Desert island suitcase contents are?

[think]

What would you put in the suitcase you bring to a desert island? Images or descriptions would be nice for the thread? These objects must all fit in one suitcase. This desert island is away and cut off from everything and everyone. There is no mail or email too. You would have about a week to get ready but there is no coming back. As far as food and water, shelter, you will not need this any more due to a genetic plague results. This scenario reminds me of a post apocalyptic like world except you have one week to pack your bags.

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I would bring lots of paper pens on one half the suitcase the other half is oil paint Brushs. Not much else.

 

[Tosk]

So there's no electricity, but I don't have to worry about food and water?

I'd just fill the suitcase with books.

 

[think]

Ok

So there's no electricity, but I don't have to worry about food and water?

I'd just fill the suitcase with books.

What books do you choose?

 

[Tosk]

I dunno. Ones that I know I could enjoy even after having to re-read them a lot.

 

[Warp Core Breach]

Fleshlight, lube, porn, rum, fishing line, superglue, and all of the episodes of Gilligan's Island I've stored in my head over the past 40 years.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Some suitable clothes including hats, solar powered lights, shoes, first aid kit (including painkillers), pens and paper, asthma inhalers, sewing kit, pocket knife, cooking pot, a couple of melamine plates and cups, lighters/matches, couple of pair of reading glasses, magnifying glass, strong twine, sun screen, lip balm, sunglasses, reuseable bags, mosquito net, wash clothes.


Books

- the Song of Ice and Fire series
- American Gods
- The Third Policeman
-Little Big Man and Return of Little Big Man
- the Sherlock Holmes short stories

And a few books I haven't read.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

A bunch of cats.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

What would you put in the suitcase you bring to a desert island?

As much booze as I could fit.

 

[think]

As much booze as I could fit.

but then there is the hangover in the end... so much aspirin is needed....

 

[USS Triumphant]

No wife, no kids, no friends? I'm not going. If forced, what would go in my suitcase would be a sat phone, a solar charger, a fold-able boat, a gun and ammo to try to kill the people forcing me to do this with, and drugs to humanely kill myself with, just in case.

 

[think]

No wife, no kids, no friends? I'm not going. If forced, what would go in my suitcase would be a sat phone, a solar charger, a fold-able boat, a gun and ammo to try to kill the people forcing me to do this with, and drugs to humanely kill myself with, just in case.

Everyone dies as a result of a genetic mutation except you. Everything dissolves except what is inside the suitcase stasis locks and earth becomes a desert ...

 

[USS Triumphant]

Oh. Well in that case, my suitcase would contain a couple of solar chargers, multiple tablets each containing a complete copy of the downloadable Wikipedia and my full ebook and music collections and a message from me explaining who I was and what happened including any useful documentation I can include about the plague and also why I might have been immune, a good strong (illegally strong, because who could stop me?) radio beacon to attract any potential alien visitors to our world to those - and drugs to humanely end myself with, which would be used immediately.

 

[think]

Oh. Well in that case, my suitcase would contain a couple of solar chargers, multiple tablets each containing a complete copy of the downloadable Wikipedia and my full ebook and music collections and a message from me explaining who I was and what happened including any useful documentation I can include about the plague and also why I might have been immune, a good strong (illegally strong, because who could stop me?) radio beacon to attract any potential alien visitors to our world to those - and drugs to humanely end myself with, which would be used immediately.

all that planning with what to do and have... then just switch yourself off? Doesn't make sense... (not that it has to)

I like the stuff you planned USS... but for me I find myself drawing and writting at weird hours anyway like that priest in the Eleanor Rigby song by the Beatles he is writting a sermon that no one will hear... who is it for all the lonely people --- this sorta seems like the song I create in the middle of the nite.. sorta thing. that currently I do do..

so in this "desert Island game" we need limits.. like on the way to alpha centauri or even the ride to mars what do you bring in that suitcase what do you pack..???

http://www.iflscience.com/space/ste...plan-send-spacecraft-alpha-centauri-20-years/

http://www.space.com/34210-elon-musk-unveils-spacex-mars-colony-ship.html

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Everyone dies as a result of a genetic mutation except you. Everything dissolves except what is inside the suitcase stasis locks and earth becomes a desert ...

Okay in that case I will take a whole bunch of unspeyed cats. Gotta repopulate the species. In a few billion years they will evolve into sentient humanoids with furry ears and you can all thank me for my least selfish choice in this thread.

 

[USS Triumphant]

all that planning with what to do and have... then just switch yourself off? Doesn't make sense... (not that it has to)

All the planning is for the most good it occurred to me that I could possibly do at that point, which was to prepare a package to help any other visiting lifeforms make use of our civilization and understand what had happened.

I wouldn't want to live in a world without my wife, my kids, or my friends - including youse beautiful bastads here on the board - so after that, game over.

Except...

Okay in that case I will take a whole bunch of unspeyed cats. Gotta repopulate the species. In a few billion years they will evolve into sentient humanoids with furry ears and you can all thank me for my least selfish choice in this thread.

...that @teacock has an interesting idea here. Not that it would change my desire to end myself afterward, but I hereby amend my plan to include anything that I might find to be helpful to any other species that evolves to sapience on Earth, in addition to any aliens, and I would probably take enough time to try to secure my materials so that they wouldn't accidentally find and destroy them during their more primitive stages of evolution and civilization. Try to make it so they at least have to have developed radio before they would find my beacon and then the rest.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

@USS Triumphant future alien Von Danikens would write books about your cache which would be mocked by the super rational..

 

[USS Triumphant]

@USS Triumphant future alien Von Danikens would write books about your cache which would be mocked by the super rational..

No idea what this refers to, but as long as a future alien writes *something* about it, then it would not have been in vain.

 

[Nerys Myk]

A TARDIS

 

[think]

Maybe @USS Triumphant this idea of loosing your family is an issue that is needing to be addressed if you're going to off yourself,.. so that you don't, in a hard situation...get like that?

Just like that poem by Dylan Thomas. ~~~~

The sky is torn across
This ragged anniversary of two
Who moved for three years in tune
Down the long walks of their vows.

Now their love lies a loss
And Love and his patients roar on a chain;
From every true or crater
Carrying cloud. Death strikes their house.

Too late in the wrong rain
They come together whom their love parted:
The windows pour into their heart
And the doors burn in their brain.


John Cale turned this into music,..

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[USS Triumphant]

Nah. I'm fine. I'm not presently depressed or anything. I just see suicide as a perfectly valid option in a situation where all alternatives are worse - and I really don't understand that anyone else *wouldn't*.

It might make a difference that I grew up during the Cold War with a father who, as a nuclear power professional - first in the Navy and then in private contracting - was more familiar with how possible a nuclear war was, and what the realistic effects would be, than most people. And shared it with us, in perhaps more detail than a child really maybe needs. I knew that there was a plan, for instance, for the order in which we would be shot / shoot ourselves if the mushrooms ever went up. Was that depressing? Yes, of course - who wants to face that? But it was also somewhat comforting in a strange way to know that none of us would face the intense and possibly drawn out pain of death from radiation sickness.

But if humanity is over as an enterprise, and everyone I know or care about is dead, then that honestly sounds even WORSE to me than the above scenario, even if I'm perfectly comfortable and even potentially entertained. *What could possibly be the point?* To spend years and maybe decades mourning humanity before I, too, die leaving nothing more useful behind than the things I already said I would gather to begin with? At least with the nuclear suicide pact, I'd go out with the people whom I love and who love me.