"In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric, but the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable." I watched Threads a couple of weeks ago. The only name I recognised from the credits was a Prof. Carl Sagan
What you need to reboot civilisation, is : a) A sustainable power source b) A complete library c) Computers and an extensive software library d) A large set of metrology and observation tools e) A large set of tools that can produce other tools, substances and materials f) Enough essential medications to survive while you rebuild the tools to make medications g) Seeds h) Water filtration. Nothing that could not be stored in large bunkers across the world.
in hindsight it's kind of interesting watching this especially the q&a in light of the current 2020/ 2021 pandemic. ....I would highly recommend that anybody wanting to survive the apocalypse make friends with a lot of preppers, do it yourselfers, and those people in Nebraska with guns. And just as important learn a lot of different things yourself the more self-reliant you are, the better off you are. Bringing your specialized knowledge into a prepper community is a way to assure your own security. We have a saying in the prepper community..." Knowledge weights nothing".
If you are thinking you will be moving out of a city you should have already made relationships with people that live the the rural area where you want to live. Ideally you should already be living there in a rural area outside of the city where you work. There isn't much empty wilderness left in the world, and if you try going there after civilization falls you are certain to run into people that aren't going to be very welcoming to a stranger wanting to come and share their precious resources. With or without an established place to go it would be essential to bring existing survival skills and resources with you. It is best to do your research and work on your social skills in advance not to wait until after civilization fails.
Arithmetic textbook, civil engineering textbook, and a famous work of literature (to preserve culture, philosophy and history) that has important teachings
My initial reaction to this is emotion. The elderly and our grandparents are a treasure trove of both practical and theoretical knowledge - are they appreciated enough? . The idea that 'old is gold' is something that needs as much widespread appreciation in society as much as modern technology solutions to help us get to abundance, prosperity and a mentally healthy society in preparation to embrace that new future. An appreciation of the gift of life and the belief that we can all collectively make a better world learning from our elders (and not repeat the same mistakes)- using our time and energy to invest in combatting the hard climate, economic and societal changes we face is going to be the ultimate challenge of our time. Thank you for a fantastic lecture. Thought provoking and very much appreciated :). Thank you.
33:50 "I'm just going to put that right away". Wow. Just wow. Putting down a burning torch, standing on end, next to three vials of combustive materials. In a room full of people, no less! Brilliant!
One of the things Lewis does not mention as essential for the rebooting of civilization are teachers. I am a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, I find it difficult to give my knowlege to others, even when it is desperately needed. Teachers can take the "black boxes" of things like medicine, electronics, mathmatics, authority, ecconomics, libraries and agriculture, and make them accessible, understandable and indeed desirable.
55:30 - Why civil engineering has extended life span more than modern medicine. A clean water supply, and effective sewer systems, keeps most of us healthy. Also why when assistance is brought to the 3rd world, one of the first goals, is establishing a clean water supply, and teaching hygiene.
Glad to see that the one thing he’d preserve is the scientific method. I’m sure if some crockpot had said religion we’d all be lined up for the skip. Very good informative video and I took away a nice amount of info. Hopefully we won’t need to use it sooner than the latter. Cheers from the US.
His book is a pretty good source of basic information. For a deeper approach, I'd recommend "How to Invent Everything: the Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", by Ryan North.
Anyone who makes a negative judgement on Mr. Dartnell's presentation is showing their illiteracy. This presentation is in NO WAY reflective of his book. His book is one of the most informative and useful books in existence. It's a statistical fact that most Americans graduate from college as functional illiterates. The problem is that too many of us hate to read. You can NOT determine nor judge the contents of The Knowledge from watching this or any other presentation. You must READ THE BOOK!!! On another note: money will be absolutely useless in a post apocalyptic society. That first audience members comments were stupid..
I think it's fairly doubtful that anyone graduates from college illiterate. Even getting into college after High School these days is pretty difficult in the United States, and while my STEM major friends read quantitatively less than I do as a lowly Liberal Arts student, they still have to have high reading comprehension to understand the language of even basic STEM textbooks. The only people I don't really know about are those Business majors... (that's a joke, I'm sure their classes are hard too, haha...)
We have many examples of collapsed bronze age civilizations. It took hundreds of years to rebuild the same level of trade and comfort that they had at the height of these states. Even a simple metal like bronze requires trade routes many hundreds of miles long between the copper and tin mines and the people who actually run the smelter operations. The idea that anything but a globally trading technological civilization is possible (which requires hundreds of millions of individuals), is pretty much preposterous. So, yeah, get ready for a pretty uncomfortable millennium after the apocalypse.
I grew up in the country where canning and preserving food was natural and organic, we store our heat source as cordwood through the cold winters of northern New York State. My parents and grandparents were a wealth of knowledge of how to survive. but now I live in a large city and it seems there is no base for survival unless we require only disposable gadgets and trinkets that we all pass by as hard rubbish on the curb side. I encourage more of this type of thinking, that is to carry on civilisation with less reliance on those unnecessary gadgets that require too much energy to make, and place more value on living and cooperating with the rest of the thin biosphere that supports all life. Humans are just a small part of the total and we all need to accept this basic idea and take that into our future.
i think it a bit naive to suggest we get a choice of apocalypse and that there will be buildings chuck full for the taking and if you survived others will have also. So perhaps ones people skills will be paramount in forging alliances and avoiding confrontations this would greatly improve the chances of putting things back together.
You can't just take any old alternator and rig it up to a windmill to generate power. You must forest wire it to have 12 volts or so to power the field via the brushes. Then only will it put out any current and voltage to charge. You can also get ac power from an alternator to power other things as an alternator is a 3 phase ac device and can also be used as a motor which I will not go into here. You can look these things up if interested.
I’ve been wondering if and hoping there was something like this in Alexis fence and I’m incredibly glad. I hope he’s printed this in stone or on stored on the inside of some graphene box.
Start with Foxfire. Then find some Audubon field guides. All of the textbooks that you can get covering STEM. While you're looking for Stuff to work with, work with what you have and what you know. Water pressure! You would need to get it from the air. It's in all air. You only need to be cooler than the dew point and you have water. Old car radiators and pipes, using coolant, can easily be pumped through a cooling well drilled into the ground. The stuff on the radiator is clean.
I think that this practice is good to develop an inventive thinking. By practicing the previous inventions, it would surely grow a person's multi discipline skills.
btw, everyone interested in this topic should read the novel 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson. It raises a remarkable event which seems fairly innocuous at first, but makes the earth inhabitable for a long long time. Stephenson has a scientific background, so the events are entirely possible given the premise.
Don't get into the habit of thinking the ancients had it all figured out. They didn't. No more than you or I. Our current cement and concrete is what we need it to be. Part of what makes roman cement so "great" is that the things we see still standing, was made of the best stuff available; this leads to issues such as choke-points in the supply line. The more important the structure, the more likely they will get their demand; especially when it's the Emperor himself demanding it. So yes, roman cement was great, because a few structures are still standing. woooh A secondary issue with our cement being "poor" is that we stuff steel into it, so that it can bear more load, and be more flexible. The problem with this, is steel rusts, and blows out bits of concrete. Roman concrete structures don't have rebar or I-beams, thus needing to be thicker at the lower levels to bear the load of the upper levels. As opposed to our concrete structures which are comparatively thin. So let's break this down. Can you get amazing concrete today? Yes! But you won't get it in a bag at the local DIY store. You have to hire a highly specialized concrete crew who knows what it is you want, they will order the necessary ingredients and mix it to exacting specifications, and pour it for you in a timely fashion. Peasants like you and me, will never get to use this stuff, just as roman peasants never got to make houses with "roman concrete", which would be better classified as "Roman Emperor's Concrete. And just for shits and giggles. Roman cement had nothing on Egyptian pyramids. Give me enough rock, and I'll make the world last forever.
The estimate that he gives in the scenario of surviving for fifty five years on the canned food in a grocery store is not realistic because typically, canned food has a shelf life of less than ten years. It becomes practically inedible. The containers also degrade by chemical reaction, such as oxidation or by the fact that the canning process isn’t perfect. I learned this with long term canned food storage in my home.
There's an interesting human quirk where it's mainly the people in the more developed, technologically dependent societies that fantasize about the end of civilization. The people who would survive the best would be the people in impoverished countries who have learned to survive without all the fancy gadgets.
And most of those will be otherwise lovely, law abiding people who are simply pushed to the brink. Does your neighbor _really_ need _two_ cans of peaches when your baby is starving?
Lewis, you did great to run with it without your slides and stuff. We'd need critical thinkers I reckon. I've just ordered your book. Here in the UK building a bunker is somewhat frowned upon, as is fortifying houses and guns in the basement.
We got lucky with Covid-19. If it had had a higher mortality rate and other deadly characteristics, we would have had a much harder time surviving...... However even in that scenario, I think humanity will survive even though a lot of people will die. One point that I found interesting was the fact that the skillset required to do basic survivalist activities like hunting, making a fire, etc. are very important too. The scariest part was when he mentioned the next generation of humans who would be radically different from us since they would experience a weird world in which many are hoping to create an almost fictitious future (which supposedly existed in the past). Their train of though may be intrinsically different.
@@devenford2322 mmmm, much better covid than the closely related MERS which iirc had a mortality rate of around 30%. It's one of the reasons S. Korea was as well equipped to handle it as they were. I agree with your sentiments that humanity will survive, even if so done in the face of massive loss of life. The last statements I'd like some elaboration upon though.
I play the mindgame of apokalypse in my head soo often. Is it weird to wish something like this would happen some day. I know it is actually worse and i should be happy with the huge amount of possibilities i have in my life. But I feel like my actions have no meaning.
That’s all very interesting. However the real question is: should we start a civilization with the same approach (but shortcuts) as the previous civilization? I would think, that things like bleach can be found in huge quantities in some factories - and doesn’t need to be made for a very long time. More important is, to collect and share knowledge and how to organize a society.
And then the plague hit, and we all suddenly realised that there would be no food left in the supermarket. Or maybe three days' worth if you ate the boxes...
Quick question boffins: what happens to nuclear reactors when left unmanned- do they quietly shut themselves down and safely contain their radiation indefinitely, or do they become apocalyptic time bombs? same query for nuclear subs.
point, not only that, but liquid gasses that need electricity to keep them cool enough to stay in liquid form will fail to be kept cool and start to boil
As a psycho with guns, they work great against psychos with axes doing Lyndisfarne style looting... Competition for that salvage will be savage, best consider that aspect of troubles. Rovings bands will be as bad a cholera. Cities are going to burn down with no firemen... There are ways to leapfrog, but there is the problem of "Local Reach" how far can you walk or ride an animal in a day. A looted microwave and solar panels would skip the need for cooking fires. A good thing to do is to acquire a skill for improvisation and the STM science principles will give one a serious leg up.
Major plot hole in his initial premise is that all the things we need for basic survival would already be around and need to continue the process, the grace period as he puts it.
An unfair comment, considering that the entire first chapter of his book deals with that exact issue. You make it sound as if he didn't address that fact.
This is the big question I have been pondering some times. lets say we could choose like 5 persons to make even like a Toaster out of scratch, how long of a process it would be?
I like to make my toast in a pan. It comes out much more evenly. So all yo than in the best toaster. All you really need is a hot surface. The ideal design is something like a Tandoori oven. Absolutely delicious flatbreads. Also... thousands of years old, most likely. Not all progress makes things better.
Things i can do create steel/iron from ore. create electricity how flight works. how to create alcohol for medicinal purposes make clean drinking water from bacteria ect: using workshop eg: lathe and drill press how to butcher a cow and also make leather from the skin. note: i'm an engineer.
This was done rather well decades ago with a series called the "Foxfire" books. Another good reference is the Backwoods Living magazines. Nice idea, really, and an interesting take on it. I'm kind of a bit sad that he hasn't mentioned any of the huge stacks of work that's already been done on this, though.
He looks a lot like bear grylls or is that just me. I imagine all the bear gryll look alikes to naturally want to be survivalists and are all trained up and save pockets of humanity in the new future after the nukes. Even the guy from lost the doctor i think he was he had the bear grylls face. He called the shots for a bit. The fellow in the wheel chair was the bear grylls of that gang till he got locked to the button room.
where was this recorded? I've seen a similar lecture theatre design on a documentary before, i think it was called "the race to absolute zero" or something along those lines.
Without gasoline powered airplanes, zeppelins may make a comeback. Seriously. No need to resort to pony expressing things when we know the secrets of manned flight
6:27 Hello from 2021, when the pandemic is killing people for a year now. 53:07 Also, we have a new record of accidental ammonium nitrate explosion. On 4 August 2020, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, beating the Texas City disaster by 450 tons of ammonium nitrate.
Another ri book promotion. This time from a guy who can't remember to pick up his laptop when getting off a train. I'll get my advice from elsewhere and see this as a further dilution of the integrity of the ri.
I'm reading his book and it's general information, but not useful, because the procedures to make things are not explained in detail with drawings or shemes.
that´s what i was thinking through the large parts of the talk. that´s good in principle but useless in practice. a bit like saying computers are made of sand now go and build one.
I think it still has a use, as it still serves the purpose of giving you a general direction for further investigation, but you'd need companion books for basically every trade, skill, and to guarantee continuity of knowledge. These books would have to be written in a way that assumed no knowledge and no teacher to assist. Combined, they'd be a library by themselves.
As mentioned there are already many books that deal with practical survival information. This is more general and aimed at how to restart civilization not already well covered survival skills.
A bit disappointing. With Intact supermarkets you do not start from scratch... Imagine a post meteor strike and a small band of survivors foraging for mushrooms and root vegetables...
@@peterthepeter7523 cluster meteor with supply seeking/destroying advanced supermarket targetting random chance breakup with atmosphere just because it is nearly infinitely unlikely doesnt mean it cant happen, your only way of surviving is being adaptable, a unraided/destroyed store is like finding a golden nugget in a bag of dirt
He's talking about the end of the world yet like a moron he considers Americans to be Psychos with guns. As for the information in his book, it sounds like I would be in high demand because I could do large portion of what he talked about.
Rebooting world with 10 000 people? I think I leave the hard labor to muscle guys and geeky stuff to geeky guys and take the burden of the breeder for repopulating the planet.
"In an urban society,
everything connects.
Each person's needs are fed
by the skills of many others.
Our lives are woven together in a fabric,
but the connections that make
society strong also make it vulnerable."
I watched Threads a couple of weeks ago. The only name I recognised from the credits was a Prof. Carl Sagan
The anime Dr. Stone has sparked my interest in technological innovation. Highly recommend
Yeah Dr. Stone is one of the best
Me too. I'm planning to start from scratch.
I came here after watching it😂
If that's the case, I'd recommend "How to Invent Everything: the survival guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", by Ryan North.
@@muhammedaadil267 same
this video will come in handy soon....
🤣🤣
This is what is missing from all of the post-apocalyptic games. They don't go far enough.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe.
Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the title
What about a meat pie?
What you need to reboot civilisation, is : a) A sustainable power source b) A complete library c) Computers and an extensive software library d) A large set of metrology and observation tools e) A large set of tools that can produce other tools, substances and materials f) Enough essential medications to survive while you rebuild the tools to make medications g) Seeds h) Water filtration. Nothing that could not be stored in large bunkers across the world.
in hindsight it's kind of interesting watching this especially the q&a in light of the current 2020/ 2021 pandemic. ....I would highly recommend that anybody wanting to survive the apocalypse make friends with a lot of preppers, do it yourselfers, and those people in Nebraska with guns. And just as important learn a lot of different things yourself the more self-reliant you are, the better off you are. Bringing your specialized knowledge into a prepper community is a way to assure your own security. We have a saying in the prepper community..." Knowledge weights nothing".
If you are thinking you will be moving out of a city you should have already made relationships with people that live the the rural area where you want to live. Ideally you should already be living there in a rural area outside of the city where you work. There isn't much empty wilderness left in the world, and if you try going there after civilization falls you are certain to run into people that aren't going to be very welcoming to a stranger wanting to come and share their precious resources. With or without an established place to go it would be essential to bring existing survival skills and resources with you. It is best to do your research and work on your social skills in advance not to wait until after civilization fails.
I am reminded of the 1960 film "The Time Machine" at the end when they ask the question. "Which three books would you bring?"
A maths textbook, a science textbook, and a dictionary (without which the other two are worthless).
Arithmetic textbook, civil engineering textbook, and a famous work of literature (to preserve culture, philosophy and history) that has important teachings
My initial reaction to this is emotion. The elderly and our grandparents are a treasure trove of both practical and theoretical knowledge - are they appreciated enough? . The idea that 'old is gold' is something that needs as much widespread appreciation in society as much as modern technology solutions to help us get to abundance, prosperity and a mentally healthy society in preparation to embrace that new future. An appreciation of the gift of life and the belief that we can all collectively make a better world learning from our elders (and not repeat the same mistakes)- using our time and energy to invest in combatting the hard climate, economic and societal changes we face is going to be the ultimate challenge of our time. Thank you for a fantastic lecture. Thought provoking and very much appreciated :). Thank you.
33:50 "I'm just going to put that right away".
Wow. Just wow. Putting down a burning torch, standing on end, next to three vials of combustive materials. In a room full of people, no less! Brilliant!
Living proof of why books like his are so vital. ;)
One of the things Lewis does not mention as essential for the rebooting of civilization are teachers. I am a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, I find it difficult to give my knowlege to others, even when it is desperately needed. Teachers can take the "black boxes" of things like medicine, electronics, mathmatics, authority, ecconomics, libraries and agriculture, and make them accessible, understandable and indeed desirable.
Depends on the teacher.
If you can't do.... Teach!
Dartnell and Primitive Technology will be post-apocalyptic gods of knowledge.
Primitive Technology shows how to replicate an entire primitive village on a new planet that is identical to Earth.
55:30 - Why civil engineering has extended life span more than modern medicine. A clean water supply, and effective sewer systems, keeps most of us healthy. Also why when assistance is brought to the 3rd world, one of the first goals, is establishing a clean water supply, and teaching hygiene.
Glad to see that the one thing he’d preserve is the scientific method. I’m sure if some crockpot had said religion we’d all be lined up for the skip. Very good informative video and I took away a nice amount of info. Hopefully we won’t need to use it sooner than the latter. Cheers from the US.
I've been thinking about this for quite some time, but don't have a clue where to look for respective information. Lots of thanks for sharing this.
His book is a pretty good source of basic information. For a deeper approach, I'd recommend "How to Invent Everything: the Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", by Ryan North.
how do you make a lathe... finding iron ore,coal to make coke to smelt steel. how to cast forge metal etc, etc.
An excellent goal he set for himself with this book
I love the normal Ri videos, but this was a cool one.
Anyone who makes a negative judgement on Mr. Dartnell's presentation is showing their illiteracy. This presentation is in NO WAY reflective of his book. His book is one of the most informative and useful books in existence.
It's a statistical fact that most Americans graduate from college as functional illiterates. The problem is that too many of us hate to read. You can NOT determine nor judge the contents of The Knowledge from watching this or any other presentation. You must READ THE BOOK!!!
On another note: money will be absolutely useless in a post apocalyptic society. That first audience members comments were stupid..
I think it's fairly doubtful that anyone graduates from college illiterate. Even getting into college after High School these days is pretty difficult in the United States, and while my STEM major friends read quantitatively less than I do as a lowly Liberal Arts student, they still have to have high reading comprehension to understand the language of even basic STEM textbooks.
The only people I don't really know about are those Business majors... (that's a joke, I'm sure their classes are hard too, haha...)
Rip it costs money and I’m a poor high schooler interested in the topic.
Don't make negative judgement.
Ends with a negative judgement.
We have many examples of collapsed bronze age civilizations. It took hundreds of years to rebuild the same level of trade and comfort that they had at the height of these states. Even a simple metal like bronze requires trade routes many hundreds of miles long between the copper and tin mines and the people who actually run the smelter operations. The idea that anything but a globally trading technological civilization is possible (which requires hundreds of millions of individuals), is pretty much preposterous. So, yeah, get ready for a pretty uncomfortable millennium after the apocalypse.
Millennium is too much
@@user-gi5wq3yd3h Let's not do the experiment. ;-)
That's awesome! Just the title is a concept I've always wondered about. Where and how to get all the various materials!
Punch a tree with your bare hands and make a crafting table with 4 blocks of oak planks
The kid in the front row is so bored, bless him.
I grew up in the country where canning and preserving food was natural and organic, we store our heat source as cordwood through the cold winters of northern New York State. My parents and grandparents were a wealth of knowledge of how to survive. but now I live in a large city and it seems there is no base for survival unless we require only disposable gadgets and trinkets that we all pass by as hard rubbish on the curb side. I encourage more of this type of thinking, that is to carry on civilisation with less reliance on those unnecessary gadgets that require too much energy to make, and place more value on living and cooperating with the rest of the thin biosphere that supports all life. Humans are just a small part of the total and we all need to accept this basic idea and take that into our future.
"Back To Basics " a book by Abigail R. Gehring is a good start at restarting civilization.
A Jacobs ladder spark gap with a code key gives you what is needed for a telegraph, the razor blade rectifiers are just one of those crude substitute.
i think it a bit naive to suggest we get a choice of apocalypse and that there will be buildings chuck full for the taking and if you survived
others will have also. So perhaps ones people skills will be paramount in forging alliances and avoiding confrontations this would greatly
improve the chances of putting things back together.
You can't just take any old alternator and rig it up to a windmill to generate power. You must forest wire it to have 12 volts or so to power the field via the brushes. Then only will it put out any current and voltage to charge. You can also get ac power from an alternator to power other things as an alternator is a 3 phase ac device and can also be used as a motor which I will not go into here. You can look these things up if interested.
I’ve been wondering if and hoping there was something like this in Alexis fence and I’m incredibly glad. I hope he’s printed this in stone or on stored on the inside of some graphene box.
Not quite what I expected. More of something Bear Grylls would put out, but really it is a very good lecture.
Thanks for sharing.
Personally, I would want an empty book still in its wrapper.
Harry Potter went full on apocalyptic survivor after his 7th year at Hogwarts.
Seth Weeda indeed
Didn't he stay with sympathizers?
Start with Foxfire. Then find some Audubon field guides. All of the textbooks that you can get covering STEM. While you're looking for Stuff to work with, work with what you have and what you know.
Water pressure! You would need to get it from the air. It's in all air. You only need to be cooler than the dew point and you have water. Old car radiators and pipes, using coolant, can easily be pumped through a cooling well drilled into the ground. The stuff on the radiator is clean.
I think that this practice is good to develop an inventive thinking. By practicing the previous inventions, it would surely grow a person's multi discipline skills.
This needs timestamps
Anyone watching this during this shitshow of a pandemic?
btw, everyone interested in this topic should read the novel 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson. It raises a remarkable event which seems fairly innocuous at first, but makes the earth inhabitable for a long long time. Stephenson has a scientific background, so the events are entirely possible given the premise.
i was looking for such videos since a long time, i would love to know building material such as ancient roman cement
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Don't get into the habit of thinking the ancients had it all figured out. They didn't. No more than you or I. Our current cement and concrete is what we need it to be. Part of what makes roman cement so "great" is that the things we see still standing, was made of the best stuff available; this leads to issues such as choke-points in the supply line. The more important the structure, the more likely they will get their demand; especially when it's the Emperor himself demanding it. So yes, roman cement was great, because a few structures are still standing. woooh
A secondary issue with our cement being "poor" is that we stuff steel into it, so that it can bear more load, and be more flexible. The problem with this, is steel rusts, and blows out bits of concrete. Roman concrete structures don't have rebar or I-beams, thus needing to be thicker at the lower levels to bear the load of the upper levels. As opposed to our concrete structures which are comparatively thin.
So let's break this down. Can you get amazing concrete today? Yes! But you won't get it in a bag at the local DIY store. You have to hire a highly specialized concrete crew who knows what it is you want, they will order the necessary ingredients and mix it to exacting specifications, and pour it for you in a timely fashion. Peasants like you and me, will never get to use this stuff, just as roman peasants never got to make houses with "roman concrete", which would be better classified as "Roman Emperor's Concrete.
And just for shits and giggles. Roman cement had nothing on Egyptian pyramids. Give me enough rock, and I'll make the world last forever.
The estimate that he gives in the scenario of surviving for fifty five years on the canned food in a grocery store is not realistic because typically, canned food has a shelf life of less than ten years. It becomes practically inedible. The containers also degrade by chemical reaction, such as oxidation or by the fact that the canning process isn’t perfect. I learned this with long term canned food storage in my home.
That is not true. I ate cans, when I was in the army in 2003, from 1970.
I’ve been thinking about a WWII Prisoner Camp Hogans Heroes Style Radio since 1997 when I saw that episode at 8 years old 📻 🎶 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
2:20 Poor, sweet sweet child. Fucking oblivious why hes there.
There's an interesting human quirk where it's mainly the people in the more developed, technologically dependent societies that fantasize about the end of civilization. The people who would survive the best would be the people in impoverished countries who have learned to survive without all the fancy gadgets.
In the event of a collapse, I wonder if we'll see a role reversal between the Colonizer and the Colonized.
This dude might like I'll bill's "how to survive the apocalypse" if his book got a theme song...maybe it should be that? Lol :) awesome video
I love the concept of surviving in a supermarket but, the 55yr timescale doesn't seem totally inline with the shelflife
Dr. Stone. Watch it.
YES AN ANIME FAN. Did you come searching for the same topic too?
@@popopop984 hehe I did.
This comment convinced me to really start watching it
@@mipmip4575 Hehe let me know what you think ;)
31:40 You may try to be peaceful in a post apocalyptic situation but inevitably there will be bandits and thieves at best...
And most of those will be otherwise lovely, law abiding people who are simply pushed to the brink. Does your neighbor _really_ need _two_ cans of peaches when your baby is starving?
"Oh god, don't grab the falling flame."
Lewis, you did great to run with it without your slides and stuff. We'd need critical thinkers I reckon. I've just ordered your book. Here in the UK building a bunker is somewhat frowned upon, as is fortifying houses and guns in the basement.
6:05-6:35 didn't particularly age well
We got lucky with Covid-19. If it had had a higher mortality rate and other deadly characteristics, we would have had a much harder time surviving...... However even in that scenario, I think humanity will survive even though a lot of people will die.
One point that I found interesting was the fact that the skillset required to do basic survivalist activities like hunting, making a fire, etc. are very important too.
The scariest part was when he mentioned the next generation of humans who would be radically different from us since they would experience a weird world in which many are hoping to create an almost fictitious future (which supposedly existed in the past). Their train of though may be intrinsically different.
@@devenford2322 mmmm, much better covid than the closely related MERS which iirc had a mortality rate of around 30%. It's one of the reasons S. Korea was as well equipped to handle it as they were.
I agree with your sentiments that humanity will survive, even if so done in the face of massive loss of life.
The last statements I'd like some elaboration upon though.
I play the mindgame of apokalypse in my head soo often. Is it weird to wish something like this would happen some day. I know it is actually worse and i should be happy with the huge amount of possibilities i have in my life. But I feel like my actions have no meaning.
8years later your apocalypse is coming😂
That’s all very interesting.
However the real question is: should we start a civilization with the same approach (but shortcuts) as the previous civilization?
I would think, that things like bleach can be found in huge quantities in some factories - and doesn’t need to be made for a very long time.
More important is, to collect and share knowledge and how to organize a society.
The people that make the stuff you like are the same people you don’t want to see within your borders.
And then the plague hit, and we all suddenly realised that there would be no food left in the supermarket. Or maybe three days' worth if you ate the boxes...
Actually, the world may have a couple year's worth of grains in storage. It's not all that bad.
Quick question boffins: what happens to nuclear reactors when left unmanned- do they quietly shut themselves down and safely contain their radiation indefinitely, or do they become apocalyptic time bombs? same query for nuclear subs.
point, not only that, but liquid gasses that need electricity to keep them cool enough to stay in liquid form will fail to be kept cool and start to boil
Cities would become above ground mines in a sense. And with that last grim question abattoirs as well, at least initially.
The best aspect of an apocalypse event is that your debts are cancelled.
As a psycho with guns, they work great against psychos with axes doing Lyndisfarne style looting... Competition for that salvage will be savage, best consider that aspect of troubles. Rovings bands will be as bad a cholera. Cities are going to burn down with no firemen... There are ways to leapfrog, but there is the problem of "Local Reach" how far can you walk or ride an animal in a day. A looted microwave and solar panels would skip the need for cooking fires. A good thing to do is to acquire a skill for improvisation and the STM science principles will give one a serious leg up.
1:19:20 proud Mum moment
what is his youtube channal?
Major plot hole in his initial premise is that all the things we need for basic survival would already be around and need to continue the process, the grace period as he puts it.
An unfair comment, considering that the entire first chapter of his book deals with that exact issue. You make it sound as if he didn't address that fact.
Lol 19:18 that kid seems so enthused.
Might be good to have a person like Dr Patrick Jones (Buhl, Idaho) who is a veterinarian and also an herbalist.
1:22:10 - "this poor guy"s daughter is soooo bored at this talk. hahaha
Is it just me or is he telling us this, like he knows something is going to happen !!
It's just you 🤦♂️
This is the big question I have been pondering some times. lets say we could choose like 5 persons to make even like a Toaster out of scratch, how long of a process it would be?
I like to make my toast in a pan. It comes out much more evenly. So all yo than in the best toaster. All you really need is a hot surface. The ideal design is something like a Tandoori oven. Absolutely delicious flatbreads. Also... thousands of years old, most likely. Not all progress makes things better.
How about MacGyver? You definitely want him to be around.
It's funny how most survivalist would not survive in jungles or deserts… Even when resources are abundant!
Dear Sir. If you have any further interest "Marks" 3rd edition circa 1915.
Like a supply teacher, forgot laptop, play videos...
Things i can do
create steel/iron from ore.
create electricity
how flight works.
how to create alcohol for medicinal purposes
make clean drinking water from bacteria ect:
using workshop eg: lathe and drill press
how to butcher a cow and also make leather from the skin.
note: i'm an engineer.
2014 and he still can't say phone without saying Ay! first. They don't hurt that much.
This was done rather well decades ago with a series called the "Foxfire" books. Another good reference is the Backwoods Living magazines. Nice idea, really, and an interesting take on it. I'm kind of a bit sad that he hasn't mentioned any of the huge stacks of work that's already been done on this, though.
The "Foxfire" books was the first thing I thought of too.
The guy has limited time and is speaking of his project. 🤦♂️
Can _you_ tell us about such work?
@@HansDunkelberg1 The Foxfire books and the Backwoods living magazines...
so interesting
China just did us all a solid and made this guys vision come true.
He looks a lot like bear grylls or is that just me. I imagine all the bear gryll look alikes to naturally want to be survivalists and are all trained up and save pockets of humanity in the new future after the nukes. Even the guy from lost the doctor i think he was he had the bear grylls face. He called the shots for a bit. The fellow in the wheel chair was the bear grylls of that gang till he got locked to the button room.
The title is a tad misleading...... A tad, in this instance, being flipping MASSIVE!
Wow, talk about premonition
What the hell is a "lave" or whatever it is that he mentions one needs to construct itself?
@christopher snedeker Lathes are used to shape metal as well. You use one to make screws, nuts and bolts.
The climate by that time might just won't alow us to grow anything for food.
Do you mean the climate will be so because of a nuclear winter?
where was this recorded?
I've seen a similar lecture theatre design on a documentary before, i think it was called "the race to absolute zero" or something along those lines.
At the Royal Institution.
Did he ever get his bag back?
McGyver meets Mad Max
whats the name of the YT channel of this guy?
The correspondent for the "sort of geeky stuff"?
What about hairdressers and telephone sanitisers? We would obviously need them at some point.
You might also need a dimension-hopping sofa or two. :)
Wars will break out when we start to run out of towels.
TheDajamster Nah, it's cool they'll just start stitching their towels out of leaves and carry on.
"Hydrogen party balloons in a post apocalyptic world"
Whats that now?
Without gasoline powered airplanes, zeppelins may make a comeback. Seriously. No need to resort to pony expressing things when we know the secrets of manned flight
Lift.
Bascially, minecraft. irl.
Keshe foundation next tesla, learn Walter russell / Russellian science
6:27 Hello from 2021, when the pandemic is killing people for a year now.
53:07 Also, we have a new record of accidental ammonium nitrate explosion. On 4 August 2020, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, beating the Texas City disaster by 450 tons of ammonium nitrate.
hello from 2022, we're still here and still watching this video, the world didnt colapse but humanity could have handled it so much better
Hello from march 2022,we have a war in Europe which could lead to possible nuclear war,if things don't calm down soon
Hello from march 2022,we have a war in Europe which could lead to possible nuclear war,if things don't calm down soon
*Moira Brown wants to know your location *
What that "lave" hes talking about i dont get the word so i cant look it up ... sry my english isnt that good
Lathe, it's a machine that rotates an object while you are working on it.
ah ok, thanks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe
actually I have made a pencil from scratch 👌
Another ri book promotion. This time from a guy who can't remember to pick up his laptop when getting off a train. I'll get my advice from elsewhere and see this as a further dilution of the integrity of the ri.
In the case of global devastation , I would pray to god and ask him to collapse the sun. Seems ethical under the circumstances.
Hopefully a new society would not go down that backward route of creating magic beings and dogma that holds back the progress of humanity 🤷♂️🤦♂️
The whole point of this thought experiment is to avoid another dark ages 😉😅
Great! If your prayers work, would you ask him to not allow the devastation in the First place.
step 1. remove all institutions so that we can be free of tyranny (it should be relatively simple at this point)
The only tyranny you are experiencing is that of your failed education.
I'm reading his book and it's general information, but not useful, because the procedures to make things are not explained in detail with drawings or shemes.
that´s what i was thinking through the large parts of the talk. that´s good in principle but useless in practice. a bit like saying computers are made of sand now go and build one.
I think it still has a use, as it still serves the purpose of giving you a general direction for further investigation, but you'd need companion books for basically every trade, skill, and to guarantee continuity of knowledge. These books would have to be written in a way that assumed no knowledge and no teacher to assist. Combined, they'd be a library by themselves.
As mentioned there are already many books that deal with practical survival information. This is more general and aimed at how to restart civilization not already well covered survival skills.
A bit disappointing. With Intact supermarkets you do not start from scratch...
Imagine a post meteor strike and a small band of survivors foraging for mushrooms and root vegetables...
Did meteor somehow hit every single building in country?
@@peterthepeter7523 cluster meteor with supply seeking/destroying advanced supermarket targetting random chance breakup with atmosphere
just because it is nearly infinitely unlikely doesnt mean it cant happen, your only way of surviving is being adaptable, a unraided/destroyed store is like finding a golden nugget in a bag of dirt
Who here for when the pandemic takes over
He's talking about the end of the world yet like a moron he considers Americans to be Psychos with guns. As for the information in his book, it sounds like I would be in high demand because I could do large portion of what he talked about.
Because we are psychos lol look at the news headlines and tell me we have a stable society
Rebooting world with 10 000 people? I think I leave the hard labor to muscle guys and geeky stuff to geeky guys and take the burden of the breeder for repopulating the planet.
1:14:50 - /r/darknet?