Hi! And thank you in advance!

[writer]

Hey everyone!

I'm signing up because i'm doing research for what i hope will one day become a post-apocalyptic novel, and i figured who would know better about these things than you guys. I hope you are ok with this, and that you don't feel like i'm loafing off of your knowledge.
What i'm most interested in is the durability and longevity of things in a post-apocalyptic setting, so expect a lot of stupid questions about such stuff.

If i ever finish this you will be owed a great thank you, but i'm not sure i can offer more than that.

Once again - here's a preemptive thank you and i hope i will write that a lot more!

Have a good one!

Ps: feel free to ask about the "novel". I can share some stuff about it but not too much. Ds.

 

[Arcticdude]

Where and when is your novel taking place? And what is going to be the cause of the apocalypse? Knowing that information could make a lot of difference in potential answers.

 

[bigpaul]

sounds like it hasn't been written yet and he's asking for info??

 

[writer]

Where and when is your novel taking place? And what is going to be the cause of the apocalypse? Knowing that information could make a lot of difference in potential answers.

Approximately 100 years after the apocalypse, and sort of assuming complete technological collapse. Cause of armageddon is mainly nuclear war of the worst proportion, and a following very bad case of nuclear winter. I know the theory of nuclear winter's been criticised but it's fiction so i get to pick and choose Like i wrote, my main interest is in how well things would be preserved over time (so that i would know what would happen when some fictional future scavenger comes upon them).

Also assuming this sort of scenario i'm guessing those who would survive best are preppers like you guys. So i'll browse through your ideas and use them as inspiration.

Oh yeah, and about where - i'm from Sweden but i can't help that my head wants this scenario to play out in the US. So i guess all those eventual errors on how things are over there will have to be re-edited some day. But that's a future problem. Thank you for showing interest and being helpful!

 

[bigpaul]

first you have to decide what kind of nuclear attack, is it a ground burst or an air(atmospheric) one? the results of each will be different. a ground burst will kill people and flatten buildings- like happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an atmospheric burst will cause an EMP an electro magnetic pulse which will destroy electronic and electric components but not necessarily the buildings or the people. if you wanted to enslave people first deny them access to resources and services.

 

[writer]

first you have to decide what kind of nuclear attack, is it a ground burst or an air(atmospheric) one? the results of each will be different. a ground burst will kill people and flatten buildings- like happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an atmospheric burst will cause an EMP an electro magnetic pulse which will destroy electronic and electric components but not necessarily the buildings or the people. if you wanted to enslave people first deny them access to resources and services.

Well i'm thinking complete global destruction so both of those times a lot. I really appreciate you guys trying to help out, but i mostly set up this account so that i could lurk and occasionally ask specific questions about for instance the longevity of different kinds of fuels, electronics etc. So while i do appreciate your active efforts, i'm mostly here to lurk But once again, thank you for trying to help my secretive ###!

 

[bigpaul]

okay, don't forget, the only stupid question is the one you DONT ask!!
as far as electronics are concerned, unless they are in what is known as a faraday cage they are open to attack.

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

Young Swedish writers probably aren't very durable in the event of a nuclear war.

100 years after? I would expect a young Swedish writer, if found by a scavenger, to be pretty dry and crumbly, no longer moist and savory as he once was.

 

[bigpaul]

100 years after, you'll probably find any survivors are back to bow and arrows, can still communicate but not read, they know what they need to survive but computers and the rest of technology has gone the way of the dodo, any metal that is left is rusty and not useable. not quite back to the stone age but using what people these days would call primitive means.

 

[writer]

100 years after, you'll probably find any survivors are back to bow and arrows, can still communicate but not read, they know what they need to survive but computers and the rest of technology has gone the way of the dodo, any metal that is left is rusty and not useable. not quite back to the stone age but using what people these days would call primitive means.

Thanks Bigpaul! Ye this is the kind of stuff i'm after. But would stainless have rusted too? Let's say in an untouched shelter, or a bunker? I'm assuming that would be safe. Also, would ammunition have gone bad if kept deep underground in a sealed environment?

 

[writer]

Young Swedish writers probably aren't very durable in the event of a nuclear war.

100 years after? I would expect a young Swedish writer, if found by a scavenger, to be pretty dry and crumbly, no longer moist and savory as he once was.

Hahah yea, i'm just trying to write it, not survive it. And i'm not THAT young

 

[Kevin L]

Hey everyone!

I'm signing up because i'm doing research for what i hope will one day become a post-apocalyptic novel, and i figured who would know better about these things than you guys. I hope you are ok with this, and that you don't feel like i'm loafing off of your knowledge.
What i'm most interested in is the durability and longevity of things in a post-apocalyptic setting, so expect a lot of stupid questions about such stuff.

If i ever finish this you will be owed a great thank you, but i'm not sure i can offer more than that.

Once again - here's a preemptive thank you and i hope i will write that a lot more!

Have a good one!

Ps: feel free to ask about the "novel". I can share some stuff about it but not too much. Ds.

Congrats on your commitment to your writing project.

I'm an author as well, and have been published in Analog Science Fiction an Fact, Blood Moon Rising, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, and a few others.

I just finished my first book, and am looking for an agent.

A lot of ideas can be obtained from this forum, but cultivate a thick skin . . . some of the people here are merciless.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Welcome from a top secret location only 152 people know about. I could tell you all my secret knowledge, but you would then disapear.

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

Congrats on your commitment to your writing project.

I'm an author as well, and have been published in Analog Science Fiction an Fact, Blood Moon Rising, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, and a few others.

I just finished my first book, and am looking for an agent.

A lot of ideas can be obtained from this forum, but cultivate a thick skin . . . some of the people here are merciless.

Obviously, we will want to support a forum member, and have access to this book.

 

[Kevin L]

Obviously, we will want to support a forum member, and have access to this book.

Thank you.

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

Actually, not to detail the thread, but thank you, @Kevin L . If the fact that you are writing has come up before, I missed it, and I apologise.

Your on the team, any literature by you takes pride of place on my bookshelf, I would be absolutely thrilled.

 

[Kevin L]

Actually, not to detail the thread, but thank you, @Kevin L . If the fact that you are writing has come up before, I missed it, and I apologise.

Your on the team, any literature by you takes pride of place on my bookshelf, I would be absolutely thrilled.

Thank you very much.

I have had several short stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact . . . one of which ("Pale Horse") won acclaim from the critics. I've had a nonfiction essay published in The Autism Files in Britain, a murder mystery in the premier edition of Noir Nation, and some other stuff.

My current nonfiction book is a recap of the issues that I had to deal with in my paramedic career and being autistic at the same time.

 

[writer]

Congrats on your commitment to your writing project.

I'm an author as well, and have been published in Analog Science Fiction an Fact, Blood Moon Rising, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, and a few others.

I just finished my first book, and am looking for an agent.

A lot of ideas can be obtained from this forum, but cultivate a thick skin . . . some of the people here are merciless.

Thank you for the support and nice to see that you've actually had some success with writing. And the thick skin... i'm working on it!

 

[tmttactical]

Congrats on your commitment to your writing project.

I'm an author as well, and have been published in Analog Science Fiction an Fact, Blood Moon Rising, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, and a few others.

I just finished my first book, and am looking for an agent.

A lot of ideas can be obtained from this forum, but cultivate a thick skin . . . some of the people here are merciless.

First, Warm Welcome from the Arizona valley folks.

AND NOW, Kevin L. are you talking about some desert rat that wold make a great heartless character?

 

[Squirtgunsquirter]

@Kevin L

Found you. Gonna read some tonight, thanks!

Also, your last name is strangely close to my first name...

But let's not name names here. If the accidental disclosure bothers you, I will pm my full name, and we will be even.