RSS Feed
December 5th, 2010 
IW 
I’m issuing an Apocalypse Watch in regards to the recent activity on the surface of the sun. While the odds are minimal of the collapse of this phenomenon causing a coronal mass ejection that has the correct trajectory to hit Earth, the risk is real. The resulting electromagnetic pulse (EMP), could be sufficient to bring down the electrical grid. Eventually we will be hit with a Coronal Mass Ejection big enough to do just that. The last one happened in 1859 when there was no grid.
Some say we are overdue for another event of similar or greater magnitude.
When, not if, but when this life shattering event comes to pass you would be very lucky to get this amount of forwarning. So take this casual warning for what it may truly be worth, because this is not the sort of thing you will find on the NBC Nightly News, this is the sort of thing that you learn about when you can’t turn your television on to watch the NBC Nightly News.
For most people in the developed or developing world, the grid coming down would mean an end to the world as we know it. As such, I highly recommend monitoring this situation.
Here is the latest update from spaceweather.com :
A dark magnetic filament more than 400,000 km long is snaking around the sun’s southeastern limb. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed it rotating into view during the early hours of Dec. 4th:
In this extreme ultraviolet image, blues and yellows trace million-degree gas in the sun’s atmosphere. Dense plasma bottled up inside the filament is about ten times cooler, so it appears dark in contrast to the hot atmosphere around it.
The arrival of the filament comes as no surprise. NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft has been monitoring the filament for days as it approached the sun’s horizon from behind. So far the massive structure has hovered quietly above the stellar surface, showing no signs of instability. How long can the quiet last? Long filaments like this one have been known to collapse with explosive results when they hit the stellar surface below. Stay tuned!
This my friends would be a very good time to make sure your pantries are well stocked and to read up on the potential effects of EMP. I recommend the novel One Second After
.
.
UPDATE: Dec 7 2010 – The filament has exploded. Click here to view a 4MB .gif file of the dramatic image. Very cool! But we still need to stay tuned to what’s happening on the surface of the sun. We got lucky this time, if we were in the path of the blast this could have been lights out for months to years.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Posted in 
Tags: 
In light of the recent seismic events I feel it is necessary to issue an alert for local Armageddons. 
Anyhow, this should be sufficient in and of itself to warrant taking some precautions, without getting into any of the freaky stuff going on right now, i.e. the 
Yesterday I published an article here arguing that Jesus of Nazareth was a Lich rather than a Zombie. This is possibly the most absurd and useless article I have ever written. But at the same time, it was also and by far, the most wildly popular article I have ever written, receiving nearly 10,000 visits within the first 24 hours.
Do I really think the dead are about to rise and swarm the streets? Come on… But if you use your brain and break away from the distractions for a minute you might see that there are a whole lot of things in this world that make a variety of types of local if not national and maybe even global Apocalypses very, very frighteningly possible, even in the very near term.
The end is here. There is no point in denying it; it is time to act. It is time to start slaying the zombies. And your first kill should be your TV.
Going back to the main character, his critical flaw is that he has a rule that he must sever emotional connections, likewise the female characters in the film have a similar rule. 
I have just recently had the privilege of watching George Romero’s 1978 film Dawn of the Dead for the first time. Wow! This is outstanding! I had no idea the film would be anything like this. Part horror, party comedy and all satire, the social messages and survival lessons flow voluminously off the screen. I won’t get into the social commentary aspects of this movie here. After all, this site is about surviving the Apocalypse, so I’ll leave that nit-picking to the film geeks. But, I will give you a super quick rundown on the plot and then cover some of the critical lessons about survival that this film offers.
Once the zombies are removed, the three survivors indulge in an oppulent lifestyle which quickly loses its luster as they realize that they have actually created a prison for themselves. This is a wonderful message about the inherent emptiness of consumerism and how poor of a substitute it is for being outdoors, free and part of a community. I also find it very refreshing that they spent several months in this mall and had to find solutions to their longer duration of stay. This gives us a lot of food for thought. Unfortunately, I didn’t see them starting any rooftop gardens or setting up a rainwater collection system, which would have been a brilliant thing to see in this film.
I think from that run-down you can already pick out some of the important lessons, lessons about the value of marksmanship, maintaining discipline over the long haul, PLANNING for the long haul and avoiding re-making the same mistakes that made life unfullfilling before the world fell apart. But there is one lesson to be learned from Dawn of the Dead that is not quite so clear. This lesson is reflected by the relative success of the redneck communities to the failure of the group of four fearful city dwellers. The reason the rednecks were able to do so well wasn’t just that they were well armed, but that they had ALREADY learned to trust one another. They already had a sense of community and, as such, were prepared from the get go to survive. If we don’t know our neighbors, we’re going to let our fear of them drive us to our demise. 
The plot of this film goes a little something like this. In a not too unplausible alternative future as G.W. Bush is entering into his fourth term as president “W Industries” creates zombies in an attempt to solve the overstretched army’s troop shortage problem by reanimating the dead.
in the club’s cellar and the few people remaining alive retreat to the club owners gun cache. Of course the club owner is a mere armchair commando and doesn’t know how to use his weapons and ultimately the marines / mercenaries who are largely composed of hot chicks with big guns turn up to save the day machine gunning, knifing and roundhouse kicking down the zombies.
