New Glow In The Dark Canadian Currency....

Not silver so I'm not a fan. But if it were...

I ordered two for the novelty, one for my 12 year old (he is so excited) and one for his awesome science teacher.

I can see Oak Ridge Ed, glowing over my northern horizon, as I am just 20 miles from there, lol....

If we ever have a full pledge thermal global nuclear war, I will not have to worry about being one of the unfortunate survivors. As I am way to poor to have the ARK II buried 50 feet underground in my back yard constructed out of 40 low cost scraped school buses designed into a massive bunker. So I can expect to go in a flash an be one of the lucky ones....

Ed great call on the EMP attack plans, an we would be fools to think they don't have something like that in their future plans or playbook....

I always laugh at the doomsday guys on that show, when they put SO MUCH stock in one scenario idea, like the doctor worried about the bird flu, an he had wasted money tied up in much meds. Which many of the meds he was going through had expired. You know what this silver lover was thinkin Ed, lol? "Man that is money that he could have tied up in silver, lol...."

Now with that being said, the guy who proposed the exact idea you mention, the EMP attack, as to send us back to the dark ages so they could move in an turn us all into slaves, lol. Well it seems real feasible to me....

I agree nations are to smart to make the entire world TOTALLY UN-inhabitable....

Remember the movie "War games", with Mathew Broderick from like 1985, as it was all about the threat of computer initiated global thermal nuclear war? An perhaps it gave Cameron the idea for the terminator an skynet, lol....

But what he taught the computer in the end while playing Tic Tac Toe, is that you can't win and it is always a draw. As there can be no winners in Tic Tac Toe, just like global nuclear war, period...

And lastly what I am scared of what I figure is a matter of when not if. Dirty nuclear devices set off from a suit case at the same time in like 20 coordinated spots across the USA or Allied country's on say college football Saturday in the stadiums. Tell me that would not put us on the verge of total takeover....

Thanks, Hawk. It is about the only way that they can really do some damage to the US. We are a big country with lots of redundant production and transportation assets. It would be difficult to do a lot of damage to us with only a few warheads but this is one way to do it. Our military is pretty well shielding from this but none of our civilian stuff, such as the electrical grid could withstand such an event. One huge problem in this is that we don't even make transformers any more. Yep, we import them all. Not smart, IMHO.



Yes, I do too. My wife and I have discussed that very aspect of this show. I think that it would be FAR more useful to be prepared in general for any number of things rather than being SUPER prepared for only one kind of event.

As of right now, my wife and I are "preppers light", meaning that we have taken some precautions for possible general problems at some point in the future. In most cases, these are preps that will be useful for many different scenarios. Having some silver, food, water (less of a problem here), extra clothes, tools, fuel, meds, guns/ammo, etc. just seems to make good common sense. Will be tilling up the garden tomorrow and will be planting it next week if all goes well weather-wise. I enjoy gardening and the taste of garden fresh produce is WAY better than anything from the local stores.



Of much more significance to these people is that we would make THEM extinct. The world can take a flying leap for all they care but when they are looking down the barrels of our nuke arsenal, it will be a whole 'nuther matter to them.



Yep, a genuine classic movie for sure... WOPR on the loose!



True enough. The real issue in this, though, is "Do the people who have nukes really understand this?". If not, then, LOOK-OUT!



Don't know about "takeover" but it would sure as heck put us on the verge of launching a flock of nukes in retaliation. If the terrorists want to see Mecca disappear in a giant white flash, they should try a large-scale attack on US soil. At that point the gloves would be off and people would stop pretending that there isn't a Muslims vs. Christians war in progress. Hopefully, though, cooler heads will prevail and we can get past this potentially very serious problem.

Ed,

Everything gets distilled down into a cost/benefit analysis and I imagine the retrofit was deemed too costly at the time. Although nuclear reactors have proven to be inherently safe systems, we live in an age where mother nature, not to mention human error, no longer has to be the culprit in a calamity. Terrorists the world over would love to instigate a meltdown. Living where I do, I never thought much about a nuclear accident... until the Pacific was Fukishimaed. I'm just one state down and almost as close to the coast as you are, so believe you me, I totally agree about the severity of the situation. But when there is little I can do to assuage something, I tend to default into gallows humor rather quickly.

Good call JB, but this sucker has long since morphed into a nuclear war doomsday thread, just the way I like it, lol....

"Yep, a genuine classic movie for sure... WOPR on the loose!"

I have been craving a double whopper with chez ever since I saw that post Ed....

I love a good pun joke, like I saw where that 94 year old tycoon from Europe just remarried for the 5th time, to a lady much younger then himself, an he hopes to still have four or five more kids still yet. A poster said the reporter asked the wife to be what they were gonna take on their honeymoon, an she replied...."Depends"

The reporter replied...."Depends on what?"

An she answers..."No,just depends"

Even though it's a no-no, I have seen, (and participated in), more than a few threads that started out talking silver and devolved into politics and TEOTWAWKI. I'm thinking it's hard to separate collecting PM's and preparing for potentially more difficult times ahead. For me, they go hand in hand.