What type of person survives a catastrophe?

[Ed Anger]

I use my ring of ring of wishes.

[dps]

Well, we've survived 10 years of Marti posting here, so I'm going to guess that snarky, belligerent, and boorish helps.

[Phillip V]

The faithful will have eternal life.

[Lettow77]

The word that really comes to mind when I think about how he survived is guanxi.

The word that really comes to mind..is guanxi.

guanxi

guanxi

[Siege]

Resilience and flexibility.

[Queequeg]

The word that really comes to mind when I think about how he survived is guanxi.

The word that really comes to mind..is guanxi.

guanxi

guanxi

Should I prepare myself for a 9,000 word tirade on the inferiority of Chinese culture?

[Josquius]

It's all maths I guess.

Stop that.  Stop that this instant.

Stop what?

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm pretty sure the people most likely to survive a catastrophe are the same people least able to thrive in rigidly ordered society. Speaking in the broadest terms possible.

[merithyn]

Those most likely to survive are those best prepared.

[MadImmortalMan]

[Ideologue]

I like that episode of the Twilight Zone where only the one guy has a bomb shelter and then the war comes and he laughs and laughs and laughs.  I may be misremembering it.

[merithyn]

I like that episode of the Twilight Zone where only the one guy has a bomb shelter and then the war comes and he laughs and laughs and laughs.  I may be misremembering it.

Definitely misremembering it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shelter_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[Ideologue]

Maybe we're the real monsters.

[Malthus]

Maybe we're the real monsters.

Hey, I'd let you in my shelter. All you eat is a candy bar a day or somesuch. 

[garbon]

I wouldn't. He wouldn't make for good eats when the food ran out.