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

[loc978]

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

They're dead, Dave, everybody's dead.

Not Chen?

...

...I think my freak-out period would involve checking every strip club, apartment complex, "lingerie shop" and porn shop in Portland and Seattle for my favorite kind of other human being. The sad realization of "never again" would settle on me like a lead weight, I think.

Then I'd... loot. Lots of electronics, solar panels, a gasoline tanker truck, a military diesel tanker, a 5-ton cargo truck, a 6K forklift and a trailer to haul it around on... I'd clear out every local sporting goods and military surplus store of ammo, guns, crossbows, bolts, nutritional supplements, MREs, et cetera... loot all of the canned food from every local grocery store... visit my local hydroelectric dam and see if I can keep it supplying me with electricity while I set up solar panels (damn thing produces 46MW, not sure if I could keep it going). Maybe go a little further out and visit my local wind farm to do the same. This is one of the good things about living 30 miles out from civilization on a riverbank (well, more like 50' straight up a cliff from a riverbank) in the Pacific Northwest. I'd have no reason to move.

I'd take over some the farmland that's adjacent to my property (and diversify their crops... probably start growing hemp and look into figuring out how to make biodiesel, since I might actually run the area out of petroleum products in a decade or so), let out the horses and cattle to roam free once I've got a good sized fence set up on the ten acres around my house, then start building it into a junk fortress-type wall. Set up a greenhouse of sufficient size to keep me eating fruit and veggies through the winter... and I'd do mostly what I do now.

Well, I'd be looting and building instead of working security, hunting, fishing and farming more instead of buying supplemental groceries, and I'd spend my socializing time... doing more hunting, fishing, looting, building and farming. Eventually I'd set up a powerful radio tower and a really sensitive receiver just to check if anyone was out there.

Aside from that, I've got a bunch of video games and books to catch up on. Also, I might drive up to Redmond to piss on Microsoft's grave. Too bad the wikimedia servers are so far away, I'd like to have access to them. I wonder what's in Valve's headquarters... I'd check that out too.

...MammothBlade's fertility clinic idea is a good one, too... too bad I have no interest in medical science beyond how to keep myself running. The species would die with me.

 

[Amir Kondori]

Piss myself, die, not necessarily in that order.

 

[Alcamonic]

Try to repopulate the planet by cross-breeding with various monkey species. With luck, one of the many has a mutation.

Realizing after much trying that it was all a scheme, I was infact part of a VR reality show.

Off myself or earn cash on my new celebrity status.

 

[Lightknight]

Step one steal generator from canadian tire step two steal gas from cars gas stations ect. Step 3 canned food step 4 The game marathon to end all game marathons. Actually sidebar is it considered stealing if no one else is around to own it.

Being that you are the last existing human, you're emperor of the world and all things belong to you. Unless a tiger/lion/bear/gorilla gets to it first. Then it's theirs.

 

[Xukog]

Step 1: Find nearest gun.

Step 2: Hold gun up to my head.

Step 3: Pull the trigger.

Not much else to say. I would die a slow,painful death otherwise if I couldn't find my medicine. And I would go insane without someone could understand what I was talking to them about.

 

[wulfy42]

I'm not sure if the human race deserves to continue living on this earth, but while I consider that, I would quickly near by fertility clinics with frozen sperm/eggs, and get generators going to make sure they keep power. Once that step was done, I'd have to make a decision if I wanted to bring back humanity. I probably would, since without the power sources we currently have, and the ability to mine deep for coal etc, or get oil out of the ground easily, it would be unlikely that humanity would so over-populate the earth again in the near future.

Then the hard work begins. Not only would I need to read up and learn how to combine the egg/sperm and grow literal test tube babies, but I would need to travel extensively while doing so to stockpile tons of gas to power the generators for many years, all while also gathering enough water/food/medical supplies etc. Once the babies are born/old enough I will have to be constantly monitoring them as well, at least for the first bunch of years until they are old enough to start doing so themselves.

I would probably start with only 20 or so children, for the first 4 years...allowing me to stockpile supplies and get things set up until they are old enough to start monitoring things and helping out. Once I had a few children that were old enough to be a help I would start another batch (probably 40 children this time), and again wait till they are about 4 years old. By the time 8 years had gone by I would have 20 8 year olds....and 40 4 year olds, and I would start training the 8 year olds to be able to monitor and run the other fertility clinics that are not too far away (I would just travel between them and make sure everything was going well). I'd probably go with 4 fertility clinics initially, with 5 8 year olds at each (and 10 4 year olds). Each clinic would start with 20 babies initially, but instead of every 4 years they would go with 20 more every 2 years (since the first 2 years would need the most monitoring of the children.

Food would start to be a problem as well, so each clinic would need to have a small farm as well by around this time that was monitored by the kids as well.

By the time 20 years had gone by, using a method like this I could easily have over 1000 humans all with different genetic backgrounds, so even if the gas started to run out, or machines broke down etc, the human race should have enough genetic diversity to survive. Gas probably would not rune out though as we could travel farther away to collect it once there were enough kids that were old enough to monitor everything back home. Food would be easy to deal with (especially since you could also collect huge quantities of canned goods etc while collecting gas...more then likely using trucks to transport both long term)

Education could be interesting to maintain...but the computers even shut down would still have huge amounts of information, and libraries would still be around as well. The main question then would be what kind of society would we want to make long term. All this would keep me very busy though...and of course many things could go wrong along the way.

 

[FalloutJack]

Honestly? Travel. See EVERYTHING. If I'm the last human being on this planet, then every resource and every single manmade object is at my disposal. All I have to do is not die and I can spend the rest of my life exploring the world and seeing the sights.

 

[h4xor555]

I assume that people driving will just disspear too, and that there will be huge car wrecks!

So I will probably spends years and years moving cars out of the way and organizing them.

Then I do what I want, fly planes, drive on the empty roads, stash shit up, etc I dont know! All up to me!

 

[Vegosiux]

I erase all historical records of all human history that ever existed.

Except for porn. I leave all the porn to troll the next sapient dominant species.

 

[BaronUberstein]

The VERY last person?

Kill myself. There's no point. Nobody to speak to, nobody to exchange ideas with. Nobody to imagine with, or share your heart with. Everything literally becomes pointless, because there is no humanity to even carry on. Perhaps I'm just being dark.

If I didn't kill myself, I guess I can just extrapolate how I acted when I had no human contact for 3 days. Only instead of dig a small hole and smash rocks into powder, I guess I'd dig a BIG hole. Lots more time on my hand and nobody who's going to ask me to fill it back in afterwards.

 

[The_Echo]

I guess it'd basically be I Am Legend for me. Wake up, scavenge, entertain and sustain myself for a while, sleep.

Only without the vampire zombies.

 

[Infernai]

Mourn the loss of the people i loved for starters, then go on to game and whatnot till i got bored.

With little else to do, i'd write down a brief record of events as to just what i did with my life (However brief) and explain what humans were, some of the achievements. Why? Well, if an alien race comes along i think they'd wanna know what the hell happened and hey...written record that we, y'know, Existed (Internet won't last due to lack of sustainable power so..yeah, besides it won't hurt to give a brief chronicle of myself as well as some of humanities greatest achievements and explain how Humanity just suddenly completely disappeared but myself, possibly ask them to look into it.

After that? Just wait for my time.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I'd hike up into the mountains. I'd have family photo albums, my music, and a lot of alcohol with me. I'd climb the mountain that I climbed with my Dad when I was 10. Once I was at the top, I'd listen to my music while drinking a lot and looking over family pictures. Eventually, when I am suitably drunk, I would jump of the sheer cliff. The mountain has a small rock shelter with a journal you sign when you reach the top. I would have left the photo album in there with it and also signed my name in the journal.

Sorry for the depressing post guys but IMO, life isn't worth living if there isn't anyone else around to enjoy it with.

 

[JetFury]

It's pretty depressing how most people would suicide, but yeah. Suicide.

 

[frizzlebyte]

10 AM: Wake up, have breakfast
11 AM: Read books
12 PM: Read books
1 PM: Read books
2 PM: Read books
3 PM: Break glasses
4 PM; Cry

That reference is beyond epic.

At any rate, if I could make it through the initial shock without losing my mind, I suppose I would have a great time exploring all the places that I wasn't supposed to go when other people existed, like houses and such. Peeking into people's private lives would be really interesting.

 

[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.