You are the last person on Earth. What is your daily routine after the initial shock wears off?

[Evil Smurf]

1. wake up
2. read my twitter feed, realise that it is not moving.
3. have breakfast,
4. play Saints Row The Third
5. google where everybody is.
6. Drive to an apple store/jbhifi/harvey norman/eb
7. take everything I want
8. drive to the bottle shop and take all the alcohol.
9. do home and play video games/watch porn while drunk off my tits.
10. be forever alone until I die of alcohol.

 

[Gilhelmi]

I have detailed protocols that I have in place. This is part of the Omega Protocols (parts have been redacted to ensure my own security).

Farming is good, but how many here know that 90% of modern seeds produce sterile plants? I have "REAL" seeds that you can gain new seeds from.

Hunting is good, but Ammo will go bad after a time if not properly stored. Learn to make a bow and arrows. You can only scavenge so much.

Power is not going too happen after 20 years, that is assuming you bought quality solar panels that will last. Gas and Diesel supplies will go bad after a short few years.

Clean water is key, learn to make a Still to produce moonshine, 1 gallon of Shine will clean 100 gallons of water. Try not to drink the Shine often, you need it for water and general cleaning.

I know basic surgery techniques, you need the Shine for this also (sterilizations and anesthesia).

STOP BURNING THINGS DOWN, without fire departments, the whole town will go up in flames. Heck, the American South-West is having a hard time stopping everything from burning to the ground with an ARMY of firefighters.

Lastly, do not assume you are the last person. Keep your eyes open for human life. Approach anyone you find with cation though, NOT with a gun pointed at them, but drawn, a rifle works best because it will look like you are just carrying it normally.

Unto the last, never surrender hope, never surrender humanity.

 

[kickyourass]

First thing I'd do is probably stock way the hell up on dried and canned foods, find a few decent maps, then head north, once I run out of canned stuff it'll be much easier to find food and such up around the Oregon border then in Southern California. Maybe commit some arson along the way, none of these building are ever going be used again so I might as well help clear the space.

Once I get to like Eureka or so, I'd probably settle in, once I pick the city clean there's bound to be enough wildlife for hunting to be a bit easier. Then I'd just work as hard as possible to avoid losing my fucking mind and hope Evolution is fast enough to give me someone to talk to soon.

 

[Astoria]

Probably just hunt/farm/gather for the most part. I wouldn't travel far because there's a large shopping centre, hospital and stream within 5 minutes wlaking distance from my house so I have everything I'd need. In spare time I'd probably read and write. Either that or I'll go crazy and kill myself within two days.

 

[spartan231490]

Probably find some way to travel around looking for people. I mean, being alone gets boring fast.

 

[The Selkie]

First, have a massive meal of all the perishable stuff that will never exist again. Drive into the city to stock up on things like non-perishable food and a extra few books on survival/car maintenance/road maps of the entire country/anything else useful. Come back home, spend a few days eating perishable stuff and stripping my camper van (RV) of dead weight (extra seat etc.). Fill it up with some extra fuel, a few weapons, books, rechargeable batteries, gameboy etc. and loads of food then start driving.

Maybe have a look around government buildings. Investigate some old conspiracy theories about aliens/Diana's death/JFK, but I imagine everything would be on computers which wouldn't work once the power stops. Eventually consider learning to sail in an attempt to reach mainland Europe. Either die trying or go to everywhere on my list of places to visit. Then probably suicide.

 

[uberDoward]

... you all do realize that the majority of you would likely die from a cold with nobody else left, right?

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

When you say everyone...Peterson isn't dead is he?

Everybody's dead, Dave.

 

[Mcupobob]

Travel, would get an R.V and a Trailer and load it up with as much supplies as possible. My first stop would be California, I need to pick up some things. Then its off to explore Area 51 and other secret military bases, the White house and other curious things. Get myself a pet so I don't go insane. Drink, smoke, and wank my way across the world. I prolly would go insane after the first year, I'm not a very sociable person but eventually it would start getting to me. I guess I would just let myself into insanity, I don't think I would ever have the guts to kill myself.

EDIT: If I were I lady however, I would raid a sperm bank in hopes to repopulate the world. Push out as many kids hoping for daughter who will mature, raid the sperm banks again for them. Eventually it would come down to incest here and there but if you managed it properly you might have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the world.

 

[Xman490]

Step 1: Take biggest car around.
Step 2: Collect gasoline, books, and games and their consoles for entertainment.
Step 3: Find farm (easy as pie since I'm in Florida and near a highway).
Step 4: Collect food and seeds.
Step 5: Find renewable energy source (in the mainland because of global warming) using internet that is temporarily available.
Step 6: Move there, plant crops, and maybe build a house.
Step 7: Spend rest of life playing games, reading, eating, and maybe exploring.

 

[LightningFast]

Travel, would get an R.V and a Trailer and load it up with as much supplies as possible. My first stop would be California, I need to pick up some things. Then its off to explore Area 51 and other secret military bases, the White house and other curious things. Get myself a pet so I don't go insane. Drink, smoke, and wank my way across the world. I prolly would go insane after the first year, I'm not a very sociable person but eventually it would start getting to me. I guess I would just let myself into insanity, I don't think I would ever have the guts to kill myself.

EDIT: If I were I lady however, I would raid a sperm bank in hopes to repopulate the world. Push out as many kids hoping for daughter who will mature, raid the sperm banks again for them. Eventually it would come down to incest here and there but if you managed it properly you might have enough genetic diversity to repopulate the world.

Mine's somewhat similar. I think if there was the prospect of ever recovering humanity, or at least leaving something behind for whatever came next, it would be enough to prevent me from going insane. I'd get a pet, though.

Step 1: Find the largest biological research lab in North America. Preferably something running on renewable energy (Solar would be best, since I'm fairly certain that it will still remain viable once everyone else stops running the power stations)
Step 2: Attempt to perfect cloning. Might as well do something productive with the next 65 years of my life: I'm not exactly strapped for time. Also, I'll try to train some lab-monkeys.
Step 3: Grow test-tube baby using frozen embryo.
Step 4: iunno, see how many times I can duplicate that. If I've come this far, chances are I've already given myself the tools I need to do some serious science. Maybe I'll give the next generation of humans wings and tentacles.

I'm wondering, would the last woman on Earth be able to at least partially repopulate it if she had the right initiative? And the stomach to repeatedly give childbirth... without help... in an already crumbling and hopeless-seeming scenario... Actually, I don't think anyone, man or woman, would put themselves through that willingly.

If step 2 didn't work out, I think I'd try to create a new sentient species from scratch. I'd likely use my own DNA as a template, and combine it with something from dolphins or chimps or something. As someone else eloquently put it, it'd be like a really long game of civilization.

I sometimes question my own scientific morality.

 

[Ieyke]

Do exactly whatever in the hell I want.

 

[ShipofFools]

Take all the drugs and die.
No reason for me to live with nobody to share my life with, eh?

Just waiting to die, no chance of ever having children of my own, nobody to talk to and share with... That is hell.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Danse like a maniac.

In all actuality, I'd probably try to do something new each day, spend a lot of time learning how to make canned food taste good and keep a small generator running, and of course the prerequisite hunting and gardening, which would take up 90% of my time. The internet would stop working, so I'd probably be using the local library a lot.

I give myself between six and ten years before I completely lose my shit. In a crazy-old-hermit sort of way.

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

I would go to places like Area 51, CIA HQ, Library of congress in the forbidden section, Pentagon, CDC and White House. I would find out of the hidden secrets. Then pretty much do what everyone else does.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

... you all do realize that the majority of you would likely die from a cold with nobody else left, right?

And if not a cold, then a good amount of people--myself included--would get eaten by one of mother nature's many wonderful, horrible, terrifying, man killing beasts. Most likely a Lion or Grizzly bear.

 

[Alfador_VII]

My first inclination would be try to find other people. I'm absolutely sure I wouldn't survive long on my own.

At first, food and resources wouldn't be a problem, but very quickly, electricity supplies would fail, and any food which isn't canned or otherewise preserved would decay. I definitely wouldn't be able to get power working on my own, and I've no ability to hunt.

In short, I'd be dead within a few weeks max.