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Back in 2017, the Future Of Life Institute release a short spoof video called Slaughterbots. It suggested that, in the future, you could have swarms of small drones that used facial recognition to hunt down people. The drones were fitted with small amounts of explosives and blew up when close to...

Our local LRF just takes you to a few council pages, that appear to have not been updated for some time. Totally useless. As for the NHS, well, we have a vet up the road - think I would be better off going there...

Not sure why the National Emergency Briefing would have been pulled - if you read the key points, there is indeed some useful background information in it. Packham, on the other hand... well the less said. My personal issue with it is that, whilst informative, it runs the risk of generating...

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I have one of the original Freeplay wind up torches, that can also be uses as a small battery charger. Still works (after a bit of a repair). I met him once - Trevor Bayliss. He lived on Eel Pie Island in the Thames, near Twickenham. Its a sad story - he struggled to get backing for his wind up...

No you don't - you just buy the license.

I have a small generator. Even though its supposed to be one of the quiet ones, the minute I start it, you know someone is running a generator (or something). I have thought about building an acoustic box for it that would dampen the noise down a bit. Project for the autumn. The shed has two...

I have been considering some sort of comms, mainly to be used when out and about or in an emergency. CB was one option as I had discounted PMR due to its limited range and power (0.5). Then I found out that there is a business PMR licence that you can get - it costs £75 for 5 years. This lets...

British Army Knife - non locking with prybar/screwdriver

Pretty sure we had an Osprey circling the house this morning. Managed to get the binoculars on it just in time.

Was going to ask is CB still a thing? i'm looking at alternatives for comms - PMR is cheap but rubbish range, meshcore is still too immature, so was thinking about CB.

We have loads of old OS maps, often of the same area but going back in time. From a historical perspective they are great to see how the countryside has changed. Also, outside of urban areas, topology hasnt changed much, so they still have value. Many places now have bypasses or new roads. The...

Novel concept. Take salt and break it down into, I guess, chlorine and hydrogen peroxide? Then dose the water and wait. Just add salt and reuse.

Fully agree - more openness around Gov procurement processes would stop a lot of the guessing, especially in the Media, who are always looking for a story. However, the is a flip side (which also might be a good thing). More visibility would highlight exactly how poor Gov procurement processes...

How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley

Actually, there is nothing to see here. Around 2002 the then Gov did a review on Contingency, National Critical Infrastructure and various other things. (I was involved in some of the CNI stuff). One of the outputs was to standardise how they procure and manage assets like these. Unlike PPE...

I don't think any prepper (can only speak for the ones I know) want everything to collapse. Nobody want that. Think the difference is that there is a spectrum of opinion between Everything Will Be Fine to Its The End of the World. People with a prep / resilience mindset are just a bit more...

How about "But ChatGPT said.."?

Maybe they should add another item to the national risk register : "People Doing Stupid Things"..

The National risk register identifies several scenarios where I think there would be a justified reason to send out some sort of alert, most likely regionally. However, as reported in several media outlets, this recent exercise has just undermined trust in the system, with many people now just...