Saturday, May 4, 2013

Desert Survival Kit


Since we live in the desert we need to have the essential survival kit prepared in case a catastrophic event takes place suddenly. I have taken many desert survival courses and this list is the top 20 items that are always suggested. I highly recommend everyone taking some sort of course for your specific geographic location, just check with your nearest college campus and they should have information regarding these classes. Some of these items have multiple purposes such as the plastic bags while others are for conveniences such as the toilet paper and toothbrush.

1)      Have a camelback full with water
2)      Water purification tablets-Can be used to purify stagnant water
3)      Aluminum foil-can be used for food storage as well as a signaling device
4)      Pocket knife
5)      Foldable space blanket
6)      Basic first aid kit
7)      Snake bite kit
8)      25 feet of fishing line with hooks
9)      2 cans of tuna fish
10)   Magnesium flint stone
11)   Compass
12)   Poncho or large plastic bag-either one will work for a shaded waterproof structure as well as protection from the rain.
13)   Sunscreen-A high SPF is important since the desert sun can cause bad burns which if left untreated can become infected very easily.
14)   Chapstick
15)   Hand Sanitizer
16)   Bug spray
17)   Toilet paper-Can be used for its intended purpose or works as a great fire starter.
18)   Toothbrush
19)   Small mirror
20)   Several non-scented/non-flavored condoms-These are great for water storage since they are durable and take up very little space.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Best Doomsday Weapon!


I have had many people ask me as well as I have read many people asking on different forums about "What is the best weapon to have for the end of the world?" I have had people swear to me that knifes or some sort of sharp metal object is the best since it very low maintenance and highly effective. As a back-up weapon I would highly suggest having some sort of sharp buck knife to use for protection as well as for food gathering. I would not use this for a primary weapon since it has a very short range and may take several attempts to incapacitate an assailant. Your best bet would be to get a firearm and plenty of ammunition for it. Now comes the debate to what firearm to get. The "big two" that are always argued are the AR-15 and the AK-47. The AK-47 is known to be extremely rugged and versatile. I have seen demonstrations where the rifle is left in mud for weeks and when they go unbury it they can shoot it as is with no malfunctions. The problem however is that the AK is not very common in the United States as the AR-15. Every single law enforcement agency issues AR-15’s to their officers all the way from local police departments to the F.B.I so the ammunition as well as parts are very common to find. This is the main reason I would choose this firearm for the apocalypse survivors in the United States. For everyone else in different countries I urge you to get a reliable Russian made AK-47. As far as brands for the AR-15, I am a huge supporter of Colt Firearms. The one thing you should look at is to make sure they fire 5.56 NATO rounds as well as .223 rounds and that it has a dust cover over the ejection port. This will allow for more ammunition options and protection in any dusty climates. The rifle is the ultimate powerhouse to have. They are highly effective at long range, can shot as many rounds as there are in the magazine and are the ultimate weapon.


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Cyber Attacks


Every day there are new hackers trying to hack into all sorts of different accounts. There are the small time hacks that can look into personal information. But the ones I want to talk about our the ones that have been happening to our government. Whenever I hear of a big hack into our government entities I wonder how is it that other nations are able to hack past our security. A few years ago a handful of teens in Russia were able to hack 3/4 of the way through our pentagons firewall!
To me that is insane to think about how vulnerable our security to our nation might really be at. Check out the image below it shows for just a five month period 460 million computers that could be the next to be attacked. So I want to hear from you all, What do you think about hacking? I know when I use my computer I encrypt everything from my email to the most basic homework on separate partitions of my drive to try to protect myself. What do you all do to protect yourself? Do you think your country does enough to protect itself? With everything being on computers today what is stopping people from causing some serious damage

Saturday, April 13, 2013

World War Z

Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if a virus spread and changed the human species? I know everyone is talking about zombies and the craze is out there of how to survive a zombie apocalypse. What would happen would everyone go crazy like many movies and books recall the end of the world would look like after an outbreak. If you want a good read I would suggest "The Zombie Survival Guide" and the follow up book "World War Z". Out of the two I personally like the World War Z as a book much better.


All the craze right now is about World War Z because the movie is coming out June 2013. What do you think of Brad Pitt playing Gerry Lane? Do you think that the movie will hold up to the book? The movie poster looks pretty sick if I do say myself. I am hoping that this movie is awesome.


Friday, April 5, 2013

Top Doomsday Movies

There are a lot of different doomsday/apocalypse movies out there so here are some of our personal top ten that we would recommend seeing before the actual doomsday comes along. The list consists of the classic zombies attacks, abnormal weather, aliens, asteroids, and basically everything and anything that could bring this world to an end. If you can think of any others (old or new) that you want to let us know about just post a comment. This list is not in order from best to worst:




 1) The Day After Tomorrow (2004) PG-13








 2) Independence Day (1996) PG-13









3) Armageddon (1998) PG-13







 4) Dawn of the Dead (2004) R








5) Mad Max (1979) R















6) 28 Days/Weeks Later (2003) (2007) R












7) The Road (2009)R












8)Water World (1995) PG-13










9) I Am Legend (2007) PG-13












10) The Book of Eli (2010) R

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Here is a list of apocalyptic events past and present from wikipedia, what do you guys think of all the dates and events that are happening, what do you think about the year 500,000,000 with the earth becoming uninhabitable?? Here's the link to the dates.



With all the threats from North Korea about attacking the United States what does everyone think is going to happen? I know this is a really hot topic right now on the news and around the world. So what do you all think is going to happen? Do you think that North Korea is going to attack the United States or somewhere else? Is this maybe the start to world war 3? We want to hear your opinions?

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

New asteroid passing by earth today let us know what you think this means!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Asteroids

During this week we started to surf the internet and tried to decide what topic to start with. Since the asteroid that came very close to earth recently we decided to start our talks off about asteroids.
Check out the link to where we found a interesting article.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/23/opinion/bear-apophis-asteroid

What do you think about the likelihood of an asteroid hitting earth?

Also we found this site that can calculate the impact of what a asteroid would cause to earth. This is actually pretty cool.

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth/





Tuesday, February 26, 2013

First time bloggers

 In this blog we will discuss end of the world topics that have come up and could happen one day(or tomorrow). To give you all a little back ground there is four of us that will be posting to this blog as a Team project in MGT 454 at New Mexico State University. We hope we can keep your interest and have some really good posts over the semester on our topic of doomsday. Thank you for visiting our site and we hope to have our first topic up soon to get started.

WILL A CATASTROPHIC EVENT END LIFE AS WE KNOW IT IN THE NEAR FUTURE???