[Imagination Club] Challenge: island survival strategy

[Jeffrey Baumgartner]

Excellent challenge, MD! Thanks for posting it.

My inclination would be to do something with the parachute. 
One possibility might be to make it into a sail for a raft. 
Then offer a taxi service to the islanders, exchanging 
transportation for food.

On the other hand, if there were a lot of children, I might 
try fabricating a trampoline from the parachute, trees, 
etc. Then invite the islanders' children to bounce on it in 
exchange for food.

Jeffrey Baumgartner


On 10 Aug 2005 at 12:56, MaulikDave at torrentpharma.com wrote:

> I am representing a fictional situation. Probably you will
> never face this situation in your life. But still, use your
> imagination to come up with solution.
> 
> Situation: You are only survivor from a plane crash. You
> have landed on some isolated island using parachute, you
> don't know where. You don't have any mean for communication
> with outer world. Oh yes, to add in tragedy there are few
> tribes people who have their own dialect which you can not
> understand.
> 
> Only food available on the island is the food produce by
> tribes people. You can not have fruits or kill animals as
> tribes people will not allow you as they are sacred to them.
> I repeat: ONLY FOOD AVAILABLE ON THE ISLAND IS THE FOOD
> PRODUCE BY TRIBES PEOPLE. To survive you must get food from
> tribes people. Without food you can survive for two days.
> This is your first day.
> 
> 
> Challenge: They will not give you food until you can trade
> something useful to them. Your challenge is sell them
> something with or without learning their dialect. Of course
> they will not give you food second time if they think what
> you have given them is not useful or you have nothing
> anymore to trade. Find a long term solution.
> 
> Happy brainstorming session!
> 
> Regards,
> MD
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