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Good read! https://medium.com/s/story/the-surprisin...er-15fce7d10437Engineering and science types will like this one. Your "gut" instincts are good for a reason...
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i am buying more ammo tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That's a lot of subjectivity with a bit of peppered stats.
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Interesting article, written from a different perspective, and hard to argue with. There is, however, one glaring error in this paragraph:
"While we dont have any good sources of data on how often zombies take over the world, we definitely have good sources of data on when the group of people on the piece of dirt we currently call the USA attempt to overthrow the ruling government. Its happened twice since colonization. The first one, the American Revolution, succeeded. The second one, the Civil War, failed. But they are both qualifying events."
Wrong. The War Between The States, while a cataclysmic event, was not an "attempt (by either side) to overthrow the ruling government". It was the result of a government forcing a group of states to not withdraw from that larger union of states. Very big difference.
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Disaster planning should be a part of a person's life.
Just setting yourself up to make it a week without power is impossible for most people.
Might be as simple as a credit card with available balance, so you can just leave if you need to.
I am the "Grey man".
Out there doing it best I can.
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Interesting article, written from a different perspective, and hard to argue with. There is, however, one glaring error in this paragraph:
"While we dont have any good sources of data on how often zombies take over the world, we definitely have good sources of data on when the group of people on the piece of dirt we currently call the USA attempt to overthrow the ruling government. Its happened twice since colonization. The first one, the American Revolution, succeeded. The second one, the Civil War, failed. But they are both qualifying events."
Wrong. The War Between The States, while a cataclysmic event, was not an "attempt (by either side) to overthrow the ruling government". It was the result of a government forcing a group of states to not withdraw from that larger union of states. Very big difference.
SRH While you may be technically correct Stan, I don't think that changes his math or conclusions. It was a disaster event that provokes extraordinary disruption to life as it had been in the areas affected. Maybe my ex isn't as crazy as she seems. All I know is I'm allowed inside the compound when the SHTF. My job is firearms. LOL
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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The "Fact" that Stan stated that neither side tried to "Overthrow" the ruling Government is the reason it Was Not a Civil War, regardless of who all called it that. A Civil War by definition is when a faction within a nation tries to take over the Government of that nation.
An act of Congress back in the 1920's as I recall declared this war should be called "The War Between the States". Most "Yankees" call it he War of Southern Rebellion while most Southerners call it the War of Northern Aggression or War for Southern Independence.
It in fact was no more a Civil War than was the American Revolution.
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Regardless of what you want to call the war the great redeeming fact is it forged a stronger nation than could have ever been possible otherwise.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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