.

4. Travel down to Texas, find a big house on a lake to take over, and hunt cows (if they are still around) when needed.

5. If there is a way to get gasoline, and a EMP didn't wipe out all of the electronics, I would find a nice sports car to use. Or I would take a military humvee.

6. Find solar panels and generators to have electricity.

7. Find a CB radio/ FM radio station/ AM radio/ TV? Try to see if anyone if left. Put out radio announcements.

8. Get night vision goggles, binoculars, weapons, motion sensors and be paranoid that someone is out to get you.

9. Get a bunch of food that doesn't go bad that quickly from grocery stores.

10. Have fun and travel, take a yacht out and go fishing, steal/borrow things, find cool places to live.

Actually, I think this could be done if you used a chimps womb as an "incubator".

JK is certainly ambitious, even though I don't think most of that is possible (learning to fly a play on your own without dying, learning enough to clone or inseminate) I'd probably try a similar plan, just in a different order. First id look up on maps or the internet (if it works) where some nearby farms are, go to a library and learn all I can about growing my own stuff, go there (with supplies) for a test period to see if I can be a farmer. If I can I stay there till Im comfortable, then I'd make trips to a library and start learning all I can about genetics, etc. If it turns out I cant farm, or just get really bored, I'd move to a large body of water I could fish from and go from there figuring out a way to survive until Im comfortable, then see what I can learn and what advances I could make.

My question is... even if someone did manage to procreate.... everyone would end up inbred! So what would be the point of procreation???

Why would they have to be inbred? If I did indeed find a AI clinic with viable eggs and sperm, they wouldn't likely be brothers or sisters. They'd be genetically variable, and able to procreate without any problems.

Or maybe Lady Sage meant that you'd never be able to get a diverse genetic pool big enough not to avoid inbreeding down the line. Anyone know the minimum amount of people needed to start a new clean pool?

I remember something around 300 people but I think that was a made up number in some scifi (I read a lot of). If I had to personally guess, I think it would be more around 28 people, not sure why that particular number comes to mind though.

And I mean long term here, I know short term inbreeding usually doesn't have bad results.

Okay. So I’m the last person on earth. I assume the scenario is I wake up one morning and everyone’s gone (disappeared – abducted during my sleep or something). Everything still functions as you said (at least until lack of human maintenance causes things to break down)

If depression doesn’t set in (and end up ending my own life). I would realize I’m a male. Therefore is NO way to try to repopulate the earth. Even if I was female and had kids, their children would come out mentally messed up.

I would sit down and decide between two courses of action.

1) Stay where I am (Easy Bay Area, California) – the most likely decision, or
2) Get moving.

If I stay where I am, I will head out to the locksmith store then to the local CostCo. I could live there for YEARS (if I take the time to properly preserve the food). Food will be frozen (when the expiration date nears), the food court has cooking items (mmmmm pizzas for months), and they have mattresses, clothing, power tools, bathrooms, first aid kits, entertainment, even gas, a tire shop, and a demonstration vehicle! (which is at the moment a H3 Hummer).

After I got those affairs in order, I’d go to the gun store because it’s just a matter of time when the animals start attacking each other and me when I’m out and about. With an H3 hummer, I’d just make 3 trips and clean it out. I’d also go to my local fishing store since my CostCo is located about 200 yards from the bay. Once I ran outta food I could fish.

Then I would start preserving food. They sell those little vacuum sealer machines/bags. I’d separate the foods and start sealing them up, and sticking them in the freezer. I’d move food into the refrigerator/freezer. Even if the electricity stops, the coldness of the frozen food and the seals on the opening will continue to keep the food cold for quite some time.

If food runs out or spoils I can climb on top of my CostCo building and easily see and shoot game. I can cook with the propane BBQ grills CostCo has, along with the propane tanks.

Before the electricity goes down, I’d use CostCo’s laptops (break into the “cage” where they keep all the high price items) then travel until I found a wireless internet signal. Then I’d start to download everything. Music, porn (hey, there’s no other humans), movies, whatever you got, I’ll take it! I’d put the music onto ALL the iPods they have (because eventually I can’t recharge them when the batter dies).

Actually you know what? I’d just go out and find a bunch of generators! Fuck that, I don’t have to live without electricity! :-P

Once I got all the necessary stuff done, and I’m just about dying from boredom, I’d just start tearing down buildings, trying to restore the earth. I’d take the near-expired food to put out to keep the animals occupied (to prevent attacking me), and just start leveling stuff. Burn ‘em, blow them down with Internet info, whatever means necessary. Replant trees, bushes, flowers, whatever I find at Home Depot, K-mart, Orchard’s supply, nurseries, etc.

And that’s what I do. Pretty well thought out, isn’t it?

EDIT:

Some other things I would do.

Go to the bookstore and get a book about medicine. I just remembered CostCo also has a pharmacy. Get books on hunting, skinning and game prep, medicine and general self care, and.... cooking (Why? keep reading!)

Burn the wood pallets they put merchandise on (the non painted ones anyway) for general useage.

Put their bottled water into black garbage bags to prevent molding.

Use their flour and sugar and baking goods to make yummy-licious pastry.

Generators would eventually run out of gasoline. Would the gas stations pump gas without electricity? I'd probably find a place up north with a really good wood furnace, hook up solar panels for my electricity. Round up some cows for milk, chickens for eggs, start planting a garden, grab a few beef cattle, A dozen horses for transportation. KISS - right? No running out of gasoline with those. I'd have to turn to farming too. Find some older plows for hauling behind ox or horses. I'd PLAN to not have gasoline or electricity. Machinery, without knowledgeable repair will eventually break down. I know animals a little better than I know machinery. I can feed and train them better than fix machines.

Otherwise I would scavange all that I could from stores till the gasoline in any vehicle I could procure ran out. I'd have quite the stockpile of canned goods including tuna and canned chicken and spam. It would carry me through when the meat I could hunt and butcher wouldn't last in the heat of summer.

I'd probably go out naked a whole lot more.

That's priceless Texan :lol:

As a side note, any man that thinks somehow he can repopulate the earth or even have one child lacks information on the state of the art in biology on the subject.

Aint gunna happen. There is one way you MIGHT be able to do it, but how good of a C-section do you think you can give yourself? :lol:

Who thinks it'd be funny to kill yourself right away?

No funny was going to the zoo and eating all the animals. Killing youself right away is sort of passé, plus makes an awful novel.

I know how to siphon gas. I'm sure there would be a lot of cars around with gas in the tanks. It can be done without electricity.

yeah, there would be so many cars around wit gas in them you would never want for gas.

I'd go nick some food, a big screen tv, then find my nearest porn store.

Actually if this scenario actually happened, this would probably be the first and heavy thought that came to mind. Chances are I would.

But then, in my current situation, I think how much fun it would be to survive long enough to make a difference in my local area. That way if humans ever came back I can be referred to as, "CostCo Man" the guy who spent his lonely days surviving off of CostCo and making the surrounding area natural again.

I imagine the end results after I died would shorta like the Myan pyramids they found down in the jungle... still there, but covered by nature.

Quite honestly, I'd probably off myself within a week.

How would you know that there was no one left after 1 week? There are people who work underground and in biohazard facilities that might have survived.

Good point! But I still wouldn't want to raise all of them on my own!

I'm a woman. but i'm not so sure that i'd be willing to repopulate the planet single-handed. Not right away, at least. Having no one to help me change diapers would be difficult.

I would accept my role of mother eventually, though. Probably because I'd be terribly bored and want company. Knowing that I could make company, no matter how painful... might as well try.

Before the power grid fails, I would search out a sperm bank & take my pick of several hundred samples that would allow for the greatest possible diversity. Then I would take up residence at a solar-powered home in California, keep the potential children in an industrial freezer, and try to figure out the logistics of running a proper household by myself.

I'd probably stick near a university campus with a huge library, so I could have the proper references for any project I happened to think up. The blank slate of a world would offer plenty of opportunity for creativity. I just hope I wouldn't have to deal with the smell of rotting bodies and the rubble of complete destruction.

Go the gun store and then the range and enjoy the fact that there is no more gun control. Stock up on canned food. Eventually I would go to the library so I could learn to live off the land and go basically native. Supplementing what I couldn't create myself with whatever I can find around me. I hope that most canned goods won't go bad before I die :-(

As much as I'd like to think I'd do something more exciting, I'd probably go around looking for people just to make sure I was the last person on Earth. I'd imagine that would take quite a bit of time since the Earth is pretty big, so I'm not sure if I'd have time to do anything else.

There's already a thread on this exact topic with hundreds of responses around here somewhere, but I cannot find it...

First stop would be Home Depot to pick up a serious set of bolt cutters. Second stop would be the local gun store, using bolt cutters to gain access. After selecting, testing, practicing, and loading up, I’m ready to face the world. Quick detour – need to stop at REI for survival items.

Now, it would be a lot more fun with the hope of other "survivors" - it would become a quest and hope is a strong motivator. But the original premise was that you are the last person on Earth. With that in mind I’d have to say “good riddance” to the human race and quash any desire to resurrect it. Fatalistically, I’d have to turn hedonistic (oh darn!).

But first, I’d go exploring and see things I haven’t seen before. It would be difficult and very dangerous to cross an ocean solo so, initially, I'd stay on this land mass. Eventually I’d get bored enough to risk a large crossing with a top-of-the line sail boat and head to Europe for some more exploring. From there I can get to almost everywhere else (sorry Australia/New Zealand – maybe in the next imaginary life).

For those times where I want to settle down for a bit, I'd head towards the ocean to live: it'd be easier to consistently catch food from the sea than to hunt on dry land. I’d head somewhere tropical to minimize weather concerns (and enjoy the benefits of mass amounts of fruit). I’d find a nice place near the beach – high enough to reduce concern of tides/floods. Or maybe have two homes and move between them with the seasons.

Learning about medicine would be crucial. It would be very important to know how long the drugs remain viable and how to make them from scratch when the drugs have all expired or are dangerous to take. And you have to be careful: there's no one to help you if you break a leg. Can you imagine having to remove your own appendix? Don’t forget to floss – doing your own tooth extractions wouldn’t be fun.

Oh, and I’d pick up a traveling companion (conveniently, they're office is not far from my house). This would be more portable, though.

Great plan of action. But having been a pilot since 1993, I can assure you that it would be very difficult ( possible, but very unlikely ) that you could teach yourself to fly without actually at least having some lessions with an instructror.

As I have always told others, flying a plane is very very easy, it is the landing that can sometimes be a bitch.

After he cloned himself he could teach his clone to fly. Remember the old addage.."Those who can't do, Teach" Plus with all those clones, I'm sure one of them would make it on the ground.:thumbsup:

not to rain on some parades, but- Gasoline has a shelf life- it turns to laquer in about a year or so- and it will soak up water from the air as well- so one would be better served to locate an ethenol burning or all fuels vehic and spare parts (and repair manuals) and distill your own fuel - Do not know if motor oil has a shelf life- anyone? ps- generators also come in all fuels models- and solar is an option- lots of reading to do to make that work unless one was really handy though- the cloning would be difficulty or more likely impossible, but its not like you would have anything better to do- I think that bordedom and lonelyness would be the biggest enemy, so I would have pets- and would profoundly miss the people in my life.....

Raid the local library, hardware store, and grocery store first thing; beef jerky is a must. Get some hunting tools, and start practicing. Then I would definately read up on older cultures that survived without electicity, and mimic them. As for boredom, I'd probably undertake some insanely monumetal project like recreating a pyramid or something. Just in case someone did survive, they'd have something interesting to look at. :D

that actually was my first thought... I'd see how fast I can get going in a car before I got in an accident and oops.... there goes humanity.

The first month would be the hardest as various systems that previously had been running autonomously finally failed. The sheer amount of crap that would catch on fire in an urban area would make being able to move and move quickly a priority... So stock up a vehicle with survival kit and keep it nearby.

Once things stopped working, though, life would be pretty easy. Any of the big chain convenience stores that survived the fires would have enough non-perishable stuff to feed and supply a single human for years. Might be a good idea to get a gas mask for after the meat and produce have turned.

I'd stock up a utility van with basic survival kit and go somewhere with a nice year-round climate. Read a lot of books. Watch a lot of DVDs. Do a lot of drugs. Make the occassional trip to places I normally wouldn't be allowed to go just to see what was hidden there. Not a lot to it.

Re: Inbreeding and rebuilding the human race.
Returning cryogenically preserved ova and semen to a viable state isn't a matter of putting them out on the counter to thaw. Also, without a regular delivery of liquid nitrogen, they wouldn't be cryogenically perserved within a few days.
You might succeed in getting yourself pregnant and having one child. If that child happened to be male you can try it again in 12-15 years, assuming you both survive the birth and he survives childhood. If that child is female, oh well, tough shit. If you happen to be male... what exactly were you planning on doing with those embryos? Keep them in a shoebox for nine months?
Genetic diversity isn't as big of a problem as you might think. Instill in your offspring the pragmatic importance of culling the herd and the necessity of everybody getting down with everybody else. This will lead to some really fucked up ethical systems for several hundred years if you succeed in establishing a breeding population, but you'll be dead.
I don't think it's worth the trouble, and I'm male so I wouldn't have the option of trying it, anyway.

Nuclear power plants might continue operating unsupervised for several months. There's minimal risk of catastrophic failure under plausible initial conditions. They would probably end up damaged beyond reoperability by their own decay heat when they finally did shutdown, but I doubt anyone would ever be trying a start-up on one again, anyway.

As soon as I ensured that I was indeed the last person on earth, I'd probably kill myself. Not the most interesting plan, I know, but I'd rate the possibility of my surviving for very long pretty low anyway, and really, what would be the point?

Gilda

Oh man, that stuff would make GREAT fertalizer for crops, don't let it go to waste!!! Move it out and let it rot somewhere until you have a great big mulch pile.
How's that?
The failure is something that occours due to neglegence, something that might be a problem if there is only one person left. The cooling and safety systems are run on computers that are operated by trained technicians. If there's no one there to monitor the cooling systems, the core could (would) overheat and melt. This could potentially release highly radioactive fission products to the environment. That stuff sucks.

Removing radioactive materials from water can be tricky. I would suggest anion exchange resins combined with reverse osmosis, but I'm just a layman.

I would find myself a nice large 4x4 truck put a cap on the bed and get myself a hand crank gas siphen pump so i could suck gas out of the large underground tanks at gas stations. Then stop by a hardware store and get myself a few basic tools. Axe sledge hammer hammer nails some wood and any other basic supplys i think might come in handy. Then to the grocery stores to stock up on canned foods spam!! lots of canned veggies and all of that stuff. and dry foods that dont spoil pastas and that sort of thing. then i would make sure to eat stuff that does spoil first just because i know i wont get to enjoy it after that very often. then to a gun store to get myself a pistol something powerful maybe a .45 just for self defense from any animals that i might come across. would be something i could keep handy just in case. Then a large shotgun with plenty of slug ammo buck shot and game load for hunting duck and that sort of thing. Then a large Rifle something i think would be good and reliable and a crapload of ammo for that. Then get myself a nice compound bow and plenty of arrows and a good skinning knife and butcher knife and anything else i might think would be helpful for gutting and cleaning animals so i could eat the meat. Then a trip to a library to get myself some books. basic medical books with plenty of good first aid info and that sort of thing. Then books on survival and how to hunt and butcher your own meat. Just so i know im not doing anything horribly wrong. and any info i could get on solar power and wind power. Then to a few military bases to load up on those MRE meals that have a crazy long shelflife and all the first aid and survival stuff and medication i could get my paws on. then getmyself ready for a long road trip. then off to find myself a perfect spot to live for the rest of my life. Hopefully somewhere with some wind turbines making power with some sort of orchard near by with fruits growing. apples oranges and that sort of thing would be great. Find myself a nice house near by thats powered by those turbines then just in case go find a bunch of solar panals to load up on the house and anywhere else i have room to mount them. That way power wont be a problem. I would try to make a animal friendly envirorment near by so i have stuff to hunt. deer cow sheep chickens and that sort of thing. Then collect any info i could find on farming but not all modern farming because after a while the gas will go bad and using a big tractor isnt going to work. so i would need to go back to animal power but that would work since i would just need to feed myself. Would grow stuff that would be good for both me and any animals i might want to keep. Then it would be time to go to california to snag myself a large car carrior truck and some of those fancy electric cars that recharge plugging into the wall outlet. I would make sure i get as many as possible so when one breaks im not totaly out of luck. So then i would have my basics

Well water fruit veggies first aid stuff hunting stuff animals hopefully will be able to manage to deal with basic farm animal stuff. chickens for eggs cows milk beef and that sort of thing... i like pork but pigs smell bad so yeah im not gonna farm those. Power from solar and wind and as many dvds and basic comforts of home that i would normaly have. After a while the internet and stuff would fail and that would be annoying. but at least i would have video games and all the dvds i could handle. But with all the farming stuff just for basic survival i would be fairly busy as it was. Would have to get a few pets to keep me from going nuts. Would have cats that i would let go outdoors whenever they wanted to keep mice and rats under control to keep disease from being that big of a problem. Where every i picked to live would have to have at least a river near by so i could fish just to get some alterintives to my diet. Would make sure i stocked up on stuff to fix anything that might go wrong at the house. Lots of wood and metal and wood and metal tools welder and saws and whatever else might be handy. a Large trailer that i would use to haul off garbage far from where i live to keep things clean and healthy. then i woul dneed to think of the joys of the septic system Because after a few years that things gonna fill up and i dont need my own waste backing up into the house. So i would need to find a way to drain the tank and haul it away.

I wouldnt try to repopulate the planet. But i would spend time making sure i was the only person left. I think for the most part i would be ok living on my own. Would have plenty of books to read and movies to watch and work to do to keep me busy. Have a few dogs to play with to keep me from getting too lonely. Heat and AC from fireplace and solar/wind power and a electric furnace. Would be a comfortable life i think. In a way it would be peaceful and pleasant. Wouldnt need to worry about any crazy people screwing things up for you. would just need to plan ahead and be very careful not to get hurt. A broken leg could really be a pain in the butt. Basicly it wouldnt be so bad if everyone just vanished. Now if there was a plauge or some sort of apocolipse with scattered people left around i think it would be harder. because you never know what desperate people might do. At least if you know your alone you know your the top of the food chain. if others were left scattered about you never know what kinda freak might show up to steal your stuff kill you eat you rape you or whatever. Sure animals can be dangerous too but.. a wild animal looking for a meal would sooner go after the farm animals then a person. And thats what having the guns around is for.

after i was settled in i wouldnt take any risks i didnt have to. no excessive traveling or anything. Now a road trip a few hundred miles is nothing. but when you have abandoned cars all over the place from when people vanished it would be a pain just getting around. No reason to go out and risk getting hurt and stranded far from the safety of home where i know i had supplys.

The nearest electronics store will have a large number of DVDs, portable DVD players, and batteries. And I'd probably hook up a generator at some point, anyway. They have casualty scenarios that involve all of the operators being killed and access to the control areas being precluded by steam or radiation. Fission product release to the environment is near-zero probability. Catastropic core damage requires some fairly unusual assumptions about power history and material condition. Decay heat will damage the electrical windings in the motors of the coolant pumps and rod drive systems. I'd recommend getting your water from somewhere else. Like bottled water from the nearest convenience store.

Wait? Are you aware that you will need a female to carry the child? A baby can be concieved in a test tube but you will need a mother to carry it.