The Rule of 3

You can survive:
• 3 seconds without thinking
• 3 minutes without air
• 3 hours without clothing and shelter
• 3 days without water
• 3 weeks without food
• 3 months without hope

Bug Out Bag Video from Zombie Squad Very Funny!

I always make this point clear. Get Prepare!!! We know Zombies are not real but Zombie Squad is really about emergency preparedness but who knows maybe one day Zombies will invade and I'm going to be prepare.

Absence of sunspots make scientists wonder if they're seeing a calm before a storm of energy

By Stuart Clark
New Scientist
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

   But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged in nearly 100 years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "This is solar behavior we haven't seen in living memory," says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

The sun is under scrutiny as never before, thanks to an armada of space telescopes. The results they beam back are portraying our nearest star, and its influence on Earth, in a new light. Sunspots and other clues indicate that the sun's magnetic activity is diminishing and that the sun may even be shrinking. Together, the results hint that something profound is happening inside the sun. The big question is: What?

Groups of sunspots forewarn of gigantic solar storms that can unleash a billion times more energy than an atomic bomb. Fears that these giant eruptions could create havoc on Earth and disputes over the sun's role in climate change are adding urgency to these studies. When NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory almost 15 years ago, "understanding the solar cycle was not one of its scientific objectives," says Bernhard Fleck, the mission's project scientist. "Now it is one of the key questions."

Sunspots are windows into the sun's magnetic soul. They form where giant loops of magnetism, generated deep inside the sun, well up and burst through the surface, leading to a localized drop in temperature that we see as a dark patch. Any changes in sunspot numbers reflect changes inside the sun. "During this transition, the sun is giving us a real glimpse into its interior," says Hathaway.

When sunspot numbers drop at the end of each 11-year cycle, solar storms die down and all becomes much calmer. This "solar minimum" doesn't last long. Within a year, the spots and storms begin to build toward a new crescendo, the next solar maximum.

What's special about this latest dip is that the sun is having trouble starting the next solar cycle. The sun began to calm down in late 2007, so no one expected many sunspots in 2008. But computer models predicted that when the spots did return, they would do so in force. Hathaway was reported as thinking the next solar cycle would be a doozy: more sunspots, more solar storms and more energy blasted into space. Others predicted that it would be the most active solar cycle on record.

The trouble was, no one told the sun.

The first sign that the prediction was wrong came when 2008 turned out to be even calmer than expected. That year, the sun was spot-free 73 percent of the time, an extreme dip even for a solar minimum. Only the minimum of 1913 was more pronounced, with 85 percent of that year clear.

My EDC or Every Day Carry

This is what I carry when outside of the house which is almost every day and it’s a work in progress. The bag is a Tactical Bail Out Gear Bag from LA Police Gear which sells for $19.99 and it’s a great deal. It has enough space for everything you need during the day and is especially good for emergency situations.

What you carry in your EDC it’s very important because when you’re away from home this is the gear that will sustain you and help you survive any situation. Now let’s see what’s inside.

From left to right: OGGI stainless steel water bottle, Pilot Pens, Multi tool, Grundig Mini 300 World Band Receiver (AM,FM , Shortwave Bands), IPhone 3G, SAS Survival Guide (The best survival guide out there), Rayovac 1W LED flashlight, Aquamira Frontier water filter (good for 20 gallons), First Aid kit and my trusty Yaesu VX-7R Triple Band Submersible Radio (50/144/430 MHz).

Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day from Np3ba and Urbansurvivalpr!

What is a Prepper?

   A prepper is an individual or group that prepares or makes preparations in advance of, or prior to, any change in normal circumstances or lifestyle without significant reliance on other persons (i.e., being self-reliant), or without substantial assistance from outside resources (govt., etc.) in order to minimize the effects of that change on their current lifestyle.

AquaMira Frontier Pro

I have one of these filters and it's great. everyone should have one in their emergency kit.

2013 Super Solar Storm could send us back into the Dark Ages

Found this on the internet you should read it and prepare.                              

The Newest Threat to All Human Life on Earth: Solar Storms

Oh man, ever since global warming came on the scene it seems like our apocalyptic scenarios are all rising sea levels and spreading tropical disease. Now NASA has come up with an awesome new way the earth might get destroyed.

In 1859, a geomagnetic storm sparked by a huge solar flare swept over the Earth. Telegraph wires shorted out and set houses on fire. A brilliant aurora was seen in Hawaii—so bright that "people could read newspapers by [its] red and green glow." Scientists predict that in May 2013, the sun's solar cycle will peak at about the same level as in 1859. Get ready for space weather!

Now, scientists will meet at the Space Weather Enterprise Forum in DC to talk about how to prevent civilization from being destroyed in the next few years by solar storms. The ability to monitor and predict so-called "space weather"—solar flares, interplanetary magnetic fields, etc.—is a relatively new capability. But what scientists have found is sort of unsettling. They predict a marked increase in solar storms over the next few years. According to NASA scientist Richard Fisher: "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity."

This is bad news for anyone who likes electronic things. As Fisher says, "Our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms." That's because today we're so dependent on technology hooked up to satellites, which can be disabled or destroyed by huge waves of charged particles spit out by the sun during a solar storm: GPS, cell phones—even credit card transactions use a satellite. In a worst-case simulation, reported by NPR, a particularly severe solar storm not only took out the majority of commercial satellites, it also charged power lines to the point where transformers blew all over the world, "leaving millions of people in northern latitudes without power."

Ideally, we could send Bruce Willis into the sun and have him put a nuclear bomb on it. But really the only thing we can do now to deal with sun storms is to predict them and put satellites in "safe" mode, according to NASA. As for all those exploding transformers and power-outages: At least we'll be able to read our newspapers.

http://gawker.com/5556692/the-newest-threat-to-all-human-life-on-earth-solar-storms

Avian influenza – situation in China

8 June 2010 -- The Ministry of Health in China has announced a new confirmed human cases of H5N1 infection. The case is a 22-year-old pregnant female from Hubei Province. She had onset of symptoms on 23 May and died on 3 June. Investigations into the source of her infection indicate exposure to sick and dead poultry. Close contacts of the case are being monitored and to date all remain well.



Of the 39 cases confirmed to date in China, 26 have been fatal.

Bird Flu has not disappeared entirely.  Thats a 66% mortality rate!