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Message 759495 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 21:34:40 UTC

1. I have a family/personal/professional disaster response plan to institute if needed.
2. This plan consists of what to do plans, codewords to implement plans, etc.
3. I was wondering if any of you have something similar, not a chicken little sky is falling knee jerk reaction but something just in case.
4. With the trend to put on tv movies dealing with volcanoes, aliens, end of world, etc. it just makes sense to have something ready. This worked when I was active duty and a spec ops contractor later, to the present.
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Message 759517 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 21:56:19 UTC - in response to Message 759495.  

1. I have a family/personal/professional disaster response plan to institute if needed.
2. This plan consists of what to do plans, codewords to implement plans, etc.
3. I was wondering if any of you have something similar, not a chicken little sky is falling knee jerk reaction but something just in case.
4. With the trend to put on tv movies dealing with volcanoes, aliens, end of world, etc. it just makes sense to have something ready. This worked when I was active duty and a spec ops contractor later, to the present.


Given the advanced state of technology today and the subsequent primitive technological state existing in a post-apocalyptic world, one needs to ask oneself whether or not you would even WANT to survive to live in such a world.
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Message 759564 - Posted: 27 May 2008, 23:23:36 UTC - in response to Message 759495.  


1. I have a family/personal/professional disaster response plan to institute if needed.
2. This plan consists of what to do plans, codewords to implement plans, etc.
3. I was wondering if any of you have something similar, not a chicken little sky is falling knee jerk reaction but something just in case.
4. With the trend to put on tv movies dealing with volcanoes, aliens, end of world, etc. it just makes sense to have something ready. This worked when I was active duty and a spec ops contractor later, to the present.



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Message 759914 - Posted: 28 May 2008, 15:06:42 UTC

Someone said long time ago: we know how we fought during the WWII, we know how and with which means we eventualy would fight in a WWIII but for sure, if we survive the next one, we will fight with sticks and stones.
It is interesting to hear what Carl Sagan says at the end of the "Cosmic calendar" videoclip, something like: we can choose between cooperation and meaningless self-destruction.
Something quite useful is to learn how to be proficient with first aid. Misfit posted a while ago a threat about it. You can do a lot by knowing what to do and when, just in case.
I´ve been told that California (San Andres Rift) is expecting the "Big One" sometime during the next half century: George Strait would be right with the statement/song: "I´ve got some ocean front property in Arizona, from my front porch I can see the sea,....
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Message 768145 - Posted: 14 Jun 2008, 17:02:32 UTC - in response to Message 759495.  
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1. I have a family/personal/professional disaster response plan to institute if needed.
2. This plan consists of what to do plans, codewords to implement plans, etc.
3. I was wondering if any of you have something similar, not a chicken little sky is falling knee jerk reaction but something just in case.
4. With the trend to put on tv movies dealing with volcanoes, aliens, end of world, etc. it just makes sense to have something ready. This worked when I was active duty and a spec ops contractor later, to the present.


Hi,

I'm not concerned about Mega Disasters: comets, asteroids, supernovas, gamma ray bursts, solar flares, hostile aliens, super volcanoes, mega earthquakes, mega tsunamis, mega tornadoes, magnetic polar shifting, global warming, oh my.

I'm not even too concerned about terrorism, although I do expect them to hit the US hard again eventually. The fact that they haven't even tried any little things leads one to think that they may be saving up for something big. I.e., any idiot with a weapon can go into a public mass gathering and start unloading on the crowd, but they haven't even attempted that.

What I am worried about is the economy. Our economy is like a three-legged card table. A swift breeze could knock it down and there is plenty of corruption, fleecing, and downright scams in the wind. It can't be sustained in it's present state much longer. On top of that, you also have oil which could easily go off into a runaway run up. Oil is hanging by a thread. It wouldn't take a whole lot, perhaps just a small panic, to see the price of oil instantly run up to $200+ per barrel and keep climbing. $300, $400, $500 per barrel could happen.

See you at the $9/gallon pump. Fortunetly, my new car gets 34MPG(HW). Not great, but better than all those damn gas guggling, road hogging, SUV's out there.

We need new fuel sources yesterday. Solar, wind, hydro, etc are all fine and dandy supplements, but they even begin to quench our thirst.

Need real ideas and real objectives, not BS "warm and fuzzy" commercials by Enron, British Petroleum, etc. (They spend more money on those TV commercials than they do working with 'alternative' energy!)

One real idea, with enough research, that may be do able to begin in the next 50 to 100 years:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/
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Message 779023 - Posted: 5 Jul 2008, 13:40:18 UTC - in response to Message 768145.  

Need real ideas and real objectives, not BS "warm and fuzzy" commercials by Enron, British Petroleum, etc. (They spend more money on those TV commercials than they do working with 'alternative' energy!)

One real idea, with enough research, that may be do able to begin in the next 50 to 100 years:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/[/quote]


Yes the economy is the real danger, a somewhat paranoid relative has acquired weapons to defend his family - not from terrorists or a foreign invasion - but from his neighbours if necessary when civilisation as we know it finally falls apart.

You will note how humanity, instead of cooperating to achieve greatness, actually considers the ability to destroy each other far more interesting :)

At this time there is a very good reason that terrorists do not attack the USA, they have no need to. Instead they can simply stand back and watch the USA attack itself.

Watching C-Span at the moment, all focus is on Illegal Immigrants who are allegedly destroying the economy. I don't know of any Illegal Immigrants who occupy the White House or seats on the boards of major oil companies, which is where economic destruction is coming from.

I actually believe that the answer to this, even if we never find ET, are things like Seti which are a unifying force in the world. It is not compulsory so it is acceptable, but it is a forum for people with common interests which, whatever those interests are, all flow in the right direction.
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Message 779736 - Posted: 6 Jul 2008, 15:27:36 UTC
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Those mega-disasters concern me because we're all stuck here on one little planet. If we want our species to survive long-term, we need to spread out. But that's not a "response plan", it's a disaster aversion plan. Ditto developing sustainable energy sources, managing our population, finding more natural resources both here and off-planet, and having the technology to divert an NEO headed our way.

Terrorism? Anything's possible, of course, but I suspect most terrorist groups realize that successful attacks on world oil supplies could harm the West more than any other realistic course of action, except perhaps a nuclear detonation in DC, London, or NYC. And I think one plum they'd love to pick is Pakistan's nuclear arsenel. Not for the rockets, but the warheads.

On a personal/family level what I worry most about is a "creeping disaster" of failing fuel supplies, power grids, food supplies, and civil order. Yes we have a plan for that: Get out of the city. When the lights go out and the food is gone every urban area would certainly become a killing zone. And I think that sort of collapse would happen slowly, over the course of a few days for even a few weeks. My vote for most likely cause goes to a flu pandemic, but severe fuel shortage might be enough all by itself.

Everyone knows about boiling frogs, right? Throw the frog in boiling water and he'll jump out and get away. Put him in cold water and heat it slowly, and he'll be dead before he knows what's happening to him.

Or as the poet said, "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."

Of course, I live somewhere where quakes, hurricans, and tsunamis don't happen. We get tornados, but those are localized disasters. Potentially the real killer here is climate. For half the year heat and shelter are more urgent needs than food.
"Good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that's something else." (Han Solo)
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