"In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric, but the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable." I watched Threads a couple of weeks ago. The only name I recognised from the credits was a Prof. Carl Sagan

The anime Dr. Stone has sparked my interest in technological innovation. Highly recommend

@interestingtellmemore4977

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Dr. Stone is one of the best

@int16_t

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I'm planning to start from scratch.

@muhammedaadil267

3 жыл бұрын

I came here after watching it😂

@AaronC.

2 жыл бұрын

If that's the case, I'd recommend "How to Invent Everything: the survival guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", by Ryan North.

@aditijaltade9303

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhammedaadil267 same

this video will come in handy soon....

@AngelaH2222

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe.

@DanielBeecham

10 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the title

@DaveMcGarry

2 жыл бұрын

What about a meat pie?

This is what is missing from all of the post-apocalyptic games. They don't go far enough.

in hindsight it's kind of interesting watching this especially the q&a in light of the current 2020/ 2021 pandemic. ....I would highly recommend that anybody wanting to survive the apocalypse make friends with a lot of preppers, do it yourselfers, and those people in Nebraska with guns. And just as important learn a lot of different things yourself the more self-reliant you are, the better off you are. Bringing your specialized knowledge into a prepper community is a way to assure your own security. We have a saying in the prepper community..." Knowledge weights nothing".

@kurtmerhoff654

2 жыл бұрын

If you are thinking you will be moving out of a city you should have already made relationships with people that live the the rural area where you want to live. Ideally you should already be living there in a rural area outside of the city where you work. There isn't much empty wilderness left in the world, and if you try going there after civilization falls you are certain to run into people that aren't going to be very welcoming to a stranger wanting to come and share their precious resources. With or without an established place to go it would be essential to bring existing survival skills and resources with you. It is best to do your research and work on your social skills in advance not to wait until after civilization fails.

how do you make a lathe... finding iron ore,coal to make coke to smelt steel. how to cast forge metal etc, etc.

What you need to reboot civilisation, is : a) A sustainable power source b) A complete library c) Computers and an extensive software library d) A large set of metrology and observation tools e) A large set of tools that can produce other tools, substances and materials f) Enough essential medications to survive while you rebuild the tools to make medications g) Seeds h) Water filtration. Nothing that could not be stored in large bunkers across the world.

Dartnell and Primitive Technology will be post-apocalyptic gods of knowledge.

@clifffaceledge

4 жыл бұрын

Primitive Technology shows how to replicate an entire primitive village on a new planet that is identical to Earth.

One of the things Lewis does not mention as essential for the rebooting of civilization are teachers. I am a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, I find it difficult to give my knowlege to others, even when it is desperately needed. Teachers can take the "black boxes" of things like medicine, electronics, mathmatics, authority, ecconomics, libraries and agriculture, and make them accessible, understandable and indeed desirable.

@Woodman-Spare-that-tree

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the teacher.

@DarkMatter1919

Жыл бұрын

If you can't do.... Teach!

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, but don't have a clue where to look for respective information. Lots of thanks for sharing this.

@AaronC.

2 жыл бұрын

His book is a pretty good source of basic information. For a deeper approach, I'd recommend "How to Invent Everything: the Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler", by Ryan North.

I love the normal Ri videos, but this was a cool one.

I am reminded of the 1960 film "The Time Machine" at the end when they ask the question. "Which three books would you bring?"

@PongoXBongo

6 жыл бұрын

A maths textbook, a science textbook, and a dictionary (without which the other two are worthless).

@clifffaceledge

4 жыл бұрын

Arithmetic textbook, civil engineering textbook, and a famous work of literature (to preserve culture, philosophy and history) that has important teachings

Glad to see that the one thing he’d preserve is the scientific method. I’m sure if some crockpot had said religion we’d all be lined up for the skip. Very good informative video and I took away a nice amount of info. Hopefully we won’t need to use it sooner than the latter. Cheers from the US.

33:50 "I'm just going to put that right away". Wow. Just wow. Putting down a burning torch, standing on end, next to three vials of combustive materials. In a room full of people, no less! Brilliant!

@PongoXBongo

6 жыл бұрын

Living proof of why books like his are so vital. ;)

55:30 - Why civil engineering has extended life span more than modern medicine. A clean water supply, and effective sewer systems, keeps most of us healthy. Also why when assistance is brought to the 3rd world, one of the first goals, is establishing a clean water supply, and teaching hygiene.

That's awesome! Just the title is a concept I've always wondered about. Where and how to get all the various materials!

@juanchoalbertonity4730

5 жыл бұрын

Punch a tree with your bare hands and make a crafting table with 4 blocks of oak planks

A Jacobs ladder spark gap with a code key gives you what is needed for a telegraph, the razor blade rectifiers are just one of those crude substitute.

An excellent goal he set for himself with this book

The kid in the front row is so bored, bless him.

i think it a bit naive to suggest we get a choice of apocalypse and that there will be buildings chuck full for the taking and if you survived others will have also. So perhaps ones people skills will be paramount in forging alliances and avoiding confrontations this would greatly improve the chances of putting things back together.

Not quite what I expected. More of something Bear Grylls would put out, but really it is a very good lecture. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve been wondering if and hoping there was something like this in Alexis fence and I’m incredibly glad. I hope he’s printed this in stone or on stored on the inside of some graphene box.

Harry Potter went full on apocalyptic survivor after his 7th year at Hogwarts.

@aidensmith6277

7 жыл бұрын

Seth Weeda indeed

@clifffaceledge

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't he stay with sympathizers?

I grew up in the country where canning and preserving food was natural and organic, we store our heat source as cordwood through the cold winters of northern New York State. My parents and grandparents were a wealth of knowledge of how to survive. but now I live in a large city and it seems there is no base for survival unless we require only disposable gadgets and trinkets that we all pass by as hard rubbish on the curb side. I encourage more of this type of thinking, that is to carry on civilisation with less reliance on those unnecessary gadgets that require too much energy to make, and place more value on living and cooperating with the rest of the thin biosphere that supports all life. Humans are just a small part of the total and we all need to accept this basic idea and take that into our future.

"Back To Basics " a book by Abigail R. Gehring is a good start at restarting civilization.

Anyone who makes a negative judgement on Mr. Dartnell's presentation is showing their illiteracy. This presentation is in NO WAY reflective of his book. His book is one of the most informative and useful books in existence. It's a statistical fact that most Americans graduate from college as functional illiterates. The problem is that too many of us hate to read. You can NOT determine nor judge the contents of The Knowledge from watching this or any other presentation. You must READ THE BOOK!!! On another note: money will be absolutely useless in a post apocalyptic society. That first audience members comments were stupid..

@Syndie702

7 жыл бұрын

I think it's fairly doubtful that anyone graduates from college illiterate. Even getting into college after High School these days is pretty difficult in the United States, and while my STEM major friends read quantitatively less than I do as a lowly Liberal Arts student, they still have to have high reading comprehension to understand the language of even basic STEM textbooks. The only people I don't really know about are those Business majors... (that's a joke, I'm sure their classes are hard too, haha...)

@popopop984

4 жыл бұрын

Rip it costs money and I’m a poor high schooler interested in the topic.

@ispeeeaaakeeewhaaaleee

Жыл бұрын

Don't make negative judgement. Ends with a negative judgement.

Start with Foxfire. Then find some Audubon field guides. All of the textbooks that you can get covering STEM. While you're looking for Stuff to work with, work with what you have and what you know. Water pressure! You would need to get it from the air. It's in all air. You only need to be cooler than the dew point and you have water. Old car radiators and pipes, using coolant, can easily be pumped through a cooling well drilled into the ground. The stuff on the radiator is clean.

We have many examples of collapsed bronze age civilizations. It took hundreds of years to rebuild the same level of trade and comfort that they had at the height of these states. Even a simple metal like bronze requires trade routes many hundreds of miles long between the copper and tin mines and the people who actually run the smelter operations. The idea that anything but a globally trading technological civilization is possible (which requires hundreds of millions of individuals), is pretty much preposterous. So, yeah, get ready for a pretty uncomfortable millennium after the apocalypse.

@user-gi5wq3yd3h

Жыл бұрын

Millennium is too much

@schmetterling4477

Жыл бұрын

@@user-gi5wq3yd3h Let's not do the experiment. ;-)

My initial reaction to this is emotion. The elderly and our grandparents are a treasure trove of both practical and theoretical knowledge - are they appreciated enough? . The idea that 'old is gold' is something that needs as much widespread appreciation in society as much as modern technology solutions to help us get to abundance, prosperity and a mentally healthy society in preparation to embrace that new future. An appreciation of the gift of life and the belief that we can all collectively make a better world learning from our elders (and not repeat the same mistakes)- using our time and energy to invest in combatting the hard climate, economic and societal changes we face is going to be the ultimate challenge of our time. Thank you for a fantastic lecture. Thought provoking and very much appreciated :). Thank you.

I’ve been thinking about a WWII Prisoner Camp Hogans Heroes Style Radio since 1997 when I saw that episode at 8 years old 📻 🎶 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

You can't just take any old alternator and rig it up to a windmill to generate power. You must forest wire it to have 12 volts or so to power the field via the brushes. Then only will it put out any current and voltage to charge. You can also get ac power from an alternator to power other things as an alternator is a 3 phase ac device and can also be used as a motor which I will not go into here. You can look these things up if interested.

i was looking for such videos since a long time, i would love to know building material such as ancient roman cement

@heavyglassglass

7 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete

@clintcarpentier2424

5 жыл бұрын

Don't get into the habit of thinking the ancients had it all figured out. They didn't. No more than you or I. Our current cement and concrete is what we need it to be. Part of what makes roman cement so "great" is that the things we see still standing, was made of the best stuff available; this leads to issues such as choke-points in the supply line. The more important the structure, the more likely they will get their demand; especially when it's the Emperor himself demanding it. So yes, roman cement was great, because a few structures are still standing. woooh A secondary issue with our cement being "poor" is that we stuff steel into it, so that it can bear more load, and be more flexible. The problem with this, is steel rusts, and blows out bits of concrete. Roman concrete structures don't have rebar or I-beams, thus needing to be thicker at the lower levels to bear the load of the upper levels. As opposed to our concrete structures which are comparatively thin. So let's break this down. Can you get amazing concrete today? Yes! But you won't get it in a bag at the local DIY store. You have to hire a highly specialized concrete crew who knows what it is you want, they will order the necessary ingredients and mix it to exacting specifications, and pour it for you in a timely fashion. Peasants like you and me, will never get to use this stuff, just as roman peasants never got to make houses with "roman concrete", which would be better classified as "Roman Emperor's Concrete. And just for shits and giggles. Roman cement had nothing on Egyptian pyramids. Give me enough rock, and I'll make the world last forever.

Quick question boffins: what happens to nuclear reactors when left unmanned- do they quietly shut themselves down and safely contain their radiation indefinitely, or do they become apocalyptic time bombs? same query for nuclear subs.

@bonytarnes8535

10 жыл бұрын

point, not only that, but liquid gasses that need electricity to keep them cool enough to stay in liquid form will fail to be kept cool and start to boil

I think that this practice is good to develop an inventive thinking. By practicing the previous inventions, it would surely grow a person's multi discipline skills.

This dude might like I'll bill's "how to survive the apocalypse" if his book got a theme song...maybe it should be that? Lol :) awesome video

Personally, I would want an empty book still in its wrapper.

Anyone watching this during this shitshow of a pandemic?

so interesting

what is his youtube channal?

where was this recorded? I've seen a similar lecture theatre design on a documentary before, i think it was called "the race to absolute zero" or something along those lines.

@FrankEdavidson

6 жыл бұрын

At the Royal Institution.

I love the concept of surviving in a supermarket but, the 55yr timescale doesn't seem totally inline with the shelflife

2:20 Poor, sweet sweet child. Fucking oblivious why hes there.

6:05-6:35 didn't particularly age well

@devenford2322

2 жыл бұрын

We got lucky with Covid-19. If it had had a higher mortality rate and other deadly characteristics, we would have had a much harder time surviving...... However even in that scenario, I think humanity will survive even though a lot of people will die. One point that I found interesting was the fact that the skillset required to do basic survivalist activities like hunting, making a fire, etc. are very important too. The scariest part was when he mentioned the next generation of humans who would be radically different from us since they would experience a weird world in which many are hoping to create an almost fictitious future (which supposedly existed in the past). Their train of though may be intrinsically different.

@golden3674

2 жыл бұрын

@@devenford2322 mmmm, much better covid than the closely related MERS which iirc had a mortality rate of around 30%. It's one of the reasons S. Korea was as well equipped to handle it as they were. I agree with your sentiments that humanity will survive, even if so done in the face of massive loss of life. The last statements I'd like some elaboration upon though.

Cities would become above ground mines in a sense. And with that last grim question abattoirs as well, at least initially.

Lewis, you did great to run with it without your slides and stuff. We'd need critical thinkers I reckon. I've just ordered your book. Here in the UK building a bunker is somewhat frowned upon, as is fortifying houses and guns in the basement.

Dear Sir. If you have any further interest "Marks" 3rd edition circa 1915.

This is the big question I have been pondering some times. lets say we could choose like 5 persons to make even like a Toaster out of scratch, how long of a process it would be?

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

I like to make my toast in a pan. It comes out much more evenly. So all yo than in the best toaster. All you really need is a hot surface. The ideal design is something like a Tandoori oven. Absolutely delicious flatbreads. Also... thousands of years old, most likely. Not all progress makes things better.

"Oh god, don't grab the falling flame."

The people that make the stuff you like are the same people you don’t want to see within your borders.

I play the mindgame of apokalypse in my head soo often. Is it weird to wish something like this would happen some day. I know it is actually worse and i should be happy with the huge amount of possibilities i have in my life. But I feel like my actions have no meaning.

@jonnyxs892

Жыл бұрын

8years later your apocalypse is coming😂

Lol 19:18 that kid seems so enthused.

btw, everyone interested in this topic should read the novel 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson. It raises a remarkable event which seems fairly innocuous at first, but makes the earth inhabitable for a long long time. Stephenson has a scientific background, so the events are entirely possible given the premise.

The estimate that he gives in the scenario of surviving for fifty five years on the canned food in a grocery store is not realistic because typically, canned food has a shelf life of less than ten years. It becomes practically inedible. The containers also degrade by chemical reaction, such as oxidation or by the fact that the canning process isn’t perfect. I learned this with long term canned food storage in my home.

@insanekos1

Жыл бұрын

That is not true. I ate cans, when I was in the army in 2003, from 1970.

The best aspect of an apocalypse event is that your debts are cancelled.

31:40 You may try to be peaceful in a post apocalyptic situation but inevitably there will be bandits and thieves at best...

@PongoXBongo

6 жыл бұрын

And most of those will be otherwise lovely, law abiding people who are simply pushed to the brink. Does your neighbor _really_ need _two_ cans of peaches when your baby is starving?

And then the plague hit, and we all suddenly realised that there would be no food left in the supermarket. Or maybe three days' worth if you ate the boxes...

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the world may have a couple year's worth of grains in storage. It's not all that bad.

What the hell is a "lave" or whatever it is that he mentions one needs to construct itself?

@dlarge6502

4 жыл бұрын

@christopher snedeker Lathes are used to shape metal as well. You use one to make screws, nuts and bolts.

whats the name of the YT channel of this guy?

Might be good to have a person like Dr Patrick Jones (Buhl, Idaho) who is a veterinarian and also an herbalist.

That’s all very interesting. However the real question is: should we start a civilization with the same approach (but shortcuts) as the previous civilization? I would think, that things like bleach can be found in huge quantities in some factories - and doesn’t need to be made for a very long time. More important is, to collect and share knowledge and how to organize a society.

As a psycho with guns, they work great against psychos with axes doing Lyndisfarne style looting... Competition for that salvage will be savage, best consider that aspect of troubles. Rovings bands will be as bad a cholera. Cities are going to burn down with no firemen... There are ways to leapfrog, but there is the problem of "Local Reach" how far can you walk or ride an animal in a day. A looted microwave and solar panels would skip the need for cooking fires. A good thing to do is to acquire a skill for improvisation and the STM science principles will give one a serious leg up.

There's an interesting human quirk where it's mainly the people in the more developed, technologically dependent societies that fantasize about the end of civilization. The people who would survive the best would be the people in impoverished countries who have learned to survive without all the fancy gadgets.

@Syndie702

7 жыл бұрын

In the event of a collapse, I wonder if we'll see a role reversal between the Colonizer and the Colonized.

Dr. Stone. Watch it.

@popopop984

4 жыл бұрын

YES AN ANIME FAN. Did you come searching for the same topic too?

@MrDarksaife

4 жыл бұрын

@@popopop984 hehe I did.

@mipmip4575

4 жыл бұрын

This comment convinced me to really start watching it

@MrDarksaife

4 жыл бұрын

@@mipmip4575 Hehe let me know what you think ;)

@mipmip4575

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrDarksaife Only watched 2 episodes, but already frickin love this show. Thanks for the recommendation :)

How about MacGyver? You definitely want him to be around.

The correspondent for the "sort of geeky stuff"?

1:19:20 proud Mum moment

This needs timestamps

1:22:10 - "this poor guy"s daughter is soooo bored at this talk. hahaha

Like a supply teacher, forgot laptop, play videos...

2014 and he still can't say phone without saying Ay! first. They don't hurt that much.

This was done rather well decades ago with a series called the "Foxfire" books. Another good reference is the Backwoods Living magazines. Nice idea, really, and an interesting take on it. I'm kind of a bit sad that he hasn't mentioned any of the huge stacks of work that's already been done on this, though.

@FishKungfu

10 жыл бұрын

The "Foxfire" books was the first thing I thought of too.

@rodneywinterswyk1661

2 жыл бұрын

The guy has limited time and is speaking of his project. 🤦‍♂️

@HansDunkelberg1

2 жыл бұрын

Can _you_ tell us about such work?

@CarlForgey

2 жыл бұрын

@@HansDunkelberg1 The Foxfire books and the Backwoods living magazines...

The title is a tad misleading...... A tad, in this instance, being flipping MASSIVE!

He looks a lot like bear grylls or is that just me. I imagine all the bear gryll look alikes to naturally want to be survivalists and are all trained up and save pockets of humanity in the new future after the nukes. Even the guy from lost the doctor i think he was he had the bear grylls face. He called the shots for a bit. The fellow in the wheel chair was the bear grylls of that gang till he got locked to the button room.

What that "lave" hes talking about i dont get the word so i cant look it up ... sry my english isnt that good

@adamthornton7880

10 жыл бұрын

Lathe, it's a machine that rotates an object while you are working on it.

@teekanne15

10 жыл бұрын

ah ok, thanks

@BadgerUKvideo

10 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathe

Did he ever get his bag back?

Things i can do create steel/iron from ore. create electricity how flight works. how to create alcohol for medicinal purposes make clean drinking water from bacteria ect: using workshop eg: lathe and drill press how to butcher a cow and also make leather from the skin. note: i'm an engineer.

Is it just me or is he telling us this, like he knows something is going to happen !!

@rodneywinterswyk1661

2 жыл бұрын

It's just you 🤦‍♂️

Wow, talk about premonition

Major plot hole in his initial premise is that all the things we need for basic survival would already be around and need to continue the process, the grace period as he puts it.

@ThePostApocalypticInventor

Жыл бұрын

An unfair comment, considering that the entire first chapter of his book deals with that exact issue. You make it sound as if he didn't address that fact.

"Hydrogen party balloons in a post apocalyptic world" Whats that now?

@PongoXBongo

6 жыл бұрын

Without gasoline powered airplanes, zeppelins may make a comeback. Seriously. No need to resort to pony expressing things when we know the secrets of manned flight

@FrankEdavidson

6 жыл бұрын

Lift.

McGyver meets Mad Max

It's funny how most survivalist would not survive in jungles or deserts… Even when resources are abundant!

The climate by that time might just won't alow us to grow anything for food.

@HansDunkelberg1

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean the climate will be so because of a nuclear winter?

What about hairdressers and telephone sanitisers? We would obviously need them at some point.

@nedsswmmingpool

10 жыл бұрын

You might also need a dimension-hopping sofa or two. :)

@TheDajamster

10 жыл бұрын

Wars will break out when we start to run out of towels.

@nedsswmmingpool

10 жыл бұрын

TheDajamster Nah, it's cool they'll just start stitching their towels out of leaves and carry on.

Keshe foundation next tesla, learn Walter russell / Russellian science

actually I have made a pencil from scratch 👌

6:27 Hello from 2021, when the pandemic is killing people for a year now. 53:07 Also, we have a new record of accidental ammonium nitrate explosion. On 4 August 2020, 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, beating the Texas City disaster by 450 tons of ammonium nitrate.

@frogz

2 жыл бұрын

hello from 2022, we're still here and still watching this video, the world didnt colapse but humanity could have handled it so much better

@lukaradojevic7195

2 жыл бұрын

Hello from march 2022,we have a war in Europe which could lead to possible nuclear war,if things don't calm down soon

@lukaradojevic7195

2 жыл бұрын

Hello from march 2022,we have a war in Europe which could lead to possible nuclear war,if things don't calm down soon

I'm reading his book and it's general information, but not useful, because the procedures to make things are not explained in detail with drawings or shemes.

@symmetrie_bruch

5 жыл бұрын

that´s what i was thinking through the large parts of the talk. that´s good in principle but useless in practice. a bit like saying computers are made of sand now go and build one.

@Precaricat

3 жыл бұрын

I think it still has a use, as it still serves the purpose of giving you a general direction for further investigation, but you'd need companion books for basically every trade, skill, and to guarantee continuity of knowledge. These books would have to be written in a way that assumed no knowledge and no teacher to assist. Combined, they'd be a library by themselves.

@kurtmerhoff654

2 жыл бұрын

As mentioned there are already many books that deal with practical survival information. This is more general and aimed at how to restart civilization not already well covered survival skills.

*Moira Brown wants to know your location *

Bascially, minecraft. irl.

China just did us all a solid and made this guys vision come true.

Well done to him presenting after losing his laptop on the train!

1:14:50 - /r/darknet?

Another ri book promotion. This time from a guy who can't remember to pick up his laptop when getting off a train. I'll get my advice from elsewhere and see this as a further dilution of the integrity of the ri.

Fast forward to COVID 19. 😳

In the case of global devastation , I would pray to god and ask him to collapse the sun. Seems ethical under the circumstances.

@rodneywinterswyk1661

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully a new society would not go down that backward route of creating magic beings and dogma that holds back the progress of humanity 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@rodneywinterswyk1661

2 жыл бұрын

The whole point of this thought experiment is to avoid another dark ages 😉😅

@robthomas592

2 жыл бұрын

Great! If your prayers work, would you ask him to not allow the devastation in the First place.

step 1. remove all institutions so that we can be free of tyranny (it should be relatively simple at this point)

@schmetterling4477

2 жыл бұрын

The only tyranny you are experiencing is that of your failed education.

Good ideas about Science and Technology retrieval. Sadly, he is very naive about Art in general, what it is, how it works, what is it really about... As he only sees the relevance of Art in the immediacy of the Material, Artistry Objects of Art, and is totally unaware of the inovative, creative, generative System (Poiesis) which operates in Art (as well as in Science by the way). He praises the Scientific Method, which is good knowledge to preserve in an apocalyptical situation, but he doesn't even suspect that Art has also an Inquiring Method of its own, capable of the Creation of the New. You may struggle to Survive, but in Art you Live for Real. (Maybe that's why there simply is no evidence of a Civilization or Society, without a profound knowledge in Art Expression; Art is Vision)

Who here for when the pandemic takes over