You get an unlimited supply of a single item to survive post-apocalypse. What are you choosing, and why?
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Easy answers first. Potable water! You need it every day, helps with sanitation, growing food, etc.
If you wanted more like discrete consumable objects, keflex.
Edit: Or salt!
Ooh, salt is a good one!
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Fuel cans probably.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
What flavor of apocalypse matters a lot. If it's zombies, ammo becomes critical. If it's nuclear, ammo is less important and water filtration probably becomes critical. If it's a gigantic asteroid that blots out the sun, water is easy to find but food is critical.
For an unknown apocalypse, I think I'll go with gasoline. Not critical in and of itself, but helps a lot more generally with a lot of stuff, being able to power a generator and move camp more easily.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
All you big brains saying water.
My first thought was soybeans, since they're so versatile. Or corn for the same reason. Granted, I don't have any way to process them so I didn't think it through.
But a food source that also provides water would be a good idea. Watermelon is too sweet to be your primary food though.
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What flavor of apocalypse matters a lot. If it's zombies, ammo becomes critical. If it's nuclear, ammo is less important and water filtration probably becomes critical. If it's a gigantic asteroid that blots out the sun, water is easy to find but food is critical.
For an unknown apocalypse, I think I'll go with gasoline. Not critical in and of itself, but helps a lot more generally with a lot of stuff, being able to power a generator and move camp more easily.
What if it's like impact winter? Asteroid, forever blocked out sun, winter, and vampires.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Fresh, hot pizza from Ray's.
Not fresh at the time of the apocalypse. Fresh at the time I seek it.
Of course that would mean I would also get a steady supply of clean water and of all the ingredients required to make the pizza. But that is simply a secondary side effect of having made my choice for the one, single thing.
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Fresh, hot pizza from Ray's.
Not fresh at the time of the apocalypse. Fresh at the time I seek it.
Of course that would mean I would also get a steady supply of clean water and of all the ingredients required to make the pizza. But that is simply a secondary side effect of having made my choice for the one, single thing.
For all you know it would be a drone coming to you to deliver the hot pie directly, not a delivery of all raw ingredients. Then again, you know the old saying, to make a pizza from scratch you first need to create the universe.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Paracord. You can weave it into just about anything. Can probably also weave a water filter.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Toilet paper. During apocalyptic scenarios, it's worth is apparently uncountable, so I will be able to trade it and live a life of opulence.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
Bottle caps.
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What if it's like impact winter? Asteroid, forever blocked out sun, winter, and vampires.
Enough gasoline could blow the asteroid up, preventing the whole thing. Forever blocked sun means no food but with gasoline you can power lamps for the plants. Burn gasoline to keep warm against the winter and burn vampires using gasoline. It is a christian invention after all /s
Gasoline doesn't seem like a bad choice tbh. Also good for trading if, for example, water is scarce.
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clean water
This really is it. Sure, a high water ratio soup would provide both nourishment and fluids for living, but basic clean water allows for cleaning and the ability to grow food or trade for other stuff.
Plus truly unlimited means you can start your own river to help society recover!
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All you big brains saying water.
My first thought was soybeans, since they're so versatile. Or corn for the same reason. Granted, I don't have any way to process them so I didn't think it through.
But a food source that also provides water would be a good idea. Watermelon is too sweet to be your primary food though.
You can make pretty nice savoury dishes with watermelon.
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clean water
If you are going that route: Rule of 3
3 minutes without oxygen. 3 days without water. 3 weeks without food (I think it is also "3 hours without shelter" but that is a much more environmental factor and feels shoehorned in). And, depending on the apocalypse, clean air can be hard to come by.
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Toilet paper. During apocalyptic scenarios, it's worth is apparently uncountable, so I will be able to trade it and live a life of opulence.
Got that covered .... I'm still going through my excess toilet paper supply I bought during the start of the 2020 pandemic. When people started clearing the shelves of toilet paper, we panicked and bought several whole cases of the stuff. It was completely insane.
I haven't bought toilet paper in five years.
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Water; for living
Evil Genie: "Granted." It starts to rain. It never stops.
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Evil Genie: "Granted." It starts to rain. It never stops.
Like that time it rained for two million years
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Evil Genie: "Granted." It starts to rain. It never stops.
"I've seen drier days on Ferenginar. And we have a hundred seventy-eight different words for rain. Right now it's glebbening out there. And that's bad."
- Quark
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
wrote last edited by [email protected]a thermos of fruit smoothies that is forever cold and will not run out. This kinda work with all kind of apocalypse because foods and drinks is the number 1 thing that would hard to come by, and smoothie is both food and water.
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I’m thinking either Bic lighters or cigarettes, just to trade
wrote last edited by [email protected]Ongoing? Fresh clean salad
. This assumes I can scrounge/ kill/ for other kinds of food. It implies there's a source somewhere, so perhaps I could trace it, for water and arable land. It contains clean water, and while lettuces are not a super food they have C which I can't store and K which is good for cuts. And if necessary I could wipe my ass with a leaf of it .
