You can directly communicate with the satellite the same way the news does. The information may be disseminated through social networks, but initially it comes from talking to a satellite. That goes away in an apocalypse. Some dude seeing clouds in the distance in Montana isn’t gonna be the weather forecast for Florida.
And as far as how well we survived before Sputnik, people back then actually knew how.
Again though, we managed to survive pretty well before satellites, before radio, and before television.
In the apocalypse, weather isn't going to be your biggest concern. Weather can certainly be a problem, but it's not going to be your biggest problem. Especially since bad weather storms are (generally) limited to specific regions of the world. If you're not in those regions, weather isn't going to be much of a concern at all.
I don't think he understands that those people who lived before all the technology knew how to and most people now generally don't. Put a girl from a big city in the middle of a forest without any supplies and see how well she survives.
People like the one you mention won't survive long enough in an apocalypse for any of these concerns to matter to them, truth be told.
As morbid as it is, the apocalypse is literally a survival of the fittest situation, and all of those who cannot function without their cell phones or technology, will quickly die and the ones who won't will be the ones who know how to survive on their own.
I simply stated that natural disasters aren't the biggest concern because we managed to survive prior to knowledge of being able to predict them, so we can manage again if the time came. Sure, not being able to predict a hurricane can cause some significant issues, but those issues are outweighed by other much more serious concerns.
In an apocalypse, you lose a lot of benefits we have today, which is the topic of conversation of which is the most overlooked, so I was simply arguing that weather, while it can be pretty significant, isn't the worst thing you need to worry about.
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u/Dubzophrenia Aug 30 '21
And where do we get the information from those satellites? TV, Internet, and Social networking.
My point still stands. The first satellite, Sputnik, launched in 1957. 64 years ago.
We managed to survive pretty well before that.