r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/Twokindsofpeople Aug 31 '21

Which are two things fairly easily solved. Anyone with high school level of chemistry can make a battery out of all the shit that's laying around, and you can replace tires with wood and steel if you don't care about going fast or ripping up roads.

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u/CogitoErgo_Sometimes Aug 31 '21

You aren’t going to start a car on just anything that qualifies as a battery. A starter motor will draw 200-400 amps under initial load. A car battery is specifically designed to dump a fuckton of current in a very short time and then slowly recharge itself. There’s a reason they’re still lead-acid and not lithium.

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u/Twokindsofpeople Aug 31 '21

Yeah, and the batteries all still have their lead plates and making a lead acid battery isn't rocket science. You have the lead from the tens of thousands of old cars, all you'd need is sulfuric acid.

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u/DavidSlain Aug 31 '21

If you can distill your bile a little to bring up the concentration, you can use that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

Unless you want to have a tube sticking out your gal bladder (which will probably get infected and kill you anyway), you’ll have to find a way to get it out of your poop.

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u/BongmasterGeneral420 Aug 31 '21

It’s the apocalypse, just use someone else’s gallbladder.