>>Let's play with that for a while to feel out the world, before setting me up to do a bunch more sociology and math somewhere else.<<

Don't worry, it's just my tendency to go poking at an interesting idea to see what will happen.

Good for annoying teachers, confusing most other people, and occasionally coming up with some really good new ideas!

(And most post apocalyptic stuff only has hazy rumors, if anything, about what is 'out there, in the great beyond,' which would be Truth in Television if all our post-1800s tech got knocked out anyway.)