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the colony
anyone seen this yet?
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/colony.html
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?
The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.
With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.
Experts from the fields of homeland security, engineering and psychology have helped design the world of The Colony to reflect elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global viral outbreak.
Over the course of the 10-week experiment, the Colonists must work together to build the necessities of survival, such as a water-filtration system, a battery bank that powered their electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse – and even some niceties (a coffee maker!).</div>
seems like an interesting show to watch.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/colony.html
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?
The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.
With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.
Experts from the fields of homeland security, engineering and psychology have helped design the world of The Colony to reflect elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global viral outbreak.
Over the course of the 10-week experiment, the Colonists must work together to build the necessities of survival, such as a water-filtration system, a battery bank that powered their electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse – and even some niceties (a coffee maker!).</div>
seems like an interesting show to watch.
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Yeah I watched the Colony series.
I really had no gripes about the show because they couldn't simulate an entire region of post apocalyptic destruction, so they sort of had to make it so that the "survivors" had access to the things they would need. Pretty much all that they got could have been scavenged, it would have just been dangerous and taken quite a while to find some of it.
It would have been interesting if it wasn't a group of carefully selected specialists who didn't know how to make things like gasifiers and radio transmitters from scratch, but it wasn't a bad show.
I really had no gripes about the show because they couldn't simulate an entire region of post apocalyptic destruction, so they sort of had to make it so that the "survivors" had access to the things they would need. Pretty much all that they got could have been scavenged, it would have just been dangerous and taken quite a while to find some of it.
It would have been interesting if it wasn't a group of carefully selected specialists who didn't know how to make things like gasifiers and radio transmitters from scratch, but it wasn't a bad show.
