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10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse
fangmcgee writes "The end may not be nigh, but with vicious storms, severe flooding, and rising temperatures becoming the new normal, the apocalypse might be closer than we think. In the case of a cataclysmic event that could displace thousands, if not millions, of people, the availability of emergency shelter becomes a pressing concern. Here are 10 'wearable shelters' that serve as protective all-weather garments in the day and insulating dwellings at night."
All one needs is a towel.
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
The 4th one reminds me of something from a Red Hot Chilli Peppers video
Homeless people get robbed if they have anything valuable or as useful as a sleeping bag.
(Also, the one in the main cover image (images 7/10/11 in the gallery) is clearly just taking the piss.)
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
Bivy sacks those are not.
Are you a turtle?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Similar terms, but they do not mean the same thing.
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Main reason I often don't read TFA? Because of trash sites like the one linked in TFS.
Anything where normal parts of the article are disguised as ads (or vice versa) is an immediate bounce for me. Present your content like a responsible adult and people might read.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
Similar, but they do not mean the same thing.
What? There's no tin foil outfit. They missed their biggest market...
Ok, I looked it over and am not impressed.
A hammock and a plastic tarp stuffed into a jacket pocket is not a bad solution.
Also, the only "wearable" I'll be concerned with in the event of an apocalypse is my rifle. It can gain you access to many shelters.
Nobody will know it's me falling asleep on my keyboard.
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Why is trash like this appearing on Slashdot?
Perhaps it's time to reconsider how this site is run.
And this one comes complete with a tin foil brain protection system, and the tin foil is completely inspectable and replaceable by you, the whackjob^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hintelligent purchaser of portable habitats.
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
How can they handle the apocalypse when they can't even handle being Slashdotted?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
A towel might actually be as useful as anything else, given the circumstances.
Despite the joking, people who don't think that "the end is nigh" probably haven't looked up "mass extinction" and specifically, the 6th mass extinction that's currently underway.
You can't argue with biodiversity plummeting towards the zero axis. Prior mass extinctions have been relatively gradual downward curves in geological time. This one is a vertical drop.
Nothing like this has ever happened before, and the maths says we will shortly be toast, for values of "shortly" ranging from a few decades to a few centuries. And nobody knows exactly where the tipping point lies, the point where the interdependencies between species are no longer self-sustaining and the biosphere collapses like a house of cards.
At that point it's bye bye homo sapiens. We *are* part of the biosphere, not outside of it.
In case anyone's wondering, there is no likely solution to this, because the extinction isn't being caused by anything as simple as CO2 or global warming, it's being caused by destruction of habitats as a direct result of what we call "civilization". Good luck trying to get humans to stop the impact of technology on the biosphere and live with nature, it's not gonna happen.
So we're toast. I'll have a towel too please.
This Apocalypse stuff is really starting to annoy me. If civilization falls, it will be gradual. And we won't go back to the stone age.
Why because we know how to not live in the stone age.
We know about metals and melting ore to to create them. We know about magnets and how they can be used to generate electricity or using electricity to create maniacal energy. We understand that silicon has a semi-conductive state and how to arrange semi-conductors into not gates and not gates into And and Or gates and further on to a computer.
As a group of people we know a lot of stuff. and will not live like in a stone age. Short term we may be living in camps. But we would have a lot of things to help out.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It is a collection of ten photos of art projects, which are neither useful, nor available for any practical use. Sort of like showing an exotic concept car.
Got a particularly good link?
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Have you checked the state of the biosphere recently? Look up fisheries, biodiversity, anoxia.
Storms are immaterial to human survival, and humans won't go extinct from global warming nor even a 100m rise in ocean levels. But we can't survive without the biosphere, and we're doing an excellent job of killing it off, very rapidly indeed.
It's not survival gear, it's silly jackoff "art" and it's not news for nerds and it doesn't fucking matter.
Want to survive? Arm your mind, arm yourself (with a legal concealed weapon) and have a serious bugout bag and serious clothing (including BROKEN IN combat or hiking boots).
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Has Slashdot become buzzfeed or something? WTF?
... at the next Occupy Movement sit-in with my new Ecouterre wearable habitat!
Well, I retract my original statement. Apparently energy is up slightly in the last few years, with the result that we are now in a 30-year low, no longer a 40-year slump.
Here is one source, and here is another.
Just two examples. It is pretty easy to google that, and the information is not somebody's "opinion", it is what the science says. BUT... while those particular sources are often attacked, keep in mind that they are presenting someone else's scientific studies, they are not "the source". You aren't likely to find that information on sites about "climate change" because they don't want to point it out to you; it weakens their arguments and apocalyptic prognostications.
Stuff that matters
"The Vessel" looked good and seemed useful (I'd actually buy it), and the "JakPak" and "Refugewear" seemed useful, even though they look like crap. The rest were pretty lame, though.
And lo, out of the four corners came a misting of water that fell on all the sons of Abraham.
And the iniquitous were chilled slightly by it, and proclaimed their shame...
The children of the lamb were sheltered by their light clothing.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Hahaha. As usual, contradicting "mainstream" rhetoric -- no matter how correct I was -- got me modded "troll" again.
It's no longer even just sad. It has gotten to the point it's almost amusing.
In the case of a cataclysmic event that could displace thousands, if not millions, of people, the availability of emergency shelter becomes a pressing concern.
The things that will actually make a difference in your ability to survive a cataclysmic event have very little to do with simple products you can buy. Some things that will make a huge difference:
- How much warning you get: The more time you have, the more survivable the mess is.
- Your willingness to believe the warning: If you don't believe it (not uncommon at all), you won't react in time to do anything useful.
- Whether you have the resources to get to somewhere else in between the warning and the actual cataclysm: If you don't have anywhere to go, don't have a car, etc, then leaving is much more difficult.
- Your willingness to lose most of your stuff: Many people have died going for their valuables rather than going to a safer place.
- Whether you have any chronic medical conditions: A lot of deaths in disaster areas are people not getting the medication they need to treat chronic illness.
- Your age: Elderly and young children will get the worst of it.
- Your physical fitness: If you're hale and hardy, you can consider options like loading up everything you need in a backpack and walking out of the disaster area. If you're morbidly obese, you can't.
Basically, the standard strategy for dealing with a serious but localized disaster is (1) Try to get everyone out of there before it strikes. (2) After it strikes, bring as many supplies into the area as you can while getting as many people out of the area as you can as quickly as possible. (3) As the people are leaving, start fixing the underlying problems to the degree possible. (4) As the disaster area recovers, people start trickling back in.
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Frilly cover over a miniskirt and heels for the Apocalypse? About as good as a wrapper on a hamburger, and will probably serve the same purpose.
I would envision something like a space suit, with chain mail over Kevlar to resist bladed weapon puctures and bullets. It would not need to be airtight, but would allow a slight overpressure for nuclear/biological/chemical survival, something like armored firefighter turnout gear with SCBA, with an armored helmet with facemask.
Accessorize with melee weapons and big guns...ouila! The fashion statement of the Apocalypse.
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AND tie wraps - that's the trinity
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BHO sounds less like body odor. It also sounds more like well-liked Presidents such as FDR and JFK.
someone got it
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
A few years ago they had a TV program where people showed off their inventions. One of the most popular categories was methods to urinate in public. These "habitats" look a lot like those inventions. Could these really be public urinals designed to look like tents?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Somebody thinks they've "invented", the poncho, the parka, and the bivouac bag.
Total global cyclonic energy ("vicious storms") has been at a 40-year LOW. Yes, the Atlantic got some storms last year but they were only seemingly "more vicious" because they happened near cities. The overall rate of "vicious storms" is DOWN, not up.
Well, 40-year low is possibly a bit misleading if you intend to imply there's a downward trend. ACE varies pretty wildly from year to year, so it's extremely hard to say if there's a trend in one direction or the other. This is why most climate and atmospheric scientists are extremely reluctant to blame any one storm season on climate change, despite the media biting at the bullet to do so.
Though, what's interesting to me is how strong everyone predicted this season was going to be in the Atlantic and how anemic it has been so far. I haven't seen a good explanation of that, though we've got 3 more months to go.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Just to get the terms right.
Apocalypse is a biblical term (sure, has been used in other ways and it's ethimology goes further back) and the fact that it is linked to "the end of the world" reinforces this origin. But that's not all, not by far, and it's not the most important part.
Apocalypse in the biblical sense is mainly about the end of the world when Jesus Christ will come again, renew all things and reign for ever. The world will be radically different and it's population will be divided and introduced to this new world or banished forever into hell.
Hollywood's apocalypse, on the other hand, means catastrophic event where millions will be dead or displaced, the world will be radically different due to this catastrophy, it will not be renewed, Jesus Christ will not reign (yet), it will be populated by the survivors and presumably ruled by those with the best bunkers. It makes me sick to see an apocalypse as the one depicted on the movie "2012", where "the world ends" and now we're populated and ruled by a bunch of mostly useless, unscrupled survivors.
Us christians (at least those with a little knowledge of the bible and a minimum of faith to believe in it) do take a different view on the end of the world. We can have many catastrophic events, lots of dead or displaced, but that is not the apocalypse unless Jesus Christ comes again.
Sure, this is slashdot and my argument can seem a little off-topic but if we're using the term apocalypse, let's use it correctly, and that is mainly: apocalypse != catastrophic event but apocalypse = second coming of Jesus Christ (and all the consequences this will have, as states in the book of Revelations, which can include a catastrophic event).
I would envision something like a space suit, with chain mail over Kevlar to resist bladed weapon puctures and bullets. It would not need to be airtight, but would allow a slight overpressure for nuclear/biological/chemical survival, something like armored firefighter turnout gear with SCBA, with an armored helmet with facemask.
Accessorize with melee weapons and big guns...ouila! The fashion statement of the Apocalypse.
Spoken like someone who has never hiked long distance. Weight is your enemy.
You are no better than the fashionista, proposing something so utterly impractical yet "cool" looking.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
"Well, 40-year low is possibly a bit misleading if you intend to imply there's a downward trend. "
Well, first, I corrected this to 30 years. And second, I wasn't suggesting a downward trend, but a persistent dip in ACE for a number of years. It is my understanding that it has actually been up a bit, on average, over the last few years but that we are still at a relatively low spot in the long-term record.
Serious /. stop with the art student fashion crap..This is SLASHDOT not motherfucking Cosmo or some crap.
Long cloaks have been effective traveling sleeping quarters for millennia. A modern polar fleece, full circle cloak can easily shelter someone who uses it cautiously at below freezing temperatures, and a couple with such cloaks made of the best modern materials can lie out in sub 0 Faherenheit weather and watch the stars, snuggled up, protected from the ground, and sharing body warmth. I've done during meteor showers with my wife, and later with my wife and daughter, on nights so cold my moustache was freezing solid when I poked my head out of the warmth.
Ours were Polar Fleece from over a decade ago, and still work very well in the worst weather: I'm not sure our cloakmaker carries them anymore, but this looks pretty similar.
http://www.cloakmaker.com/searchResults.php?type=cloaks&id=2618
Was putting tent-poles into a jacket really such a brilliant idea?
Everybody knows that all you reall6y need is a tinfoil hat.
Neither of these are new. We've always had hurricanes and hot weather, going back before the industrial age..
Rule 10: You take life too seriously.
Rule 6: Remember: You're not getting out of it alive.
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
But no doubt it is... just do not let go ideas giving money ideas to others, OK?