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Group Purchase Opportunity for a Community in Panama – Interest Check
Jim Jones wasn't in Panama, but I digress. I've been to Panama several times, and love it for the same reasons-- dollar as currency, short flight to world-class health care if local won't suffice (and for most things, it should). $30 million a day coming in the economy due to canal, all the... -
Cigarette long term storage.
I've got 23 year old cigars that are just about perfect. Giant under-bed plastic box with locking lid (but NOT airtight), containing a quart sized Tupperware with large holes in top. Piece of Oasis foam from Michael's cut to fit that Tupperware, and initially filled with 50% propylene glycol... -
Do you have a faraday cage/box/bag etc.?
No one is going to waste a bomb on the worthless CDC. -
whats in your bag i should consider putting in mine?
You got a link to those? I want a set. -
whats in your bag i should consider putting in mine?
Now I'm going to have Beck stuck in my head all day. -
Do you have a faraday cage/box/bag etc.?
I doubt that. Toss your phone in there and call it. Won't ring in mine. -
Do you have a faraday cage/box/bag etc.?
He's probably talking about the ones with wide-open power on the GMRS bands. Big whoop-- I bought some of those when they were all the rage a few years ago. They're crap. No range. Half mile at best in the real world. Buy a quality Japanese ham "talkie"-- it'll work much further. But... -
Do you have a faraday cage/box/bag etc.?
The worry is overblown. Worry about the power grid. Worry about being in an aircraft during EMP. Don't worry about your vehicle (it's shielded), or most of your electronics that aren't plugged into an outlet. You have far, far bigger problems than EMP if someone starts tossing nukes. And I... -
Corporals Corner - Solo Overnight Using an Emergency Military Poncho in The Rain
I'm pretty sure I could hike to the Marriott faster than I could build that. -
Drinking Water. SHTF Options.
Incidentally, you can get a "bullet" for a drilled well-- a PVC tube with valves that you lower down and then pull back up when full of water. Obviously, this is slow and a pain. However, it will work in a pinch, though with Lake Sinclair right there, you have better options. -
Drinking Water. SHTF Options.
the problem is that you cannot store bleach long term. It degrades after a few years, into salt water. The powdered chemicals will last a lot longer. And I have a nice ring on my hardwood floor demonstrating the OTHER problem with gallon bottles of bleach. They leak after a few years. (No... -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
Uh, no... it's not "safe to assume they'll explode", any more than "all chemicals degrade" as someone said. The folks that work in those plants live near them, and don't want them to "explode", at a minimum. Could the pressure vessels rupture? Of course. Guaranteed? Of course not. And... -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
Why not use aluminum foil too? You don't really need this thing in my opinion, but if you're gonna do it, do it right. "Screen rooms" used for RF testing use either copper-plated panels soldered together, or a very fine copper mesh-- I mean gnat-proof fine. Gets a little air flow that way... -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
I grew up 10 megatons from Robins AFB. -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
Yeah, I've refrained from diving into this morass, but KI won't save you. It will reduce bio-uptake of radioactive iodine, but there's 100 other things that can still kill you, and it does nothing for any of them. This physicist has no KI in his emergency supplies, and no Faraday cage, either... -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
That's not remotely true. Chemicals don't "degrade" without a reason. Potassium iodide isn't going to oxidize, I don't think. Expiration dates may, or may not, have relevancy in a particular case. Tetracycline, yes. Sodium chloride, for example-- no. -
US Admiral Warns ~ Nuclear War with China & Russia Possible ~
Why, precisely, would they expire? Does some component oxidize? Do some components in the pills react with each other? If the answers are "no", fret not over expiration dates. I have aspirin that's 29 years past expiration. Works fine. -
A question for those buying gold for SHTF
Collect necklaces from pawn shops. Cut off links and sell them as needed. -
Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)
All right... so I was wrong. But here's a little time capsule for you... the "good ole days", when I bought more N95 masks and started tracking the thing so no one can change the story later. -
Coronavirus Pandemic (many threads merged)
In other paranoid news, the CIA owned Crypto AG, and eavesdropped on all our allies and enemies for forty years or so. I mention this because it just hit the press again, and I find it hilarious... because it's well known in the security community since the mid-90s. (Late 90s?) Anyway, 20...