Imagine a world in which people who hold power over the robots that produce and protect see the so-called lower-class humans as no longer necessary for the survival of themselves and their children.
Category: Disasters
Fire, ice, and then some
Fire, ice, and then some
Hello everyone, it looks like it is going to be an interesting end to the week. Extreme wildfire conditions are hammering California, while cold wind and snow hit the Midwest and ice or snow sliding into the southeast and heading North.
Which is worse depends on which one you have to deal with. So go over your preparedness plans if you have one and make sure you are ready for power outages, have some cash on hand, and double-check your supplies. And don’t forget your car kits.
If you do not have a preparedness plan, you can make one from the template on the Americans Networking To Survive website. And if you have not done so already, join our network; it is absolutely free.
Cities – Doom-Loop
Victor Davis Hanson thinks some American cities are in a Doom-Loop. Do you agree?
Cities – 15 Minute
Are 15-minute cities a good idea? Yes and No. It would be convenient if every part of a city had everything you needed. But ultimately, people in power will use it as a control mechanism.
Get everyone to use transit, and you can control their movements.
Have everyone live in buildings without land, and you control their food supply.
Get everyone to go cashless, and you control their access to money.
I could be wrong, but the man’s chickens in the video below have everything they need, and he makes a good point.
Cities – Lifestyle Centers
Fake towns, lifestyle centers, power centers, whatever you want to call them, they are basically outdoor malls. And it’s interesting to see these shopping malls attempting to replicate the town centers they decimated in the past.
CityNerd’s overview of this is interesting:
Disaster – Total Grid Collapse?
The number one complaint during any natural disaster is the lack of power. But what if the disaster was a total collapse of the grid?
Practical Engineering sums it up nicely.
Disaster – Make 1984 Fiction Again
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'”- George Orwell 1984.
Disaster – Plastic Hypocrisy
Ever notice how all the big corporations who tell us we should save the environment continue to sell their products in plastic containers?
You don’t need a law or my tax dollars to make good environmental choices.
Super-volcanos can erupt at any time
An international team of researchers in 2014 concluded that super-volcanos could erupt at any time without outside triggers, making predicting such an event more challenging.
This is due to a phenomenon called the “buoyancy effect,” which occurs when the molten magma inside the super-volcano reaches critically high pressures due to the much denser rock around it, forcing it to the surface.
Tests conducted at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, suggest that the transition from solid to liquid magma alone can create pressures strong enough to crack more than six meters of the Earth’s crust above the caldera.
Using synchrotron X-rays, the scientists established that a super-volcano eruption might occur spontaneously, driven only by magma pressure without the need for an external trigger.
Super-volcano triggers recreated in X-ray laboratory
http://www.esrf.eu/home/news/general/content-news/general/supervolcano-triggers-recreated-in-x-ray-laboratory.html
A middle ages super-volcano
A middle ages super-volcano blocked out the sun. Learn how in this video called “Catastrophe.”
“Civilization exists by geological consent -subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant
Timothy French 