There’s a big trend on the Glowing Tube of not just (a) reality shows, but (b) reality shows involving extreme people. And it doesn’t get more extreme than people devoting all their time and monies to preparing for the apocalypse.
This is fun stuff that actually poses interesting questions. It also lets us watch people prepare for doomsday by shooting their thumb off.
Some questions:
1) Are you ready for doomsday?
2) What version of the apocalypse is your favorite?
3) Are the doomsday preppers (a) admirable, self-reliant people with useful doomsday skills or (b) whackadoodles spending insane amounts of money on bomb shelters that will never get used?
But a robot uprising is a real possibility. Maybe they get smarter than us and don’t like being slaves to inferior beings.
Maybe an evil genius creates an unstoppable army of robots.
Or maybe some programmer screws up the C++ whatever and turns happy little lawn-mowing robots into roving blades of robotic death.
Either way, this Daniel H. Wilson man (do NOT forget the H., peoples) is not only a robot expert with a PhD and such, but an author who’s written about surviving the coming robopocalypse. Also: the animation to the video is awesomesauce.
Bonus: A glorious poster thing about robot and the future. It has numbers and such.
Robots will take over the world. Resistance is futile.
If there is a zombie apocalypse / alien invasion / nuclear war, you’ll be running around all Mad Max-style, right?
That means the Bad Guys will also be cruising the interstates, unless you really believe they’ll be walking around or riding bicycles.
So real survivalist prepper types need to think about (a) the best way to armor up their Subaru, (b) where they can possibly fill up after the apocalypse and (c) the best ways to blow up enemy Subaru’s who may be in after your stash of petro / teriyaki beef jerky / bullets / DVD collection of all 4.92 bazillion episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
How can you blow up a car, especially an armored car?
In the movies, cars just go boom when you shoot them in the gas tank. This is nonsense, as anybody who’s watched Mythbusters or shot up a car would know.
The good British people at Top Gear took this all the way and experimented in the most awesome way possible: automobile skeet shooting.
That’s right. We’re talking about yelling “pull” and blowing away a car that’s flying through the air.
This is seven separate kinds of awesome.
Top Gear should receive tax subsidies from the U.S., paid for by levying a tax on 90 percent of the stupid reality shows being created by Hollywood, and that way, we’d get less Snooki and more of this sort of thing.
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The First Rule of the Zombie Apocalypse: You will NOT be staying in your home.
There’ll be no electricity, no water, no cable, no internets and no guarantee that your house is remotely zombie-proof.
The Second Rule of the Zombie Apocalypse: Find a defensible shelter.
Sleeping under the stars is a good way to get nom-nom-nommed. Even if there are not walking dead around to eat your brains, other survivors will happily steal your stuff and leave you for dead.
Zombies need shooting.
Here’s a great little shelter from the British, who have glorious accents, making anything they say or invent ten times the awesome.
It’s an inflatable shelter made from canvas impregnated with cement*. Blow it up, spray water on it and bam, instant bomb shelter.
This is military grade stuff. Pile dirt around it and you’ve got an instant bunker that’s safe from small arms fire, mortars and the undead.
*Yes, the video says “concrete.” Cement is actually the right term. Concrete is cement mixed with rocks and whatnot.
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