In a situation where you only have the clothes you stand up in, no other equipment, no food then you are stuffed. There would be no point hanging around trying to survive, you would need to get yourself out of there, so depending on how fit you are then you might only just get out alive.
Could you truely survive?
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This type of question was raised a while back. The conclusion was that being overweight was a good thing sometimes 
So long as there was potable water some of us might survive quite a long time
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M
So long as there was potable water some of us might survive quite a long time
cheers,
M
I think that ingenuity would play a massive role because as you say we would have a suitcase with "normal" Holiday stuff. for me this would include things like goggles, snorkel etc and a miriad of other things plus stuff that can be salvaged from the wreckage of the plane. As for a knife you could fashion a knife from flint or the like. I'm not saying i could survive for deffinate but i'd give a bloody good go thats for sure!!
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I don't think we have to go back as far as prehistoric times for that particular world, 200 years should suffice, a world before matches, modern medicine and what we would call safe water. to be honest I think any of us if we were thirsty enough would drink whatever was available and deal with the possible consequences afterwards.
uggh, yeah I forgot about health issues...I'd be in trouble, lol
I think your life would be:
adapt, improve, move, adapt, improve, move, adapt, improve, move,
Anymore than that most of us would go do-lally like that guy that tried surviving in Canada for a year.
or Tom Hanks( in survivor)
We were out for a walk/forage yesterday (SWMBO and the little fella and I) and I had a look at what was in my pockets. I realised that if we were stranded, we could make a shelter (SAK), light a fire (lighter), leave a note for rescuers (pen and paper), and then find the car and drive home (car keys).
Seriously though, being in a bushy frame of mind and with the improvisation and craft skills that it opens up, I think any of us would have a slightly better chance of surviving a given situation, but possibly only slightly. I have 3 weeks' worth of survival rations around my waist, so my priorities would be shelter (fuselage of the plane), water (bottled, condensation, dig a whole in a depression, melt snow) and fire. I reckon I'd have a chance, but would I be able to watch the little fella dying in front of me for instance? Would I want to survive that? I don't know.
When one reads survival stories, the common thread that comes through is an absolute bloody-minded determination to get through, possibly allied to a slight lack of imagination. My endurance sport training might help in this (one foot in front of the other, over and over again). But I'd also like to have a BOB with me...
Seriously though, being in a bushy frame of mind and with the improvisation and craft skills that it opens up, I think any of us would have a slightly better chance of surviving a given situation, but possibly only slightly. I have 3 weeks' worth of survival rations around my waist, so my priorities would be shelter (fuselage of the plane), water (bottled, condensation, dig a whole in a depression, melt snow) and fire. I reckon I'd have a chance, but would I be able to watch the little fella dying in front of me for instance? Would I want to survive that? I don't know.
When one reads survival stories, the common thread that comes through is an absolute bloody-minded determination to get through, possibly allied to a slight lack of imagination. My endurance sport training might help in this (one foot in front of the other, over and over again). But I'd also like to have a BOB with me...
...resort to cannibalism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571
read the book, it's amazing, it' goes into peoples feelings ethics, religious concerns, hunger, fear, cold, and even constipation.
Don't bother with the Hollywood film version, it's...well it's Hollywood, nuff said.
Apparently, and this was a surprise for me, there are 660 people for every square mile of the United Kingdom and obviously there are large parts of the UK that are unsuited for the growing of crops. So yes, there isn't enough space.
Hypothetically I would knapp some stones to shape a basic cutting tool
After that I would build a basic shelter.
I would then build a basic bear trap.
Once I have caught a bear I would knock it out then skin it and stretch the fur.
I would butcher the meat and store it in the trees.
When the fur has been prepped I would wear it for warmth and camo.
After that I would build a basic shelter.
I would then build a basic bear trap.
Once I have caught a bear I would knock it out then skin it and stretch the fur.
I would butcher the meat and store it in the trees.
When the fur has been prepped I would wear it for warmth and camo.
Remembering this guy, Ed Wardel and how he got on in Canada with firearms, knives, shelter, firemaking tools and even an electric "bear fence", he would not have survived much longer had he not called it off. He says the isolation of being alone out there was the worst bit.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/alone-in-the-wild-ed-after-the-wild
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/alone-in-the-wild-ed-after-the-wild
problem is that takes energy and could take a long time with limited resources.
sorry...a BEAR? where d'you find them in the UK?
assuming you've found a random wild Bear wandering around the M25 could I suggest killing it first from a distance with an f'ing huge gun! you know that a Bear is very capable of killing a human?
Could I strongly suggest you start by hunting rabbits, and work your way up to things with teeth and claws?
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Trying to 'knock out' a bear is perhaps not a good move although it would nominate you for a Darwin Award.
Rap no need to swear...
It's all hypothetical...
you'd like to find "F'ing" in the dictionary for me?
OK, he should invest in a formidable firearm with a rather corpulent projectile .
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