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US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Re: US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Post by gwern »

valarauca1 wrote: post #9
dmishe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very nice. Is that some kind of US military standard issue cigarette? Because they so many varieties in content now.

To your actual question yes and no. In the past, yes. Currently no. I think its more the principle. Nicotine, like caffine was evolved by planets as a pesticide. Animals (like parasites) that don't normally come in contact with it, likely don't have resitances to it. Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.

> Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.

I don't know about 'advanced'; my understanding was that our protein were simply slightly different, enough to make nicotine not a potent poison, but just another substance you don't want to take too much of.

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Post by nathanm412 »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #10
ooz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Earth's magnetic field and poles do change slightly, but it's not the end of the world as those guys would suggest. It's quite interesting really purely from a science and navigation point of view. So far the only thing I've heard is that they had to rename a runway from 09/27 to 08/26 in Jersey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-29603156

I think they are actually referring to geomagnetic reversal, believed by some to be a likely cataclysmic event, in which the poles could reverse entirely and it is supposed that the protective field would have a dramatic reduction in power for enough time to cause serious problems.

This site is literally talking about the entire planet being forced to rotate 90 degrees due to a rogue planet passing nearby. This sudden rotation would supposedly cause the crust of the planet itself to slip and rotate due to inertia.

Sci-fi fans might actually get some enjoyment from this! http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/0-Pole_Shift_Descripti...

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Post by robbiep »

Luc wrote: post #4

I 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."

They are going to be bitterly disappointed by attempting to use Homeopathy in a trauma situation!

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Post by _kst_ »

arethuza wrote: post #18
Jhsto wrote: post #14

For 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 inter…

"If you eat a live frog in the morning, nothing worse will happen to either of you for the rest of the day."

Re: US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Post by baddox »

gwern wrote: post #20
baddox wrote: post #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.

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?

It's probably not the case with this manual, but I suspect the classification system could be invoked in many cases.

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Post by pessimizer »

valarauca1 wrote: post #9
dmishe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very nice. Is that some kind of US military standard issue cigarette? Because they so many varieties in content now.

To your actual question yes and no. In the past, yes. Currently no. I think its more the principle. Nicotine, like caffine was evolved by planets as a pesticide. Animals (like parasites) that don't normally come in contact with it, likely don't have resitances to it. Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.

>Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.

I think it takes eating four cigarettes to kill you.

Re: US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Post by officemonkey »

gwern wrote: post #20
baddox wrote: post #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.

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?

It's likely that the Army is not asserting copyright. They're just not providing it for distribution.

Re: US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Post by kaybe »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #10
ooz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Earth's magnetic field and poles do change slightly, but it's not the end of the world as those guys would suggest. It's quite interesting really purely from a science and navigation point of view. So far the only thing I've heard is that they had to rename a runway from 09/27 to 08/26 in Jersey: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-29603156

I think they are actually referring to geomagnetic reversal, believed by some to be a likely cataclysmic event, in which the poles could reverse entirely and it is supposed that the protective field would have a dramatic reduction in power for enough time to cause serious problems.

Well, we see evidence for magnetic reversal in the geological record. It happened before, and a lot. Also, the strength has gone down to about 5% before. This much I'd take as fact.

What is not clear is the effect this has on the biosphere. Calculations have been made for different magnetic field strenghts during the reversal and it seems that radiation can go up. By how much and how much of a problem that would be.. well. Speculations plus calculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reversal (also has tons of papers in the links)

Re: US Army Survival Manual (2006) [pdf]

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Post by kaybe »

nathanm412 wrote: post #22
TallGuyShort wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they are actually referring to geomagnetic reversal, believed by some to be a likely cataclysmic event, in which the poles could reverse entirely and it is supposed that the protective field would have a dramatic reduction in power for enough time to cause serious problems.

This site is literally talking about the entire planet being forced to rotate 90 degrees due to a rogue planet passing nearby. This sudden rotation would supposedly cause the crust of the planet itself to slip and rotate due to inertia. Sci-fi fans might actually get some enjoyment from this! http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/0-Pole_Shift_Descripti...

Interesting. They decoded that from crop cycles.
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