Communicating after EMP attack, Solar Flare/Storm, Magnetic Pole Shift
There are a serious news about the coming Solar Storm that may cause world wide black out, check out the news articles.
- Nasa solar flare space storm warning: a British scientist writes
- Nasa's 2013 solar flare warning: how much do we need to worry?
I like to discuss about the preparation methods to communicate after a major solar flare event, the preparation method must be simple to follow & easily understood by the masses.
I found a great forum at God Like Production and they discuss at length ways to communicate after all the electronics get overloaded by induced electricity shock from the Solar Storm.
Various methods from the simplest to the complicated are discussed and I have a few of myself too so Let's list them all below.
- Pencil & Pen method - Since before the arrival of internet we had been sending snail mails everywhere in the globe but this time round there will be no mail vans but horseback mail instead. Leave a written note at home before going out may serve as a communication as well.
- CB Radio or UHF Radio - These radio can be preemptively protected using a simple Faraday cage so that they can be used AFTER the solar storm passed.
- Internet - Many may also argue that you won't get internet once the Internet service provider goes down after the solar storm, I will debate that the service provider can and possibly will restore their services very quickly if they know what to protect against the solar storm now. Keep your favorite internet laptops, tablets, smart phones protected with a faraday cages in case you can use it to send email or video calls to seek help.
- Renewable Energy - do not wait for the government to provide electricity to the individual, get a renewable energy source for your self as soon as possible. It may be solar panels, wind mill, bicycle generator, hand crank or even DIY methods of energy production from reflected sun lights to a steam engine power generator. Anything is possible if you have the will power & time to invest.
I may not be 100% prepared myself as there are so many things to prepare! Let's list down the items that require some kind of preparation.
- Food - in times where everywhere are closed due to lacking of electronically powered gadgets like vehicles, computers & refrigerators we must prepare food storage in event there are no electronics around to help us.
- Water - water pump from city water supply may get disabled during the solar storm as most of them are computer controlled, get a big water tank or fish tank that can give you some water to filter to drink during crisis. Filtration is important & remember to boil before drinking.
- Protect gadgets of priority - protect your electronics with faradays cages if possible so that no EMP can get through, that may means spare electronics to be kept in faraday cages. For me it may be a spare landline telephone, iPad, CB radio (not yet buy), portable hard disk, video camera and more. Check this link for instructions!
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Possible Reasons Behind Air France jet Atlantic Tragedy
According to ChannelNewsAsia:
None of the airliner's emergency beacons, which are trackable by satellite unless they sink deep into the ocean, have been detected, suggesting it crashed violently, said Philippe Hazanne of the French space studies agency.
Flight AF 447 hit fierce turbulence at about 0200 GMT Monday about four hours after it left Rio, and 14 minutes later sent an automatic error message reporting a fault in an electrical circuit, Gourgeon said in Paris.
This is a terrible tragedy and I sincerely send my condolences to the family members of the victims that comes from all over the world, however I like to find out more about the cause of this "accident" or was it caused by human error or other weird explanations.
Currently, the official explanation is a possible lightning strike which may be too early to assume this conclusion based on a automatic error message reporting a fault in an electrical circuit.
Let's point all explanation imaginable behind the cause of this tragedy
- The plane went into a worm hole into alternate reality similar to the hit television series "LOST" where they crashed in another world (Highly unlikely without any possible scientific evidence to prove that alternate worlds exist for now)
- Bermuda Triangle claimed another vessel? The "Bermuda or Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, which is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft.
- Exploded in mid air into million pieces for whatever possible reasons from missile attack to explosive on board (Highly unlikely due to the fact that the bomb or missile shouldn't be affecting the airliner's emergency beacons which is built to endure large impacts)
- Lightning Storms strikes the plane and cause a major electrical power outage within the plane or cause extensive damage to the flight control system to bring down the plane immediately which may explains the airliner's emergency beacons to malfunction simultaneously. (However, this cannot be 100% accurate until the black box is located & examined)
- Sudden outburst of Solar Storm that similar to the movie "Knowing" that multiple planes crashes down due to suspected electrical faults caused by the solar storms that NASA had warned time and time again.
- It's just human error or some suicidal pilot(s) but unless comes with further evidence to suggest this possibility, it's highly unlikely.
Regardless what is the real reasons behind the cause of the crash/disappearance of the plane & passengers, I pray to God to give strengths to the victims' family members & love ones that was left behind to face this terrible tragedy.
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Homemade Indoor Hydroponic Aquaponic (Update 8)
Using my sparkling new JVC DV Camcorder, I managed to record this fantastic update on my little experiment!
Latest:
- A small little lady finger seems to be coming out
- I had moved the lights above the metal rack roof to make more space for the lady finger
- Tea strainer is not a problem after bi-weekly "scraping" heh
I am pretty happy with the growth progress with the lady fingers and the tea strainers does not caused much problems, anyone got their own little indoor aquaponic project such as mine? Do contact me if you have any questions 
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Singapore ups swine flu alert level to Yellow
According to Channelnewsasia:
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has elevated Singapore's alert level from "green" to "yellow" to guard against swine flu.
While there have been no known cases of human swine flu in Singapore, 17 cases have been referred for further medical assessment.
16 have been referred to the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) and one case was seen at Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
Read the full article at Channelnewsasia:
YELLOW ALERT! This is almost like telling everyone to brace for impact and it seems so much quicker then SARS where there are still majority of the people ignoring any warnings even thou many people died.
This evening as my mum went for a massage at the (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medicine shop at Jurong East St 24 Blk 253 in Singapore, I saw like at least 5 coughing sick patients inside a clinic and one of them having serious flu like symptoms all of which did not don any N95 mask and coughing indiscriminately with their family members around them.
I tried my best to avoid them but I did happen to walk behind a elderly guy whom cough out and before I know it I was walking right into his path where he coughed.
Yes, I can't prevent the above situation while I was not wearing ANY mask at all...and my fears is neither are the rest of the whole world whom DID NOT take any precaution due to fear of being laughed at wearing a stupid mask that cover all the important entry points of any flu virus.
I realized I need the mask and the news said the old mask that we had stored away since the last attack was "EXPIRED" as it's usefulness only last 3 years...that means me and my family member have ZERO protection?
Last few months I had bough a few mask for other purpose such as haze caused by future burning of land in the region to clear land illegally and the following is both of them...but I think it's kind of excessive...
Unfortunately the strap for the spray paint mask kinda broke off slighly but it's still wearable and the ebay seller for the full face mask did not include the filter cannister and makes it unusable unless I buy the filter canister...which is quite rare in Singapore.
Obviously I am not going to wear like above in public hence I will choose to get a common N95 mask if given a chance but I heard they were sold out in Singapore phamacies as the people here buy in bulk and it was completely emptied within a day (Not verified but my friend told me so)
Seriously are we reaching the point where everyone is either too complacent or too panicky to cause a total meltdown in the society in a sense that those who panicked reduced the chance for the rest of the population to buy masks may cause even worst disaster by surrounding themselves with MORE chance of infected people walking without mask on.
It just take a single 8.30 am MRT train load of infected ones to spread to the whole country in a day and many more within buses load with nobody wearing mask and many coughing indiscriminately.
While I am writing this, I felt light headed and feverish...probably due to the fact that I spend 30 minutes in a extremely cold bus 185 with a extremely wet shirt due to "excessive" sweat due to the warm weather of Singapore just now...but I am not sure.
Time will tell...I guess.
I will be going reservist tomorrow to CMPB and they don't seems to have any fever detection equipment there at the guard house....do they? I am not sure...I guess I have to don a mask tomorrow and I hope the guard won't mind.
I have a couple of none N95 standard mask which supposedly expired...What should I do now? Feel free to comment if you are still there.
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Homemade Indoor Hydroponic Aquaponic (Update 7)
18 April 2009
The video above is my latest update on my on going experiment on Indoor Aquaponic Growth System that supposedly able to grow vegetables indoor for personal consumption.
Observation is the "tea strainer" have have some problems letting the water through causing some flooding within the buckets, luckily my pump entrance is pointing upwards within the fish tank hence eliminated any kind of overflow in the above buckets.
The disappointing thing was the collapsed of multiple plants in the middle bucket that died in the "floods" and which I suspected to had melted away in the "tsunami" of water.
I had once witnessed a small dead molly fish being consumed by my "clean up crew" which are my healthy cherry shrimps within the fish tank, I think the molly fishes kept the population of the cherry shrimps in check but many of them now seems to be living happily with the fishes...weird.
I guess the molly fishes' mouth are not wide enough to swallow an adult cherry shrimp hence leaving the shrimps alone...haha.
Next month after my reservist, I will probably move my experiments into the next level by making a MUCH more wider and Larger buckets hopefully to plant MORE vegetables enough to at least rotate the crops...and all indoors.
Pray hard, Iran won't be attacked before I buy everything...or we can kiss our money goodbye....hyperinflation to come like "blink"...and WTF!
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Space scientists warn of possible disaster in three years’ time, 2012 Solar Storm.
According to The Electric New Paper:
A GRIM prediction of a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse has come, not from the lips of soothsayers or lunatics, but from space scientists. In a report funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences earlier this year, space scientists warned of a massive solar storm wreaking havoc on Earth in 2012.
A solar storm - essentially plasma balls spewing from the surface of the sun - can distort the Earth's magnetic field. A particularly big one can destroy the tens of thousands of expensive and hard-to-build transformers in power grids worldwide. This will plunge major cities like Singapore into blackouts, which are expected to last months, or even years, as new transformers are painstakingly manufactured.
Meanwhile, with no power, modern life grinds to a standstill. In the first moments of this catastrophe, trains will collide and planes will crash, as their communications systems fail. Satellites will crash back to Earth like meteors. Hospitals, with their life-sustaining support systems, will see some of the most urgent needs at first.
But eventually, millions may die from hunger and thirst. With no power, food cannot be processed or delivered. Water cannot be pumped from reservoirs into homes. Back-up generators will help, but only for a few days before their fuel runs out.
As sewage systems fail, diseases will break out. Horses will replace cars, the financial system will collapse and, in a silver lining of sorts, there will certainly be no more e-mails for you to clear.
- Read the full article at The Electric New Paper:
Yes, this is related to the solar storms that is currently causing some "warming" in many planets recently but predicted to peak in solar activities in 2012 as "planet x" passes.
Knowing
What we can do is to find underground caves in desperate search for safety to be away from the burning sun just like the ending of the latest blockbuster movie "Knowing" or the best case scenario is global blackout for a few months pushing millions of people into 3rd world country in a concrete city like Singapore.
Those who cannot find food & water will simply perish easily in this kind of apocalyptic future with massive & immediate job losses (who will work without electricity?) and total chaos will erupt.
My hope is Singapore will band together and "prepare" for any contingencies by being as self sustainable as possible and buy ALL kinds of renewable energies available that is suitable for Singapore.
The government should not hinder the work of invention with patent laws & the inventions should not be profit driven but survival driven...this is a global disaster not just Singapore alone....and everyone have their parts to play...
Do you want to be the victim or the provider? You decide.
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Defiant North fires rocket
Obama leads global condemnation; Security Council to meet Monday
SEOUL/TOKYO - BRUSHING aside warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket yesterday, putting another wrinkle into efforts to denuclearise the North and raising tensions in the region.
The rocket hurtled over Japan within seven minutes of liftoff at 11.20am local time from the North's north-east coast.
For some tense moments, Japan's military, which had been given authority to shoot down any threat to its soil, watched the rocket fly through its territory. North Korea had warned that any attempt to block its launch or intercept the rocket would be tantamount to war.
The rocket traced out its predicted flight path, dumping its first stage booster - the engine - into the ocean 280km west of Japan, and its second booster 1,270km in the Pacific Ocean east of the Japanese coast.
Four hours after the launch, Pyongyang declared it a success.
'The satellite is orbiting Earth and transmitting the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans Song Of General Kim Il Sung and Song Of General Kim Jong Il, as well as measurement data back to Earth,' the state-run Korean Central News Agency said, referring to praise music for North Korea's late founder and his son, its current leader.
But the US military said that no object entered orbit. The final two stages of the rocket and its payload - the part carrying the satellite - landed in the Pacific Ocean, according to North American Aerospace Defence Command and US Northern Command officials.
Words Must Mean Something
- this means either the N.Korea knew about it's satellite failure but success on testing the range if a longer range missile.
Cloak and dagger scenairo here, even the press dare not leak any information if the missile was shot down or not.
The problems is KoRea had threaten war if the 'Satelite' is shot down.
Obama had just got his first taste of serious threat of global poportion, what will he and his advisors decide to do to punish north Korea?
Does it means more economic sanctions which obviously did not work previously or international condemation or military actions?
Time will tell...
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The North Korea Madness.
North Korean ballistic missiles
April 2009 will be the month that historian will remember as the day of infamy for North Korea at least.
N.Korea had been trying their luck to boost attention back to them by planning to send a "satellite" into space (ICBM anyone?) and concurrently threaten more nuclear test.
Any sane leaders of the world will condemn such actions and declare "financial punishment" in the form of economic sanctions.
However, I personally think N.Korea either have a suicidal wish or they just want more assistance instead...for more money & food.
In the mean time, N.Korea conveniently stated their launch date (between April 4th to 8th) for their "satellite" for the neighbors to prepare for either a big spectacular fireworks or interception by Japan.
Well, the world can easily monitor the live photographic feeds from military satellites to "estimate" the date of launch from the time the rocket was placed on the platform to the fueling preparation and completion of fueling.
USA seems to be confident that the "missile" won't have the range to be able to reach Alaska hence declare they "won't be shooting down the North Korean missile" but if that missile fails and it looks like it's going to drop debris on Japan, that they might take some action.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Sunday that spy satellites had photographed the nose cone of a long-range North Korean rocket on its launch pad.
"But it is impossible to tell what object has been loaded onto the round-shaped (rocket) top -- a satellite or a warhead," an unnamed government source told Yonhap.
Now that we won't know
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Homemade Indoor Hydroponic Aquaponic (Update 6)
29 March 2009
Today, the update is about the progress of my little homemade aquaponic growth vegetables.
Firstly, there had been a failure to anticipate how tall the plants can grow and the strength of the winds.
Let me show you the current photos of the vegetables.
Top Bucket 29 Mar 2009
Bottom Bucket 29 Mar 09
You can see the Bottom Bucket had half of the vegetable was gone due to my own fault, the plants got too tall and fell sideways touching the water that is coming down from the hoses.
The end result is death to all my "kang kong" vegetables, I was devastated at first then realized the top bucket is suffering from the same problem of weak stems and need some sticks to support them individually.
I uses some old wooden chopsticks & small wire to tie them upright to prevent them from falling over, the result of the rescue is the photo above on the top bucket.
Those on the top bucket is majority are "ladyfingers" vegetable and a small number of them are "chili padi".
I will continue to update on this project and hopefully able to harvest them...but I am not experienced enough to know if they are ripe for harvest...any advice will be helpful!
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35 Cool Activities You can do During Earth Hour 28 March 2009 8.30pm to 9.30pm
Since I had joined Earth Hour for this coming Saturday 8.30pm to 9.30pm to voluntary switching off all the lights...(and everything else ...if you dare) during this ONE hour.
I do ask around what people will do during this Earth Hour self controlled blackout...and the result is the list below.
- Send A Twitter Message "Commencing Earth Hour Blackout 3...2...1..." to all Twitter linked applications.
- Join the Earth Hour Concert In the Dark 7pm to 10pm if you are in Singapore.
- Gather around with friends indoor at the most windy spot to tell Ghost Stories!
- Light all the scented candles, then let loose!
- Open All Windows & Doors (not the grills) and let the wind pass through the whole house
- 1 Hours before Earth Hour, SMS or Email Everyone to remind them of the countdown.
- BUY NOW Glow in the dark T-Shirt and wear during the Earth Hour...(Remember to shine light on it first)
- Battery Powered Aquarium Bubble Generator to avoid dead fish.
- Go out of your house and get to know your neighbors.
- Candle Light Dinner with Love ones
- Scented Bed Sex for ONE FULL HOUR in total darkness.
- Soak in bubble bathtub with facial mask on, with a candle.
- Sleep!
- Set a verbal discussion about the future with your friends, family or love ones.
- Dance Naked in Darkness
- Use manual hand held fans & Torches to do your homework (sucks).
- Use hand cranked radio for music
- Solar Charged LED lights for moving around the house
- Listen to Neighbors talking if nearby
- Go around the area with Earth Hour pamphlet (few hours before it happen)
- Go Sell Earth Hour T-Shirt, Hand Crank Torch/Radio, Candles, Shopping List.
- Get enough bottle plain water or mineral water for the whole family.
- Drinking session in the dark!!
- Set up a small tent inside the house and pretend to be in the wilderness.
- Go camping in the wilderness.
- Teach your kids during this hour why Earth is changing climate & the fossil fuel problems that will cause to their future (Research more)
- Pray to God for 1 full hour with your cell group
- Sing a song without the music.
- Play with your iPhone/iPod/PSP/netbook until the battery goes flat (and find ideas how to charge it without electricity from the grid)
- Yoga in darkness
- Exercise in nude?
- Meditate in the dark
- Visit places that had pledged to switch of all their lights for Earth Hour (don't bring valuables).
- Gather all available friends with candles inside lanterns to go round the neighborhoods in Earth Hour T-Shirts.
- Go to the sea side and listen to the waves in darkness!
Do email me or comment below for what WILL YOU DO during Earth Hour to contribute to the awareness of saving mother Earth (actually our own asses from self destruction!).
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