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- Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:35 pm
- Forum: Contingency Planning & Preparation
- Topic: Underwater shelter
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2962
Re: Underwater shelter
Ah c'mon, the Soviets had amazing quality control.... :roll: It'd be worth it to see the looks and reactions you'd get surfacing that thing near a CG cutter though...once it's properly registered of course. I think I'll do that the first few times via remote control... Honestly I think it would be ...
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 5:34 pm
- Forum: Contingency Planning & Preparation
- Topic: Underwater shelter
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2962
Re: Underwater shelter
I think the thing you are looking for is called a submarine - http://www.maritimesales.com/PI12.htm O jeez a used ex-Soviet Subarmine that has been decommission for 25 years and is thus 50 +/- years old. Can you say deferred maintenance, leaks and lord knows what. Still it would be fun to go get a ...
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 5:34 pm
- Forum: Contingency Planning & Preparation
- Topic: Digital money for currency/bank protection
- Replies: 201
- Views: 21341
Re: Digital money for currency/bank protection
The HK exchange says they will fix the problem. They are going to keep 36% of everyone's money. That's a plan right there. I guess if someone robs the Federal Reserve than they would just take 36% of the money out of my accounts and I'd be cool with that. We can't have businesses paying for problem...
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Iceland's Largest Volcano Starting to Rumble
- Replies: 5
- Views: 857
Re: Iceland's Largest Volcano Starting to Rumble
To put the known potential of this volcano on a scale, its previous largest eruption (934 CE) was a few times larger than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, more on the scale of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The glacier coverage of the volcano makes things worse if the eruption breaks thr...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 11:50 am
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Military coup d'etat in Turkey
- Replies: 136
- Views: 11358
Re: Military coup d'etat in Turkey
It will definitely be interesting. It looks like Ergodan is going to bring back the death penalty. The US won't care but I wonder what the Europeans will do. They either have some tough choices to make or look like hypocrites. I'd like to think that we'd close the border, but it's more likely we'll...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: July 3, 2016 Daesh bombing in Baghdad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1070
Re: July 3, 2016 Daesh bombing in Baghdad
Any discussion, including trying to understand an enemy's capabilities when they might be evolving? I realize I am stepping near an uncomfortable line but the rules thread itself doesn't seem to say, upon my fourth or fifth examination of them today, that I've yet crossed it. None of us here thrive...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:48 pm
- Forum: Contingency Planning & Preparation
- Topic: Anyone use Trailcams?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2785
Re: Anyone use Trailcams?
A guy I know managed to catch a mountain lion on his trail camera on the edge of a river bottom that is dotted with homes. I wish I had the picture. It was too old for a yearly contest but, well, how often do you see a mountain lion in Alabama?
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:33 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Munich shooting
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5868
Re: Munich shooting
Smü wrote:There is a surprisingly well mannered debate going on. We'll see.

- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:22 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Military coup d'etat in Turkey
- Replies: 136
- Views: 11358
Re: Military coup d'etat in Turkey
This definitely isn't a witch hunt...Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said anyone who suggests the attempted coup was staged was probably involved in it themselves and would face investigation.
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:02 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: July 3, 2016 Daesh bombing in Baghdad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1070
July 3, 2016 Daesh bombing in Baghdad
So I'm hearing some interesting and disturbing things about this bombing (of course the media needs those clicks - joke's on them though - I see advertisements only when I want to) and I can't seem to find any sources I trust that give better than incredibly vague information on the part that concer...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:49 am
- Forum: General Firearms Discussion
- Topic: What is "too dented" for ammo?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4904
Re: What is "too dented" for ammo?
I'm not a machinist, metallurgist, or reloader but I have some experience with work-hardening (and subsequently breaking) itty bits of metal. I'd shoot the dented boolits, probably shoot the first dented cartridge, and disassemble the second and third dented cartridges out of curiosity. Whatever par...
- Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:53 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Alarming new "superbug" gene found
- Replies: 2
- Views: 592
Re: Alarming new "superbug" gene found
Unnecessarily alarming article title found. The gene from what I've read only promotes resistance to one drug, though admittedly a drug-of-last-resort. It does not, by itself, cause bacteria to become multiple-drug resistant "superbugs." OP, I'm not really attacking you so much as the original artic...
- Wed Nov 11, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: Self-Sufficient Living
- Topic: Make Your Own Lumber! The Harbor Freight Sawmill!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2217
Re: Make Your Own Lumber! The Harbor Freight Sawmill!
Pretty awesome stuff.
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:21 am
- Forum: Other Weapons
- Topic: Hiker finds 1,200-year-old Viking sword
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1529
Re: Hiker finds 1,200-year-old Viking sword
Swords in Scandinavia in the news today. There was a fatal sword attack at a school on Sweden. Yep, the lovely trend has finally arrived at my neck of the woods. The police is calling it "stabbing weapons" so I'd take sword with a grain of salt. There are pictures of him posing with students (who t...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: NASA warning 99% chance of 5.0+ e-quake LA area
- Replies: 6
- Views: 906
Re: NASA warning 99% chance of 5.0+ e-quake LA area
Silly question, but why is NASA (The National Aeronautical and Space Administration) even getting involved in earth quake predictions? Because you can do a lot of fantastically practical science using orbital radar platforms and ultra-precise global positioning. :clap: http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 10:12 am
- Forum: Bushcraft
- Topic: Mother gator protecting her young. Big Cypress Swamp!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 941
Re: Mother gator protecting her young. Big Cypress Swamp!
Beautiful area - I'll have to visit it sometime, maybe kayak around if possible. Nice to see an alligator acting right 'n having cute lil' alligatory babies, too. Great pictures. Good ID on the anole. Can't tell the size. Cuban anoles are the only other anole species I know of and they are very rare...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:42 am
- Forum: Contingency Planning & Preparation
- Topic: Long-term stock market investment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1793
Long-term stock market investment
I couldn't find the right kind of thread to post this in, so I'm making a new one. If anyone knows a better thread to attach this to that would be fantastic. Tl;dr version: you're better off using your nest egg to buying part of the entire market through an index fund (with their minuscule fees) tha...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 9:22 am
- Forum: Self-Sufficient Living
- Topic: Cheap steel buildings as houses.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2410
Re: Cheap steel buildings as houses.
Way too many tornadoes around here to have any confidence in these structures in my AO. These things routinely get pulled apart around here. Where I grew up in the PNW in a small town up in the mountains there is a family that moved into an older city building that was of this construction. They bu...
- Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:11 pm
- Forum: Family Prep
- Topic: Convincing spouse you're not nuts for prepping...
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9664
Re: Convincing spouse you're not nuts for prepping...
Talk about what happened the last ten years: increasing oil production costs, volatile food prices, environmental damage increasing worldwide, a major global financial crash and the threat of a new one, multiple feedback loops reported concerning global warming, news about the various epidemics and...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:09 am
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: STL Metro Area: West Lake Landfill fallout/radiation danger
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1572
Re: STL Metro Area: West Lake Landfill fallout/radiation dan
So how can we prepare to bugout if we dont know what the wind patterns will be till it happens. Crypto's very informative post covers that pretty well. I cut out the preface and bugging in sections but they are also worth reading. Bugging out: If you work in the affected area, or are driving throug...
- Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:42 pm
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: STL Metro Area: West Lake Landfill fallout/radiation danger
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1572
Re: STL Metro Area: West Lake Landfill fallout/radiation dan
There is no current plan for how to put out the fire. Discuss! In my expert opinion, someone should probably develop a plan to put out the fire before it gets to the nuclear waste. I don't know the scale of things here (I assume capital-B-big), but it might be easier to make a sort of firebreak - I...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:46 am
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Ebola All Over The Place
- Replies: 1135
- Views: 77144
Re: Ebola All Over The Place
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/3/pdfs/04-0981.pdf There's that link cleaned up a bit. Edit: Ah, and I posted it earlier on page 24, I guess, though I didn't provide any synopsis or analysis of the paper in my post. I think I'm going to search around and see if there is anything in the news abo...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:39 am
- Forum: Disasters in Current Events
- Topic: Bombing in Ankara, Turkey leaves 80+ dead
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1146
Re: Bombing in Ankara, Turkey leaves 80+ dead
Can't say too much without getting political, but unless I was a Turkish citizen I would in that country stay away from anything slightly political, eastern Turkey in general, and areas known to have either Kurdish or Islamic Turkish nationalist sentiment. I understand Turkey has some beautiful beac...
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: Bushcraft
- Topic: Turner River Road alligators.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 560
Re: Turner River Road alligators.
Gators down there sure do seem brassy compared to the ones I'm used to. That and I don't know whether we're talking stray chihuahuas or just fish guts but someone's been feeding that alligator in the video. I think I prefer my gators to have a better understanding of their place in the food chain (b...