Say you were marooned on a tropical island

The plane crashed on the island and no one else survived. You had plenty of supplies on the plane. You were off the grid/radar and they thought you drowned.

It was a rich paradise, full of life.

You would have to hunt wild boar and catch fish if you wanted meat. There would be tropical fruit if you wanted it. There would be no internet.

I think most would want to go home, back to the easy convenience of suburban life.

I think I would suffer at first and would want to be found. I would stay if I could.

You would feel so alive in survival mode.

Do you think you would survive in this situation?

Honestly, I  think I would die within a week. I have no survival skills. I don't know how to fish. The wild boars will probably kill me instead.

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  • Assuming I had at least a stout knife with me, I think I would be OK. Shellfish are easily gathered, and I used to free-dive so, sharks permitting, I could dive for shellfish and crabs etc. I could make a reasonable bow and arrows. I know my way around animal anatomy and could fairly quickly work out the behaviour and habits of potential food animals. Yes, I believe that I could survive, so long as the bites of the local mosquitoes didn't give me any disease or a really bad reaction. Given suitable dry wood for friction-type ignition I think a fire would be doable - a combination of knife and flint would be easier though.

  • Einstein said the next world war would be fought with bows and arrows.

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