What If You Were The Last Person On Earth 

Plot twist: you wake up and the scientist takes the VR off and says “You lasted longer than we expected.”

There was this tiny hobby farm on the edge of a town where I lived. The owner passed away and his tiny bit of livestock all got loose and were either killed on the road or eventually rounded up by animal control. Except for his chickens. The chickens didn't cross the road as it were...They moved into the woods and setup housekeeping. The town annexed land and a few more city blocks worth and built some affordable housing. And the chickens kept on keeping on. Nearly 40 years after their original owner died, the feral chickens were still hanging on after many generations of cats, dogs, foxes, and cars. I kinda respected that little flock of chickens. Tough...Survivors.

You would 100% go crazy trying to figure out why you were the only one spared.

I probably wouldn't live too long. Not because I wouldn't know how to forage for food and water but because I would be trying to fly jet's, drive a Nascar around, sail around on an aircraft carrier. I'm sure the jet would do me in first though.

after enduring a tedious Monday, I’m totally ok with this scenario.

Introverts and antisocials: “I missed the part where that’s my problem”

How would you know you’re the only person left? I would spend the rest of my life looking to see if anyone else had survived. I’m not sure I could ever quite give up on that.

You’re incorrect about the nuclear power plants. At least about most of them. Newer plants have automated emergency shut off procedures that stop all reactions within the fuel rods by inserting other materials between them. Instead of heating up they’d eventually cool off. And no radiation would leak out to the water or air. So a relatively new nuclear power plant would be your best bet for long-term electricity. If you happen to have your own solar panels you’ll have power for years to come. And if you’re an electrician who lives near a solar farm you’ll have enough power to last you your whole life (assuming wild animals don’t eat you and you have enough herbivores around for you to eat) Though of course you wouldn’t have the internet or any signal-based communication. You could still enjoy DVDs or VCRs tho if you can power them. So hopefully you like old movies.

Our hero seems to have a surprising will to live despite losing literally everyone she loves

On the basic level, those of us who lived in small towns through natural disasters would have no trouble surviving for quite a while. You discover that many things we think are important for our lives to function or make us happy aren't so necessary. Your perspective changes; you feel at ease without the noise. After a time of hard work cleaning up, once the lights come back on, you feel some relief but also a sense of loss because life gets overwhelming again.

This actually gave me some peace. If humans are to face some mass extinction event, the earth will not only recover, but thrive.

I would raid a pharmacy, get super high of the best stuff, and jump off a tall building (if I don't OD.) Either way, I'll be dead within a week.

Introverts like me have been training for this type of isolation all our lives!

If I were in a scenario like that, I would first acquaint myself with the answers to the most problematic questions, such as: What is inside Area 51? What secret technology have the US, Russia, and China been working on? What lies in the areas that were once off-limits to visitors? etc. If I anyway had to die, why should I waste my time just trying to survive without any reason?

You guys keep getting nuclear power plants wrong. The pumps aren't necessary to maintain the core cooled to prevent meltdown. With Pressurized Water Reactors especially like you showed, the core can be cooled by natural circulation even if multiple Steam Generator legs are destroyed by an accident. In this kind of scenario, when power is lost or a trip (SCRAM) condition is automatically triggered, the control rods automatically drop into the reactor and shut it down. They require active power to hold them up and out of the reactor. No power, they drop into the core and it shuts down. The left over heat causes a natural circulation flow through the steam generators to cool off the core and will go into a cold shutdown state without anyone even touching the system the entire time. This kind of design works even if there is huge damage to most of what's inside the containment building. With no damage whatsoever, the plant would safely cooldown without any problem. So, that you can finally understand...no boom boom, no radiation, okay? You're supposed to be an informational channel. It's okay to not understand something. People ususally train for years to be able to understand their specific power plant. But, if you don't know something, could you please refrain from perpetuating the ignorant laden fear of nuclear power already? This kind of stuff is why nuclear power gets such a scary image in the general public. If you REALLY want to learn, talk to some people or contact INPO for some information.

I literally imagine this scenario before bed every night. Then think about what I would do if I didn't have to go to work in the morning.

Fun fact: ancient buildings like the great pyramids or the colosseum and so on will actually last hundreds and in most cases thousands of years longer then modern buildings

This reminds me of a great book (from its wiki): Earth Abides is a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization... Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead. For myself, I'd have a few years in me barring some accident. But at age 63 I do have some medications that I will need for a full long life. I won't drop dead in a month without them, but probably in a few years? So my last years would be of exploring in wonder at being the last man alive. I'd write a journal and record my thoughts. The last man, writing the last book...

Better than being the guy from The Twilight Zone with all those books but no glasses.

The dogs of Chernobyl are an excellent example of what happens when pets are left behind in an evacuation. There's still tons of them surviving, though there's really not many old dogs. Also there wasn't actually many small dogs, or oversized. Medium dogs that sort of became there own breed with similar features and color patterns. But they are quite smart, begging from the "dark tourist" but avoiding any humans in uniform. There's a pretty interesting documentary about these "radioactive" pups.

Thank you it's very informative.. but from the title I also expected a short psychological rundown of this (horrible) situation based on reports from past stranded people etc. Again, thank you for a very good channel!

Man I cherish my alone time and I love it but being the last person in earth would take alone time to the next level

Moral of the video: if humans didn’t exist life would actually be good

Reminds me of the old special life after people, great video

What about the psychological factor of being alone

I’m sure my wife would still find a way to nag me to death from the beyond

If that's the only way to grow a full beard, then I'm okay with it.

I'd go to university libraries and pick up all the books on electrical engineering and renewables I could find, and farming too. I'd spend a few years setting up a small power station

Some farm animals would do well, but sheep would eventually die off because they’ve gotten to the point where they HAVE to be sheared by humans because their wool doesn’t stop growing. It would keep going until it was tugging at their skin and they’d eventually be killed off by others or die because of the massive weight they have to carry. Looking up abandoned sheep or overgrown sheep on google can give you an example of what I mean.

It would depend on the person tbh and where your at, cuz so many scenarios could play out in many ways.

This was surprisingly well thought out. Good on you.

Freaking LOVE this channel and weird history you both are some of the best fact and history channels on RU-vid good job 👍

When it comes to fuelling vehicles and off-grid power generators, diesel's the way to go, that stuff can last for years, and with a traditional style diesel engine (before all the adblue common rail injection DPF nonsense), they'll run on just about anything oily, whether diesel fuel, vegetable oil paraffin (kerosene), home heating oil, engine oil, etc., and bar the veg oils, the fuels they can run on will store for a very long time compared to the ol' gasserleans, if properly contained of course... :)

Ideally move to a city that is Colder than warmer and next to a river fed by a glacier or mountain water. The water will remain fresh for life while your can put your food supplies in plastic, submerged in the chilly mountain water to keep it refrigerated for longer. While that food lasts, learn to farm and hunt. Collect seeds from local plants or garden supply shops and spread the seeds out and about in a vast area so in case it catches disease, All the crops won't be lost. Shoes, clothes etc is also super important before they wear out over a decade.

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

Man you are insane. Just watched ten you first videos went to sleep and voke to see two more videos. Good job (i am not english or american)

Last Man on Earth made this situation not seem this intense.

Like 2020 covid lockdown. The world over: "we're depressed!" Me: in heaven

From time to time I watch these types of videos. My favorite being one from history channel about pandemics from about 10 or so years ago. But this is the first I’ve come across that mentions nuclear power plants. Good stuff.

This would be the perfect time to go through everyone's stuff.

I've been training my whole life for stuff like this. Reading books and practicing survival. Training with firearms. Carpentry. Medical classes. Bought a property in the country with a wood stove, well with a manual pump attachment, a large greenhouse and livestock. Now I'm married with kids. I don't know if I could go on without them. If I had them it would be great though.

There are microorganisms and somewhat larger creatures that have evolved to eat and digest plastic. There's a lot of energy in plastic, which has a great deal of carbon in it. So plastic may become much scarcer within 200 years.

Mega plot twist: The second you die, the rest of humanity return, unaware any time had passed.

I've been watching your channel for a few days now before i go to bed and i would like to say you've given me just the right amount of doom and gloom to make my sleeping dreams fantastic. I can't wait to get back to sleep to enter my fabulous dreams again. Thanks.

If I was the last person on Earth ..... I would get one of those foam IM #1 fingers and yell... IM NUMBER ONE !! RULER OF EARTH !! I TOTALLY RULE !!! Then spend time seeing if I was really the only person left. ROAD TRIP !!!

Im a little suprised infographics didnt consider the psychological affects of being alone... I would go crazy if I can only interact with dogs

This sounds so peaceful 😍😍😍 nature claiming it's land back.

This is one of my favourite Infographics videos.

The more you love your decisions the less you need others to love your decisions. ♡

Introverts: Oh no! Anyway…

I've often fantasized of a world with no one but me. No more Monday through Friday grind. Just survival. Was lucky enough to experience 3 months of this very thing.

Lov3 this channel to relax too .

how crazy would it be if after forty years you hear a random phone ring

1. Ever seen the classic Twilight Zone episode, “Time Enough at Last”? Def worth seeing 2. Your tropical plant growth timeline is off - plants will reclaim suburban areas within a year or two due to humidity and rapid growth rates. Example: I saw a university building [~14N lat] nearly completely submerged under new plant growth. I asked my brother what happened. He said the building, which had housed the uni’s electron microscope, had burned about one year before my visit. One year was all the time nature needed to nearly bury the building in vegetation.

So basically the earth would heal and live longer. ♥️🔥🔥🔥🔥

My New Fav Channel🔥🔥🔥

U realise it's no illusion, Only U remain, Smashed & torn reality, Now face the unbearable pain.

This reminds me of a great book titled "Life After Us" by Alan Weisman

Nuclear reactors are designed to be mostly automated. They have protocols to shut down safely by raising and lowering rods in specific combinations to keep them from a critical meltdown. When the cooling water has completely evaporated it will inevitably leak radiation into the atmosphere for hundreds of years. but that would still take a long time.. several months to possibly to years depending on the size and number of rods and the cooling tank.

First thing I would do is head to the library research the most quick and painless way to die, then head (probably) to the pharmacy to get what I needed. This is the backup plan, just in case I struggle in survival and my only other option is to die slowly. Dismal yes, but quite frankly a slow death is not a scenario I want to deal with.

last person on earth ? I would make my time really useful and try everything to preserve the continuation of our human race. I might go to a clinic where a man's genetic material is preserved and establish a successful fertilization. When I secure myself of good health and stock up resources, Creating life would be my goal.

Butane in lighters wont just suddenly vanish , Its a compressed gas and the lighter would have to be physically smashed to allow the gas to leak into the air and evaporate away.

You’re my favorite channel!!! I love your videos !!

I love a video that gets right to it, no long, pointless introduction

Would be my dream come true

I dont know what to do great videos btw

Being a nature-loving person I absolutely adore the scenario🙂🌲🌳🏝⛰🏕☀️

This is beautiful. The world needs this to happen.

A bit sad video. Especially when watching it on the hottest day of the year (UK). You made particularly clear how our wellbeing is depending on the work of others. This is why wars are the biggest evil in the world...

I would finally be able to take a nap

I would immediately go on a search to find and defeat Thanos...

All it takes is a pack of wolves running up on you while your drunk or something

Amazing video good work

So essentially, the world would be better off if we all just disappeared 🤷‍♂️

I love this premise

Awesome video

honestly looks quite peaceful

Some industrial and nuclear facilities would be able to run automatically without human presence for months or even years in my opinion,thanks to sophisticated computer and power supply systems they have.

I'd just let myself die, all that waits for me is chaos and destruction.

Great Video

I think that those areas that were during the night-side of the planet, there the entire cities and nations were at a low-power-consumption level, so I think nuclear power plants and renewables could sustain the energy networks for months or even years to come, before the degrading power-lines would cut the network into ever smaller bits.

Some people can do it, others can not.

3:20 honestly there's so much stuff going to happen that it's just immediately VERY freaky to find yourself in such a situation because that is going to be extremely scary to deal with imagine a group lionesses just walking in a city block a couple streets from you away bro 🤐

I think a less misleading title for this video would be "What if everyone on Earth except you suddenly disappear"

I have one thing to say about this: It is quite possible that crows will take over the Earth after us instead of apes. They already can share their knowledge via language, use tools and are very intelligent.

Yay peace and quiet at last!! Now how do I get over to Japan...

this is my perfect life, no seriously I'd love to be the last alive. Just imagine, No competition, nothing, just you and wildlife. WONDERFULL!!

If there's nothing stopping you from building an entire wolf pack at this point some dogs most dog will still be loyal to humans in the beginning,I would definitely not underestimate that resource. The dogs are made to bring in on stuff back so if you can train your dogs to hunt then you're pretty much set, and this is coming from a vegan which so would probably keep dogs around for company and protection Edit: crazy how y'all do end up mentioning the Wolfpack idea never mind LOL

I would love to see more on this! Its honestly amazing it reminds me of the game Tokyo Jungle in a sense

Realistically if I was the last person on earth I'd want dogs for protection, transportation, company, tracking. I'd set myself up in a military base. Good fencing for defense or pens of animals alot of weapons and food aswell as likely being in a good position for seeing surroundings and likely having power much longer and secure places to hind form any explosions. I'd definitely want to be somewhere warm/tropical and close to the ocean for fishing. Being in a military base I would have a good leg up for durability so if I maintained it well I'd probably be quite comfortable all things considered. Keep different breeds of dogs for different jobs and likely as he said collect cows pigs and chickens. There would be so many clothes and blankets I don't see the use of sheep other then for more food but I think they would be more work then they are worth having to sheer them. Realistically you want easy animals low mantance and healthy. That's what I'd do

Not to mention your lucky if you survive that long and have not gone insane from extreme loneliness.

I'd hit up an Amazon warehouse...

“If we were the last two people on Earth, who gon stop me?” -ishowspeed

I wouldn’t want too be the last person alive. Just imagine never being able too speak too anyone ever again that alone for me would make life depressing

More!!! 😊

Most houses would catch on fire due to a stove/oven being left on.

Wait so the people driving planes and cars just disappear? 🤔

I live in a bigish town next to a city and I would go to my Walmart a block away and block all entrances so nothing can get in and then would make it my home. Walmart has tons of useful stuff like food, water, camping equipment, toys, and much more to use for a comfort life. Also near my house is a lot of bakeries and other stuff for more supplies. In my town there is mostly two-four lane roads meaning fires will not spread as far like a dense city would. note: I would be chilling in a Walmart bunker eating canned ravioli whilst drinking a ensure(a drink with lots of vitamins in it)

These videos make you realize how close everything is to going up in flames but people being responsible is what stops citys and towns from going up in flames eveyday

Who's laughing at the cat lady now she has a whole army at her disposal!