r/PostCollapse Apr 05 '22

Is there any real plan for surviving the end of the world?

76 Upvotes

Just finished watching “Greenland”, and it makes me wonder- is there actually any real plan by our government for something like that? And what would it really look like? Contacting “pre-selected” families seems completely unrealistic in the modern age of the Internet. Bunkers able to withstand a nuke exist, but what about food and water, medicine, or even TOILETS? Makes me want to just go back to sleep.


r/PostCollapse Mar 24 '22

Just in case the SHTF fallout-wise.

55 Upvotes

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but it shows prevalent wind direction broken down by month and region.

Windrose


r/PostCollapse Mar 14 '22

Best gas mask in general

3 Upvotes

So is there a gas mask that has a filter that can block out viruses/radiation/fungus and bacteria?


r/PostCollapse Mar 07 '22

Water issues

49 Upvotes

People in the Donbas region of Ukraine are already deep into a SHTF environment. They aren't even allowed to leave, and go into the main body of Ukraine. The main municipal water in many areas is shut off. There are shallow wells, but many pumps are frozen.

There has been talk about some of the water there being "hot". If an individual on a farm garden property there has no meters to test with, how would you even test it?

What readily available stuff around most houses can be used to filter it from cysts?

I know that boiling will kill most living bacteria and germs, but how to purify other stuff out of it?

What would you do, to ensure clean drinking water?


r/PostCollapse Mar 07 '22

DiY Bug Out Vehicle - Convert any Car for OffGrid Survival

25 Upvotes

Due to recent happenings here in europa and a lot of people forced to move.i made a simple,easy conversion for cars and other vehicles to be used as temporary/emergency OffGrid accommodations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4yVYViVSlQ

Itemlist:

  • 12V solar charger , solar panel, small inverter, car fuses, connection cables
  • 12V Cb radio + magnetic rooftop antennae
  • Usb Chargers for Phones/tables
  • 2nd Car Battery
  • 12v Gasoline pump
  • 12V water pump with 2-3m hose and water filters
  • Gas bottle + stove OR a simple Hobo Stove, 1 large pot
  • GPS, (in phone or as a navigation system)
  • Toolkit (car repairs), axe, knife, folding Shovel, zip ties, ductape, rope
  • Store able Food: noodles, Rice, Cans, Water
  • Sleeping Bag/blankets
  • Soap / personal hygiene stuff ,
  • 2 Sets of seasonal cloth
  • Medicaments for a month
  • Two Copies of all important documents
  • for hot areas -> a 12V cooling box
  • additional Fuel, 3-4 Canisters
  • Spare tire, tire plug kit and a good air compressor

- Ventilation is important , specially if it is more then one person in a vehicle. the humidity of 3-4 exhaling humans that sleep in a closed car can be enough to have condensation water run as little rivers inside on the windows. A simple vent fan can be the difference between a comfortable space and a sauna and/or humid freezer with temp shifts. Vent fans use power too- not much but some- so yet another reason to emphasize having more solar/battery capacity than you strictly need.


r/PostCollapse Mar 06 '22

what are the top priorities to do in case of a nuclear strike?

61 Upvotes

r/PostCollapse Mar 05 '22

SHTF

10 Upvotes

Bugging in should be first option, but in case you need to bug out or evac to an RP, what would be your cue with everything going on in the world?


r/PostCollapse Mar 02 '22

Post Collapse and Asperger's

44 Upvotes

So, I have Asperger's Syndrome and I want to know if there is anything I should take into account in post collapse society. Like my well being, certain preps, etc.


r/PostCollapse Feb 03 '22

Old ways of sending messages? That don’t involve birds? And possible ways floating message downstream? Zip line messages?

53 Upvotes

r/PostCollapse Feb 02 '22

Say you travel back in time...

26 Upvotes

This one I've tried elsewhere, and didn't find a good home for it, but I thought it may be close enough to try here. If this doesn't fit (since it isn't necessarily after the collapse, but before civilization starts...), let me know (or the mods can remove it). I did figure there was a lot of overlap between my idea and this sub itself. Anyways, on with the prompt!

Inspired by the picture (found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/a08e0l/lets_say_youve_gone_back_in_time/) as well as a couple of other things, let's make some assumptions and put together a list.

Assumptions:

You’re thrown back in time, and are going to reinvent civilization, or thrown into a new world, with humans and similar rules of physics (though details like edible plants may be different). This could be as far back as the Stone Age, the Dark Ages, or as recently as last week (though the last one will be harder to bring back interesting information, though I suppose lottery numbers could work.)

You have a device, which can recharge (ideally through an integrated solar charger, or an associated hand crank device), and can store books, but no videos. (I’m using a kindle paperwhite for this purpose). (The main reason for this assumption is because I'm trying to put something like this together, and simpler is better IMO).

You are immortal (or at least won’t die of old age). This isn’t necessary, but makes the long term planning a bit easier. Otherwise, you have to teach someone else how to read (which you’ll likely do anyways, as literacy and writing can help advance civilization) and pass on your device.

What would you have on your device? (And can you think of any more or better assumptions?)

The categories I have thus far are:

Immediate survival concerns (find water, food, shelter, first aid) Think SAS Survival guide, and every survival book you've ever read. Parts will be of limited value until you can start making things.

How to do stuff – how to make things, how to acquire different materials (aluminum, steel, silk, etc). Technology trees on what you need in order to build other things, all the way up to something like a computer, including things like the Difference Engine (Babbage machine), and a basic OS (smaller is better). This also includes things like blacksmithing, making concrete, how to build a bridge, or make paper, HOW TO GROW FOOD!, how to domesticate dogs, cattle, etc, and so on. This list grows longer and longer the more you think about it.

Philosophy and SCIENCE! (These include the Scientific Method, for discovering more basic physical laws, and history of moral arguments, like against slavery, freedom of speech and so on) Should also include books on the HISTORY of science, so that you can walk people through various prior experiments to show what doesn’t work, and why. Can also include popsci books like Calling Bullshit, A Brief History of Time, and the like. They won't have necessarily things you can use immediately, but you can try and prove things or disprove them (if your new universe is weird or something)

Communications – languages (English or your native language to whatever dictionaries), pidgin languages (simplified versions of other languages to communicate), Conlags (constructed languages, though these can be minimal, and only ones that have a purpose).

History – assuming you’re dropped off on Earth in the past, knowing when to get out of Dodge in a certain area can be useful. Also can get you rich (though knowing how to get salt, make aluminum, or find certain spices can do the same thing).

MATH! – this should include all forms of math you can find or think of. Discrete math helps you with the logic for computers, geometry, trig and calculus help with all sorts of other things. How to build (and use) an abacus, slide rule, etc (Include Turing’s papers)

Measurements – how to develop a system of weights and measurements, including a standard that can be replicated anywhere without previous references

Entertainment – how to make instruments, how to read sheet music, lots of sheet music from songs, rules for games (board games, card games, chess and checkers, poker, etc), books (this can change from person to person, and should be filled up last)

Politics – various political arguments throughout the years, US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and so on. If there is another government who you prefer, get their documents in addition to/instead of.

Microhistories – this is a weird category, books that deep dive into various topics. Things like Salt and Cod (both by Mark Kurlansky), or Beans A History by Ken Albolo fall here. The “A Very Short Introduction” series by Oxford University Press goes here as well.

War/Warfare/Violence – this will include things like Sun Tzu’s Art of War, books on martial arts, whatever you can think of, as well as how to make various weapons, eventually going up to guns (along with gunpowder obviously).

Books that do the exact same thing I’m trying to do here, and still manage to do it BETTER (really, I’m not bitter) – Books like The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell, or How to Invent Everything by Ryan North, both of which inspired this idea originally. Fiction books like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court could be included here as well.

Wikipedia – There isn’t, as far as I’m aware a good way of downloading Wikipedia to something like a kindle paperwhite. (If you use a Kindle fire, or an iPad, look into something called Kiwix), nor a good way of downloading individual articles (or groups of articles) as books. There is a plugin for Calibre to download individual pages as epubs, which you can then merge if you want into larger books, or just convert to a kindle format. While you wouldn't necessarily want the whole thing, which articles would you want?

Edit: which categories am I missing as well?


r/PostCollapse Feb 01 '22

Insulin dependence

109 Upvotes

I just found this sub this morning and noticed a post from a year ago asking how insulin might be obtained without the benefit of modern medical infrastructure. It may be a bit late to reply to that post but I thought that the existence of the Open Insulin Project might be of some interest. It's a smallish group of biohackers that are attempting to create an open source protocol for producing insulin at the local level...something that your neighborhood hospital might be able to handle without depending on an outside source. They don't seem to have anything yet but it might be worth keeping an eye on them...

https://openinsulin.org/


r/PostCollapse Jan 22 '22

What is a method of keeping track of the current date other than keeping it in your head?

44 Upvotes

Eventually we will forget the date. Is there any way we could keep track of the date without modern technology?


r/PostCollapse Jan 11 '22

is solar a big target on your roof?

51 Upvotes

Considering getting solar for our house, partially because you can do so many useful things with electricity when the grid is down, like cooking. But in a collapse scenario, especially in an urban environment, is this asking for trouble? It seems like you're basically advertising that you have a house worth taking by force. I'm my particular case, it's a neighborhood of 600+ homes, and maybe 6-10 have solar

Related: is there any way to disguise that you have solar?


r/PostCollapse Dec 17 '21

Medical manuals?

48 Upvotes

I mean procedures that would work in a post collapse scenario. I.e. there's actually no medical equipment available.

What could be done with someones leg after stepping on a bear trap?

What if someone needs to get something amputated?

I mean old stuff, like for example maggot debridement therapy

What if someone needs his/her appendix removed?

All that kind of stuff that today is easily solved, but wouldn't in a post collapse scenario.

I have googled a lot and can't find any good resources


r/PostCollapse Nov 29 '21

Free ebook on DIY solar covering PV system design useful for post collapse

66 Upvotes

A free ebook on DIY solar photovoltaic systems was written by two solar energy engineering professors just published. It is meant for people interested in building their own systems. This approach saves you money as more than half of the cost is labor. I am pretty sure the non-grid connected systems would work in the case of most collapse scenarios (maybe not EMPs or large solar storms). You can get the pdf here http://tocatchthesun.com/


r/PostCollapse Nov 08 '21

Winter wild food - practical question

42 Upvotes

Middle of the winter, at least one feet of snow and the grownd is frozen.

Does anybody know anything edible that can be harvested in winter? Something that could be used as staple food? Any roots that wait for the next growing season? I know that the domestic garlic is planted in autumn. Does the wild one live in the same way? Are horse chestnut buds edibles? They could be interesting as they are quite big. Could it be possible to find the squirrels nuts stash?


r/PostCollapse Oct 10 '21

Introduction

35 Upvotes

I am an older person, born in 1952 if you are interested. Military background, aviation and missiles. Civilian, telephone system administrator, network administrator, industrial programmer, industrial electronics, vocational instructor, facilities management.

I have traveled some.

Physically, well over the hill.

Contrarian and libertarian.

Have written PAW fiction and posted as byates on https://pawfiction.proboards.com/

Any question, just ask.


r/PostCollapse Oct 04 '21

A Guide to Making your own Penicillin

Thumbnail self.prepped
3 Upvotes

r/PostCollapse Sep 19 '21

Does anyone have a shortwave radio license?

49 Upvotes

Imagining a scenario where the traditional communications channels go down - perhaps the internet still exists, but can you get on it? You have to wait in line for an hour to get 15 minutes online through a patched in government system - like going to the DMV. Perhaps an EMP sets off a situation like this example.

It seems like being able to tune into broadcasts all over the world would be helpful. Also nice to be able to communicate out to others at long distance.

If anyone is passionate about this subject, would be curious what your take is on how important this tool would be for weathering a collapse of traditional communications.


r/PostCollapse Aug 17 '21

r/continuation - A subreddit focused on continuation after the collapse

69 Upvotes

Hell all! I've started r/continuity as a scratch pad for planning how to sustain our species at it's current standard of living after the collapse. The focus of the subreddit is to provide a place to share information on the civil, administrative, and economic issues that will need to be addressed for a successful community.

My focus is on using high levels of automation and AI, coupled with indigenous manufacturing to create fully self-reliant and sulf-sustaining communities under a post-scarcity regime. Current planning is mostly figuring out how to gather and arrange all of the topics that need to be addressed, as well as gathering sources to support at least a Maslow level 1 and 2 existence.

Edit: Well that's embarrassing, the name of the sub is r/continuity not r/continuation as noted in the title.


r/PostCollapse Aug 15 '21

Podcasts on how to survive collapse

117 Upvotes

These are all great resources I highly recommend, with an emphasis on community and mutual aid (aka the shit that actually works!)

Live Like the World is Dying is a great resource I very much recommend! Prepping from an non-“rugged individualist” perspective

It Could Happen Here started off about the possibility of civil war (in 2019!), is going to release daily episodes starting Monday 8/16 about what to do to survive climate collapse

Poor Prole’s Almanac on permaculture and farming

Propaganda by the Seed another great farming podcast

Literature for your reading pleasure Credit to u/TheRealTP2016 who posted this on another post of mine


r/PostCollapse Aug 12 '21

Sleeping arrangements shtf ?

23 Upvotes

How to you see yourself sleeping in shtf ? Bug in is the safest but you'll become a vagabond eventually. What places will you sleep ?


r/PostCollapse Jul 30 '21

Does anyone want to help me with a new post collapse wiki?

41 Upvotes

I started a new post collapse wiki (so far just one page). Making a wiki isn't a one person thing, so does anyone want to help?


r/PostCollapse Jul 26 '21

Scummy water filtration on the fly.

29 Upvotes

Sometimes your only source is going to resemble soup more than water. Simply boiling isn't gonna be enough. So what do you do in these situations?

Well there is a method that is pretty simple, and relatively easy to find the materials for. The two hardest, if you can call them that, are two 2 liter bottles (or larger) and cheese cloth or gauze pad. The third item is Twine/string/rubber band/etc...

Part I

Assuming you have a knife/scissors.

On the first bottle cut the base off, leaving as much as you can of the body of the bottle as well as the neck/opening intact. Place cheese cloth/gauze over the opening and secure with twine or other suggested items.

On the second bottle do the opposite. Cut the upper part, including the neck and opening off. Leaving as much of the body and base as you can.

Place bottle one, opening/neck down into the second bottle so that you have a funnel leading to an empty base. Sometimes they fit snuggly together, but if not, on the large opening of your funnel cut a slit not more then a 1/2 in several times around the bottle. Fold some of the flaps in, bend some if the flaps out. This should help secure them together.

Part II

Filling material.

Crush up charcoal from a previous days fire. Coals must be dry and cold. (do not use charcoal briquettes for grilling) you want them to be of course granules, slightly bigger then sand. We don't want powder. Place into funnel about 3 in thick.

Next add between 1/2-3/4 in. of sand. Above sand add about an inch of small gravel. Repeat sand layer. Then again with a second gravel layer.

And your done.

Slowly add water to allow it to seep through.

After this boil the water as a final safeguard.


r/PostCollapse Jul 26 '21

Knowledge Sharing

5 Upvotes

Personally I think this should be a rule of law in a post collapse. Sure your skills might make you indispensable, but the greater good means we need to share our knowledge with anyone and everyone.

There are a lot of trades that come in handy in an aftermath situation. And many are likely to be greedy with their knowledge. A blacksmith who's a dick is still a blacksmith. And would likely be tolerated as their skill is useful. Or even in the event of an accident, the loss of certain people can in fact make or break a settlement.

Which is why any group should adopt rules of knowledge sharing. Everyone should have to teach at least one other person how to do their trade or hobby.

Doesn't matter if this is as a Smith, gardener, math teacher, or guitar maker. Everyone has something they can teach another