bugout/panic list

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i need to pick up some aluminum foil this weekend. i'm going to wrap my entire house with it.

[joetron2030]

Not sure if this got mentioned here or not:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11..._civilization/

Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit
DIY handbook for 50 top civilization-saving tools

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Posted in Environment, 17th November 2011 20:03 GMT

A team of open source enthusiasts is putting together instructions for how to build 50 tools essential to establishing – or reestablishing – a civilization.

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is being developed by the Open Source Ecology (OSE) group, and includes such basic tools as a well drill, steam engine, and brick making machine, along with more complicated devices such as a bulldozer, 3D printer, and 50kW wind turbine. These can be built from scrap or recycled materials at a fraction of the cost of commercial machinery.

“The basic principle is open hardware – building the machines to cover your basic needs,” OSE spokesman Nikolay Georgiev told The Register. “Basically, it’s about creating a civilization similar to what we have now, but on a smaller scale and all using open hardware.”

This isn’t some kind of idea spawned out of the end-of-civilization-in-2012 angst that is gripping some impressionable minds these days. Rather, it’s an attempt to make basic tools available in areas of the developing world that lack basic amenities, or for folks looking for a more sustainable lifestyle – or, for that matter, to simply to stash tool-building knowledge into the libraries of those who worry about what the future may hold.

[Mikio4]

Originally Posted by joetron2030

Not sure if this got mentioned here or not:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11..._civilization/

This is cool. I love open source.

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nice

[Telephone]

Originally Posted by Telephone

This image disappeared for awhile and I was looking for it. Looks like they put it back up

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why are earthquakes so shallow in utah and nevada?

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30days_N_America.html

[puppy fields]

because the fault lines are closer to the surface?

what's your guess? something external is effecting the surface of the planet?

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nuclear testing maybe

[tangent23]

Originally Posted by joetron2030

Not sure if this got mentioned here or not:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11..._civilization/

that's cool..

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put these on my christmas list:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193...sc_act_title_1

[kamenriderv3]

get the technology fails book in e-book format.

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+1

[kamenriderv3]

watched an episode of national geographic's show doomsday preppers. some of them remind me of the cold war loonies without the bomb shelter.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...sday-preppers/

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i think my wife is going to let me get a rifle.

for shooting squirrels for food.

no lie.

[nagasawa]

What does squirrel taste like? Think I've eaten all the other native varmints of NW Ohio but never squirrel.