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No,” Prax said. “That’s right. It’s the cascade. It’ll get worse.”
“What’s the cascade?” Naomi asked. Amos slid the pistol into its box and hauled out a longer case. A shotgun maybe. His gaze was on Prax, waiting.
“It’s the basic obstacle of artificial ecosystems. In a normal evolutionary environment, there’s enough diversity to cushion the system when something catastrophic happens. That’s nature. Catastrophic things happen all the time. But nothing we can build has the depth. One thing goes wrong, and there’s only a few compensatory pathways that can step in. They get overstressed. Fall out of balance. When the next one fails, there are even fewer paths, and then they’re more stressed. It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t predict what’s going to fail. Or how. It’s computationally impossible.”
Holden leaned against the wall, his arms folded. It was still odd, seeing him in person. He looked the same as he had on the screens, and he also didn’t.
“Ganymede Station,” Holden said, “is the most important food supply and agricultural center outside Earth and Mars. It can’t just collapse. They wouldn’t let it. People come here to have their babies, for God’s sake.”
Prax tilted his head. A day before, he wouldn’t have been able to explain this. For one thing, he wouldn’t have had the blood sugar to fuel thought. For another, he wouldn’t have had anyone to say it to. It was good to be able to think again, even if it was only so he could explain how bad things had become.
“Ganymede’s dead,” Prax said. “The tunnels will probably survive, but the environmental and social structures are already broken. Even if we could somehow get the environmental systems back in place—and really, we can’t without a lot of work—how many people are going to stay here now? How many would be going to jail? Something’s going to fill the niche, but it won’t be what was here before.”
“Because of the cascade,” Holden said.
“Yes,” Prax said. “That’s what I was trying to say before. To Amos. It’s all going to fall apart. The relief effort’s going to make the fall a little more graceful, maybe. But it’s too late
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Zapatta
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Get a Mini 14, for all purposes it is the same as an AR but mar00ns dont fuss about them because it's not an 'Assault Rifle'. Whatever the fuck that is. .223 /5.56 is going to be the most common ammo youll find laying around in the ashes after the pockyclypse.
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Furry
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I think its reasonable to have a month of water and 2 months of food at all times regardless of the situation.
Past that, expanding your cache to include a year of dirt cheap food that will provided the minimum to live for a year, that is also not terribly expensive. Rice and beans are cheap as fuck and you can live a long time off just them.
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Oldbased
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It's not even expensive. 55gallon blue water safe barrel with pump to change it every 5-6 months is $100. 2 months food per person runs like $600+ unless you do canned route of canned meat, chili, veggies, beans and so forth. 2nd option is better as you can just cycle it in with everyday cooking to keep it fresher. That reminds me, I got a 10lb can of pulled pork( GFS ) we bought in case Hilary won we need to eat.
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Big Phoenix
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No you get an ar15. That way you can easily service your rifle and use everyone else's mags.Get a Mini 14, for all purposes it is the same as an AR but mar00ns dont fuss about them because it's not an 'Assault Rifle'. Whatever the fuck that is. .223 /5.56 is going to be the most common ammo youll find laying around in the ashes after the pockyclypse.
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Zapatta
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True enough. But we were talking about states that dont want you owning one. There are many metric tons of Minis floating around, hardly an obscure rifle. Many PDs have them in trunk when the 12 gauge on the dash isn't gonna do it.
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If you're worried about what the state thinks about your choices in the apocalypse, you aren't gonna do well prepping.
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Big Phoenix
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Problem is mini 14s are considered assault weapons and banned like ARs are in communist states. Detachable "large" capacity magazine basically the universal definition of one to liberals.
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Last I knew Commie states sell Minis with the original 5 round mag. They think they are a 'sporting rifle' what ever the fuck that means. For a long while Ruger didn't make 30s because Mr. Ruger found hi-cap mags to be 'immoral' or some shit.
Oldbased
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Picked up 72 cans of Vienna sausage from Amazon for $30. While technically only 8 days of calories, pretty sure I could stretch that a month with 40 cans of veggies like corn and peas. Food supply $50 a month good on shelf for 2-5 years. 2 cans of that + 1 can various veggy like say cream of corn would hit around 2200 sodium which is just outside my heart suggestion but pretty sure I hit over that many days because they fill every food wit that shit. Plus I could pick up some cheap pet can tops and use the cans for bottle cap storage.
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Gravel
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I mean sure, but I think I'd rather be dead than eat 72 cans of vienna sausages.
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Oldbased
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I don't know. I think back to my AP days 15 miles 70lb pack up and down ridges. Pretty sure I once considered eating tree bark after a week on the trail.
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For varmint hunting wouldn't a pump action air rifle be best? Ammo in super bulk is dirt cheap, and god forbid if shit really hits the fan you can salvage car batteries into thousands of bb's.