SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR [1]. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, more details on potential asteroid impacts.
Tracking Earth-Crossing Asteroids
Financial Times Magazine reports: What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth? [2]An excerpt:
“Establishing whether or not planet Earth lies in the way of an asteroid is a tough assignment. From the ground, near-Earth asteroids usually appear small and faint. Their orbits, Farnocchia told me, can be highly uncertain — pulled this way and that by the gravitational tug of larger celestial bodies and by solar radiation. Near-Earth asteroids are only visible for a short time before they journey far from Earth or vanish into the glare of the daytime sky. From a few blurry snapshots, astronomers must calculate the precise trajectories of multiple laps around the sun. A mistake could be disastrous, leaving humanity without enough time to launch a mission to defend the planet.”
Poland’s ‘How To’ Guide to Coping with War and Disaster
A Reuters news report: Poland readies ‘how to’ guide to coping in case of war, natural disaster [3].
AI Goes Rogue, Deletes a Company’s Database
UN Ranks Global Risks
Reader H.L. sent us this: The 28 Biggest Global Risks, According To The UN [5].
Big Pharma Controls the Airwaves
D.S.C. suggested this article: Dr. McCullough: Big Pharma controls the airwaves with billions in ad revenue. [6]
Viktor Orbán: EU’s New 7-Year Budget Insanity
Orbán: 20% Of EU’s New 7-Year Budget Would Go To Ukraine, 10-12% Goes To Debt Repayments [7]. Here is an excerpt:
“The European Commission’s seven-year budget is already facing backlash, with Ursula von der Leyen’s request for €2 trillion from member states being slapped down by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other leaders.
One of the main voices against the budget is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who says it is designed to bring Ukraine into the EU as a member and hand Kyiv billions of euros.”
Why Full-Capacity Magazines Matter
A new video from attorney William Kirk: Maybe This is Why Everyone Needs a High Capacity Magazine? [8]
How AI Gobbled Up Millions of Copyrighted Books
Lastly, I found this linked over at the Whatfinger.com [9]news aggregation site: AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back [10]. JWR’s Comment: My nonfiction books and my novels are all still fully copyrighted. So generative AIs should never have had access to them. Just out of curiousity, visit ChatGPT [11], and a query: “Write a novel sample chapter in the style of a James Wesley, Rawles novel.”
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