Wow blueshark!

Up against all the elements...

You know, one of the driving forces of evolution is extinction. Every time a life form gets extinct, niches are filled by other species. Also we human beings will be replaced. Looking at is with a discontinuous view as we people do, that sounds hard, but that’s life. Your device if we are ever able to make it won’t change that.

Tommy

Thanks for your comment Tommy! Well, I just wanted to give mankind a shot a living if any such disaster did stike the Earth, like an asteriod or metor, etc..that causes a natural winter for months, years, and tsunamis that kill all...anyway, just a thought that might be useful for ocean going vessels as well as space modules that return to Earth. Wonder if NASA can take a look at this? :O)

You can pretty much do this with conventional technology. Cost is the big issue. There are bunkers designed to survive all the things you describe and contain enough supplies for a group of people over several months if not years. The US government has several for highly placed civilian and military officials and I've seen rumors/discussion of a number of private ones as well.

The problem is that in order to be secure against all the threats listed, you need some serious construction. If you want to hold all the supplies for an extended stay, you need a lot of space, even for one person.

I think if you tone down your requirements a bit, you might have a more reasonable consumer-grade product. Just like we're all told to jump in our cast-iron bathtubs to survive earthquakes and tornadoes, you could produce a one-person shell that was designed to provide protection and air for one person for a day or so and contain multiple locators like lights, sirens and RF beacons to help rescue workers find you. This kind of thing might be done cheaply enough that the people who need protection could actually afford it. If you up the requirements to include extended stays and things like nuclear winter, then conventional bunkers are probably the best solution.

I'm not sure if I would want to survive alone in a little capsule. However I have met a lot of paranoid people who would be into this, now how many of them have the money for this sort of thing I'm not really sure.

Prior to a Design is an enginnering question... but you got a nice concept indeed!
Unfortunately this is a huge challenge since the 95,000+ pending patent on escape mechanism and device are bacisally impossible to be an "all in one".

This is still a science fiction at the moment.

I don't think it's science fiction. You could easily build anything from an armored shell the size of a pup tent to a buried concrete bunker the size of a mansion to fit your various specs. All very conventional, just expensive.

well, I personally wouldn't want to be by myself.. I'd rather be with my husband and family in a capsule.

I do believe though that it is possible to do something such as this, but the cost is prohibitive.

Great thoughts folks! I guess I'd have to tone down the requirements then, actually I thought it would be great if we all had some sort of capsule that could sustain us for a short while so that rescue can come to us when needed. Maybe a simplier design would be better, like an oval shaped bean like floatation device that would keep the elements out for a period of time. If mass produced, that might be cheap! At least we would know that if you were having a cruise in the Artic, and god forbids, anything happened, you could be in the capsule, protected from the elements while an RF beacon or similar device would alert any civillian or military base for rescue.

fantastics idea but we need cambros to live on capsoles capsules..

wat is the exchange rate for cambros to purchase from your store capsule..

What about a community site similar to some of the "Living Green" wiki's I've stumbled across? Think of it as "Life After the Apocalypse" or "How I Learned to Love the Bomb." I could totally see it appealing to anyone concerned with Global Warming, Rapture, the Return of the Buffalo, 2012.. FUN for the WHOLE FAMILY!

i keep wondering how do you sustain life[and sanity] in a tiny capsule for all the time that a nuclear winter will last... ;)

wow wow wow! am i dreaming?

pie in the sky

survival is always based on having kids. However, look at some of the escape pods attached to ships - especially cruise ships. you might want to build ones for village families...

cant be done at the moment..i'll bet 10 cambros if someonne one can pull this off in a decade... cant be all for one thats what am saying!

this is just odd.