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There's a company which sells something like this, as "Prepper Disk".[1] In the 1950s, US Civil Defense had a set of microfilms on how to rebuild society. Thes
by Animats 7mo ago
There's a company which sells something like this, as "Prepper Disk".[1]
In the 1950s, US Civil Defense had a set of microfilms on how to rebuild society. These were packaged with a sunlight reader and stored in larger fallout shelters. Someone should find one of those.
[1] https://www.prepperdisk.com/ https://www.prepperdisk.com/
- BoorishBears 7mo agoI like that it's an SD-card based RPi: something known to fail under completely normal usage For the margins a $280 MSRP allows you'd think they'd at least try a little bit: maybe hook people up with the RPi Compute Module which has eMMC onboard
- sgbeal 7mo ago> I like that it's an SD-card based RPi: something known to fail under completely normal usage FWIW, my pi-hole server has been running 24/7 on a Pi Zero with the same micro-SD card for some 4-odd years.
- MrDrMcCoy 7mo agoThat's likely with constant power and low writes. If either of those flip for long enough, bye bye flash.
- theshrike79 7mo agoFWIW my pi-hole server ran for 2 years and broke 3 SD-cards, and it didn't even have the courtesy to fail fast, it started kinda-failing and DNS requests started taking forever (the pihole had to time out twice before the fallback DNS was called). Moved to an Actual Computer with a M.2 SSD and zero issues since.
- nabeards 7mo agoI had thought of building those exact Civil Defense devices a few years ago. Maybe it’s a viable product?
- Infernal 7mo agoI’m searching for the source material here but must not be using the right keywords, any hints?
- Animats 7mo agoI've looked a few times over the years but can't find it online. National Archives probably has it somewhere, but not indexed where Google can find it.
- bombcar 7mo agoIs it present in "The Ark"? It's 290GB of stuff and might have it, or the component parts.
- xk3 7mo agothey're really packing in the whole kitchen sink into video games these days... https://old.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/p4xlpr/ark_is_over_200gb_i_just_want_the_base_game_is/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ARK/comments/p4xlpr/ark_is_over_200...
- Animats 7mo agoI sent a query into NARA. Maybe they know something. It's probably in some forgotten Civil Defense archive.
- Animats 7mo agoI got an answer back from NARA: Specifically, you seek records related to practical instructions on how to rebuild society after a nuclear war. We searched our holdings in Record Group 397, Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. We identified the series External Publications, 1955-1976 which may include records related to your query. A full citation is provided here for your reference: Record Group 397 Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency External Publications, 1955-1976 Entry A1 56 Boxes 1 thru 37@ 650/42/30/2 We will be happy to make the records and their finding aids available to you or your representative in the Textual Research Room (Room 2000) here at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. Please visit our website for information about visiting the National Archives in College Park, MD, including how to schedule a research visit.
- HelloUsername 7mo ago> There's a company which sells something like this, as "Prepper Disk". They mentioned it in their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wt-2P-WBk&t=350 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wt-2P-WBk&t=350
- ricksunny 7mo agojoke’s on the survivors who have to go find sunlight in nuclear winter
- pedrogpimenta 7mo agoI suppose you could have a gasoline powered battery and then charge electronics with that, no?
- taneq 7mo agoStationary exercise bike, large hobby BLDC motor (or random PMAC motor from some AC appliance) plus some diodes (fullbridgerectifier meme goes here) to rectify the generated voltage. :)
- MrDrMcCoy 7mo agoSolar panels and the parts to build a hydro generator, then. A hydro generator would also be good incentive to plan around a reliable water source, without which all bets are off anyway.
- ricksunny 7mo agoOh do you mean a water source replenished by the hydrologic cycle, powered by (checks notes) the __? While we're on that, for how long will water sources remain in liquid phase?
- MrDrMcCoy 7mo agoSome part of my brain filtered out nuclear winter, which cannot reasonably be prepped for by individuals or small groups. However, that is just one, relatively unlikely, thing to prep for. Most other disasters are shorter-lived, and have a great deal of overlap in effective mitigation strategies. Prepping, in my mind, is not only practically useful for various classes of emergencies, but is good mental exercise for understanding supply chains and what's actually needed in the sort, medium, and long term. It can also be good for sharpening skills that benefit others and build community, which in many ways is more rewarding than knowing that you'll be the sole survivor. Prepping doesn't, and shouldn't, look like Burt from Tremors (as amusing as that may be).