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Re: MUSTELID - Design / Row / Sail with Cataclysm in Mind

Thanks, TH... we appreciate your interest! D&A
by Dave Z
Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:05 pm
 
Forum: 9. Transport
Topic: MUSTELID - Design / Row / Sail with Cataclysm in Mind
Replies: 12
Views: 38307

Trade-Off by David Korowicz

Trade-Off: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: A study in global systemic collapse. By David Korowicz This paper examines the networked, nodal structure of our global, industrialized economy, and the consequences of contagion due to the failure of any single, central node . It further lo...
by Dave Z
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:42 am
 
Forum: What might collapse civilisation?
Topic: Trade-Off by David Korowicz
Replies: 11
Views: 3107

Global Village Construction Set Concept

The Global Village Construction Set The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost set of blueprints that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The name, GVCS, has been coine...
by Dave Z
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:40 pm
 
Forum: How to build a civilization from scratch on another world?
Topic: Global Village Construction Set Concept
Replies: 11
Views: 2252

The Global Village Construction Set

The Global Village Construction Set The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost set of blueprints that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The name, GVCS, has been coine...
by Dave Z
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:25 pm
 
Forum: How quickly could you accelerate a reboot of civilisation?
Topic: The Global Village Construction Set
Replies: 2
Views: 2190

Re: Hunting, Weapons

Deadfalls, Pits and Snares I would suggest learning a 'modular' set of trap/snare components... four different triggers, say, two or three spring/fall mechanisms and three or four killing mechanisms. Another small set of refining features, and we have a very versatile set that's easy to hold in the...
by Dave Z
Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:55 am
 
Forum: 4. Food and Clothing
Topic: Hunting, Weapons
Replies: 4
Views: 13470

Re: Robust AI

This just in: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/30/ai-psychologist-chatbot-00132682 LLM AI is now at the point that reasonably accurate artificial personalities appear to be performing at a functional level. This is to say that an artificial Einstein, Gertrude Stein or Ghandi -- anyone...
by Dave Z
Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:11 pm
 
Forum: How best to preserve vital knowledge?
Topic: Robust AI
Replies: 2
Views: 11887

Earth Abides

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart This multi-generational novel is almost entirely post-cataclysmic. The protagonist, "Ish" survives a severe bout of illness at a remote camp, then returns to find that the vast majority of everyone is dead by pandemic. The rest of the novel plays out, the...
by Dave Z
Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:35 pm
 
Forum: Best post-apoc novels?
Topic: Earth Abides
Replies: 0
Views: 2908

Re: Do we really want to dive down another Gravity Well?

Very good points! Ceres (and somewhat smaller bases) are certainly what I was picturing, though I see that I didn't articulate it very well, and asteroid belts (vs moons and smaller satellites) present their own challenges. In particular, I was musing over my reluctance to tackle Mars or one of the ...
by Dave Z
Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:42 pm
 
Forum: How to build a civilization from scratch on another world?
Topic: Do we really want to dive down another Gravity Well?
Replies: 3
Views: 6760

Thoughts on the Neo-Plasticene

Thoughts on the Neo-Plasticene One of the ubiquitous and useful materials that will be abundant in post-cataclysmic everywhere will be plastic. PVC, for example, can be softened, reshaped and cooled to harden. Uses include weatherproof (archery) bows and crossbows, springs, latches, triggers, and s...
by Dave Z
Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:34 pm
 
Forum: 6. Materials
Topic: Thoughts on the Neo-Plasticene
Replies: 0
Views: 2999

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by Charlie Fletcher This story is set in a severely depopulated future several generations after a global loss of fertility called The Gelding . One of two of our protagonist's dogs is stolen, initiating a hunt across former England, whose lands are rewildi...
by Dave Z
Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:52 am
 
Forum: Best post-apoc novels?
Topic: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Replies: 1
Views: 1726
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