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| Posted: 24 Jan 2006 22:00 Last Edited By: handlemistakes | |
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The ancient people used to move from place to place, they always looked for better places in where they could have better hunt-luck. That kind of behavior has been following our race in more than 15 million years, which has shaped the design of our genes today.
This method has a big disadvantage. It can be hard to find your way home if you don't know where to go. And this is mostly due to our lack of geographical and map-reading skills, we are lost when we don't know how we came to a particular place in the first place. If you are lost in a city then there's pretty easy to find back. Just ask someone on the street or a seller at a store about how to find. If you get lost again then repeat the routine until you reach your target point. If it is at night and very few people are on the street then it can be dangerous to ask. Ensure to only ask people that walk alone and is smaller than you. If you don't find anybody then just look at the stars, use them as signposts. The location of the stars depends on where you are on earth, if you are in the northern hemisphere then Polaris is the star that points toward the north pole, If you are in the southern hemisphere, Sigma Octantis is the star that points to the south. Both stars are easy to find since they are brighter than other stars. If you can't see any stars at all because of the smog then try to find main roads that's head for the city center, there you can find signs pointing to more well-known places, try to get as close to the center as possible, there are most likely a wall with subway or bus directions there or something else, very informative. If you are in the forest and if you know that you can't get back before the evening, ensure that no wolfs or bears will eat you alive by setting up a fire at your sleep-place that will keep them and other animals away. Finding food and water is now a high priority, there's usually a lot of plants there that you can eat. The best way to find your way home is to let other in the surroundings to know about your existence. Make a big signal fire, put some wood on it and then, when it grows bigger, put lots of spruce branches on it so it will form a thick white smoke. If no one is there, then you cannot do much more than follow the stars and looking after tracks. If you want a compass on the day, put a leaf on a still water pool (etc; on a stump). Then put a needle on the leaf and wait a few seconds The thick part of the needle will point at the closest pole (north pole if you are in the northern hemisphere and south if you are in the southern hemisphere). If you are in the middle of a desert, such as Nevada, Sahara or Australia, then it's very important to get access to water as soon as possible. Look for all kinds of vegetations, where there are plants, there's water. Be however careful with eating cactus plants since some of them is poison. If you find an eucalyptus tree, then put a plastic bag over a tree branch. If you don't find any source of water then you can always drink your own urine. After doing this, you might prefer to get back home, don't worry.. look at the stars and head in a decided direction(north, south, west or east), sooner or later, you will find some track, follow it, until you find a bigger track or even a cottage/village/city. When you are at the track, stop the first car that is passing by, explain the situation. It doesn't matter if the driver is a dick head or not, the important thing is that this may save your life. If you are in a big building and can't find your way out then look for windows, and try to form a map in your head, related to what you see outside and what you see inside. If you´re not able to do it then take one part at the time until you find out, if you don't meet someone at a corridor that you might ask for directions. If you know that you will get trouble with finding the way out of it before you go in, do as the old Greeks did. Take a really long string, bend it at the wall in the entry, then take the string with you, when you want out then just follow the string to the entry. |
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