Say a solar flare knocks out all electricity...

[justiceischeap]

after you got beyond the task of surviving, what would you do for work?

[pokerfan]

1. Three words

Puppet Porn Theater.

[justiceischeap]

3. I just can't stop laughing! DUzy. nt

[Brother Buzz]

2. Manufacturer shovel handles

That would be my chosen niche.

[justiceischeap]

4. I suspect that would be a good niche.

There would definitely be a call for them.

[hunter]

5. It'd take me a little while to accept that DU was down...

...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...reload...

But frankly, other than that, my life wouldn't change much. Give away the frozen food I guess, before it thaws. But other than that I've got essential talents people will trade food for and I live in a place nobody ever freezes to death.

Worse comes to worse, I can always eat my most dislikable neighbors... best peel that Newt 2012 sticker off your car before things get ugly.

[justiceischeap]

7. Aren't you lucky living where no one freezes to death.

I wonder if this really happened if people would migrate to the warmer climes?

[hunter]

9. When things get ugly, my ancestors always walked.

It's in my genes.

My ancestors left Europe for America whenever things started to go rotten there.

A couple of them then fled to the Wild West just before the Civil War.

I can feel them in my bones, looking around and thinking, well, this is gonna suck. I'm outta here.

There's some Neanderthal genes in there too. I've got the red hairs in my beard that prove it.

Goes all the way back, millions of years, to humanity's African Homeland.

[Remmah2]

22. Woodburner and an ax.

Been heating with wood for years.

[HopeHoops]

6. Sexual consultant.

I'd work for bananas, peaches, and cherries.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. I would

[Denninmi]

10. Ah, I could go for years just subsisting on the neighbors.

It's all in how you cook them!

[guitar man]

11. Hunter -gatherer

Losing all electricity would put us back to those days.

[Old Troop]

12. Hopefully not that bad...

I'm thinking back to the 19th century. Water powered mills and factories, steam powered transport, a lot of muscle-powered (animal and human) agriculture and construction. Of course, it's hard to determine how many people would survive the first few years as society readjusted to a low tech system.

[guitar man]

15. Ok

Ill take mountain man then

[Marrah_G]

13. I would be pretty screwed

I live in a place that would make life without electricity very bad.

I suppose I would sew, knit, crochet or cook somewhere......if it were close enough to walk to.

Ironically....I live in a big old converted cotton mill. built in 1908 the river still runs below it.

[justiceischeap]

14. I'd see a cotton mill business in your future.

You'd be part of the 1%.

[Marrah_G]

17. LOL

[Canis Mala]

16. A short disruption

with most big solar flares. A really bad one would cause damage such that electricity wouldn't be high on your list of worries. The thing you really gotta worry about are gamma ray bursts from dying stars. If one of those crossed our path, everything here would come to an end.

[justiceischeap]

20. Something new to be paranoid about.

Thanks!

[BiggJawn]

18. Open a machine shop.

Rig everything to run on belts powered from one of those long shafts in the overhead, in turn powered by a huge hamster wheel with Teahadists running inside it.

then start rebuilding civilization, right after we strangle the last politician with the entrails of the last priest.

[justiceischeap]

19. I like this plan.

Better yet, make the Teahadists kids slave labor.

[Chan790]

21. +1 for the Diderot reference.

I might suggest following up on the priests and politicians with the lawyers and financial consultants.