I think a wilderness therapy company marketed toward Bay Area techies would do pretty well.
US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]
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#12I was not aware Pole Shift Survival was a thing. The internet really is a collection of wonderful things. http://pssurvival.com/ "The information on this site is for those who wish to improve their chances for survival after the coming pending pole shift."
It is not a thing. This is crack-pottery at an insane level. From the intro: "We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through our solar system. "
As other comments mentions magnetic pole shift though, that is a thing and happens every so often, about every 0.1 to 1 million years, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
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#13I think a wilderness therapy company marketed toward Bay Area techies would do pretty well.
i think bears have got nothing on people surviving through lean agile scrum process innovatively implemented at a BigCo in a communication and collaboration fostering open floor office.
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#14For the curious, here is also surviving guide in a pdf form issued by Finnish defense forces in 1985: http://www.puolustusvoimat.fi/wcm/61ba4180411e702ea19ee9e364...
You probably can't make much out of the text, but pictures may be worth looking of, even though most of the traps demonstrated are illegal to make during peace. There's also cooking recipes in the bottom of the document, which contain oddities such as soup made from sprigs of a spruce. Though my personal favorite must be the depiction of how to kill a moose with a knife by jumping on its back.
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#15I was not aware Pole Shift Survival was a thing. The internet really is a collection of wonderful things. http://pssurvival.com/ "The information on this site is for those who wish to improve their chances for survival after the coming pending pole shift."
It is not a thing. This is crack-pottery at an insane level. From the intro: "We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through our solar system. " As other comments mentions magnetic pole shift though, that is a thing and happens every so often, about every 0.1 to 1 million years, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal
Yes, geomagnetic pole shifting is not the apocalypse, and people who think so are either stupid or crackpots (or both), on the other hand that website does indeed contain a collection of marvellous, marvellous useful documents.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very nice. Is that some kind of US military standard issue cigarette? Because they so many varieties in content now.
Also, if eating cigarettes doesn't work, you can apparently try drinking "2 tablespoons of kerosene but no more."
A common cough remedy in rural areas was a two tablespoons of kerosene chased by a tablespoon if honey.
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#17> Reprinted as NOT permitted by U.S. Department of the Army, but by we the citizenry who paid for it
That's certainly an attention grabber.
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#18For the curious, here is also surviving guide in a pdf form issued by Finnish defense forces in 1985: http://www.puolustusvoimat.fi/wcm/61ba4180411e702ea19ee9e364... You probably can't make much out of the text, but pictures may be worth looking of, even though most of the traps demonstrated are illegal to make during peace. There's also cooking recipes in the bottom of the document, which contain oddities such as so…
Paddy Ashdown describes in his autobiography how one of the survival instructors on his SBS course introduced himself by place a live frog between two slices of bread and eating it and then saying "Survival is simple, if you can do that you will survive, if you can't do that you won't".
[NB For those outside of the UK or Bosnia: Paddy Ashdown is a former UK politican - now in the House of Lords who had a rather interesting career - Royal Marines, SBS, MI6 then politics becoming leaders of the LibDems, the UK's third party].
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#19Lots of knowledge in here, but my favorite piece has always been this treatment for intestinal parasites: "Tobacco: Eat 1 to 1.5 cigarettes. The nicotine in the cigarette will kill or stun the worms long enough for your system to pass them. If the infestation is severe, repeat the treatment in 24 to 48 hours, but no sooner."
Doing the same with garlic should also work. At least for some of them.
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#20> Reprinted as NOT permitted by U.S. Department of the Army, but by we the citizenry who paid for it That's certainly an attention grabber.
It's also interesting legally: most works of the federal government are born into the public domain. So how is the Army keeping copyright, or are they just mistaken?