Humans have lived, thrived and survived for thousands of years in snow dominated regions of the earth.... so why were they hiding? Its not like it was a toxic or radiated environment like other post-apocalyptic films. There were whole cities to plunder and that's not including fishing under the rivers etc.
Also hiding your population from the cold naturally makes them susceptible to cold viruses, so its no wonder so many were dying. Again we are not talking about some alien virus..... the weak would have died off naturally and the 2nd to 3rd generation would have been fine.
Christ they didn't even have snow shoes! And why was everyone seemingly living in concrete, damp and cavernous factories/ industrial plants which would have been horrendously cold.
That post completely lacks any logic.
First off Humans have not lived, thrived and survived in in environments were it is snowing 24/7/365 and where it is below 0 24/7/365. The closet land mass on Earth that in reality has those conditions is Antarctica and humans have never naturally lived there. What humans have done for hundreds of years is live in places where it has been cold for most or part of the year, but those areas did have a break in the cold that allowed them to grow and gather food and to get materials to build and repair shelters.
So the best bet for them in a situation where they don't have the materials to build shelters to protect them from the weather is to find a preexisting structure that will protect them, and an underground bunker is the best bet if you can find one. And in those conditions after a while there would be nothing to plunder, as they said in the movie once everything ran out in the cities people started flocking there, animals would just about be hunted out, and fishing would be out of the question because the rivers and lakes would have a very thick layer of Ice and any surviving fish would have gone to the very bottom to where it is warm and been out of reach to fish.
Secondly, hiding your population away from the cold doesn't make them more susceptible to cold viruses. Cold doesn't cause viruses. What cold does is weaken your immune system because your body has to use more energy to stay warm so it uses less energy maintaining your immune system. This is what makes you more susceptible to viruses and bacterial infections. So it would stand to reason that to keep from getting sick in an environment like they are in they need to stay warm and out of the cold. The one thing they would need to do is to keep it as dry as possible because many viruses and bacteria do spread in damp environments.
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Indifferent_Observer
11 years ago
They didn't just live there to stay warm. They stayed there and kept samples of wildlife, stock, cropts, bugs, foliage, etc and many other amenities they wouldn't have been able to keep alive outside in the snow. I am sure a lot of it was opportunity also and unimportant overall.
Their intentions were waiting for everything either to pass and/or someone to find a way to get the sun shining again.
People who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
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joekill162
11 years ago
Another example is the barbarians and Gauls that live in cold areas of Europe also known as the Ancient Germans, french tribes, and others, they would stay in their cold country durning spring and summer but when winter came, it would be too cold for any food, they could not grow crops and cannot hunt in the snow, did not speak many languages so their were many wars over food and supplies, until the romans came into power, and the romans never understood that the barbarians were fighting them for survival and the romans were fighting only for power that was a giant clusterfu*k and the romans lost everything after 500 years of rule.
But back to the movie, its snowed day and night, with no sun, it would be impossible for them to survive for long periods of time on the surface, for the same reason why today humans cannot survive living in the South Pole without massive amounts of supplies, even though their is sun light, humans would die out, hell even penguins knows in order to survive as a spices each female needs to have one baby per year until death, then the cycle is repeated
99% societies, countries on earth cannot survive without trade, bargaining or begging
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Promontorium
11 years ago
The Galatians were not Germans. They were Celtic. The Germans were a lot of things, but never the Galatians.
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