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Post by yodaturk on Mar 8, 2007 22:36:50 GMT -5
No no! Think people! No electricity. No wiring. No power lines. No generators. No batteries.
How would you make it through the winter? Summer?
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Post by Hephzibah on Mar 8, 2007 23:31:43 GMT -5
Get your arse up girl and do it ....just being silly
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Mickey
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Cogito ergo sum/Carpe diem!
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Post by Mickey on Mar 9, 2007 12:35:54 GMT -5
Master Turk, I'm shuddering to think of the implications! The utter chaos and confusion that would ensue! Ee Gads Man!!! It would be like we were living at the Faire everyday, but guess what, it wouldn't be as fun!!!! I've always said medieval times are a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there!!
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Post by tomnaboley on Mar 9, 2007 21:14:27 GMT -5
We would do what our cave men did..FIRE
All you really need is fire,water and plants to live. Also; body warmth...snuggle with the loved ones.
Kat
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Post by Edward St. Vincent on Mar 9, 2007 22:41:45 GMT -5
I would have to handcraft a press and typeset so we could have a printing press. I can survive as long as I know my books will survive too.
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Mar 9, 2007 22:43:02 GMT -5
Under the scenario you suggest life would be pretty much like what you see in any movie set in the time period of say 1860 to 1880, maybe even a little earlier, as the telegraph was electric. So life as we know it would pretty much not exist. Our personal transportation would be an "Oatsmobile," Our homes would be heated by coal or wood. Or Bison turds, if you lived out on the prairie, though I don't think we have enough Bison anymore, but cow patties should work just as well. Lighting: kerosene, or something like that. Washing cloths: a big pot of boiling water, stirred with a stick, and drying on a cloths line. No Diesel locomotives as they are actually run by electric motors, the diesel just powers a generator. So it's back to steam engines, and wind power.
Yep! these are the "GOOD OLE DAYS" your Grandpa would tell you about. Hate to break it to ya, but Grampa was full o' crap! The so call good old day were just a bunch of hard work!
And! The Middle Ages? Like Mickey said, a nice place to visit and fantasize about, but you sure as hell wouldn't want to live there day in and day out. If any of you watched Barbarians Week on the History Channel all you had were a bunch of sociopaths hell bend on conquering one another by bashing in the oppositions skulls. Throw in a few plagues for extra added fun and there ya have it. Your daily life. So I doubt any of us want an authentic medieval life style. HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Mar 10, 2007 0:19:43 GMT -5
Yep. No gasoline as there would be no way to pump it No running water or sewer systems. No processed foods. No manufactured clothing. And no jobs. At least what we are used to. As there wouldn't be any big corporations, no factories, none of that stuff.
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Post by Mickey on Mar 10, 2007 10:40:46 GMT -5
Yeah Trevor, no one could have a job back then, cause they were too busy taking care of their everyday needs. Survival was their job!
I absolutely love going to the Faire, but you couldn't get me to go back there and live, not on a bet, baby!! Especially for a women. No Way!!!
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Post by bunbun / Hank on Mar 10, 2007 12:31:22 GMT -5
Trevor...I must disagree with some of what you said.
No running water or sewer systems: Well, the Romans had that and they certainly had no electricity. So we could copy what they did. It might not be as efficient as what we have now, but it would work to a degree.
No manufactured clothing: Again, going back to frontier days, you had textile mills, they were run by water power, but they were able to produce cloth and even finished clothing.
Factories: Ya, they were around. mostly powered again by water, and later steam. You had a big boiler that turned a piston, much like a railroad locomotive, which turned a wheel with a big leather belt around it which powered the machine. If you ever get up to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, the have an example of an old "industrial Revolution" factory there. Quite interesting.
Gasoline: It was around in the 1860's. a by product of making kerosene for lamps. They just discarded it as they had no use for it at that time. I would think they probably had some sort of hand operated pumps to dispense it. You know, the type you see on old water wells in the western movies. But as Master Turk stated; with NO electricity, no battery's, no ignition systems, etc. you would have to hand crank your diesel car, and with the 20 to 1 compression ratios they operate on you would have to be the Hulk to do it.
So yes! a hell of a lot of our lives would change. But some things would still exist, though on a much smaller scale, as it was 150 or so years ago. HANK.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Mar 10, 2007 18:37:09 GMT -5
Yes Hank, they had all that back then. But, things are different now. And everything would need to be done on a much larger scale with the popularion we have now. Where are we going to get the wood to run steam engines? Most of it has been cut down to put in housing complexes.
I could see building an aquaduct someplace like New York city, but out here? Don't think the work would be worth the return.
Yeah, there were textile mills. But where are we going to get the raw materials? And how are you going to transport it? Horses aren't nearly as plentiful as they used to be.
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Post by SwordSchoolGroupie on Mar 11, 2007 17:35:37 GMT -5
oh I don't know.... hey joe you see a lot of horses lately?? I know I am sick of seeing 'em all time. they go so slow........
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Post by SwordSchoolGroupie on Mar 11, 2007 17:36:57 GMT -5
CANDLES yeah!
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Post by me on Apr 9, 2007 16:00:33 GMT -5
No no! Think people! No electricity. No wiring. No power lines. No generators. No batteries. How would you make it through the winter? Summer? I'd invent electricity , wiring, power lines, generators, and batteries. so yes, I would survive the winter and summer, in fact I bet I could make it through the spring and fall too.
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Post by yodaturk on Apr 16, 2007 21:38:20 GMT -5
As I watched a couple birds crawl out from their newly begun nest, now smashed into the ground by the lovely spring gale force winds of Pennyslvania, I pondered - yes - I pondered;
Does this flight path follow the original meaning of "as the crow flies"? Alas, they were not crows but did look like drunken knights attempting to negotiate the path to their rented rooms as they staggered through the branches and into the "freedom" of the open yard.
Reaching safety out from under the oak gained them but a brief respite as they were blown tumbling accross the grass several yards before gaining their bearings and lifting off. I am always curious how birds can be flying for all they are worth and still seem to go backwards and sideways.
Must have been trained backwards by their parents, as a joke....
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