So, the world is ending...

[Master Gunner]

Wikipedia, top up on my porn and music collections, and the entire back-catalog of LRR. If I get that done with time to spare, I'll move on to TV shows. I already have the entirety of Star Trek, Stargate, BSG, and others, but I still have a few hundred gigs left to fill up. Movies too, obviously.

[Lorithad]

Yeah...If the internet is going down, the world must be ending. So all you suckers that are downloading games, music, or well.. anything that you can't print off I laugh at your rotting corpses.

I'd be downloading survival guides, running to my bank to get my monies out, hoarding fuel, food, weapons, building materials, maps. Anything I could get my hands on to ensure my long term survival.

[Alja-Markir]

You humans and your short-sightedness.

I'd collect the addresses and locations of all major data centers. The power might be going out, but it can be brought back on later. So long as the data centers are left as they are, they'll retain the majority of their data for several years at least.

Then it's just a matter of going round to the biggest ones and organizing their protection / upkeep, or possibly their relocations.

~Alja~

[Gordon Fearman]

Uh, Alja. The world is ending, I don't think your priority should be saving the Internet. Don't you have to start filing paperwork or something? Anyway, I don't need your flimsy Internet, anything I need can be found on Memory Alpha (not the website, the planetoid).

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

the entire LRR back catalogue. and porn. and maybe some literature (but twilight)

I think there may be a word missing from this post. At least, I hope so.

[empath]

and all the data centers are on their backup generators. We can run 3 days on our diesel generators alone. So let's say you have 3 days to grab what you need from the internet. What do you download in those three days to help you survive the apocalypse? You know, assuming we'd find someway to charge our lappys when needed.

INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.


What sort of apocalypse? If it's a plague that's killing crops and animals and people, bio-medical research and protocols and experimental procedures could assist in developing a vaccine or otherwise beating this bug. If it's a 'whoops' nuclear weapon exchange that's going to alter the biosphere and climate enough to wipe us out, information on creating a stable arcology might be nice. If it's "Sol's become unstable and is soon going to give off some mega-flares that'll cook away Terra's atmosphere and turn us into free carbon" then theoretical designs on extra-solar spaceships might be handy. If it's "society has spontaneously collapsed and a dark age is pending with rampaging hordes of anarchistic savages" maybe just downloading any information possible to archive it.

But it all depends on the DETAILS of this 'apocalypse', which haven't been specified...


Nonetheless, interesting and thought-provoking thread!

[Theremin]

Wikipedia, top up on my porn and music collections, and the entire back-catalog of LRR. If I get that done with time to spare, I'll move on to TV shows. I already have the entirety of Star Trek, Stargate, BSG, and others, but I still have a few hundred gigs left to fill up. Movies too, obviously.

What does a porn 'collection' entail?
Are they framed?

[Master Gunner]

Framed, organized, and professionally backlit.

[Sieg Reyu]

Two things:
First, every possible game I can think of.
Second, instructions on how to repair a broken monitor. Because, it might break. And then, it wouldn't be fair... I had time then.

Well, your eysite's not that bad. You could probably read the large print books.

Well, its a good thing you learned braile

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[epocalypse]

Everyone in this thread keeps mispelling my name . Unless you're all talking about some other end of days.

I still like my plan of converting cities to new power sources and restarting the Internet. And the books, all the books.

[empath]

...if there's a planet left to keep these cities ON, etc.

[Stick]

I suppose I could always forget about the internet and see what real girls look like.

[epocalypse]

...if there's a planet left to keep these cities ON, etc.

right, if there's not we're all gonna have to sublet the (formerly) orbiting underground moonbase.

[iwashere33]

i would like to think that i have been preparing for that now, i have external hard drives that are full of hours of my dvds ripped to divx, the idea is that as long as i have electricty i have some form of entertainment.

if you want a test of how you will survive without internet just get out of bed one day and turn your modem off. then just sit there and see what can you do with out outside access, porn? unless you are really good with photoshop and so form of CG production i suggest sex stories. at least you can write them yourself. i had nothing for 2 weeks in nigeria, no internet and no porn. and i couldn't take any with me to load on to the laptop, for a start it was running windows 2000 and the phones were optional on a good day.

so i opened up notepad and starting writing the best my imagination could come up with. i saved it to a floppy disk which i found again almost 2 years later. what i found on there scared me.


So if you guys want to know what the apocalypse will be like, go to nigeria for a few weeks. the water is undrinkable, the electricty is seasonal, air condition is a rumour, food is either tastless cabbage or highly-spiced meat that can NOT be identified. You will find you have an addiction to the internet and you seem to be really found of bottled coke and fresh cooked bread.

apocalypse? - live all you can know because at least it is a possible warning now, it's better than most of us get, all most of us get is "look out for that bus", "what bus?" "splat!"