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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.
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.
And none of these can be created with a 3D printer. What is wrong with these people?
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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.
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.
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."
RTFA, most of these were intended for existing homeless people in cities, or for temporary mass refugees. Not paranoid survivalist teotwawki gun nuts who presumably can just buy a regular sleeping bag and/or bivy.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
Or better yet a blue tarp, multifunction at it's finest, fold your gear into it and it's a makeshift Yukon pack http://kayakdave.com/2012/09/13/how-to-build-a-yukon-portage-pack/ it also doubles as a makeshift tent at night or in rain.
Part of surviving something like that is too look like you have nothing. Someone with a ragged tarp looking backpack may be less of a target than someone toting a North Face backpack.
This guy http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz179/556mp/IMG_3213.jpg probably stands a better chance of not getting robbed as opposed to this guy http://attractions.uptake.com/blog/files/2009/06/camping-backpack.jpg who you can clearly see has a nice toasty warm sleeping bag and even a foam sleeping pad.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
... at the next Occupy Movement sit-in with my new Ecouterre wearable habitat!
Stuff that matters
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.
Are you a turtle?
YBYSAIA!
They can take my LifeAlert pendant when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
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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You can't argue with biodiversity plummeting towards the zero axis.
But it's not actually plummeting towards the zero axis, let us note.
Nothing like this has ever happened before
You're making the fundamental error of assuming that geological era mass extinctions are measured in the same way that the current era's extinctions are. For example, the extinction that marks the end of the Cretaceous period killed 75% of all organisms that left fossils. It is worth noting here that the only large animals to survive were reptile scavengers like crocodiles. That is, if you were a large land animal of the Cretaceous and you didn't feed on dead meat or could survive months without food, then you didn't make it.
In comparison, plenty of large animals survive today with little threat looming on the horizon. That tells me right there that the harm of the current period of humanity is exaggerated.
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.
The likely solution is the creation of some wilderness zones, which has already been shown successful in North America.
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.
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