Out of curiousity...
Posted by MacroKaiju on Sat, 2008-05-10 16:07
 "Anthrocon's (un)official brewermaster and beer delivery reptile" Location: Hyde Park NY
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Do you think furs would still make the pilgrimage to AC or any other furry convention if say Mel Gibson's classic Mad Max like future came to be? Ya it might be rough to ride to Pittsburgh on horseback or in modified dune buggies and we might not quite see 3000 furs but would you still come? I'd sure as hell try. And not them I'm saying what next year's theme should be... but just because there's no gas doesn't mean furrys will go extinct... right? |
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Location: Chester County, PA, North America
Hey man the setting your thinking of is called dystopic society or Post-Apocalyptic. I'm alllll about the apocalypse. My opinion is no there probably won't even be many furs left after nuclear war or natural disasters or something like that. Even if there was it would be too dramatic to even think about a convention. You crazay boy!! :]
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permalinkLocation: DelMarVa
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Maybe some milfurs, and those of us who're also a part of survivalist nut communities :3 But we'd be too busy fighting irradiated zombies and fending off looters to worry about furry stuff, I think.
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permalinkLocation: Chester County, PA, North America
I'm not even sure us survivalists will survive. I mean, unless we can get a shack or something in the middle of nowhere, say, tornado alley(if your in america) then you might survive. But I say it'd be prettttyyyy hard to survive nuclear attacks when we live so close to major cities.
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Being a tornado alley dweller myself, remember in my hometown of Wichita that we have Boeing, Raytheon, Beechcraft, Cessna, etc. All of whom (or at least most) have contributed to air support in wars. We have Fort Riley near my town and several other famous military bases, as well as McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. Kansas City has an international airport.
Even tornado alley has it's worries.
West Kansas, now...well that's a different story--that might be the place to live if you're worried about nuclear strikes.
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permalinkLocation: DelMarVa
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Never said anything about nukes. Nukes mean we're all toasty anyways
They'll do a THOROUGH job of bombing america into an afterthought. I know I would.
Montana's the way to go, though. The dakotas, too. Cold breezes coming down from canada will keep most of the dust(Of which the closest bomb to drop SHOULD be LA or at worst, seattle) away from the area, plus it isn't TERRIBLY harsh weather, assuming you've prepped for cold weather survival. Better than some of the canadian provinces, anyways. Also, remote enough that patrols won't come near to sweep and clear the area.
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permalinkLocation: Fredericksburg, VA
As I read these posts, I was thinking of Yellowstone being a good place to crash for the time being. Mountains will keep most of the stuff out.
But then, I'm not particularly close to a city. DC being an obvious target rich environment, most of the nuclear debris would drift eastwards away from me.
-Rover T. Mutt
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I think that those of us in charge would be too busy trying to find food to be running a furry convention.
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permalinkLocation: Youngstown, OH
I am reminded of a class where the teacher gave us a scenario "An alien invasion has leveled all cities in the world to the ground. What do you do to rebuild?" and despite my efforts to convince them farms would be the best way to go, the members of my group insisted on building Las Vagas style gambling casinos. The failed abysmally at explaining either where the labor, food, and water would come from let alone the fact that paper money would likely be rendered virtually worthless except for kindling...
That said furries would probably not die out. Humanity has had a long history of interest in non-humans. Assuming any survived people would probably adopt them as totems.
If it were just a matter of no fuel, I think local furmeets would still happen. I'm not sure about national or international ones, especially since planes rely entirely on fuel.
If nuclear war happened I doubt there would be many survivors of any kind left.
"Furry is a state of mind."
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If it was a nuclear apocalypse, only the chairman would survive!
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Not quite; flour beetles appear to handle radiation better:
http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/page/Cockroach+Survival
http://mythbusters-wiki.discovery.com/pageSearch?contains=cockroach&submit=+
Ron
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Yes, I saw that episode too. But you're forgetting, he's also a SAMURAI cockroach. Katanas make you able to survive ALL apocalyptic scenarios. The movies tell us so! And in this sort of silly scenario, movie logic wins.
The only thing that might possibly be able to defeat him would be zombie pirates.
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permalinkLocation: Alaska
The cockroach radiation theory on only cockroaches would survive a nuclear zone is bunk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm
Nuclear radiation keeps people out and the animals in, I could only hope someone floods rainforests and other reserves in order to protect the natural resources.
I'm very happy Chernobyl happened, it led to a better understanding of nuclear zones and the affect on the environment.
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Yes, I know. But it's funnier the other way.
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permalinkLocation: Fredericksburg, VA
Interestingly, those that are local to the area fair better than those that aren't.
I had lived just south of Heidelberg, Germany when Chernobyl went up. I remember having to take two baths a day for months. But I haven't developed a third eye or mutated yet. Nor have I gained inhuman powers. Bummer.
-Rover T. Mutt
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rar...
and besides, shouldn't be easier to plan a convention with less than 10 attendants? I mean, a smaller convention hall coser to Philly, you don't need the Dorsi, no bouncy the wonder truck, no 2 mile hike between the estin and artist alley, the elevator isn't as crowded, it'll be easier to get a commish on day 3, and... yea.
thus the theory Anthrocon would continue!
Now, waht would happen in the Tank Girl future? would we see an explosion in roos and kowalas?
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permalinkLocation: Youngstown, OH
Well furries would be more likely in that scenario, but then again so would FLCL... are you sure even furries would be able to handle that?
"Furry is a state of mind."
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rar...
are you suggesting that furs would not be able to handle rampant insanity and a cartoon like environment?
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Rampant insanity and a cartoon environment furs I'm not worried about - it's the power. The universe could be ours to command, to control! Not to mention we'd likely be the only sane ones capable of dealing rationally in the situation....
"Furry is a state of mind."
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wait flcl as in fooly cooly?
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That would be it
"Furry is a state of mind."
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permalinkthere would be no need to travel anywhere, furry fandom will be the future in any case, the apocalypse would strike when anthrocon had reached maximum capacity and just after the chairman had had shielding installed and other such devices as well as everything needed for survival then we would all be in one place at one time and all would survive, furry friends of all forms i say "WE ARE THE FUTURE!!!" LOL! XD
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rar...
This is a very ambitous prediction. You do realiize that by the time the time comes that we reach capacity we might as well not leave Pitsburgh. there are 4 or 5 hotels in the downtown area near the convwntion center and for us to fill out the convention center itself would probably require 8000 furs (given the size of the dealer's den compared to the 2800 attendees last year) or more. By which point Uncle Kage would be the zombified fomer chairmen hinted to on his "news from the future" segment from 2sense. Naturally, with 8000 furs attending there would be no parking so we would have to "migrate" to the city of pittsburgh and set up residence. We would become the Mecca of our furry community. All furs would want to live within this "dome" you speak of that would be downtown Pittsburgh (kinda like in dawn of the dead and including the David L. Lawrence convention center naturally). We would only survive as videogame consultants and companies as well as all the outsourced IT and similar jobs.
Of course this is a worst-case scenario. but that's the whole point of the thread >:3
your thoughts Kage?
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Considering how many furs are already moving to Pittsburgh, or are planning to, I'd say this is already happening. It's already like a furry con every weekend when I drive up there
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wow really? that's kinda wierd but it makes sense in a way. if you think about it most furs are on the lookout for other furs and since AC has moved it's not to suprising that sme furs moved with it. now the question is will this trend continue until we displace or recruit the "normal human" population? I can only wish. I want to live in a dome city where the fursuit prade is 24 7... ish.... that'd actually get boring after a couple days. but there shuld still be a furry colony.
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It would certainly give Kage, myself, and other scientist furs a large group of test subjects! >:}
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permalinkPost-apocalyptic furry con?
But what would you use as ID at registration?
State ID card? There's no more STATE.
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rar...
um... your FA/DA/VCL/FAP profile? Or maybe your conbadge?
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Well, after the Apocalypse, we just check you for the Mark of the Beast.
Though as I'm a pre-millenialist, I'm not planning to be around then.
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I'm holding out for the Singularity.
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Out of curiosity, what if the Singularity turned out to be biological instead of mechanical? I'm currently writing a series of stories about life pre and post Singularity, where the escalation factor was increases in genetic and biological technologies over mechanical and computer. The intelligence the was brought forth from it was a world consciousness in animals that very few humans could understand, let alone actually tap into. It's the struggle of humanity to remain relevant, much less primary, and the struggle of their creations between their instincts and augmented capabilities against their burgeoning intellects and the realization that they were forcing their own creators to the bring of extinction.
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