Natural Selection Can Suck It.

[Roos1993]

I thought you meant the muse song when i read the title.

i nearly cried lol

 

[Zacharine]

Neither the athletes nor the nerds will be at a more advantageous position at the start of a catastrophe. However, as time goes by, the atheletes will be more likely to survive the following conditions: they can withstand lack of food and water better, they are able to travel faster and farther. Natural selection will only start to take hold on the following decades and centuries, once the actual direct effects of the cataclysm begin to fade out.

By that point it will not be about individuals; social groups, communities and other groupings will out-survive any single individual quite easily. That is the reason humans developed into social animals in the first place: there is great strenght in groups, even if any single member of the group is not physically or mentally equal to an opposing individual.

So, sorry to say to all nerds out there, but your survival during the first few days is pretty much arbitary, just as it is for anyone else. But should you survive the first week or so, personal physical fitness will begin to play a key role. If you survive the first few months, then your chances go up with every passing week; by that point you will have began to develop a liking for both quick sprints and long-distance walking endurance.

 

[Lotet]

I don't know about you but I don't think there are enough gun, ammo or melee weapon drops lying around to last me

I can fight with melee weapons for sure, I can hit hard, but I'm fat, lazy and likely to be hungry. Frankly, if this thing took out the majority of the military and local law enforcements then I'd be surprised if I could survive it

I just hope I turn into one of those fat zombies that are hard to take down if there's a group of them and you're backed against a wall

 

[Puzzles]

I can last on 30 cent mi goreng packets for months, and hopefully by the time I run out everything will have sorted itself out.

That's my survival plan, I'm too apathetic to save humanity.

 

[damselgaming]

Um.... not all of us are unfit and unskilled.
Also, when it comes down to repopulating the planet, I'm still going for the hunky athletic men first.

I admit I'm not hunky, I'm kinda athletic, and certainly not your stereo-typical nerd. Anyway, the second part of your statement pisses me off. It's amazing how many girls end up in terrible/abusive relationships because they want the "hunky" or "hot" guys. Kind of sad, really.

I'm quite sure that the fact that a man is good looking doesn't automatically make him a complete asshole.

 

[magnus gallant]

great for you zeeky, not sure if that applies to everyone though