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I wanted to share one of my favorite sites: https://www.pssurvival.com/ https://www.pssurvival.com/ Pole shifts are popular among "preppers" which in my opinion
by justaman 8y ago
I wanted to share one of my favorite sites:
https://www.pssurvival.com/ https://www.pssurvival.com/
Pole shifts are popular among "preppers" which in my opinion tend to be quite eccentric. However this website is full of great information that we often take for granted.
- isostatic 8y agoI have no idea what that site is, but this is the introduction: This is a shift of the earth's crust with respect to the earth's core generated north and south magnetic poles. Earth's magnetic poles are created by the flow of ions in the earth's core and is somewhat closely aligned to be parallel to the axis of rotation. We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through our solar system. The new North Pole will be off the coast of Brazil and the new South Pole is off the coast of India. It is associated with lots of other earth changes before, during and after the pole shift. See the following description for more details.
- justaman 8y agoYeah whoever made this site is bat-shit crazy. But there is tons of great information here. Anything from making soap the old fashioned way to brushed and brushless DC motors. Its really cool and wouldn't be the worst thing to have printed off and saved in a fallout shelter.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>and wouldn't be the worst thing to have printed off and saved in a fallout shelter. >6922 Files, 14.8 GB If things get real bad you could always burn it to keep warm. In print form it's probably a better use of space than a bunch of stuffed animals but I think you're probably better off getting a bunch of cheap android phones and sticking it on the SD card and using most of that space for something else.
- imglorp 8y agoI've always thought it might be cool to package up a bunch of literature on a stack of SD cards and package them with a low power e-ink reader and a solar panel to charge it, then market as a "reboot civilization" kit. The hardest part is actually finding a generic e-ink reader with an sd card slot that doesn't cost $500. It shouldn't need to run full android, just show a PDF or TXT, that's all it needs to do. An offline wikipedia dump, emergency medical manual and PDR, survival manuals, etc etc like this site might go well.
- kybernetikos 8y agohttp://thewikireader.com/ http://thewikireader.com/ update: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-distribute-wikireaders-and-provide-an-opportunity-for-kids-to-learn#/updates/all https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-distribute-wikireade... I don't have one - my phone contains an offline wikipedia dump (including images), offline maps of the world including geological maps, medical manual, and my book collection, including things like http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/ http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/. I've got a vague plan to download the primitive technology youtube videos too.
- isostatic 8y agoSo once "the end" comes, you'll be set for a good 4 hours before your phone runs out of battery?
- irrational 8y agoYou could recharge your phone using sticks (https://www.rei.com/product/115523/biolite-wood-burning-campstove-2-with-flexlight https://www.rei.com/product/115523/biolite-wood-burning-camp...) or a solar panel.
- goda90 8y agoI wonder what the longevity of something like that is. And for solar panels what do you do if it's a supervolcano that blocks out the sun? The real solution is a radioisotope thermoelectric generator which will give you a few hundred watts for decades. But I don't think they sell those online...
- adrianN 8y agoThe site recommends building domes out of Sulphur. That doesn't seem like very good advice. As a non-expert in survival, I'd be wary of trusting anything written by a person with a creative interpretation of what's real and what isn't. You never know what else they're having unconventional opinions of.
- sifoobar 8y agoYeah, we don't want any unconventional ideas to slip through; cause that might lead to changes, and evolution and all sorts of scary shit.
- adrianN 8y agoYeah, in a life-or-death situation after Planet X realigns the poles, I definitely don't want the experimental survival guide when proven methods exists. I leave the bold changes to bolder people.
- arethuza 8y ago"shift of the earth's crust" So the movie 2012 was based on existing daft ideas or did they get those ideas from the movie?
- doctorRetro 8y agoI stopped reading at "as planet-X passes earth's orbit".
- jcranmer 8y agoI skipped ahead to figure out when they claimed it was going to happen. The document is dated 2013. The summary of the results basically says "calculate it yourself, it's not our fault if it's wrong, but 2014 and 2017 look like the best dates." I wonder why doomsayers keep predicting the end of the world to be in the imminent future? It makes it way too easy to be proven wrong.
- OldSchoolJohnny 8y agoBecause no one would care if it was too far in the future?
- elihu 8y agoI once had an idea for an erratically-scheduled holiday called "arbitrary apocalypse day". The day after each AAD if the world hasn't ended, you'd roll a D-10 3 times to get a number of days between 0 and 999, and that's the new predicted apocalypse date. You'd select a cause at random (i.e. nanobots, aliens, meteor, supervolcano, nuclear war, pandemic, etc...) and tell everyone that doom is nigh. In the end, I didn't promote it heavily and forgot to celebrate on the appointed day (or choose the next date). Maybe I should start it back up again.
- Renaud 8y agoThat's certainly eccentric to say the least... a mix of some well thought out and valid information completely spoiled by pseudo-science nonsense like references to Planet X and Nibiru[1]... [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_cataclysm
- swamp40 8y agoLieder described Planet X as roughly four times the size of the Earth, and said that its closest approach would occur on May 27, 2003, resulting in the Earth's rotation ceasing for exactly 5.9 terrestrial days. This would be followed by the Earth's pole destabilising in a pole shift (a physical pole shift, with the Earth's pole physically moving, rather than a geomagnetic reversal) caused by magnetic attraction between the Earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet.
- roywiggins 8y agoMy favorite part about that particular theory was that in the run-up to May 27th, if Nibiru existed we would all know, due to it by far being the brightest thing in the night sky. Not that that deterred anyone determined to believe, of course.
- xfitm3 8y agoI'm impressed by the sheer number of topics posted. Although digging deeper I'm quickly disappointed. A lot of the information is old and has gaps. Wouldn't it be easier, and arguably smarter, to maintain a offline wikipedia archive? I can appreciate that reliance on a third party may go against the prepper mindset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI did this on some of my prepaid phones I keep around. The Moto E phones are cheap and capable of plenty of things. I forget how I got the files into the app though. Kiwix is the app in case anyone's interested. Looks like Kiwix just fetches it for you. I recommend getting an SD card with plenty of storage.
- kaybe 8y agoI think a collection of the right youtube videos could be far more useful if you actually tried to do anything. Wikipedia can be quite theoretical.