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Best chance to survive


prolly under the water with a submarine?
though they prolly running out of food for a couple of years

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The oceans would have vaporized in a short period of time. Being deep in an underground bunker would have been the only way to survive, and even then would be only temporary. Everything humans eat either lives in the sea, on the land, or is grown in the soil. All areas would have been wiped out and devoid of anything edible.

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Unless they could hide in a space shuttle that can be resistant to high temperature heat or flames. But acquisition of oxygen would be a problem for the survivors.

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The oceans would have vaporized in a short period of time. Being deep in an underground bunker would have been the only way to survive, and even then would be only temporary. Everything humans eat either lives in the sea, on the land, or is grown in the soil. All areas would have been wiped out and devoid of anything edible.


How do you survive on a planet, that has just as much air as there is on the Moon ?
The Ozone layer is gone, so is all plant life both above and under the sea, which is required to produce air.
Bunkers are not air tight, they are equipted with air filtration units who gets their air from the surface, a surface that now has no air.

Only chance to survive such an event, which we only can hope will not happen for the next meny hundred years, is leaving our own solar system and travel nearly 22 light years to the closest star system who has 3 planets, who might be able to sustain human life, Gliese 667.

http://www.universetoday.com/103131/three-potentially-habitable-planet s-found-orbiting-gliese-667c/

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You could create your own ecosystem with your own plants producing oxygen, getting enough life forms to get the right balance of gases, and to rotate your crops to keep the soil nutrient rich. If you could pull that off is another story. Water would be an issue, I'm not sure how one would get that in a closed system like that.

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Yea you're PROLLY right

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The best way would have been to convince those aliens somehow to evacuate more people. The Earth was breaking up at the end. Wherever you are, above or below, there was no way anything could survive that onslaught.


Please don't look too close at me. You might not like what you see.

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The showed all the water in the ocean evaporating instantly.

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lol

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I assume a visit to the MIR would be the best chance to survive.
Very likely the MIR can stand the solar flame.

Marius

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Not a chance at all. Because the MIR doesn't exist anymore, it was deorbited back in 2001.

Also, don't try for Skylab. That one ain't there either. :)


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Further more... even if you were in a space station like the ISS, you'd still be dead. Against such a massive solar flare, the space station wouldn't be able to offer any protection at all...

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LOL

I ment the ISS. ;-)

Why couldn't you survive there? They can resist massive temperatures?

Marius

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No actually you get quite a lot of radiation up there, more than on earth. Maybe if it was on the other side of the earth getting shielded.

BTW a really cool book dealing with a similar disaster and the subsequent struggle for survival is "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson. And yes it involves a heavily upgraded ISS or "Izzy".

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prat... 15mm thick steel protect more than 800 metres solid rock ?? - dckhead

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Deep, deep underground bunker that's located on the side of the Earth that was facing away from the sun during the solar blast. If you hoard a huge storage of oxygen tanks, food (insert Spam song here) and water, then you maybe be able to sustain yourself for awhile until the air and supplies run out.

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Be in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

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I vote for the Svalbard Seed Vault.
Lots of shelter and all the granola you can eat.

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