Originally posted by manchurian_candidate
To have the highest survival probability chances you must be in a safe environment,away from nuclear contamination,pollution and civ itself.I have found only 3 places on earth which are safe
1)the Himalayas
2)Australian outback
30antartica

although if you take global warming into consideration then you might have to remove Antarctica and the outback as all ice would be melting and the outback would be a oven.

so if you live in Australia or north India or south china then you might have good chances of survival provided you have mobility and drinking water facility(though the Himalayas would provide the latter)

[edit on 25-1-2007 by manchurian_candidate]

I thought I read somewhere that the Australian outback was an inland sea once

if that is so then there is a danger it will flood again and become a sea

I can't remember the details but there was a fella looking for the safest place in the world. After searching and doing all of the statistics he moved to the Falklands. About 3 weeks before that little skirmish happened.

If possible id sneak into the vault they made on Svalbard island. otherwise im going into mountians and as far undergound as i can

Safest place on Earth? I guess you could say the very center of Earth, but with saying that we would need the technology to withstand immense gravity and extreme temperature.

I would probably live on a boat floating around near the Antarctic. Not to close that it is unbearable in most scenarios, but close enough to be safe. As for vegetables and other foods, I would turn to growing them myself. (Waterworld ref.) And I would build a contraption that could turn urine into drinkable water

[edit on 17-11-2008 by Nyte Angel]

the best is to stay positive and start to dig a big hole with some underground chambers , food , fresh water , medicale kit , boat , and things you need to survive etc ... when the time is comming just run to your backyard and hide for some months or so depends what your hidding from ....

Safest place from what? That's the question. Safest place from a flood? In the mountains of course, Himalayas. Safest place from wildfires? In the desert or arctic tundra. Safest place from black people? Somewhere cold.

But if we are talking nuclear war here, probably the safest place would be the amazon rainforest. There are no targets there, so it would be pretty much untouched during a nuclear war. That's not to say that prevailing winds couldn't carry fallout there, but that just depends on if you are lucky or unlucky that day.

Originally posted by Stewart Lewis
safty is a feeling, which can only be found in yourself.


i know what you mean stewie

Originally posted by badgerprints
I can't remember the details but there was a fella looking for the safest place in the world. After searching and doing all of the statistics he moved to the Falklands. About 3 weeks before that little skirmish happened.

The Falklands would still be my first ''safe place'' of choice if it was possible to get there in time, regardless of the 1982 Falklands War - Just a handful of civilians died during the conflict.

It is multi-ethnic nowadays, the locals are survivalists by its very geography/weather and biology, it has a decent sized military garrison, modern facilities, decent high ground available, wild enough and far enough off the beaten track to be forgotten about and its British. East Falklands is virtually empty of human habitation.

Failing that, possibly South Georgia, Tristian da Cuhna, St. Helena, Ascension Island or somewhere in Namibia would be my other choices.

New Zealand is beautiful and has everything on a surface level that you would want....the problem is what is below the "surface"....the huge island has several potential volcanoes I hear. When the ring of fire starts going off the 'canoes will go pop down there as well.

The Falklands would still be my first ''safe place'' of choice if it was possible to get there in time, regardless of the 1982 Falklands War - Just a handful of civilians died during the conflict.


Failing that, possibly South Georgia, Tristian da Cuhna, St. Helena, Ascension Island or somewhere in Namibia would be my other choices.

South Georgia is to rough, Kerguelen Island is bigger and a better bet, its got coal as well as water, sheep, wild rabbits, sea birds and excellent fisheries. Tristan is an option, Madagascar possibly. Chatham Island off NZ is very suiitable, some of the small islands of British Columbia, and of course the azores. If you want to remain attached to a continent I would suggest Tierra del Fuego.

If i'm looking at the right island for Kerguelen it has volcano written all over it.

The Falklands would probably be my choice, only because I've heard of it though.

If the meek shall inherit the earth, then where is Meekdom?

A place with clean protected water and no fossil fuels, precious metals or gem stones.

Originally posted by Nirgal
If i'm looking at the right island for Kerguelen it has volcano written all over it.

The Falklands would probably be my choice, only because I've heard of it though.

Ancient Volcano, but the Island is bloody big, roughly the size of both east and west Falkland, but with coal on the surface, loads of fresh water, the frogs have a science station there with hospitals resteraunts, massive energy stores, and its miles from anyone else. Its always very windy so one could erect an excellent wind farm.