Category Archives: Zombie

Lets Talk About BOB

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Pick your poison, be it solar flare, hurricane, nuclear melt-down, zombies or whatever, you may have to bug-out to stay one step above it. If you do have to get on the move, precious hours or minutes can be lost in packing for what lies down the road. This time could mean the difference between getting away from the danger in time, and having to shelter in place and wait it out, hoping for the best. Being pre-packed and ready to go can help buy you that extra time. This means having a BOB.

What is a BOB?

A BOB is a Bug out Bag, in short a self-contained emergency survival kit to help get you down the road and keep you OK for a few days. The term originally came from the ‘bail out bags’ that 1940s pilots would carry with them in the event of having to ditch unexpectedly, but has evolved into the modern BOB.

Read more in my column at Firearms Talk.

Do you have a Bug Out Bag?

A new Zombie First Responder Course

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What would you do in the event of a zombie apocalypse? Have you ever wondered how you would navigate a band of lone survivors in an earth populated by six billion flesh-eating creatures ravenous for your squishy brains?

For those who have not fully considered these quandaries, a group in Portland, Oregon is offering an intensive two-day curriculum to prepare the unprepared.

Viewers of the recent slew of zombie films, such as Dawn Of The Dead, Curse Of The Zombie and Shaun Of The Dead might of course think they already know of course (you use a cricket bat, right?).

But for the rest of us help is at hand as the Daily Mail Reports. .

Courses cover stealth, how to re-murder a zombie with a samurai sword and the ideal camouflage

NASA Finds UFO on the Dark Side of Moon

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Yup, irrational fear time…..

NASA, with its new Gee-Whiz Lunar Recon Orbiter (LRO) has taken more video than the New England Patriots spies and Lindsey Lohan’s papparatzi combined. On the dark side of the moon it looks like they found an impact site of a spacecraft of some sort.

Popular theory is that its the Lunar Orbiter 2, a 850-pound camera equipped beast that vanished around that piece of real estate in the 1960s.

From the LO2’s Wiki :

The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.

The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit for data acquisition after 92.5 hours flight time. The initial orbit was 196 by 1,850 kilometres (122 × 1,150 mi) at an inclination of 11.8 degrees. The perilune was lowered to 49.7 kilometres (30.9 mi) five days later after 33 orbits. A failure of the amplifier on the final day of readout, December 7, resulted in the loss of six photographs. On December 8, 1966 the inclination was altered to 17.5 degrees to provide new data on lunar gravity.

The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. A total of 609 high resolution and 208 medium resolution frames were returned, most of excellent quality with resolutions down to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in). These included a spectacular oblique picture of Copernicus crater, which was dubbed by the news media as one of the great pictures of the century. Accurate data were acquired from all other experiments throughout the mission. Three micrometeorite impacts were recorded. The spacecraft was used for tracking purposes until it impacted upon the lunar surface on command at 3.0 degrees N latitude, 119.1 degrees E longitude (selenographic coordinates) on October 11, 1967.

Solar Flare Zombies!

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Yup, even CNBC is getting on the Zombie Bandwagon.

About the new college course on Zombies with extra bits thrown in on Zombie max ammo, Solar Flares, and a little video.

New zombie course helps students learn about survival behavior

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From Michigan State http://news.msu.edu/story/10412/

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Coming soon, zombies will be invading Michigan State University.

The School of Social Work is offering a one-of-a-kind online course called “Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse – Catastrophes and Human Behavior” that will do a lot more than teach students how to fend off the undead.

Starting May 14 – the first session of the summer 2012 semester – students enrolled in the seven-week course will learn how human behavior and nature change after catastrophic incidences – from the historical to the hypothetical – through a blend of traditional coursework, online forums and a catastrophic event simulation, which will be in the form of a theoretical zombie pandemic.

Aspects of anthropology, sociology and geology, among other disciplines, will be woven into the two-credit course, which will be scored on a traditional 4.0 scale.

“We are using the idea of a zombie apocalypse to attract attention to the important research and science on the topic of ‘Catastrophes and Human Behavior,'” said Glenn Stutzky, social work instructor and creator of the course. “Students will learn about the nature, scope and impact of catastrophic events on individuals, families, societies, civilizations and the Earth itself.”

During the simulation, which is the focus of the first week of class, students will be placed in survivor groups and tasked to work with each other to develop ways to survive the zombie pandemic. As the course continues, so will the simulation, but students also will learn about catastrophes like the Black Death and meteor strikes, and the impact these events had on the planet. During the final days of the course, students in their survivor groups will use what they learned and will face the conclusion of the simulation event.

“Though the topic is serious and worthy of academic study, the challenges presented in surviving a hypothetical zombie pandemic have real-world applications,” Stutzky said. “After all, zombies make everything more interesting.”

Stutzky and a team from Virtual University Design and Technology are using social media to promote the course, including the use of a YouTube channel, Facebook and Twitter.

The course is part of a new venture called Summer Online Electives Initiative in Social Work. It is made up of nine courses meant to appeal to a broader pool of students, as well as provide more accessibility to social work courses for both current MSU students, guest students from other universities and members of the general public.

Dont be so fast to make plans for 2041!

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THE GIST

  • The 460 feet (140 meter) wide space rock may pose a hazard in 2040, so researchers are calling for deflection plan discussions.
  • Asteroid 2011 AG5 was discovered in January 2011 by Mount Lemmon Survey astronomers in Tucson, Ariz.
  • Although it is currently considered “high risk,” we’ve only been watching it for half an orbit, so more observations are needed.

So in other words, we have a big ass rock headed for us.

So big that they are already talking about how (not why) they are going to try to deflect it. Call Bruce Willis.

http://news.discovery.com/space/asteroid-impact-hazard-2040-120228.html

Why Cache Firearms

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From my column at Firearms Talk, Why Cache Firearms? I mean its not like this is 2012 or anything right?(link)

Zombies At the Door

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From my column at Firearms Talk, Zombies are at the Door and the products to repel them are here ! (link)

 

Wyoming Prepares for End of the World

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Wyoming House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which would study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes, from disruptions in food and energy supplies to a complete meltdown of the federal government.

The task force would look at the feasibility of Wyoming issuing its own alternative currency, if needed. And House members approved an amendment Friday by state Rep. Kermit Brown, R-Laramie, to have the task force also examine conditions under which Wyoming would need to implement its own military draft, raise a standing army, and acquire strike aircraft

 

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/27/10520804-wyoming-lawmaker-introduces-doomsday-bill

I wonder if the Cheyenne Army will need firearms instructors. If so, give me a call…

Are you prepared for zombie apocalypse?

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CDC partners with AMC drama ‘The Walking Dead’
Author: By Aaron Sagers Special to CNN

http://www.wfmz.com/Are-you-prepared-for-zombie-apocalypse/-/121798/8932668/-/7lffic/-/

(CNN) –

Look at you, all plump and fleshy, with a quickening pulse and body jam-packed with sweet meats. That brain of yours, with the scrumptious gray matter and thinking cap makes certain re-animated corpses crave a dining bib.

So what are you to do when the formerly living awaken with a hunger for a little human takeout? Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse?

Probably not. If you have to ask yourself that question, or took a moment before answering, then definitely not. In the time it took you to hesitate, even the slowest zombie could pull a dine and dash — or shamble — on you.


On the upside, you’re in luck since most people haven’t made the adequate preparations for Z-day.

Here’s the deal: A zombie can be a member of the walking dead or a barely living victim from a curse, virus, etc., and alternately run or shamble. They can be the creation of stupid humans, angry gods, black magic, mad science, cosmic events or — as is most often the case — comic book/sci-fi/horror nerds. But whatever their origin, they are a problem that must be dealt with.

But not even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention thinks the masses are ready for the onslaught of the undead.

“There are insufficient people prepared for emergencies in the United States,” said Rear Adm. Ali S. Khan of the CDC.

A multi-credentialed doctor, assistant surgeon general and director of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Khan was behind the zombie preparedness guide the organization published online May 2011.

Inspired by zombie-related social media buzz after the Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster in Japan last March, and released days before Harold Camping’s predicted rapture, the preparedness guide is a tongue-in-cheek plan. Its message boils down to the idea that if you’re ready for a zombie apocalypse, you’re ready for any more likely crisis or disaster. The CDC website received 2 million page views the first week as a result, and the guide went viral.

The CDC has also recently partnered with AMC’s zombie drama “The Walking Dead” — based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series — to utilize clips from the TV show and add helpful tips such as, “Clean water is zombie-free water.”

Apparently, according to TV Land, another tip to survive the zombie apocalypse is to not work at the CDC, which may have been the last hope for humanity in “The Walking Dead,” and went kablooey in a giant explosion at the end of Season One.

Khan reminded us, however, that the real deal is “alive and well” and that even in any scenario where the CDC would be blown up, they would have “contingency plans” to make sure they’re still addressing public health — which might be a subtle way of suggesting the government agency has a way cooler underground bunker than we originally thought.

Still, being prepared for a zombie uprising isn’t the same as surviving, and thriving, in one.

The rest here http://www.wfmz.com/Are-you-prepared-for-zombie-apocalypse/-/121798/8932668/-/7lffic/-/

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