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The Survival Machine Farm

Posted by samzenpus on from the zombie-machines dept.

pacopico writes "There's a 30-acre plot of land in Maysville, MO where about two dozen people have gathered to build a Civilization Starter Kit. As Businessweek reports, they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and other tools right on up to robots and chip fabs. The project has been dubbed the Factor e Farm, and it's run by a former nuclear physicist and a bunch of volunteers. The end goal is to have people modify the tool designs until they're good enough to compete with commercial equipment."

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  1. Ah... Yeah... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    wskiâ(TM)s hut anchors a 30-acre compound near Maysville, Mo., full of wooden shacks, yurts, work sheds, flapping laundry, clucking chickens, and a collection of black and strange-looking machinery. A dozen or so people in their twenties, none of whom appears to have bathed in a while, wander around or fiddle with the machines."

    I'm not sure these people are queued for success...

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    1. Re:Ah... Yeah... by JWW · · Score: 4, Funny

      When you said archive for survivors, this concept for a post-apocalyptic movie just popped into my head.

      In 2275 on a wasteland Earth, survivors seek the fabled temple of Google, rumored to contain all the knowledge of mankind before the great cataclysm....

    2. Re:Ah... Yeah... by RMingin · · Score: 5, Funny

      Go play Fallout 1. Been done. We called it a GECK there.

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    3. Re:Ah... Yeah... by ArhcAngel · · Score: 4, Funny

      If cockroaches survived the last apocalypse then I suspect patent trolls will survive this one.

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  2. Re:Open Source Bulldozer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The open source bulldozer is fully documented here.