What If: Human Survival Test

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Do you think that humans could survive the war against nature

  • Yes (With arachnids & bugs)

    Votes: 19 47.5%

  • No (With arachnids & bugs)

    Votes: 16 40.0%

  • Yes (Without arachnids & bugs)

    Votes: 23 57.5%

  • No (Without arachnids & bugs)

    Votes: 6 15.0%
  • Total voters
    40
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SCENARIO: You wake up tomarrow and everything in the animal kingdom excluding human beings are set on destroying the human race, do you think that the humans could survive this fight against nature.

RULES: You must state in your post why you feel the way you do. There are two fights to make things fair: Humans v. Animal Kingdom & Humans v. Animal Kingdom excluding bugs and arachnids. Please pick one with bugs and one without in the poll

MY OPINION: I feel that the humans would easily lose to bugs and arachnids alone, but I think that without those species, the humans can defeat nature easily. So first fight goes to animals, second fight goes to humans
 
Every single human being, versus every single other life form on the face of the planet? (excluding bacteria, insects and arachnids) We wouldn't stand a chance. Imagine every single ungulate on the face of the earth in a giant stampede against us. Even if we could spray them with bullets most of us would be dead.
 
Yes definitely, we can handle all of the rest of the kingdom. I don't understand why we need to be so concerned with insects or arachnids either. You can't assume that they suddenly get smart and come after us intelligently. Even if they all wanted to kill us, they wouldn't know how.

We have chemicals at our disposal that could absolutely obliterate them. For crying out loud, we have coatings that we can put on our skin that do them in. This guy:

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...is not exactly the bees' best friend. Doesn't seem to slow him down.
 
You have to remember that (in this circumstance) they've started pursuing us actively, like we're a major threat. Guns and beekeeper suits will only do so much against every single animal on the face of the earth chasing us when they see us.
 
I'd win single handedly, as long as the wild cats don't come down from the mountains. I couldn't kill a cat. I love them too much, but anything else is getting axed in the head as soon as it turns on me. Even the ants.
 
We'll win the battle, but not the war.
Soon after we kill everything off, mankind will shortly and surely cease to survive. If only the bees died off, we'd be in big trouble - in less than a month.

That's a nice fantasy though and the basis of many a movie.

If I were to play the game of 'what if' then I'd say, yeah, bugs would get most of us. Eventually.
 
What if the survivors of the initial assault managed to live in the artic regions? At least you could minimise the amount of animals which could operate in such conditions.

What am I saying, let's start a cull just in case. I vote we start with the cats. Definitely an animal with alterior motives. :dopey:
 
If everyone got their hands on some firearms, I think it could be done. The animals big enough to take you down probably couldn't sneak up very easily, and the smaller animals can but aren't dangerous enough. That just leaves you with sorting out the venomous animals. :scared:
 
axletramp
What if the survivors of the initial assault managed to live in the artic regions? At least you could minimise the amount of animals which could operate in such conditions.

What am I saying, let's start a cull just in case. I vote we start with the cats. Definitely an animal with alterior motives. :dopey:
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No those small fish will jump out of the sea a slap you around, the most deadly of deadly moves.:dopey::dopey:
 
We'd lose. The average family would be wiped out in their sleep by the family dog. The rest of us would be picked off by disease ridden rodents sent in on suicide missions to infect us with some nasty plague, or have our eyes ripped out by dive bombing falcons and finished off by some farmers crazy bull who's hell bent on revenge for you eating his delicious family.
 
SRV2LOW4ME
We'd lose. The average family would be wiped out in their sleep by the family dog. The rest of us would be picked off by disease ridden rodents sent in on suicide missions to infect us with some nasty plague, or have our eyes ripped out by dive bombing falcons and finished off by some farmers crazy bull who's hell bent on revenge for you eating his delicious family.
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This man speaks the truth. 👍
 
Excluding microorganisms, I agree with Danoff that the animal kingdom has no chance against humans. Household chemicals would be able to dispatch most insects while simple traps would take care of many neighborhood animals. For the bigger things, we have guns, man. Guns.

I think the biggest immediate threat would be large domestic dogs, since many people have them as pets. Hopefully they left him outside overnight.
 
You're probably doomed with cats alone. Everyone knows they want world domination. Even Jenkins will want to kill us!
 
This thread is so stupid. If we can kill each other en masse, animals are nothing.
 
PeterJB
If everyone got their hands on some firearms, I think it could be done. The animals big enough to take you down probably couldn't sneak up very easily, and the smaller animals can but aren't dangerous enough. That just leaves you with sorting out the venomous animals. :scared:
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Yep, lock and load, that's the only way we can survive. And with guns and weapons, we must use the enviroment to our advantange so we know what to do. Using our surroundings will prove to be very useful with weapons. Even before ancient cities and empires, our ancestors had to adapt to where they live in order to survive.

For a example: If you live near a mountain region with a dense forest, climbing rocks, cliffs, trees and using caverns for hideouts will ensure some hope.

Since all creatures will be after us, the most dangerous ones are mountain lions, bears, wolves, birds of prey and moose. These animals are a threat because of either their size, defence/offence attacks or both. So the use of a shotgun, sniper rifle, Desert Eagle and a assualt rifle will be helpful, if not, we can improvise and use the enviroment in our aid for survivial. Setting traps, making weapons and using dead animals/plants to lure animals to their doom. Plus we have someting to eat as well because of the animals we killed off.

So we can win the fight as long we study the region we live in and adapt to the enviroment and use weapons as well.
 
I guess for me my only immediate threat would be my dogs. One's a beagle and weighs about 25 pounds, she wouldn't be much trouble to dispatch. My other dog is a medium sized dog, about 40-50 pounds. She'd be more of a challenge but I think I'd be OK. There's a pair of welding gloves downstairs that we use to put wood in the fireplace, they're pretty good at minimizing the affect of my dog's bite, and she isn't big or strong enough to knock me over.

If I get through my dogs it's pretty much home free though, I'd go out to the shed and grab the guns, 20ga. and 12ga. Shotgun, and a .22, then my family would probably meet up with my neighbour's family, because he has quite the collection of guns, and we'd be able to set up a pretty well defended homestead, especially with the lack of truly dangerous animals around my area. If we had to drive anywhere we'd be in a VW Touareg or a pickup truck, perfectly capable of running down most animals in my area, besides deer who would be a quick dispatch with a shotgun.
 
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You'd probably have to go all Bear Grylls too, and smear yourself in some other scent that isn't human. Breaking up your figure is an obvious factor too, as we humans have very distinctive shapes. By breaking up your figure I don't mean go and throw yourself in front of a bus to break bones - I mean dress up as a bush or something. We'd all have to be cautious of sounds we make, so talking would be reduced to hand signals. Shadows are problems too, and be careful of where you stand in the wind. We all know how easy it is for a deer to catch a scent of us.
 
Imagine death by squirells. I probably have 30 in my backyard on any given day. Terrifying.
 
Britain would probably be OK. Africa probably not, and America might be OK.

And anyway, we'd be fine in Aircraft, unless massive birds started going kamikaze into the proppellors/jets, although I doubt they are that clever.
 
We would not survive against all animals combined, even without insects and arachnids. You have to realize that humans will not win the war in a day, so we would have to sleep and such. The big cats such as panthers and tigers can see in the dark and kill us while we sleep, so will wolves and bears.

The only way we could possibly 'win' is to go out at sea on ships and eat fish for food. Other than that, I cannot see humanity survive the animal kingdom attacking them all out.
 
Of course we'll win, we've got a magical little evolution that no other creature on earth has; intelligence. It's not going to be a cake walk, and I'm sure many, many will die, but excluding the little creepy crawlies, we'd figure out the main jist of survival quickly.
 
Stormtrooper217
The big cats such as panthers and tigers can see in the dark and kill us while we sleep, so will wolves and bears.
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If only you had some sort of sealed pod nearby that you could get in that would prevent the cats and bugs from getting you in your sleep. Optimally that pod would be able to filter air preventing insects from getting in but also have a hard shell that could prevent panthers (if you live near those) and even bears from getting in. You'd also (optimally) want that pod to be mobile so that you can move away from danger without having to expose yourself. We could call the pod an "automobile". This "automobile" would take lots of engineering and be expensive, but it'd be worth it to have one in a closed-off section of your house called a "garage" to make sure that you could survive this attack.

SRV
The average family would be wiped out in their sleep by the family dog.
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What? Dogs are defeated by things like "doors". To make matters worse, my dogs can't even fend for themselves. They'd get hungry enough if I waited a few days (or a few minutes) that they'd probably even be willing to do tricks for food... even if they wanted to kill me.
 
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