The Apocalypse!

[Yar]

K I just had a really trippy dream about living in a (somewhat) post-apocalyptic world. Pretty much everyone had to leave the Earth because of some crazy disease that attacked people with a certain blood type. After I was approved to leave the Earth with everyone else, I decided to stay at home because it was the "noble thing to do" or whatever. Total BS.

Later in the dream I needed to find some food, so I went to our pantry and there was still food but I realized that I would soon need to get more food. I thought I could just go to Walmart, but then it was like "oh, yeah. No one is alive to sell me things." Then I thought I could just go break into Walmart or whatever. I can't remember what I ultimately decided. Then I needed to decide on some shelter and find things to do. By now I was getting frustrated. "What the hell? It feels like I'm brainstorming for a massive essay!" I immediately woke myself up so that I could stop thinking about this terrible hypothetical.

So, EoFF! When you imagine an apocalypse or apocalypse-like situation, what is it like? Why is the world apocalyptified? (Wow, Firefox says that's a word.) Is it a nuclear holocaust? Volcanic eruption? Solar explosion? What do you do to survive? What do you do for food and where do you sleep? Do you become nomadic? Also, feel free to elaborate on other details.

[Crimson]

Zombies.

[Jiro]

Nuclear. People are stupid enough to want to nuke each other.
I cba to think what I'd do, which probably means I'd die even if I survived the initial death and destruction due to laziness.

[Værn]

I imagine a world several years after a nuclear war. The outside world is a barren wasteland. Many live on the outside, free to do whatever they want, but struggling to find clean food and water. Some, though, live in underground vaults; they're confined within the small living quarters, but don't have to worry nearly as much about finding purified water and food.
The radiation has brought dangers to the world other than making food and water dangerous to consume, though. Many of the people affected by the radiation mutated. Though the mutations offer some benefits, such as prolonged life or immense strength, it has side effects. Rotting flesh makes many mutants outcasts; degeneration of the brain drives other crazy.
Thankfully, there are still weapons left from the war to fend of vicious mutants. Many people make a living trading guns. Unfortunately, with most of the old money lost or destroyed, they only have bottle caps to use as currency...

(I just beat Fallout 3 a few hours ago. That's exactly what I'm going to think about from now on when somebody mentions a post-apocalyptic world.)

[Iceglow]

I've had to design stuff for post apocalyptical worlds and medieval worlds so I imagine this stuff all the time. I imagine EMP would be the scariest apocalypse if you destroyed all the machines that make the machines then we'd be thrown back around 2 - 300 years in terms of development with very few people capable of making things with pre-electric tools.

Scorched earth is a whole different kind of scary though the worst has to be the medieval turn back type apocalypse such as depicted in the books by Mark Chadbourne. The idea of being thrown in to a realm 500 years out of date with no idea how to survive it is pretty bad.

[Old Manus]

A world where Labour win the next general election. I shudder at the very thought.

[Caraliz]

ZOMBIES. And raptors. and Bert.

[Psychotic]

A world where Labour win the next general election. I shudder at the very thought.

It's more likely than you think.

[NeoTifa]

Zombies.

[FFIX Choco Boy]

In order of most likely to least, this is what I've come up with.

1. Ozone Layer disintegrates, and we die of radiation poisoning from Sun.
2. Nuclear War.
3. Aliens invading.
4. Rampaging machines/robots.
5. Zombie virus.

Those are all very likely, then we get to the ones that are just barely remotely imaginable.

6. Volcanoes exploding and drenching the earth in soot, changing climate so drastically we can't adjust and we die.
7. Earth gets whacked by a meteor.
8. The Sun's gravity somehow lets go of Earth and we hurtle off in space and freeze to death.
9. Giant natural disaster.
10. Mass suicide.
11. Extremist groups kill everyone.
12. Mass sacrifice to a God.
13. "Anti-Christ" end world.
14. We run out of water like Mars did.
15. The Sun explodes, engulfing Earth in a giant Supernova, instantly incinerating everything in its path.

[Psychotic]

3. Aliens invading.
4. Rampaging machines/robots.
5. Zombie virus.

Those are all very likely

Really?

[Old Manus]

I've got this image in my head of washing machines and fridgefreezers sprouting legs and going on the rampage

[Fonzie]

You just described the movie Knowing.

[qwertysaur]

Big rip. Or we are in a false vacuum. Both are disingegration of matter.

another crazy one would be if Lavos popped out randomly and rained destruction. Then the robots would eventually go crazy because mother brain decided that robots are better then us. A nuclear winter where food is a myth. Sure we would have the enetron, but that still leaves us hungry. For fun we would have to race Johnny, because he is THE MAN

[escobert]

I had a dream that zombies AND dinosaurs were attacking. It was nuts.