This British bloke, whose username is AlfieAesthetics, came up with a great video filled with 45 Survival tips. (Although, I didn’t count ‘em, I just took his word for it.)
Either way, it’s a great video, pretty funny as well, and watching just might save your life, or at least entertain you for 11 minutes.
I like my showers like I like my women, steaming hot and easy to get going. If zombies came and killed 99% of the population, beautiful women may be in short supply. A shower would be my only consolation, and making a copper tube water heat could make my life a bit better with the hordes walking around.
If you haven’t seen Doomsday Preppers, you should check it out. Not everyone on the show has all the marbles accounted for, but they do have a lot of great ideas. This a clip where on of the preppers shows you how to make on of these bad boys.
Just add fire.
He shows you how to build one for a down grid scenario, but you probably can’t freeze a copper pipe without a freezer, so you might want to build this thing before the shit hits the fan.
>>>Dash
To ensure proper use, guns need to be cleaned and maintained. In the zombie apocalypse, guns and ammo will be worth their weight in gold, and gun cleaning supplies will be needed too. Good thing there is a few things you can use besides the name brand stuff, and you could even trade/barter this knowledge in a post-apocalyptic scenario.
ArmaLite conducted a series of extensive tests and they determined that Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) is a very good gun cleaner and lubricant. ATF does a very good job at removing carbon deposits and it also does an excellent job of protecting steel surfaces.
ArmaLite also recommends motor oil as a superior gun lubricant and rest inhibitor. Synthetic motor oil is best but regular motor oil also works well. After cleaning the bore with ATF, you could swab the inside of the gun barrel with 2 drops of motor oil on a clean gun cleaning patch in order to prevent future rust problems.
Alternate Cleaning and Lubrication Materials for Small Arms Background
ArmaLite officials conducting small arms maintenance training in an allied nation were advised that Military and Police officers often use common cooking oil as a small arms cleaner and lubricant. A 4 ounce bottle of cleaning material common in Europe or America could cost as much as a weeks income for a laborer in much of the rest of the world.ArmaLite is concerned that improper cleaners and lubricants could threaten the performance of its rifles in critical moments. ArmaLite’s staff has therefore conducted a preliminary study to identify inexpensive, effective small arms maintenance materials that are available worldwide.
Findings:
ArmaLite has consulted with Small Arms experts at Rock Island Arsenal and elsewhere, and has conducted preliminary evaluations of the materials they recommended:
Automatic Transmission Fluid (ATF) as a cleaner and light lubricant. ATF performs admirably as a carbon remover, and protects steel surfaces excellently (“Have you ever seen a transmission that’s rusty inside?”).
Twenty weight engine oil serves in an environment that is far more strenuous than normally found in small arms so it is normally quite successful. The Army authorities recommend synthetic oils such as Mobil 1. (In fact, one noted authority has used Mobil 1 as his personal firearm lubricant for over two decades.)
No safe copper remover formulation has yet been identified, but government tests reveal that copper removal provides no advantage in a standard military arm. It may serve a useful purpose in cleaning the bore of a rifle meant for extremely precise fire, such as a sniper rifle.
Recommendations:
Employ ATF as a small arms cleaning agent, and follow with 20 weight synthetic motor oil as a lubricant.
Until a commonly available alternate copper solvent is identified, employ a commonly available commercial copper solvent such as Hoppe’s Number 9 on firearms intended for a high degree of accuracy.
Just a few tid-bits of information like this can save you a lot of hassle in the future, or maybe it could save you a few bucks, who knows…
>>>Dash
This is a genius invention. You take 2 seconds to lift a weight and get light for half an hour.
It’s not only a light though, it has the ability to run a radio or even charge a battery. Oh, it it’s made for villages in Africa, so it only costs $10 to make, and even less once they get past the prototype stage.
One or two of these would be great in a bug-out bag, because of how cheap and useful it would be. I can’t wait until they start mass producing these things.
You can get more info at deciwatt.org
Vice always has some really crazy documentaries, but this one about The Big Sandy Shoot is awesome. The Big Sandy is a shooting range filled by some of the biggest guns you can legally own. They do a day and a night shoot, and this year they blew up Bob.
Guns like this would be pretty useful mid to late zombie apocalypse. I sure wouldn’t mind owning a few, and going out to The Big Sandy Shoot.
If you enjoy massive guns, explosions and RC planes getting shot down by anti-aircraft guns, take a look at this.
Biological researchers have created dead ‘zombie’ cells in the lab which outperform living cells.
Seriously.
A team at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have innovated a technique whereby mammalian cells are coated with silica to form a near-perfect replicas.
The silica replicants can survive greater pressures and temperatures than flesh, and perform many functions better than the original cells did when alive.
By painting the cells with silicic acid in a petri dish, the acid embalms the organic matter in the cell down to the nanometer level.
The silica then acts as a permeable armour, according to Michael Hess at the American Office of Public Affairs.
That means the cell beneath can be used as a catalyst at far greater temperatures than normal.
Heating the silica to around 400C evaporates the protein in the cell, but leaves the silica as a three-dimensional replica of the “formerly living being”, Hess said.
“The difference is that instead of modeling the face, say, of a famous criminal, the hardened silica-based cells display internal mineralized structures with intricate features ranging from nano- to millimeter-length scales.”
The valuable biological material can thus be converted into a reusable fossil, which could have uses in fuel cells, decontamination and sensor technology, as well as commercial manufacturing.
Lead researcher Bryan Kaehr said in a statement that the research distinguishes between a mummy cell and a zombie cell.
“Our zombie cells bridge chemistry and biology to create forms that not only near-perfectly resemble their past selves, but can do future work,” he said, terrifyingly.
It’s only a few steps away from having living organisms built out of these zombie cells to make some pretty scary, and flame resistant zombies.