9 Ways History's Alone Helps Prepare You for the Apocalypse
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The History Channel's Alone is a show that takes 10 contestants with 10 items and drops them off in the middle of nowhere. They have to survive on their own, battling the elements and themselves. Until they push that button for emergency rescue, they have to use every skill they've ever learned to live for as long as they can.
Whoever makes it the longest wins.
Sound brutal? It can be. Watching Alone not only makes some interesting television, you will learn a ton.
That apocalypse on the horizon everybody likes to talk about? Watch Alone and you'll be prepared for anything.
It just might save your life!
How many skills do you have that will save you during an apocalypse, and how much do you have to learn?
Find out!
1. Shelter
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Chances are you're not going to have a handy dandy tent in your pocket or a comfy sleeping bag. Alone will teach you how to make a shelter using your surroundings. They mainly use trees, a tarp (if they have one) and string.
What? You don't have string? Well, they'll teach you how to make that too!
2. Fire
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There are a few ways Alone teaches you how to build a fire, if you don't have matches or a lighter. Using flint and steel or just plain sticks, you can learn how to create a spark and turn it into a life-saving roaring fire.
Don't let that fire go out, though, because who knows if you can make it again.
If you can grab 10 items at the beginning of an apocalype, take a fire starter. As you'll see on the show, starting a fire from scratch isn't easy.
3. Water
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What are you going to do?
Alone will teach you how to find water, and you need to learn it because you won't last 3 days without it!
Don't panic. Alone has already taught you how to build a fire, so here's the next step.
Hunt down a river or a stream, bring that water back to your newly built shelter, boil all the nastiness out, and you've got yourself some water.
It's not going to taste good, but it'll keep you alive.
4. Fishing
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What to do. What to do.
Fish that water source you found, of course!
Don't like fish, you say? Learn to like it because there are no protein bars in the apocalypse, people. Alone will teach you how to fish with a trap, a net or a pole that you made yourself.
So helpful, these guys.
5. Traps
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Using wood and some heavy stones, you can trap just about anything to eat.
You'll also learn how to prepare your food before you cook it on that incredible fire you already built. Lucky you! You're now way ahead of everybody else in the apocalypse.
Rick Grimes would be proud.
6. Forage
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Alone is going to show you what's safe to eat and what's not. There are slugs, snails, berries, and plants a plenty to be eaten. And you don't have to chase or trick them.
They're just waiting for you to find them, like a delicious game of hide and seek.
7. Navigation
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Pre-apocalypse you, though, couldn't find your way out of a brown paper bag. You have all this great stuff at your camp, but you head out for more wood to keep your fire going and you get lost. What good is a camp if you can't find it again?
Relax. Alone will show you the way. Your going to learn how to go out foraging and actually find your way back. Thank goodness.
8. Protection
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Calm down, Alone is here to help.
Watching Alone will show you how to stay safe from wild animals. Hint: That fire you built is going to come in mighty handy!
9. Alone and Bored
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Participants on Alone have built furniture, fireplace hearths, and games. All to beat the dreaded boredom from being Alone. You're going to learn all that and more.
You're also going to learn how to be alone, which is tougher than you might think.