Just think…this was probably around the moment a lot of people in that north tower, on the upper floors, began to notice a large object out their window coming at them. I always wondered who was the first to notice the incoming plane on those upper floors, and how long of a notice they had it was headed right at them.

767’s max speed is 560mph…that 2nd plane literally was pushing the limits. The speed of this 2nd plane upon impact with the south tower is thought to be a core reason why it was also the first tower to come down.

I dunno. Rise of the Triad was pretty awesome.

But again...batteries paired with solar panels, which are becoming increasingly common, can allow people to continue to run their homes off solar power during the evening and night hours. These batteries literally store excess solar energy generated during the day and can power a full house for 24-36 hours straight if the grid goes down. This is an issue that there's already a proper solution for.

Not in the slightest. It’s cheaper now to create a kw of energy via solar than coal. Many homes and businesses are pairing solar with rechargeable batteries. Not only does this allow people to store/use solar energy throughout the day AND night…it allows them to keep electricity if the grid goes down. In a natural disaster or collapse…homes with solar will be the ones with power the longest (maybe with the exception of geothermal powered homes).

He had one more performance with the band in KCMO a couple months later opening for KISS. You can find videos of it on YouTube. He OD’ed after the show…never performed live with them again.

He did a couple of final studio recordings with the band a couple years after this (Get Born Again and Died), but his voice was a shell of its former self. He had lost all his teeth by then and he had a pronounced lisp the studio engineers were unable to mask.

Thank you…you have some beautiful pieces up for sale.

Beautiful! Do you have an online store?

I agree. It’s likely not going to be a sudden catastrophic end to society…but a complete evolution of what society looks like and where they are located. We are absolutely in it right now. Dealing with more severe weather, air quality/smoke issues, wealth inequality, rapid inflation, fires, disease…what we deal with and worry about today is completely different than what our parents worried about.

And humans have way too big an ego. We’ve had 40 years to address climate change, and how much have we done exactly? The numbers don’t lie, and virtually every scientific report coming out shows that the Earth is rapidly changing due to climate change and we aren’t doing near enough to stop it. Just saying “we’ll adapt” is a lazy and dismissive tone that doesn’t match with what the quant/qual data is showing.

All I hear you doing is categorizing an entire room of 330k members and calling them names because you don’t like the topic. Don’t know how you think you are carrying the high-ground here.

I’ve learned an incredible amount about the environment, what I can do to reduce my carbon footprint/dependency, and how I can prepare for inevitable disasters in that sub. Joining my local recycling club, while a nice initiative, isn’t going to help me prepare for what Earth is going to look like in 15 years.

I get it. The room isn’t a hugely uplifting place. I can only do it in small chunks. But it’s the one room that is most accurately discussing what our futures will look like.

There’s a reason r/collapse has been seeing exponential growth the last year or so.

Great reads...thank you for sharing. That last sentence of the first linked article (in the Conclusion) is pretty stark: "A better understanding of this real source of potentially hazardous objects that are large enough to cause significant regional or even continental damage on the Earth is a risk of capital importance."

In 2032, we are entering the heart of the Taurids meteor stream. The Taurids are leftover remnants from Comet Encke, a once massive comet (60+miles in size) that made it into the inner solar system. Astronomers have confirmed this meteor stream is MUCH more dangerous than previously believed, and might contain pieces as large as 15 miles, still undiscovered. A quote from the linked Forbes article on this topic (article at bottom of post): "There are reasons to suggest that we need to be ready for something serious"

The Taurids are thought to be what caused the Tunguska event in Siberia back in 1908. There's also a great deal of evidence emerging that it was the cause of the Younger Dryas period about 12,900 years ago....when we hit a concentrated pocket of comet debris from the Taurids and had multiple impacts (including Hawthorne crater in Greenland) that spurred the extinction of megafauna across North/South America, and the great floods so many religions talk about.

We go through the Taurids twice a year, in October and again in late June. The June one looks to be the really dangerous one....every year we go thru it, our chances of a global impact increase exponentially, but no one really knows about it. Furthermore, it comes from the direction of the Sun, so 99% of telescopes out there can't be aimed to look for incoming projectiles. I feel it is one of our greatest threats, and we have next to no one watching it....knowing we are closing-in on the center of this debris in the next decade scares me to no end.

More reading for those interested: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/06/11/earth-is-now-approaching-the-same-meteor-swarm-that-wiped-out-a-siberian-forest/?sh=120b2be81714

This will be her #1 Google search result for life. Any school looking to hire her will see this video and move to the next candidate. This will follow her and haunt her for the rest of her life…and she deserves every bit of it.

Yeah. That you don’t know how to tell a joke.

Sounds just like the Japanese term “mono no aware”….basically the beautiful sadness of seeing everything around you getting older. Regardless if it’s a building, like the house you grew up in or the school you went to…or a person like your parents….seeing them age is a sad thing. To see how fragile the permeance of time is. But then there’s also an appreciation…that you got to be there when things were younger and seemingly better. An appreciation for getting to be there when things used to be what they were.

95% of the time people talk about being nostalgic…THIS is really what they mean and feel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

Here’s the text (from the post “Fantasy house shopping after becoming collapse-aware):

I have been to Iraq in 2004 (There was no government and no police, basically you were on your own). This (bugging-out) is exactly the opposite of what you want to do. The safest areas were a ton of people living together (areas with lots of townhouses). In these areas, people would come together and help each other. For example, if a weird car was passing through the neighborhood multiple times a day, or a person moved into an abandoned home, people can come together and deal with it. People become more tribal. Basically, lower-middle-class neighborhoods are the best area to be when collapse happens. There is safety in numbers.

If you live in an area where you are the minority (in any way), you are fucked. If you think you are safe because you know people, you are wrong. I don't know how many stories I heard in Iraq of people getting killed because they were a minority visiting a friend or a spouse's family in the wrong area.