If SHTF continues long enough, every person alive will eventually need to survive in the wilderness because that will be all that remains. To survive successfully in the wilderness, you must overcome two main obstacles. The first will be meeting the minimum physical needs for bodily survival; this includes food, water, shelter, heat, etc. The […] The post How to Stay Untraceable in the Wild appeared first on Ask a Prepper.

“All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God’.” – Isaac Newton The post The Editors’ Quote of the Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

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. 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, we look at military robot “dogs.” (Photo above is courtesy of Draper.com.) The USMC’s Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Over at The Warzone: Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine … The post The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

I’ve heard it said that you can make a small fortune in horse breeding, if you start with a large fortune. Prepping is a lot like that, too. You can be ready for almost anything if you throw enough money at the problem set that is prepping. But what do you do if you don’t have much money? What can you do if you live on a quarter acre lot, and you have no chance of ever upgrading? About fifteen years ago, I met somebody like that who has given me some answers to these questions. C.L. was the first … The post Practical Prepping, by K.F. appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On May 16, 1920, French heroine Joan of Arc was canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV. — On May 16, 1997, Zaire’s president, Mobutu Sese Seko, ended 32 years of dictatorial rule, giving control of the country to rebel forces. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 112 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: The photovoltaic power specialists at Quantum Harvest LLC  are providing a store-wide 10% off coupon. Depending on the model chosen, this could be worth more than $2,000. A Gunsite Academy Three Day … The post Preparedness Notes for Thursday — May 16, 2024 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft spies a tiny inner moon of Jupiter, Amalthea. It’s tiny, but it’s there. By now, we’re all used to seeing amazing photos of Jupiter courtesy of NASA’s Juno mission on a routine basis. Many of these are processed by volunteer ‘citizen scientists,’ and they show the swirling cloud-tops of Jove courtesy of the spacecraft’s JunoCam in stunning detail. Recently, JunoCam captured something special. Look closely at the side-by-side images of Jupiter from March 7th, 2024, and you’ll see a tiny speck transiting the Great Red Spot in the left lead image, that isn’t in the right. That’s the tiny inner moon Amalthea, just 84 kilometers across. The image was captured during the 59th perijove (close flyby) of the ‘King of the Planets,’ at a range of 265,000 kilometers distant (about two-thirds of the Earth-Moon distance). Amalthea (arrowed) transits Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt. Amalthea: An Origin Story The elusive moon was discovered by prolific astronomer and observer E.E. Barnard on the night of September 9th, 1892. Barnard used the 91-centimeter diameter refractor telescope at the Lick observatory to spot the +14th magnitude moon, which never strays more than 30” from Jupiter (less than the apparent diameter of the planet) on its 12 hour orbit. Amalthea holds the distinction of being the last moon discovered via direct visual observation, and the first moon of Jupiter discovered since Galileo first spotted the four major Galilean moons in 1610. Today, Jupiter has 95 known moons, mostly captured asteroids. These were mainly discovered photographically and during spacecraft flybys. One of Juno’s enormous solar panels, unfurled on Earth. NASA/JPL/SWrI Like other small moonlets, Amalthea isn’t big enough to pull itself into a true sphere. Instead, like the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, Amalthea is a potato-shaped, captured asteroid. Amalthea: None More Red The moon is also the reddest object in the solar system, and no doubt undergoes some serious tidal flexing thanks to the enormous gravitational field of nearby Jove. Amalthea is located 180,000 kilometers from Jove, just a little over 100,000 kilometers outside of Jupiter’s Roche limit radius. Any closer to Jove would tear Amalthea apart. The very innermost moon Metis just skims this limit. Voyager 1’s color image of Amalthea from 1979. Credit: NASA/JPL Voyagers 1 and 2 gave us the first blurry views of the moon. NASA’s only other Jupiter orbiter Galileo has provided us with the best images of Amalthea to date, with a flyby 374,000 kilometers distant on November 26, 1999. Those images reveal a misshapen world, not unlike Mars’ moon Deimos. From the surface of Amalthea, Jupiter would provide an amazing sight, spanning nearly half the sky at 42 degrees across. The Galileo spacecraft’s best view of Amalthea. Credit: NASA/JPL Juno and the Present Status of the Mission Juno launched from the Cape on August 5th, 2011, and arrived at Jupiter on July 5th, 2016. The mission probes the interior of Jupiter and its magnetic and radiation environment. Juno will answer key questions, including whether the planet has a solid core. Juno is the first solar-powered (as opposed to nuclear/plutonium-fueled) mission to the outer planets, meaning its nominal wide-ranging orbit was meant to avoid radiation damage to the solar panels. Engineers only allowed the spacecraft to venture in past the inner moons of Jupiter during the extended and final phase of the mission. Juno will operate until at least September 2025. Two more missions are headed to Jupiter; ESA’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy moons Explorer) launched on April 14th 2023, and NASA’s Europa Clipper, set to launch in October 2024. Jupiter, as seen from the surface of Amalthea. Credit: Stellarium Watch for more amazing images courtesy of Juno, as the mission enters its final months and days. The post New Photos Show Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Amalthea appeared first on Universe Today.

“Smart Earphones” and other “wearables” are designed to transition humans into the next stage of the surveillance state, which will be even more invasive and potentially linked to the mark of the […]

by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter: The walls of a global digital police state are being erected in the U.S. and across the formerly ‘free world’ The 2024 Summer Olympics open July 26 in Paris, France, and it will be different from any other Olympic Games. Spectators traveling to the City of Love will have their […]

Rhoda Phiri was having a hard time sleeping. She found it difficult to mingle with people in her community and at church. Even basic chores were hard. She was, she says, in a “dark corner.”  Then one day in 2020, a couple of women knocked on the door of her home in Zambia. The women were with StrongMinds, an international nonprofit that provides support for depression, particularly among women and adolescents. She accepted the women’s invitation to join a group therapy program, held under a tree in an area near her home, and as she learned about depression, she recognized the signs in herself.  “All the symptoms they were talking about, it’s like they were talking about me,” Phiri says. “It’s like they knew what I was going through.” Women in Zambia gather for group therapy. Courtesy of StrongMinds Phiri is among the estimated 280 million people around the globe who experience depression. Ranging in severity, the condition can have big implications for people’s daily functioning and quality of life. But while depression is widespread, options for mental health treatment are scarce, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In Zambia, for instance, there was an estimated total of 25 psychologists and psychiatrists as of 2020. Instead of relying on mental health professionals, StrongMinds offers group therapy facilitated by trained community members — often clients who have completed the treatment themselves, like Phiri. This group therapy model has proven to be an effective way to treat depression. Since the organization launched in 2013, half a million people have gone through the treatment program. Three-quarters of participants screened as being free of depression symptoms two weeks after completing it. “What we’ve learned in 11 years is that depression treatment can be, what we call, democratized,” says StrongMinds founder and executive director Sean Mayberry. “You can take it out of the hands of doctors and nurses and give it to the community itself.”