4 children survive C206 crash after 40 days
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A300Capt
Freight Dawg
Ok, full disclosure and not proud…..I’ve seen “Naked and Afraid“ on more than one occasion with survival experts and Special Forces dudes tapping out inside of a week of being dropped into these types of scenarios. How in the heck did 4 young kids make it 40 days in these conditions with deadly snakes, insects and predatory animals?? Even if they were part of a Native tribe I just can’t fathom surviving this long on so little while the oldest being only 13. Wow….just wow!!
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ppragman
No pasa nada.
people are badass.
like seriously, the reason the SF dude taps out is because... well, he can. When you cannot tap out, when it's do or die - that's when people really thrive.
I mean, seriously, before electricity, before writing, before cities, before • farming, we spread to every corner of the globe except Antarctica. And the only reason we didn't get there was that it's too far away. If there was some easy connection down through Tierra del Fuego or from NZ, I'd imagine you'd have people down there eating fried Penguin and partying down under the Southern Lights. Humans are prodigious, cooperative, and extraordinarily tough.
9/10 times it's not even physical strength that's required - we're not stronger than wooly mammoths and we hunted those bitches to extinction. We're not more "badass" than a Haast's Eagle, Maori warriors stormed their nests like they were fighting dragons. Humans are smart, we work together, and we manipulate the environment to conditions more favorable to us more aggressively than any other species I'm aware of (maybe beavers are better? don't know). We are truly amazing.
You know that some people in Africa (I think in Namibia? can't remember) hunt by literally running a deer to death? They just jog along and bother the deer for long enough and eventually it dies of exhaustion. That stupid level of badassness is in all of us.
We're the progeny of the greatest survivors the planet has ever known. There's like 8b of us now, and you know that during the Toba Eruption the population dipped as low as 1000 (give or take, some estimates say only 40) breeding humans?
Regardless, good on these kids for surviving, and it's an amazing story, but stuff like this does not surprise me in the least. We're unbelievably tough as a species.
Flyinthrew
Well-Known Member
Amen! I actually draw quite a bit of my motivation for things like running and fasting from our very distant past. We are running a very legacy operating system in a modern world, and that is really what is causing all sorts of very odd -isms in modern society. This operating system is absolutely not built for life with plenty. It really hums, though, in austere conditions.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Take the two most similar dog breeds there are, and the most divergent human pair, and the humans are more genetically similar.
Most species are the whole range of colors in the paint section of Home Despot. The most different humans are adjacent colors on one sample strip.
We’re that alike. Our entire race is descended from the gutsiest survivors there are.
Skåning
Well-Known Member
Except gingers. Science still doesn’t know where they came from.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Most people born and raised in the US, yes.
In some places on the globe, that's just Tuesday.
ppragman
No pasa nada.
you'd be amazed at what kids can do, it's kind of messed up that we often don't treat them like people in this society - they're no different from adults really, they're just really inexperienced.
4 children lost in rural Alaska during blizzard found alive huddling around 2-year-old
The boys, who range in age from 2 to 14, dug a foot-deep hole and positioned themselves in a way so that the 2-year-old wouldn't be as exposed to the elements.
www.wmtw.com
All those survival instincts are in each one of us, waiting for the right time to be needed.
Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
melax
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These kids aren't the urban type we see here with iPhones, headphones, saggy pants spending 99% of their time on social Media. They were reared with real life survival skills, and they used them well !!
My Father level of education (as measured by western standards) was not very advanced, however he could disassemble the engine and drive train of our Jeep Willys to perform a total rebuilt without a manual ! I learned so many things from him. He has been my main base for my technical abilities. I miss him a lot.
My Father level of education (as measured by western standards) was not very advanced, however he could disassemble the engine and drive train of our Jeep Willys to perform a total rebuilt without a manual ! I learned so many things from him. He has been my main base for my technical abilities. I miss him a lot.
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ASpilot2be
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One of my favorite books ever.