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**BundEnhamma** · 12-27-2007, 08:05 PM

Originally posted by Heraclitus
So in the blink of an eye the United States of America as it exists right now is placed on a imaginary Earth where humans have been extinct since the late stone age. To the Americans it seems like every country in the world has instantly reverted to a pristine natural state without any infrastructure or population and with undepleted resources. They have no instant explanation, but assume that with a few months of research they could realize they were dropped off on a alternative Earth.

The consequences should be very interesting. The few folks in the US who have backyard solar plants are very happy.

Of course we can go grab oil (do we KNOW that the resources are undepleted?) but exploiting it quickly is gonna be a challenge - its not like we've got a huge steel industry. Although this becomes the priority usage for steel, by far. BTW, have all the worlds merchant fleets (other than those in US ports, or US waters) gone also? We badly need tanker capacity to get that oil back, and we DONT have a huge shipbuilding industry. Though again, this will be the priority for the shipyards we do have. And if we focus on Canada and Mexico first, all we need are pipelines.

Btw, hang on to your electronics, since we've lost not just the assembly plants, but the main memory chip plants as well.

And of course just when we need labor to build all the industry that we dont have, there are gonna be folks heading out into the wild, whether to find gold (in South Africa, Australia, etc) or to create various new and odd communities, or whatever.

Its actually gonna be messier than one might think.

12-27-2007, 08:05 PM	#2
BundEnhamma Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	Originally posted by Heraclitus So in the blink of an eye the United States of America as it exists right now is placed on a imaginary Earth where humans have been extinct since the late stone age. To the Americans it seems like every country in the world has instantly reverted to a pristine natural state without any infrastructure or population and with undepleted resources. They have no instant explanation, but assume that with a few months of research they could realize they were dropped off on a alternative Earth. The consequences should be very interesting. The few folks in the US who have backyard solar plants are very happy. Of course we can go grab oil (do we KNOW that the resources are undepleted?) but exploiting it quickly is gonna be a challenge - its not like we've got a huge steel industry. Although this becomes the priority usage for steel, by far. BTW, have all the worlds merchant fleets (other than those in US ports, or US waters) gone also? We badly need tanker capacity to get that oil back, and we DONT have a huge shipbuilding industry. Though again, this will be the priority for the shipyards we do have. And if we focus on Canada and Mexico first, all we need are pipelines. Btw, hang on to your electronics, since we've lost not just the assembly plants, but the main memory chip plants as well. And of course just when we need labor to build all the industry that we dont have, there are gonna be folks heading out into the wild, whether to find gold (in South Africa, Australia, etc) or to create various new and odd communities, or whatever. Its actually gonna be messier than one might think.
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