What Survived the Apocalypse?

[azurbanclucker]

I don't eat twinkies.

use 'em as bait.

 

[ShrekDawg]

use 'em as bait.

For what? The cockroaches?

 

[azurbanclucker]

For what? The cockroaches?

the long pork

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

the long pork

Mmmm....bacon...

 

[Windrider]

And twinkies have a half life, so they will be shelf stable for 1500 years. As long as they're not irradiated you can eat them. same with most shelf stable and dehydrated food. Yes, it expires, but in a crisis it's still edible.

I can personally attest to the ability of a Twinkie to endure without being touched by time. I'll repost this blurb I posted on the "Organic Cheetos" thread:

"I was in the life sciences. In our grad lab, there was a cork notice board, and fixed to it with a long pin was a Twinkie that was reputedly twenty years old. Other than being the color of mahogany and about as hard, it was still a whole Twinkie. It had not changed shape or rotted or showed any signs of mold."

Update to the story. I was a grad student in the late 90s but am teaching at the same school. A few years ago, they rebuilt the Life Science complex. At the time of the demolition, the "Petrified Twinkie" was still in the lab and still looked the same. Lost track of it then - I hope someone put it in the new lab.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

So if I eat a lot of twinkies, perhaps my organs will absorb the petrification powers and I'll live forever!

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

For what?

You

 

[azurbanclucker]

So if I eat a lot of twinkies, perhaps my organs will absorb the petrification powers and I'll live forever!

You will indeed become a lich.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Depends on the apocalypse. We can recover from quite a lot as a species provided we can recover enough infrastructure to grow food and purify water. Nukes might be a problem, No one wants to eat glow-in-the-dark asparagus or 5 headed cattle but if we can grow/farm uncontaminated sources of food we'd be able to rebuild eventually.

Say we have a massive volcanic cataclysm that blocks out the sun for a while. If power plants are online, we can grow food with artificial light. We can also pump and purify water. Sheltering from acid rain would be important, as well as not breathing in microscopic pumice and ash particles, but we'd be able to get by until things settled.

Giant space rock? Hide underground until the shaking stops, then see who/what's left and follow the volcano protocol. If the surface is not habitable anymore, get used to life underground.

Alien invasion? Ask for a lift.

And twinkies have a half life, so they will be shelf stable for 1500 years. As long as they're not irradiated you can eat them. same with most shelf stable and dehydrated food. Yes, it expires, but in a crisis it's still edible.

I missed this

 

[azurbanclucker]

I missed this

Nerd's gonna nerd.