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| bitwelder:
As the OP was asking about test gear, nobody plans on keeping a Geiger counter around? Such good occasion to calibrate it for off-scale... :-/O |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: bitwelder on July 23, 2016, 12:16:11 pm ---As the OP was asking about test gear, nobody plans on keeping a Geiger counter around? Such good occasion to calibrate it for off-scale... :-/O --- End quote --- You might not need one, if it all looks grey and burnt in the distance ahead, don't go that way :) A Geiger counter is probably the only useful bit of test kit if it were to be a nuclear disaster but ultimately if it was just head in the opposite direction to the blast as fast as you can. |
| VK5RC:
I am MUCH more worried about biological rather than nuclear war, but I am not that worried about either really. I suppose the good camping gear, I already have some but I would need a good gun and ammo, a reverse osmosis water pump and find my copy of Lewis Dartnell's The Knowledge, ….. something like restarting civilisation etc. |
| Simon:
I think the simple fact is most people would not be capable of restarting civilisation. We all think we are really clever because we run around without computers and smartphones and use other complicated machinery but in actual fact the only thing we have been smarting doing is earning the cash to buy those things which other people have designed because they are smarter than us. A lot of our modern equipment replaces basic tasks. For example I am the 1st to admit I use a satnav and that I would struggle without one. I am terrible at memorising directions as I probably have attention deficit so I don't bother to do things the hard way. I could read a map and indeed follow it and if I had the correct type of map and compass probably use it but in everyday life I just get my satnav out but unlike most people I do make adjustments to the route based on my preference of main roads I don't just blindly follow it. I'm sure a lot of people who use a satnav don't even check the route they are likely to take. |
| razberik:
What about good old gasoline generator ? The time for buying good old one is right now. Also good old car, like GAZ, or UAZ. Or Lada Niva ? --- Quote from: Delta on July 22, 2016, 11:16:19 pm ---My bag would contain: - One forty-five caliber automatic - Two boxes of ammunition --- End quote --- Wait, in disarmed UK ? ;D I recently bought few stripper clips for Lee Enfield from ebay.co.uk last month, I think you don't need them anymore. :D |
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