Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a …
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Crustal displacements and magnetic pole shift – both are scary
Don’t believe NASA – these are a genuine threat
More likely during eclipses and perhaps Comet Elenin is a factor?
Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a full-on survivalist team.
This group have a great Plan B: load up the buses and drive for 12 hours…
This woman believes a fuel crisis will cause panic buying and social mayhem - her apartment is full of survival supplies:
For me this is a must-watch series. Let me know what you think – leave a comment!
In the Chinese calendar, 2012 is the year of the dragon. It is the only of their 12 years that is named after a fictional animal. So are dragons really fictional?
I have investigated the possibility …
The above trailer is for a TV series in development. Here’s the official synopsis for The Carrington Event:
Joseph Carrington runs an organic mini-farm on the outskirts of a large, southern town. His rustic lifestyle means …
I think this is a great product – it’s an LED bulb that has a battery inside, meaning you get 7 hours of light when your power is out – and it doubles as a …
There are several doom’n’gloom news services out there that report every solar flare as if it will cause the end of the world.
SpaceWeather.com has informed us:
Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, …
Planetary magnetic fields are generated by flows in the hot, liquid iron cores of the planets. Measurements made by Mariner 10 in 1974/75 showed that Mercury also has a magnetic field. According to the standard …
The leader of the free world has enough power to cause TEOTWAWKI via bad policy or religious motivation. And Obama might be out-voted just before the Mayan calendar ends in December. Even for those who …
Ever wondered why we are hairless compared to other apes? Or why our tears are salty? Or even why we have breasts?
Elaine Morgan has devoted decades to the topic of Aquatic Apes, and I’ve been …
After all the poorly written 2012 news items of recent weeks, Wired has come out with an excellent article on the scientific possibilities of doomsday. I’ve summarized their list and added my comments:
SuperVolcano
Wired: Yellowstone’s giant volcanic crater …
This Top 10 list is actually from a car site, but everybody is talking about 2012 this month…
1. Knight XV – fully armored, hand built luxury SUV
2. Pirate 4×4 – not much luggage space!
3. TRAX …
The main thrust of this news item is evidence suggesting humans were fishing 43,000 years ago, whereas the previous earliest date was just 12,000 years ago. But of equal interest was the fish they were …
Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
The structures are thought to date back 2,000 …
Usually I’m telling people that nobody knows for sure what will happen in 2012 – but it’s best to prepare for the worst, just in case. Today I am guaranteeing that certain disasters will occur …
This time last year there was a lot of talk about mass animal die-offs. These things happen from time to time, but the cluster of events made it newsworthy. Turns out some mass deaths can …
The planet Venus was important to the Maya civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. They …
Many ancient cultures knew of planets that could not be seen with the naked eye, and therefore it is possible they counted sunspots as well. Yet there is a far easier way to keep track …
For many 2012ers economics is a boring topic. Unless you have achieved the dream of 100% self-sufficiency, any decline in the economy will affect you. And that could range from hardship to starvation.
In the current …
Renewed Activity at El Hierro in the Canary Islands (Wired)
300 small earthquakes at Chile’s Lascar (Wired)
500 people living near Mount Lewotolok in Indonesia district abandoned their homes (Jakarta Globe)
A total of 7 Indonesian volcanoes are on …
Yesterday the Daily Mail has an article about the Laacher See volcano in Germany:
A sleeping super-volcano in Germany is showing worrying signs of waking up.
It’s lurking just 390 miles away underneath the tranquil Laacher See …
If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and read about the Aztecs, you’ll be aware that horrific sacrifices were made to please the gods. In the case of the Aztecs, it was to postpone the end …
Michio Kaku on CNN last week, discussing what could happen in 2012. After he explains the peak of the solar cycle is coming up, he says:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/12/27/exp-am-kaku-2012-science.cnn
Kaku:
“Every eleven years the Sun has a temper tantrum, throws …
Speaking of Xmas wish lists…
Here’s an interesting idea – it’s a regular RV that you can leave parked in your driveway. But if a tsunami comes, and the floating tubes are attached, in …
OK, the close call was back in 1883, but that just means it could have killed your forefathers and not yourself. The size of the comet and how close it came to Earth have been …
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how Newt Gingrich is fearful of an EMP Doomsday. He’s not the only Republican presidential candidate who has some understanding of survivalism.
Ron Paul has an investment portfolio worth …
This is great fodder for Ancient Astronaut theorists. Over in China is a pyramid that has iron pipes within it, and heaps of pipes laying about outside. Like many such mysteries, the pipes could actually …
Doomsday Preppers is a new National Geographic series, launching on Tuesday, Feb 7 in the USA. Here are two of the survivalists they visit – one is your standard prepper and the other is a …
