The Walking Dead: Season 3

[John E. Kelley]

Next week should be big, they showed a scene we've all been waiting on this entire season.

[SinisterDeath]

Saw talking dead (my first episode) and saw that scene. Could be good.

 

Well Rick & Co may not be thinking or caring about genetic diversity. Also iirc humanity has come back from a genetic bottleneck of 10-15k people before so it's not a super huge concern when your top priority is just staying alive

Sure, but they've been at this already for how long? 1 year? 2? (talking dead says its been 3 years?!) That means they have basic survival down. And if they are still focused entirely on pure-survival, they are doing something wrong at this point. They really do need to start focusing on how to continue to live, beyond mere survival; and that does mean they need to bring back agriculture. As, that is a concern that is, towards  long-term survival. As i said, canned food? Yea, thats only going to last at most another 6 months. (if they are up to only 1 year, if its 3 years? then everything save powdered milk and a few other things are beyond  eaddible now.)

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

*survivalist PSA - you can get along without scurvy if you eat the contents of herbivores' digestive tracts... or sprout dried beans instead of cooking them... or... eat mice and other small rodents whole, without cleaning them... there will be a rodent and scavenger boom after something like this gets going, so tons of meat with enough veg in their systems to keep you running... and the shelf life on canned and dried goods is much longer than advertised*

 

returning you to your scheduled broadcast. 

[SinisterDeath]

*survivalist PSA - you can get along without scurvy if you eat the contents of herbivores' digestive tracts... or sprout dried beans instead of cooking them... or... eat mice and other small rodents whole, without cleaning them... there will be a rodent and scavenger boom after something like this gets going, so tons of meat with enough veg in their systems to keep you running... and the shelf life on canned and dried goods is much longer than advertised*

 

returning you to your scheduled broadcast. 

 

Depends on the canned good.

The ones with the lift-tabs, are much closer to there experiation date, compared to the thicker-requires-can-opener-cans.

 

And dehydratedmilk, has probbably the longest shelf-life of around 50 years.

Milk being an excellent source of protien.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

insects are good, too.

 

can they eat things that have scavenged on the dead people safely?

 

.... this whole discussion is making me wish they hadn't cancelled survivors... bastards...

[John E. Kelley]

You'd also have to think that they were rolling in vegetables the entire time that they were at Hershell's. It was a big ass farm after all. But yeah, before the Governor dropped the Walker bomb at the prison, I was constantly wondering why they didn't start cultivating the big open spaces there.

[SinisterDeath]

You'd also have to think that they were rolling in vegetables the entire time that they were at Hershell's. It was a big ass farm after all. But yeah, before the Governor dropped the Walker bomb at the prison, I was constantly wondering why they didn't start cultivating the big open spaces there.

Stupidity.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

takes about an acre to grow enough food for four people not counting protein ... could do well with potatoes... not much labor involved and self propagating besides...

 

um, sorry for derailing, carry on.

[John E. Kelley]

 

You'd also have to think that they were rolling in vegetables the entire time that they were at Hershell's. It was a big ass farm after all. But yeah, before the Governor dropped the Walker bomb at the prison, I was constantly wondering why they didn't start cultivating the big open spaces there.

Stupidity.

Rick. Same thing.

[John E. Kelley]

takes about an acre to grow enough food for four people not counting protein ... could do well with potatoes... not much labor involved and self propagating besides...

um, sorry for derailing, carry on.

Hershell had hundreds of acres, not even counting the nearby forest.

 

And before barnaggedon, how many did they have to feed? Around a dozen or so before the three died at the end of the season.

 

Ah, the end of season two. See ya jerk off Shane. Good riddance.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

 

takes about an acre to grow enough food for four people not counting protein ... could do well with potatoes... not much labor involved and self propagating besides...

um, sorry for derailing, carry on.

Hershell had hundreds of acres, not even counting the nearby forest.

And before barnaggedon, how many did they have to feed? Around a dozen or so before the three died at the end of the season.

Ah, the end of season two. See ya jerk off Shane. Good riddance.

if you'd told me there was farming and survivalism involved I'd have been watching this by now...

 

why do people always have o stress the reanimated dead flesh business?

 

yuck.

 

with hundreds of acres you'd need machinery and manpower but.. one person without machines could grow enough for a dozen for the year, easy. use the rest for small livestock and fowl.

[SinisterDeath]

 

 

takes about an acre to grow enough food for four people not counting protein ... could do well with potatoes... not much labor involved and self propagating besides...

um, sorry for derailing, carry on.

Hershell had hundreds of acres, not even counting the nearby forest.

And before barnaggedon, how many did they have to feed? Around a dozen or so before the three died at the end of the season.

Ah, the end of season two. See ya jerk off Shane. Good riddance.

if you'd told me there was farming and survivalism involved I'd have been watching this by now...

 

why do people always have o stress the reanimated dead flesh business?

 

yuck.

 

with hundreds of acres you'd need machinery and manpower but.. one person without machines could grow enough for a dozen for the year, easy. use the rest for small livestock and fowl.

Exactly.

Even if they just used the inside of the prison as a vegitable garden (they could produce more then enough to keep them with fresh-veggies through the winter... specially with canning)

 

Farming fields, is a bit harder due to walkers, after all..

But as.. M-(forgot how to spell it... the black samuraii chick) showed, you can... domesticate those damned things.

 

Who needs plow horses..

When you can take up 12 walkers to pull your plow?

[nicana]

I was wondering how Michonn got that picture myself. I was more upset over that lapse in writing than the hitchhiker. Honestly I'm with Ishy, that also made me laugh. I knew Rick wouldn't stop for him. He pretty much kicked Tyrese and his group out of the prison and been against anyone new coming into the group. Yeah he's at war with the Governor and could use all the able bodies he can get but he also can't trust them. He doesn't know who came from the "town" trying to infiltrate his group. Also Rick is NUTS!!! Who knows what else is going through his warped brain.

[Nolder]

Saw talking dead (my first episode) and saw that scene. Could be good.

 

Well Rick & Co may not be thinking or caring about genetic diversity. Also iirc humanity has come back from a genetic bottleneck of 10-15k people before so it's not a super huge concern when your top priority is just staying alive

Sure, but they've been at this already for how long? 1 year? 2? (talking dead says its been 3 years?!) That means they have basic survival down. And if they are still focused entirely on pure-survival, they are doing something wrong at this point. They really do need to start focusing on how to continue to live, beyond mere survival; and that does mean they need to bring back agriculture. As, that is a concern that is, towards  long-term survival. As i said, canned food? Yea, thats only going to last at most another 6 months. (if they are up to only 1 year, if its 3 years? then everything save powdered milk and a few other things are beyond  eaddible now.)

Circumstances have forced them to continue "merely surviving" instead of focusing on the future. They haven't had a chance.

They were gonna do that at the Farm and the Prison was supposed to be a long term thing but they're being forced out of it.

[Nolder]

[Tiinker]

^ Scary as hell..

 

I freakin loved that episode. Can someone link the Talking Dead part you guys were referring to? I'll decide later if I wanna be spoiled ha

[John E. Kelley]

http://youtu.be/z2hgxgfuYkA

 

That's the scene Tiink. Been waiting on that all season.

[John E. Kelley]

Looks like that one didn't work. Try this one.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9qcEEN_sU&feature=youtu.be

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Looks like that one didn't work. Try this one.

 

http://youtu.be/pq9qcEEN_sU

was gonna ask you to post it cause can't see it, screw apple, but when you hit reply you get the URL, so.. yay, thanks

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

spoke too soon... didnt work... nvm, I'll google

[John E. Kelley]

Looks like that one didn't work. Try this one.

 

http://youtu.be/pq9qcEEN_sU

 

Yeah, what Cindy said. There it is now.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

 

Looks like that one didn't work. Try this one.

 

http://youtu.be/pq9qcEEN_sU

 

Yeah, what Cindy said. There it is now.

it works for you?

 

screw apple twice :(

[John E. Kelley]

Copying and pasting the URL works anyway, try that.

[SinisterDeath]

hmm

nope

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pq9qcEEN_sU

[SinisterDeath]

Weird should work but isn't...

Some reason in the very first one you linked, its site was linked as youtu.be instead of youtube...