[kalwein]

Not so... a never ending amount CAN be accomplished... as follows:

No group of five-year-olds is going to out-stamina a normal adult male fighting for his life. I’d keep running around until they run out of breath chasing me or until they fall asleep, then stomp on their windpipes as fast as I could get around to them...a rate of at least 2 per minute after I get into the swing of things.

With this in mind... I see wiping out about 30-60 of these guys initially (depending on the dispersion probabilities), enough to clear some terrain to maneuver in. Then, I’d wait until they tire of chasing me (remember, my legs cover four times or more the distance of their legs).

While they rest, I’d first build cover by piling the dead bodies into a rough fort configuration and improvise a weapon or two from the same, perhaps a leg bone or two with a head tied on via some gut. I'll need this fort and weaponry later.... With enough opponents taken down, I should be able to build at least a full four-sided fort around myself. I’d try to slow their advance by use of bodily fluids and squishy parts to create a slick on the field. This would give enough cover and time advantage to negate arguments based on the swarm, overbear and take down approach they might employ.

I’d begin the out-maneuvering and tiring them again phase after I’ve made the makeshift fort. After tiring them out, I’d begin killing them off at the rate of 2 per minute, once they pass out or lay down to rest (crush windpipes, snap necks, etc). Build up the mound around the fort while I do so... it's my future defense...Not to mention, it will likely be my primary source of future nutrition. I suspect their blood content may well also be the only source of water I’ll encounter in this absurd scenario.

Since exhaustion is now my primary gating factor... I would rest in the fort of dead bodies I created. No 5-year-old is going to be able to climb through the squishy pile of his former 'friends' when they are piled ten high. Just in case, I’d spend some of down time fashioning 8” caltrops made from rib bones tied together with gut, handily supplied by the now dead bodies. These would be strewn around the entrance.

I half suspect a few more kids will die trying to get in. Somewhere along the line, I’d capture a few kids and tie them near the opening of the fort (with my clothes initially then eventually with rope made from gut). Doubtless they will give warning, albeit unintentionally, when the swarm starts trying to get in again.

I should be able to rest for 5-6 hours per night and still be functional, since I do this already...Five year olds need 8-10 hours per night...that give me three hours per day, at least, during which I can kill them at a rate of 2 per minute, or at least 180 per night.

I’d be pretty tired for the first week or so of this. Fortunately, however, my high protein diet, coupled with pretty of lifting exercise and the aerobic exercise of running around, would soon have me in tiptop shape. Over time, I’d be able to improve my standard of living somewhat, by fashioning bone knives from the remains. This would help me skin the dead bodies, as time permitted. This skin could be used for clothing, decorative rug, rope, to make nets with, and to cover pits with (a future project). First I’d have to thoroughly wet them down and cure them with human urine. There’d be no lack of that.

I’d have to rebuild my fort every couple of days. The stench would make it not inhabitable, eventually. Fortunately, there’s no lack of raw materials…

Having now accomplished the food, water and shelter requirements of Maslowe’s pyramid, I’d now begin my longer-term project of reconciling my bleak existence dealing with the endless swarm of human five-year-olds and my understanding of natural law…

BR