Extreme Survival Gear

Say the desert vs the arctic- in the desert I'm talking about just sand, lizards, maybe a few low-lying scrub bushes, indicating potential small reserves of water far beneath the sand. In the arctic environment I mean just snow, maybe fish under a layer of ice.

In both instances we will say you are equipped with the appropriate clothes and have the necessary tools for creating fire, a knife, a shovel, basic survival gear, but no food or water.

You only have to survive a few days, not long-term.

Which is the "easier" environment to shelter yourself from the elements, get enough water, food and just generally survive in for the short-term?

Personally I hate being cold. But if placed in a survival situation for say, 3-4 days, I'd take the cold. You can dehydrate in half a day in extreme heat. Plus you'd be threatened by heat stroke. Cold would be uncomfortable but much more survivable especially under your proposed scenario of having clothes and fire making ability.

2008-06-08 08:15:37 by Heldor

The prize; 10 Million bucks (after taxes)
The place; The Alaskan Bush
The Challenge as follows.
You are in Alaska, You are flown into the deep bush 500 miles from any human. You are given my Long walk pack (70 lbs) with the best of all survival gear also includes topo maps.
You are left to find your way back to the nearest designated point.
I outfit you with the best outdoor clothing on the planet.
I give you a Sat-Com phone that only dails me or and alternate just in case.
Rules are; No help from anyone you most likely will not run into. If you dail the phone for help you forfeit.
It would be summer but extreme weather will still occur not to mention 1200 lbs Bears, wolves and Mosquitoes so thick its like clouds.

10 Million could you hang.
I consider this a vacation.
Oh and you would be outfitted with a rifle and pistol.
Yea I Bite your hiking out 500 miles their aint no roads out there.
Charlie6. It is very possible, I have lived in the bush all my life. been there done that many times.
Velvet, just a hypothetical challenge. The friends and family would be involved and you bet your boots I would be out there lookin out for the participant, I would never endanger a soul. Prior screening would rule out about 98 %. Just thought it was a more adventuresome ? than Do I look pretty/ handsome good greif.

hmm..lol , Lets assume and think firstly. Survival would start off with using instincts first right?

Get one all the way over there, equip them, just a phone with your number ( the other could be your friend :o), yess, there are dangerous bears, wolves and mosquitoes, maps etc.. You forgot one thing though.. you are assuming one can trust a complete stranger ( which would be you in this case) then you could be a dangerous stranger .. no offence just making my point here, because you have lived in the bush all your life! Meee not counted in, sorry lol.

2007-11-26 22:43:53 by AKBOY

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Characters in Gears of Survival series:

Ray Rinehart
Born: 1964, San Francisco, CA
Height: 6'6"
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Ray Rinehart is a main character in the Gears of Survival series. Ray Rinehart was born in San Francisco alone with his twin brother Sam Rinehart. Their father is a English heritage. After their birth, Sam was taken to London England alone with his father, leaving Ray and his mother behind. Ray has forgotten about him since the time of their birth until he was revealed at the end of the first novel Gears of Survival that surviving GREYHOUND member Rail Jack turned out to be Sam Rinehart. Previously he has served in the Persion Gulf War as the Navy SEALs Team. In May of 2010 (two years before the events of original Gears of Survival) when Great Britain invades United States, Ray Rinehart was captured by the British troops and was taken to custody. He is imprisioned in a large cell in the attic of GREYHOUND Headquarter in London, England for two years until he was manage to escape. Rinehart returns to United States where he became a special agent of Eagle, extreme division of the National Security Agency. In the first novel Gears of Survival he was sent to Dark Manado Island mission to defeat Jak Forest, GREYHOUND's co-leader, from threatning to destroy Dark Manado Island hijacking the nuclear disposal who was thought to be responsible for United States Massacre. As Forest dies he reveals to Rinehart that Simon Churchill was the mastermind of this. In the second novel, Revolutionaly Force
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2007-11-30 19:18:05 by Travis F

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Here is to all you goody goody egotistical parents who think they know crap about video games (please read to the end. You won't fully understand me if you don't).

You say violent video games should be banned because they lead children to violence...

Note that there is absolutely no evidence to support this claim.

Secondly, violent video games are gruesome, grotesque, etc and children should not be exposed to those images...

Who's the parent, you or the video game? Who makes the decisions on what should be purchased for your kid, you or the game? And is not violence a part of life? Go figure.

Third, video games are corrupting our children making them emulate the acts they see in the game...

Again, no solid evidence.

And just to throw this out there...

Violent video games, and games in general, are a form of ENTERTAINMENT. If ya want to ban violent games, then you mine as well ban violent movies. Matter of fact, lets ban violent comic books! And violent TV shows! And even the BIBLE because it has violence in it!

See how ridiculous this sounds? Not to mention it violates the 1st freaking amendment. Didn't you learn about that in school?

See, people should pay much more attention to your PURPOSE in the game instead of focusing on the violent acts themselves (which they will see one way or another. You can't stop it.).

Let's observe the Halo series...

You are protagonist Master Chief, a unique cybernetic super solider that must defend humanity from total annihilation from an imperialist alien race called the Covenant. What's wrong with killing aliens? Who's hurting who? How would that relate at ALL to real life?

The Gears of War series...

Pretty much the same, except for the fact that the enemy just wants humans gone. Anything wrong with defending your species from extinction in a virtual world?

Dead Space. You are protagonist Issac Clarke, who becomes stranded on a derelict space mining station infested with mutated monsters and must fight and survive for his very life. What is wrong with killing and very violently ending a monsters life for YOUR protection? Personally, I'd stomp on their bodies and makes their guts spurt out. Don't want them coming back to life, right?

War games like the Call of Duty series...

War is real, is unavoidable, and inevitable. Simulations of killing Nazis or terrorists should not be viewed as wrong at all, and even these games are put down.

Just want do you want to come out every time an enemy is shot at, stomped on, beaten with a gun, etc? Little rainbows and unicorns?

When playing a game like this, why don't you sit down with your kid and explain about war, survival, violence, gore, etc.

As a matter of fact, why don't you do that for ALL of these games if they are in your house and played. Explain how when this happens, this must happen, like blood coming out of the body. The wrongs and rights of war and how it is sometimes necessary to bring down evil entities like the ones in Halo or Gears. How extreme measures and acts must be done for your very survival, as depicted in Dead Space (mutilation of body parts to defeat the monsters in the game. That's a good start).

But I will say one thing, and that is the GTA series. You should definitely take some time to explain the deplorable acts you can do in games like that, like steal cars and kill innocent people. They will learn a heck of a lot out of it and remember that every time they play it. If you prefer they don't play it at all, that's fine. At least take the time to show the consequences of your actions when committing crimes. SHOW them what happens when you kill innocent people. The cops come for you and arrest you. Show them so they will learn how wrong it is and what follows such acts.

And to end this, these games are marketed towards ADULT audiences, not kids. I play with so many kids online, and the only thing I see wrong with them is their excessive use of vulgar language (which does NOT come from video games).

My point has been made. And parents, please, if you really care...

Worry about your own kids, ignore and don't buy the games if you don't like em!

Amen brother! This was pretty great! I have to say that GTA is pretty bad. But Halo and all that stuff, your right. violent video games forever!!

2010-02-15 13:47:47 by I Love Violent Video Games

Say the desert vs the arctic- in the desert I'm talking about just sand, lizards, maybe a few low-lying scrub bushes, indicating potential small reserves of water far beneath the sand. In the arctic environment I mean just snow, maybe fish under a layer of ice.

In both instances we will say you are equipped with the appropriate clothes and have the necessary tools for creating fire, a knife, a shovel, basic survival gear, but no food or water.

You only have to survive a few days, not long-term.

Which is the "easier" environment to shelter yourself from the elements, get enough water, food and just generally survive in for the short-term?
My feeling is definitely the arctic would be the easier place to survive, while my friend thinks the desert.

My feeling is arctic= cold, but you can warm yourself with a fire whereas desert= hot, you can't effectively cool yourself without expending a lot of energy (Eg: fanning yourself... building an A/C) water- arctic, you can melt snow, the cold of the water may burn calories, but you can warm it over your fire. Desert- water= underground, you have to dig to find it, burns lots of calories. You have 3 days reserve of water in your body in "normal" conditions, in the desert, without water, you can die in a matter of hours. Food- in the dessert there IS probably more food you can realistically take down solo- foxes, lizards etc, whereas the arctic has polar bears, walruses and various other big, potentially lethal animals, with the fish beneath thick ice.
It's far easier to build a shelter out of snow than sand, and from there you get shelter from the wind and insulate yourself.
Also, an interesting variable would be whether you're alone or with someone else- I think that the added moral of not being alone would probably make either situation more bearable, as well as giving you a "reason to keep fighting"

Snow/Ice happen to be fair insulators. You can construct a shelter easily with a shovel and a knife., and you can maintain temp inside it with a candle or a container to burn fish oil. Fish can be eaten raw, frozen and provide good nutrition, and snow atop the salt-water ice can be melted for water. The most significant danger is the large carnivore, the polar bear.

Desert--well you will likely never get enough water, and while it is hot during the day, it may be bitterly cold at night. If you do not have a noisemaker and a mirror, you may be unable to signal potential rescuers because you will lose your voice as you dehydrate. Some sort of sunshade will be very important

I'll take the arctic any time. Worst case, when the end comes, you drop into a sleep from which you do not awaken. In the desert, you will suffer.

EDIT: 'comment' what you said!

2008-06-08 08:14:28 by Heldor