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Ridiculous Hypothetical Situation

Capsicumexanthematicus

Capsicumexanthematicus

You are at a bar talking to a beautiful person of the opposite gender, when all of a sudden you begin to feel woozy and suspect that someone has put something in your drink. You lose consciousness and awake several days later on an apparently abandoned island. You explore the island and find that it appears to have no indigenous large animals and no plant species aside from several hundred acres of bhut jolokia plants growing freely throughout. The plants are loaded with flowers and ripe pods. In the island's interior there is an unoccupied warehouse with a solar powered electrical system. There is a stove an oven and a room sized commercial freezer. There is an assortment of knives, pots, and mason jars and several large crates stacked on pallets. The contents of the crates appear to be multivitamins, salt, distilled vinegar, Iron and lysine supplements. There is apparently a life time supply of each. Adjacent to the warehouse is a full 500,000 gallon water tower filled with fresh water which is plumbed to a single drinking fountain inside the warehouse.

How long do you think you'll survive on this island and how will you go about it? :hell:
 
Omri said:
but it's an island... meaning it's surrounded by sea. :shocked:
deep fried worms? :P
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That's true, the sea is a valid option. However, there is no apparent evidence of fish within the immediate coastal waters. Finding or cathcing any marine fish that potentially could exist must be done with the limited resources that are on the island.

Eating worms is a valid option as well, but frying them would require an edible oil of some type.
 
can the water tower look like this?
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that would make all the difference to me.
 
Capsicumexanthematicus said:
That's true, the sea is a valid option. However, there is no apparent evidence of fish within the immediate coastal waters. Finding or cathcing any marine fish that potentially could exist must be done with the limited resources that are on the island.

Eating worms is a valid option as well, but frying them would require an edible oil of some type.
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Deep fried in Capsaicin oil!
 
I would be really aggrevated if there were no Trinidad varieties...
 
Here's what happens. You die. You did not provide for fats. The human body cannot survive without fats. That's what happened to that kid in the "Into The Wild" book. It's called "Rabbit Starvation". What's more, the human body also needs protein and phytonutrients. But the fats are the big thing.
 
Guerilla Chef said:
Here's what happens. You die. You did not provide for fats. The human body cannot survive without fats. That's what happened to that kid in the "Into The Wild" book. It's called "Rabbit Starvation". What's more, the human body also needs protein and phytonutrients. But the fats are the big thing.
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You underestimate how fat I am lol.

Fine! While eating the bhuts every way imaginable I build a boat out of the crates and parts off the warehouse can a ton of the bhuts and dry a few more, fill a bunch of jars with water load up the boat and set sail. when I return to civilization I buy the island and sell the bhuts to people on here become a millionaire and live happily ever after. Lol
 
I'm the official wet blanket. I'm the guy that told everyone buying gas masks after 9/11 that they'd die anyway because they didn't have a full protective suit. Except I waited until after they bought the gas masks to tell them. :hell:
 
One simple thing missing and it may have to do with a fat albeit entirely different from what gorilla pointed out.
No women on the island?? Pfft, you can keep it! :lol:
 
Guerilla Chef said:
Here's what happens. You die. You did not provide for fats. The human body cannot survive without fats. That's what happened to that kid in the "Into The Wild" book. It's called "Rabbit Starvation". What's more, the human body also needs protein and phytonutrients. But the fats are the big thing.
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Your body can manufacture fats by oxidizing/reducing carbohydrates, if you're eating a caloric surplus of them. Chile peppers on average are 4% fat anyway(more so if you count the seeds). Lysine is the only protein monomer that capsicums are deficient in and you're body can't make on it's own. Hence, the copious amounts of lysine and multivitamins stored in crates in the warehouse. There have also been studies that indicate eating excessive amounts of capsaicin inhibits the human digestive tract's ability to absorb iron, I thought someone might bring that up so I put some crates of iron supplements in the warehouse as well. The real horrible part of this situation is that to avoid dying of "rabbit starvation" a 200lb man would probably need to eat about 3000 calories daily, if only eating chiles. One pepper is probably about 15 calories. So survival is contingent on eating about 200 bhuts daily. :mouthonfire:
 
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