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Al Swearengen
For a little while now I've been watching a show on National Geographic called Doomsday Preppers.
Its about people in the US that are actively preparing for the collapse of civilisation. They go to some amazing lengths!
Anybody else seen it?
At first I thought that all the people were just lunatics & idiots. After watching it for a little while, I've found that some of them have some really good ideas. Others really are just lunatics & idiots.
Each episode has 3 "preppers" that they do a segment on. The prepper explains & shows almost (secrecy is a must!) all of their preparations. At the end of the segment, a "professional" company then rates their preparedness.
Almost without exception every last one of them have some serious weaponry. We're talking AR-10s. Above in some cases! To me, it goes to shows the Americans obsession with guns. There was one episode where a guy took his 2 teenage sons out somewhere for shooting practice. There was a problem & the guy ended up clipping the tip of his thumb off with the rifle. None of them had a first aid kit or really knew what to do. It took the Nat Geo film crew to bail his ass out!
Craziness aside, its got me thinking (just as a hypothetical exercise) what I would do if I was preparing for civilisation to collapse? When I was working in a certain unnamed facility I happened to meet an Australian prepper. At the time I laughed at him but I was still pretty impressed by his ingenuity.
For starters, prepping for Australian conditions is a different thing to preparing for American conditions. Our environment is quite different. Heat & water are even more critical then in the US. But I dont think assault rifles are as much of a concern for us. I think we can get by quite nicely with crossbows.
Comments??
Its about people in the US that are actively preparing for the collapse of civilisation. They go to some amazing lengths!
Anybody else seen it?
At first I thought that all the people were just lunatics & idiots. After watching it for a little while, I've found that some of them have some really good ideas. Others really are just lunatics & idiots.
Each episode has 3 "preppers" that they do a segment on. The prepper explains & shows almost (secrecy is a must!) all of their preparations. At the end of the segment, a "professional" company then rates their preparedness.
Almost without exception every last one of them have some serious weaponry. We're talking AR-10s. Above in some cases! To me, it goes to shows the Americans obsession with guns. There was one episode where a guy took his 2 teenage sons out somewhere for shooting practice. There was a problem & the guy ended up clipping the tip of his thumb off with the rifle. None of them had a first aid kit or really knew what to do. It took the Nat Geo film crew to bail his ass out!
Craziness aside, its got me thinking (just as a hypothetical exercise) what I would do if I was preparing for civilisation to collapse? When I was working in a certain unnamed facility I happened to meet an Australian prepper. At the time I laughed at him but I was still pretty impressed by his ingenuity.
For starters, prepping for Australian conditions is a different thing to preparing for American conditions. Our environment is quite different. Heat & water are even more critical then in the US. But I dont think assault rifles are as much of a concern for us. I think we can get by quite nicely with crossbows.
Comments??
