Get a sculpy kit. or clay modeling kit. Then make a model of a very rare one of a kind item by getting pictures of it or measurements to make an accurate reproduction. Then with the clay model make a plaster or silicon mold and make fill it with epoxy. Then later you can make a bronze copy or any material you want with the master copy.
Sell this one of a kind item on ebay to collectors or enthusiasts.
This is very low start up or overhead cost. Low risk, high reward business opportunity that maybe can even be scalable if you kept making copies with the master copy and selling one at a time on ebay being the only seller of the item. While also making more one of a kind copies of rare items.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Catching fish
Give a man a fish and it costs 8.99 plus tax and a drink. teach a man to fish and it's free, fresh and fun.
Above is trawling net for boat.
Youtube video 1 fish net making
Improved fish trap, may use paper clips if needed to secure it.
Native American fish trap. for survival situation.
bamboo fish trap. Better than fish wheel for catching salmon. Slanted strainer in rushing water.
Perch trap. for bait
Shore net fishing. AKA "draft net"
Shore net fishing 2.
Shore net fishing 3. only need one boat and one net, move in half circle along shore with boat. This is better for food than for money. The money doesn't last long, but the food amounts would last forever. Somehow predict fish movements but they say it's still luck.
Pound net fishing.
net anchored at one end, while boat goes in circle and pulls up net.(unknown name to this type of fishing)
Gill net from shore out to sea. And how to dry
rectangular net with 2 sticks.
fish wheel.
scap net. just worth mentioning
Additionally learn about flaking a net to stack it in an organized way a one neat pile.
Above is trawling net for boat.Youtube video 1 fish net making
Improved fish trap, may use paper clips if needed to secure it.
Native American fish trap. for survival situation.
bamboo fish trap. Better than fish wheel for catching salmon. Slanted strainer in rushing water.
Perch trap. for bait
Shore net fishing. AKA "draft net"
Shore net fishing 2.
Shore net fishing 3. only need one boat and one net, move in half circle along shore with boat. This is better for food than for money. The money doesn't last long, but the food amounts would last forever. Somehow predict fish movements but they say it's still luck.
Pound net fishing.

net anchored at one end, while boat goes in circle and pulls up net.(unknown name to this type of fishing)
Gill net from shore out to sea. And how to dry
rectangular net with 2 sticks.
fish wheel.
scap net. just worth mentioning
Additionally learn about flaking a net to stack it in an organized way a one neat pile.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Making my own Bed
Before pictureI was watching "Alone in the wilderness" again and saw Dick Proenneke building his own bed from scratch. So since my cheapo bed just broke I decided to build my own, and it only cost $24.10
So I set of on my Hair brained idea to build a bed with this rudimentary scribble of a diagramSo I bought it all then sawed the pieces with a pruning saw because my other bigger saw that I bought didn't work because it wasn't sharp. I later returned it. Then a black and decker drill that I had didn't even last 15 minute on a 3 hour charge. So we're in the process of returning that. But I carefully screwed all the pieces together then when it was finished I wrapped 100 ft. of rope around it as tight as I could and now it's slightly springy from the wood bowing a tiny bit.
Tools needed:
- tape measure
- pencil
- pruning saw
- power dril
- philips head bit
- (3 count) wood 2x3x8 ...............................................cost $5.79
- 3 inch wood to wood or wood to masonry screws .cost $7.98
- 100ft twisted poly rope.............................................cost $8.75
- .............................................................total cost $24.10
Finished bed
How I screwed it
How I screwed it
I made my bed now I can sleep in it
Way of life 5
Alaska house, or Self sustained lifestyle
If you live in Alaska for half the year then you’ll be saving 6 months worth of expenses by living off the land as long as you have a home business. Also by building a cabin in Alaska totally from scratch you can sell it and live off of money from that like a job. Or just save it and make another cabin. Also poor family members might like the idea.
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House: Cabin made out of logs on a 5 acre piece of land in alaska. See alone in the wilderness video. And alaskaantlerworks.com
Food: Fresh caught fish that are smoked or eaten fresh and any other animal you can shoot or trap.
Water: Rain catch, or river, or boil from any source
Heating: Woodstove,
Lighting: Candle or crank led, tree sap lamp, oil lamp,
Shower: Rag and soapy water
Toilet: Outhouse, tp, tree leaves
Travel transportation: RV, or Paraglider(doesn't need gas), or ultralight, canoe made out of tree
Fridge: Under ground or dried or smoked or canned or fresh
Communication: Walkie talkie, or for $70/mo have internet phone and solar charger
Entertainment: Books, hand held games, fishing, hiking
Clothes: Store bought as needed, or make own from animal hide
Bugs: Smudge the house
Trash/electric/medical: None
Tools: File, Good rip saw, Axe, Adze, Draw knife, Chisels(flat bladed, curved blade), Mallet, big compass(for measurement), tape measure(or string on a stick), plum and bob, pencil, knife
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With this self sustained life style you will be able to survive anything such as a coronal mass ejection pointed toward the earth. This lifestyle is what survival experts support and is also good for the environment. Also you may become financially free doing this and not feel bored all the time. $100,000 can making anyone totally debt free and on the way to becoming rich and wealthy and making one cabin is potentially worth $30,000
Also it's healthy for you eating fresh fruits and vegetables and fish and exercising by collecting firewood and gardening among other things, have all been shown to extend life expectancy.
If you live in Alaska for half the year then you’ll be saving 6 months worth of expenses by living off the land as long as you have a home business. Also by building a cabin in Alaska totally from scratch you can sell it and live off of money from that like a job. Or just save it and make another cabin. Also poor family members might like the idea.
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House: Cabin made out of logs on a 5 acre piece of land in alaska. See alone in the wilderness video. And alaskaantlerworks.com
Food: Fresh caught fish that are smoked or eaten fresh and any other animal you can shoot or trap.
Water: Rain catch, or river, or boil from any source
Heating: Woodstove,
Lighting: Candle or crank led, tree sap lamp, oil lamp,
Shower: Rag and soapy water
Toilet: Outhouse, tp, tree leaves
Travel transportation: RV, or Paraglider(doesn't need gas), or ultralight, canoe made out of tree
Fridge: Under ground or dried or smoked or canned or fresh
Communication: Walkie talkie, or for $70/mo have internet phone and solar charger
Entertainment: Books, hand held games, fishing, hiking
Clothes: Store bought as needed, or make own from animal hide
Bugs: Smudge the house
Trash/electric/medical: None
Tools: File, Good rip saw, Axe, Adze, Draw knife, Chisels(flat bladed, curved blade), Mallet, big compass(for measurement), tape measure(or string on a stick), plum and bob, pencil, knife
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With this self sustained life style you will be able to survive anything such as a coronal mass ejection pointed toward the earth. This lifestyle is what survival experts support and is also good for the environment. Also you may become financially free doing this and not feel bored all the time. $100,000 can making anyone totally debt free and on the way to becoming rich and wealthy and making one cabin is potentially worth $30,000
Also it's healthy for you eating fresh fruits and vegetables and fish and exercising by collecting firewood and gardening among other things, have all been shown to extend life expectancy.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Way of life 6
Stone House/Wood Roof : There you go!
It's as simple as that. It's not that complicated.
If you want a house for free that requires almost no skill to make and will last forever and won't even burn down. Then this is for all of the slaves out there that are working for their CEO, who need to be their own boss for a change. This could be the start of a new life.
The Ancient Inca Empire never even had mortar or cement, all they had was adobe to put between the stones, and their structures are still standing!
Stone house: Just have a quarry and a hammer and chisel and break off some rock and build a structure. With home made adobe in between or spend a couple of bucks on some mortar. Build in a fire place or a window and you'll have everything needed to live in. Also make it an A-shaped house for the roof. Anywhere you live if you dig deep enough you will find bedrock.
Adobe: Make your own adobe out of a mud pit where you mix a slurry of dirt and let it dry up for a day and the sand will be at the bottom and the clay will be at the top. Then mix in the 33/66 ration of adobe. You now have your own mortar
Wood Roof: All you need for a roof is something water proof and wind proof. You could have it even made of grass. If the grass was thick enough no water would penetrate. But if you want modern technology just shingle some polyethylene/polypropylene/just any plastic sheets and nail the edges to a roof made of wood poles. Or if you're handy you can even melt the plastic sheets together with plastic weld found at any auto parts store.
Amenities: Add any amenities you want like an air conditioner in the window and a gas powered electric generator, or solar panels for low wattage applications. You can also build an out house that's just a hole in the ground. And as long as you cover it up with dirt it won't stink.
Also every one needs a car, so get one and make sure it keeps running. And have a snow mobile if you are in Alaska.
Cooking: Is a very good skill to have if your self reliant. Even just trial and error works and if you cook enough you'll finally learn to do it well. Catch fish with a fishing boat, or hunt animals or birds with a gun. And grow your own fruits and vegetables.
Free time: Go on all of the vacations you want, with all of the newly acquired free time on your hands. Also just think of how big of a house you could build working 8 hours a day like at any other job. You could get into the business of building log/stone cabins in Alaska and then selling them to snow birds who are retired or want a second home or just rent it out for a vacation as a lease with option to buy.
Forget cable and internet. Why do you need those? Anyways all cable programs are reruns, and I know because I got rid of cable a year ago and still see the same exact shows on my dad's tv and thousands of channels with nothing on. As for internet have you noticed all of the commercials on youtube now and ads everywhere on the internet. It's only a matter of time until every site is a pay site plus the ads. The internet soon won't even be worth going on anymore.
Financial reasons: If you bought all of this stuff from home depot you'd never be able to pay for it all. Which is why houses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or a rent of 500$/mo and up. I'd rather save all of that money and start a farm and make money off of fresh produce that is better quality and better prices than the stores. And sell it all at a fruit stand on the side of the road. Even if it's seasonal and just a summer job, it would probably pay better than the 800$/mo job at Walmart. If you factored in money saved on rent then you'd only have to make 300$/mo to break even. Oh yeah and don't worry about the benefits like insurance, or being full time because all businesses are getting rid of all of that very soon, and some already have.
It's as simple as that. It's not that complicated.
If you want a house for free that requires almost no skill to make and will last forever and won't even burn down. Then this is for all of the slaves out there that are working for their CEO, who need to be their own boss for a change. This could be the start of a new life.
The Ancient Inca Empire never even had mortar or cement, all they had was adobe to put between the stones, and their structures are still standing!
Stone house: Just have a quarry and a hammer and chisel and break off some rock and build a structure. With home made adobe in between or spend a couple of bucks on some mortar. Build in a fire place or a window and you'll have everything needed to live in. Also make it an A-shaped house for the roof. Anywhere you live if you dig deep enough you will find bedrock.
Adobe: Make your own adobe out of a mud pit where you mix a slurry of dirt and let it dry up for a day and the sand will be at the bottom and the clay will be at the top. Then mix in the 33/66 ration of adobe. You now have your own mortar
Wood Roof: All you need for a roof is something water proof and wind proof. You could have it even made of grass. If the grass was thick enough no water would penetrate. But if you want modern technology just shingle some polyethylene/polypropylene/just any plastic sheets and nail the edges to a roof made of wood poles. Or if you're handy you can even melt the plastic sheets together with plastic weld found at any auto parts store.
Amenities: Add any amenities you want like an air conditioner in the window and a gas powered electric generator, or solar panels for low wattage applications. You can also build an out house that's just a hole in the ground. And as long as you cover it up with dirt it won't stink.
Also every one needs a car, so get one and make sure it keeps running. And have a snow mobile if you are in Alaska.
Cooking: Is a very good skill to have if your self reliant. Even just trial and error works and if you cook enough you'll finally learn to do it well. Catch fish with a fishing boat, or hunt animals or birds with a gun. And grow your own fruits and vegetables.
Free time: Go on all of the vacations you want, with all of the newly acquired free time on your hands. Also just think of how big of a house you could build working 8 hours a day like at any other job. You could get into the business of building log/stone cabins in Alaska and then selling them to snow birds who are retired or want a second home or just rent it out for a vacation as a lease with option to buy.
Forget cable and internet. Why do you need those? Anyways all cable programs are reruns, and I know because I got rid of cable a year ago and still see the same exact shows on my dad's tv and thousands of channels with nothing on. As for internet have you noticed all of the commercials on youtube now and ads everywhere on the internet. It's only a matter of time until every site is a pay site plus the ads. The internet soon won't even be worth going on anymore.
Financial reasons: If you bought all of this stuff from home depot you'd never be able to pay for it all. Which is why houses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or a rent of 500$/mo and up. I'd rather save all of that money and start a farm and make money off of fresh produce that is better quality and better prices than the stores. And sell it all at a fruit stand on the side of the road. Even if it's seasonal and just a summer job, it would probably pay better than the 800$/mo job at Walmart. If you factored in money saved on rent then you'd only have to make 300$/mo to break even. Oh yeah and don't worry about the benefits like insurance, or being full time because all businesses are getting rid of all of that very soon, and some already have.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Preventative Cure To Heart Disease
Omega 3 fatty acids which are found in the fat of fish have been know to decrease the chances of heart disease and also decrease cholesterol and high blood pressure. Supposedly eating fish twice a week for 2 months will build up the omega 3 fatty acids in your fat tissue enough to create the intended effects.
Or you can buy fish oil pills from the store, if you don't like eating fish, or actual fish is too expensive, or hard to catch.
If you're worried about eating too much fish and getting mercury poisoning just inform yourself by looking at the FDA's website. They show that 2 meals a week of fish that are low in mercury is not dangerous at all. But if you're not having a baby then eat all the fish you want because they say "For most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern". I would also assume that fresh water fish would not have mercury in them because of the isolated environment.
Or you can buy fish oil pills from the store, if you don't like eating fish, or actual fish is too expensive, or hard to catch.
If you're worried about eating too much fish and getting mercury poisoning just inform yourself by looking at the FDA's website. They show that 2 meals a week of fish that are low in mercury is not dangerous at all. But if you're not having a baby then eat all the fish you want because they say "For most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern". I would also assume that fresh water fish would not have mercury in them because of the isolated environment.
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Alaska
I was thinking, what if within a year I have enough money to buy a piece of land where I'm at now. Then I will use that as a home base. Then I will set out towards Alaska and find land for sale in Alaska and build one house in Alaska every summer of every year starting next year. And the good thing about living in Alaska is the "permanent distribution fund". Which means that if you can verify that I lived there for 2 weeks out of the year I think, then I'll get 3000$ a year(or whatever it is that year). Then you can buy another piece of land every year and improve the land by building a house on it. Also each house would need boat access to a town in the summer and snow mobile access to a nearby town in the winter.
I have a video on how to build a cabin in Alaska, so I would start out by making my first one with the most obvious and proven methods and then experiment with new techniques on later cabins.
Why is this a good investment of time and money?
1. live in the cabin rent free
2. rent out the cabin to tourists
3. sell the self built cabin for what it's worth or less(you make money the buyer makes money/win,win) and move onto building another one
4. exercise for the rest of my life to lose weight.
5. just the experience of it and knowing how to build my own house in many different ways.
6. The demand for housing in alaska is high while the supply is low. Therefore cabins are expensive so there's high potential to profit.
7. learn how to utilize the environment to find fresh berries or fish or caribou or goats, or rabbits, birds, duck eggs
8. nicest city in america is anchorage alaska
9. No more risky living in the city(accidents, crime, no land, noise,)
10. no more bills (cell pnone, car insurance, electricity, plumbing, cable, internet, food, movies, holidays)
11. everyone always says the city is boring anyway.
12. no building codes or any other laws or rules.
I have a video on how to build a cabin in Alaska, so I would start out by making my first one with the most obvious and proven methods and then experiment with new techniques on later cabins.
Why is this a good investment of time and money?
1. live in the cabin rent free
2. rent out the cabin to tourists
3. sell the self built cabin for what it's worth or less(you make money the buyer makes money/win,win) and move onto building another one
4. exercise for the rest of my life to lose weight.
5. just the experience of it and knowing how to build my own house in many different ways.
6. The demand for housing in alaska is high while the supply is low. Therefore cabins are expensive so there's high potential to profit.
7. learn how to utilize the environment to find fresh berries or fish or caribou or goats, or rabbits, birds, duck eggs
8. nicest city in america is anchorage alaska
9. No more risky living in the city(accidents, crime, no land, noise,)
10. no more bills (cell pnone, car insurance, electricity, plumbing, cable, internet, food, movies, holidays)
11. everyone always says the city is boring anyway.
12. no building codes or any other laws or rules.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Comic Biz
I was rethinking my plan at being a comic dealer and making it more of a system. My plan now is that if I get Nov. 7th off then I'm going to buy a booth and sell stuff there no matter what. Then my system for buying comics will be mostly to fill in holes in the collection to have the most selection around at 66% off all the time on the common issues and then retail price on the good #'s and high grade issues, this is how the pros do it and so should I. Also I should eventually someday have more than one of each issue for more than one buyer of that issue and more than one condition and also different comic series for even better selection in the future. Then as they sell just refill the gaps. I may buy comics in bulk but only if they're a very good deal or they're all one good series of comics like spider man or batman. But a good thing about buying in bulk is that you happen upon really good issues every once in a while that you can hold onto for your own personal high quality collection, and have all of the cheap issues pay for the one of a kind issues. Then maybe in old age sell one comic off a week as retirement pension from the comic dealer job.
All I know is that a comic store I used to go to would always write down every comic that was sold so that they'd know which ones to buy to restock their inventory. The good thing is that I already have most of the holes filled, and even then you don't need to have every comic including spider man # 1. So I guess just be well stocked but don't buy too much of something that never sells. Only buy what sells I guess. But even if I don't make money off of the comics, I'll at least be collecting very rare issues for my own collection, to sell in my retirement for about 100$/week. Rare gems may be the best investment because they would always have intrinsic value when comics have perceived value. But I still think that original comics will never go down in value because they're hard to reproduce or forge. They get lost in fires and floods so only become more rare. And people will always like super heroes no matter what they do to the character. As in the many reincarnations of the robin and batman characters.
By the way I just won another auction that had a coverless batman #8 in the lot because the lot wasn't titled or described right, so I had to ask questions. But I paid less for that comic and all of the 10 others in the lot that even the one batman comic is worth. So I might put it up on ebay as buy it now and wait for it to sell or keep it until the convention and sell it at retail there. It's rare enough that it would sell at retail price eventually. But now I might be done buying for the month and will just sell until next month. I'll definitely have fun reading the stuff I got though. This has to be the most fun job in the world if I can make it profitable. Sort of in the ball park of professional food taster.
And hauling the collection around to conventions shouldn't be too difficult as long as I have a dolly and boxes and remain organized. And it's fun doing all of the math and figures.
All I know is that a comic store I used to go to would always write down every comic that was sold so that they'd know which ones to buy to restock their inventory. The good thing is that I already have most of the holes filled, and even then you don't need to have every comic including spider man # 1. So I guess just be well stocked but don't buy too much of something that never sells. Only buy what sells I guess. But even if I don't make money off of the comics, I'll at least be collecting very rare issues for my own collection, to sell in my retirement for about 100$/week. Rare gems may be the best investment because they would always have intrinsic value when comics have perceived value. But I still think that original comics will never go down in value because they're hard to reproduce or forge. They get lost in fires and floods so only become more rare. And people will always like super heroes no matter what they do to the character. As in the many reincarnations of the robin and batman characters.
By the way I just won another auction that had a coverless batman #8 in the lot because the lot wasn't titled or described right, so I had to ask questions. But I paid less for that comic and all of the 10 others in the lot that even the one batman comic is worth. So I might put it up on ebay as buy it now and wait for it to sell or keep it until the convention and sell it at retail there. It's rare enough that it would sell at retail price eventually. But now I might be done buying for the month and will just sell until next month. I'll definitely have fun reading the stuff I got though. This has to be the most fun job in the world if I can make it profitable. Sort of in the ball park of professional food taster.
And hauling the collection around to conventions shouldn't be too difficult as long as I have a dolly and boxes and remain organized. And it's fun doing all of the math and figures.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Cancer Cure Kept Secret
In the video called "Run from the cure" found on youtube. It shows you how to make your own cure for cancer for free. This man behind the cancer cure must be telling the truth because he has nothing to gain by saying these things. He gives away his medicine for free, and also he gives people the video for free. And he has testimony from many people that they were cured, as long as there is a verifiable before and after evidence to back up the testimony. Supposedly it can also cure alzimers because of neurogenisis and neuroprotective effects, and schizophenia because it's a depressent.
What is it that is so bad about hemp?
Does it kill people? Maybe if smoked, not when ingested as hemp oil. They say the smoking is worse on health than cigarettes, but so are cigars and those are legal. And wiki under THC says this"There has never been a documented human fatality from overdosing on tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabis"
Is it addictive? (wikipedia under cannabis says this: "The minimum amount of THC required to have a perceptible psychoactive effect is about 10 micrograms per kilogram of body weight") Maybe it is addictive in high doses, but so are pain killers, and those are legal to have. If you are dependent on it there's no drawback either because you just grow more for free.
Are there any short term, or long term side effects? See: Positive and negative side effects under THC. The prescription drug alternatives have much worse side effects as cancer drugs.
I'd say the worse drug in addictive qualities and dangerous side effects would have to be tobacco.
Other useful qualities of hemp are to make paper or rope or cloth and more. Requires no herbicide and little pesticide to grow and it grows extremely fast. Hemp seeds are edible and have all esential vitamins and minerals and nutients. And if you made hemp sand bags you could construct sand bag structures.
The variety of uses of hemp rival that of the coconut.
The only excuse that the gov uses to enforce the non use of marajuana is the "gateway drug hypothesis". But if you read this hypothesis it says you somehow lose common sense and go into worse drugs. Or that you have friends that are into worse drugs. Which may be true if you kept Hemp illegal like all the other drugs. In the end it would only increase the probability of using harder drugs. But you're also decreasing the probability of using it to save lives from cancer.
Maybe it's true that the government and the world is hiding the truth to protect their sources of money and control. And why did all countries outlaw it at the same time? Well it had something to do with the Geneva conventions and how it because international law. Read about it here. So who are the power players that coerced every nation into this agreement? That's something to be solved another day.
In the end it's a "victimless crime" the same as prostitution or any other supposed ethical law. And if I were to make a constitution of my own it would have in it "no victimless crimes" because you can never go back once it's outlawed.
What if drugs were legalized? They say, "more people would use the drugs if it were legal". But ask anyone if they would use drugs if it were legal and they'd say "no"! And ask them if they know anyone that would use drugs if they were legal, and they'd still say "no"! The fact is that the only people that would use drugs if they were legal would be people that already are using drugs or that are predisposed genetically to try drugs.
In the end drugs will never be legalized even if it would cure crime, because all the police and investigators would be out of work and the prisons would be empty and there would be no court cases and all of the drug dealers would need to do something else to make money. So even though they call it "the war on drugs", nobody is really trying to win the war because it would cause maybe 25% unemployment if that ever happened and all hell would break loose. So in the end the world never changes and you should just start your own society if at all possible because this one will never change.
The lawmakers justify all of these victimless crimes with the "American puritanical ethic" or APE. Anything that feels good is a sin and therefore should be against the law, like the bible says. Just read "The rape of the APE". But the actual reasons are separate from the justification that they'll tell you. The actual reason being control and the unemployment if the laws were repealed. Hopefully they won't outlaw peanut butter or sex any time soon just because people like those also. If they do I'm out of here, and I know lots of people that are with me on that one.
Here's info on hemp
Also see: Madagascar Periwinkle for another possible cancer cure that may or may not be poisonous. Ask the natives that use it for first hand knowledge.
Also see: Apricot kernels
Also see: chlorella
Also see: ginseng
Also see: Siberian ginseng who knows why it's illegal too.
Also see: devils club
Also see my article on "Miracle Mineral Supplement" for more almost verifiable cures that they don't want you to know about.
Also see the marihuana tax act of 1937 for how it was outlawed.
What is it that is so bad about hemp?
Does it kill people? Maybe if smoked, not when ingested as hemp oil. They say the smoking is worse on health than cigarettes, but so are cigars and those are legal. And wiki under THC says this"There has never been a documented human fatality from overdosing on tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabis"
Is it addictive? (wikipedia under cannabis says this: "The minimum amount of THC required to have a perceptible psychoactive effect is about 10 micrograms per kilogram of body weight") Maybe it is addictive in high doses, but so are pain killers, and those are legal to have. If you are dependent on it there's no drawback either because you just grow more for free.
Are there any short term, or long term side effects? See: Positive and negative side effects under THC. The prescription drug alternatives have much worse side effects as cancer drugs.
I'd say the worse drug in addictive qualities and dangerous side effects would have to be tobacco.
Other useful qualities of hemp are to make paper or rope or cloth and more. Requires no herbicide and little pesticide to grow and it grows extremely fast. Hemp seeds are edible and have all esential vitamins and minerals and nutients. And if you made hemp sand bags you could construct sand bag structures.
The variety of uses of hemp rival that of the coconut.
The only excuse that the gov uses to enforce the non use of marajuana is the "gateway drug hypothesis". But if you read this hypothesis it says you somehow lose common sense and go into worse drugs. Or that you have friends that are into worse drugs. Which may be true if you kept Hemp illegal like all the other drugs. In the end it would only increase the probability of using harder drugs. But you're also decreasing the probability of using it to save lives from cancer.
Maybe it's true that the government and the world is hiding the truth to protect their sources of money and control. And why did all countries outlaw it at the same time? Well it had something to do with the Geneva conventions and how it because international law. Read about it here. So who are the power players that coerced every nation into this agreement? That's something to be solved another day.
In the end it's a "victimless crime" the same as prostitution or any other supposed ethical law. And if I were to make a constitution of my own it would have in it "no victimless crimes" because you can never go back once it's outlawed.
What if drugs were legalized? They say, "more people would use the drugs if it were legal". But ask anyone if they would use drugs if it were legal and they'd say "no"! And ask them if they know anyone that would use drugs if they were legal, and they'd still say "no"! The fact is that the only people that would use drugs if they were legal would be people that already are using drugs or that are predisposed genetically to try drugs.
In the end drugs will never be legalized even if it would cure crime, because all the police and investigators would be out of work and the prisons would be empty and there would be no court cases and all of the drug dealers would need to do something else to make money. So even though they call it "the war on drugs", nobody is really trying to win the war because it would cause maybe 25% unemployment if that ever happened and all hell would break loose. So in the end the world never changes and you should just start your own society if at all possible because this one will never change.
The lawmakers justify all of these victimless crimes with the "American puritanical ethic" or APE. Anything that feels good is a sin and therefore should be against the law, like the bible says. Just read "The rape of the APE". But the actual reasons are separate from the justification that they'll tell you. The actual reason being control and the unemployment if the laws were repealed. Hopefully they won't outlaw peanut butter or sex any time soon just because people like those also. If they do I'm out of here, and I know lots of people that are with me on that one.
Here's info on hemp
Also see: Madagascar Periwinkle for another possible cancer cure that may or may not be poisonous. Ask the natives that use it for first hand knowledge.
Also see: Apricot kernels
Also see: chlorella
Also see: ginseng
Also see: Siberian ginseng who knows why it's illegal too.
Also see: devils club
Also see my article on "Miracle Mineral Supplement" for more almost verifiable cures that they don't want you to know about.
Also see the marihuana tax act of 1937 for how it was outlawed.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Survival and Camping Essentials
If you just want to go camping or the whole world ends or just your personal world ends, this is a guide. You can be independent, and self reliant, and self sustaining, although with limited luxuries. Bums would do well to know this. But in the end this is ultimate reality. If you don't know this then you're an alien to your own planet. You can transcend reality and experience oneness with the earth at high enough levels of survival. Blackbelts are nothing compared to ultimate knowledge of survival. See: Tom Brown jr.
Water: Have a metal canteen with a metal cap so that you can put it on coals to boil and sanitize any water and the canteen. Only use coals and not flames, so that it doesn't oxidize.
Meat: Have a gun for animals, and a Hawaiian sling for fish, and a net for small things(birds drag their beaks through the water while in flight for tiny fish). In certain areas and times of year, you can have all the birds you can eat, for free, if you have a gun. Not to mention bigger animals. And get a book on animal tracking to be a better hunter.
Fruit and veggies: Native plants that grow and seed and water themselves. This is if you have lots of land to pick from and the plants and trees are already existent on the property. Get books in the nature section of the bookstore on "edible and medicinal plants" "mushrooms" "edible marine life"
Fire: Hardwood for long lasting huge fire, and soft wood in small pieces, as kindling to get it started. Also have alcohol and tinder(char cloth, or tree sap, cut a tree and wait for the sap to run) and a firesteel to start it, or a lighter to start out with, until it runs out of fuel. Page size fresnel lens for fire starting on sunny days. Have fresnel lens for daytime and firesteel for nighttime and a lighter for emergencies.
Alcohol: Good for antibacterial wound treatment along with cloth or tape bandage. Good for cleaning clothes. Good for washing hands. Good for lighter fluid and candles. Just distill the alcohol from rotten fruit juice, and a simple solar distiller.
Shelter: Stone walls, wood roof, and tarp to water proof it.
Air conditioning: Wet shirt, wind, shade
Heating: fire, proper clothing.
Light: Have 2 crank rechargeable flashlights(1 for backup) and velcro it to a .50 cent baseball hat to become a head lamp. Until the battery goes bad and you need to buy a new one.
Vehicle: Powered by ultra capacitor for any environment, and no maintenance, won't break. But remember: If you don't have a schedule to keep anymore, and you don't need to travel long distances, you don't need a vehicle. Just use legs and a paddle.
Clothes: Get artificial fibers like nylon, polyester, acrylic, so that it is non absorbant of water for easier cleaning. Then put the clothes in a bucket of soapy water and agitate it with a plunger. When you run out of soap you may need to make alcohol and just wipe down your clothes with an alcohol soaked rag, to clean them.
Cooking: On the fire or coal BBQ, or a rocket stove. Smoke your meat to preserve it, so that you don't require a fridge.
Bathroom: On a big piece of land just go outside and bury it to not smell it. Or go in a different spot every day. Grow your own TP tree of the right kinds of leaves for the job.
Shower: Use alcohol and rag.
Weather: Have an all in one barometer/hygrometer/thermometer. Or if you have a boat you need a weather radio that lets you know when to move.
Communication: If you don't feel safe without communication, get a ham radio and you'll never have to pay a phone bill and be able to talk long distance, hopefully to family or friends. This is what the police use.
Navigation: GPS is good for now, just turn it on whenever you're unsure where you are. Don't get it wet though.
Protection: Have a gun if you live in an area with large dangerous animals.
Rope tying knowledge: It's good to know how to tie knots for camping, look to "Youtube" under "Camping knots".It's good read up on most knots because you never know when they'll come in handy. The knots that will be used regularly are the snare knot, and a truckers hitch and a falconer's knot for the tarp, half hitch(Useful in many ways, easilly remembered by"around and through"), anchor bend or the two half, constrictor knot(a variation of the clove hitch exept you make one of the free ends of rope go through one of the 2 half hitches that the clovehitch is comprized of), prussik knot(fot climbing), sheet bend(for tieing 2 ropes of differing diameter's together, clove hitch, tension/taughtline hitch, Bowline(one of the most useful, and easilly remembered by first making a bite in the rope, and then:"The rabbit goes out the hole, around the tree, and then back into the hole"). Feel free to improvise when making knots, and even to invent your own knots. Also the clinch knot for fishing, or the uni knot for tying the tippet onto the leader for fly fishing, have a different leader for each type of fish. The figure 8. And the figure 8 on a bite.
Survival clip carabeener contents: File and sharpening stone, crank rechargeable flashlight, lighter with keychain holder, firesteel, good multitool/swiss army knife.
Survival backpack contents: Rope, knife, char cloth/paper(or cotton) holder and maker, backup flashlight, hat, canteen, tarp, hammock tent and straps, sleeping bag, TP, GPS, notebook, gel pen, gun, spear. And whatever extra fun devices you want.
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Extra info for if you don't have the above equipment.
Remember the sacred order:
Start fire using the bow drill method. Then boil water in a log that you burned out the center of, with coals from the fire, inch by inch by burning then scraping.(should only take 2 hours). Then heat up some rocks in the fire and put them in the hollowed out log filled with water to boil the water. Also when wood is damp make feather sticks with a knife to use the dry inside.
When animals attack they go for what's in front of them first. So stick something out in front of you that you don't care if it gets bitten. For a weapon have a stick with a knife on it. But if you don't have a knife then sharpen the stick on a rock or in the fire. This will put some distance between you and the animal, and if they lunge at you then put the stick between the ground and their heart and hopefully their weight will make them impale themselves.
For shelter use the debris shelter method. The thicker you pile on the debris onto the shelter the more insulated it will be. 4 foot thick can keep you comfortable at 40 below temperatures. And 2 foot thick can keep you warm at 32 degree temps.
You can make a chair out of a cloth bag and 3 sticks.
Always dry off your clothes right away if they ever get wet. Do this with a fire and the clothes or shoes suspended above the fire with twigs or rope. You can freeze to death at 50 degree temps in the wind, if you're wet.
Learn survival navigation. Finding south with a watch between the hour hand and 12:00 in the northern hemisphere, when you have the hour hand pointing at the sun. Also if you don't have a watch you can find the east and west line on a sunny day by just putting a stick in the ground for 20 minutes or so, marking the top of the shadow with a stone at the beginning and end of the 20 minutes(This has to be done on a flat surface). Useful Layman Fact: The sun is always in the southern part of the sky, if you're in the northern hemisphere.
For rope when you have none. You can dig up the roots of trees which are everywhere. Just use a hook like tool and drag it through the ground until you run into a thick enough root then pull it out of the ground carefully to not break it. Or you can make rope out of nettle stem skins or the fiber of plants that have been crushed and pounded with a stone or stick, and then left to dry in the sun, or scrape away the mushy stuff(this is how hemp fiber is made). Some other plants are the dog bean or castor bean plants(being the strongest and doesn't decompose) or milk weed being good for cordage. But some plants are poisonous so if they make a rash then avoid them or know more about them to know how to utilize safely. You can also peal the bark off of some small trees after getting it started with a knife. To make these plant fibers into cord you want to do the twist away pull back method. But the leg roll method is faster. You can use any type of fiber or cordage and as long as it's thick enough you can hang from it.
TP: Do the arm rub test on different types of leaves to choose one that doesn't create rash.
Washing self and clothing and antibacterial ointment is all found with knowledge of medicinal plants.
Catching food can be done many ways. By making your own fish net given enough time. hobo fishing is done with just a stick or can with string around it and a fishing lure. A bow and arrow can be made quickly with a sharpened stick as the arrow and feathering on the back and a notch on the back. And a bow stick bent between the legs and string tied to each end with a simple half hitch. Refining it can come later. You can also make a Hawaiian sling if you have any kind of elastic and put a fish gig on the end. Or you can set snare traps with your animal tracking skills for squirrels or rabbits. Or deadfalls, or other traps for bugs or big animals. or trigger traps with bait for squirrels or mice. Or just have a stick to hit things or stab things with. But you may just gather food with your knowledge of edible plants and mushrooms and nuts(roast them or boil them for taste). Make a fishing lure in the shape of an oval and put bait around it.
Making a knife: Use flint knapping using a deer antler or rough thinner rock for pressure flaking and a stone for percussion flaking. And a rough stone for abrading to flatten edges.
But in the end if you ever actually feel like you are ruffing it, then that just means that you're doing things wrong. When camping or hiking or surviving, it is a choice to be cold, or wet or uncomfortable at all, because with knowledge you can avoid all of that out in the wilderness anywhere. Our greatest strength is our knowledge.
Water: Have a metal canteen with a metal cap so that you can put it on coals to boil and sanitize any water and the canteen. Only use coals and not flames, so that it doesn't oxidize.
Meat: Have a gun for animals, and a Hawaiian sling for fish, and a net for small things(birds drag their beaks through the water while in flight for tiny fish). In certain areas and times of year, you can have all the birds you can eat, for free, if you have a gun. Not to mention bigger animals. And get a book on animal tracking to be a better hunter.
Fruit and veggies: Native plants that grow and seed and water themselves. This is if you have lots of land to pick from and the plants and trees are already existent on the property. Get books in the nature section of the bookstore on "edible and medicinal plants" "mushrooms" "edible marine life"
Fire: Hardwood for long lasting huge fire, and soft wood in small pieces, as kindling to get it started. Also have alcohol and tinder(char cloth, or tree sap, cut a tree and wait for the sap to run) and a firesteel to start it, or a lighter to start out with, until it runs out of fuel. Page size fresnel lens for fire starting on sunny days. Have fresnel lens for daytime and firesteel for nighttime and a lighter for emergencies.
Alcohol: Good for antibacterial wound treatment along with cloth or tape bandage. Good for cleaning clothes. Good for washing hands. Good for lighter fluid and candles. Just distill the alcohol from rotten fruit juice, and a simple solar distiller.
Shelter: Stone walls, wood roof, and tarp to water proof it.
Air conditioning: Wet shirt, wind, shade
Heating: fire, proper clothing.
Light: Have 2 crank rechargeable flashlights(1 for backup) and velcro it to a .50 cent baseball hat to become a head lamp. Until the battery goes bad and you need to buy a new one.
Vehicle: Powered by ultra capacitor for any environment, and no maintenance, won't break. But remember: If you don't have a schedule to keep anymore, and you don't need to travel long distances, you don't need a vehicle. Just use legs and a paddle.
Clothes: Get artificial fibers like nylon, polyester, acrylic, so that it is non absorbant of water for easier cleaning. Then put the clothes in a bucket of soapy water and agitate it with a plunger. When you run out of soap you may need to make alcohol and just wipe down your clothes with an alcohol soaked rag, to clean them.
Cooking: On the fire or coal BBQ, or a rocket stove. Smoke your meat to preserve it, so that you don't require a fridge.
Bathroom: On a big piece of land just go outside and bury it to not smell it. Or go in a different spot every day. Grow your own TP tree of the right kinds of leaves for the job.
Shower: Use alcohol and rag.
Weather: Have an all in one barometer/hygrometer/thermometer. Or if you have a boat you need a weather radio that lets you know when to move.
Communication: If you don't feel safe without communication, get a ham radio and you'll never have to pay a phone bill and be able to talk long distance, hopefully to family or friends. This is what the police use.
Navigation: GPS is good for now, just turn it on whenever you're unsure where you are. Don't get it wet though.
Protection: Have a gun if you live in an area with large dangerous animals.
Rope tying knowledge: It's good to know how to tie knots for camping, look to "Youtube" under "Camping knots".It's good read up on most knots because you never know when they'll come in handy. The knots that will be used regularly are the snare knot, and a truckers hitch and a falconer's knot for the tarp, half hitch(Useful in many ways, easilly remembered by"around and through"), anchor bend or the two half, constrictor knot(a variation of the clove hitch exept you make one of the free ends of rope go through one of the 2 half hitches that the clovehitch is comprized of), prussik knot(fot climbing), sheet bend(for tieing 2 ropes of differing diameter's together, clove hitch, tension/taughtline hitch, Bowline(one of the most useful, and easilly remembered by first making a bite in the rope, and then:"The rabbit goes out the hole, around the tree, and then back into the hole"). Feel free to improvise when making knots, and even to invent your own knots. Also the clinch knot for fishing, or the uni knot for tying the tippet onto the leader for fly fishing, have a different leader for each type of fish. The figure 8. And the figure 8 on a bite.
Survival clip carabeener contents: File and sharpening stone, crank rechargeable flashlight, lighter with keychain holder, firesteel, good multitool/swiss army knife.
Survival backpack contents: Rope, knife, char cloth/paper(or cotton) holder and maker, backup flashlight, hat, canteen, tarp, hammock tent and straps, sleeping bag, TP, GPS, notebook, gel pen, gun, spear. And whatever extra fun devices you want.
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Extra info for if you don't have the above equipment.
Remember the sacred order:
- Shelter (sometimes can only survive hours without shelter)
- Water (brain damage occurs after only a day without water)
- Fire (contributes to all 3 other priorities)
- Food (can easily survive 2 weeks without any food)
Start fire using the bow drill method. Then boil water in a log that you burned out the center of, with coals from the fire, inch by inch by burning then scraping.(should only take 2 hours). Then heat up some rocks in the fire and put them in the hollowed out log filled with water to boil the water. Also when wood is damp make feather sticks with a knife to use the dry inside.
When animals attack they go for what's in front of them first. So stick something out in front of you that you don't care if it gets bitten. For a weapon have a stick with a knife on it. But if you don't have a knife then sharpen the stick on a rock or in the fire. This will put some distance between you and the animal, and if they lunge at you then put the stick between the ground and their heart and hopefully their weight will make them impale themselves.
For shelter use the debris shelter method. The thicker you pile on the debris onto the shelter the more insulated it will be. 4 foot thick can keep you comfortable at 40 below temperatures. And 2 foot thick can keep you warm at 32 degree temps.
You can make a chair out of a cloth bag and 3 sticks.
Always dry off your clothes right away if they ever get wet. Do this with a fire and the clothes or shoes suspended above the fire with twigs or rope. You can freeze to death at 50 degree temps in the wind, if you're wet.
Learn survival navigation. Finding south with a watch between the hour hand and 12:00 in the northern hemisphere, when you have the hour hand pointing at the sun. Also if you don't have a watch you can find the east and west line on a sunny day by just putting a stick in the ground for 20 minutes or so, marking the top of the shadow with a stone at the beginning and end of the 20 minutes(This has to be done on a flat surface). Useful Layman Fact: The sun is always in the southern part of the sky, if you're in the northern hemisphere.
For rope when you have none. You can dig up the roots of trees which are everywhere. Just use a hook like tool and drag it through the ground until you run into a thick enough root then pull it out of the ground carefully to not break it. Or you can make rope out of nettle stem skins or the fiber of plants that have been crushed and pounded with a stone or stick, and then left to dry in the sun, or scrape away the mushy stuff(this is how hemp fiber is made). Some other plants are the dog bean or castor bean plants(being the strongest and doesn't decompose) or milk weed being good for cordage. But some plants are poisonous so if they make a rash then avoid them or know more about them to know how to utilize safely. You can also peal the bark off of some small trees after getting it started with a knife. To make these plant fibers into cord you want to do the twist away pull back method. But the leg roll method is faster. You can use any type of fiber or cordage and as long as it's thick enough you can hang from it.
TP: Do the arm rub test on different types of leaves to choose one that doesn't create rash.
Washing self and clothing and antibacterial ointment is all found with knowledge of medicinal plants.
Catching food can be done many ways. By making your own fish net given enough time. hobo fishing is done with just a stick or can with string around it and a fishing lure. A bow and arrow can be made quickly with a sharpened stick as the arrow and feathering on the back and a notch on the back. And a bow stick bent between the legs and string tied to each end with a simple half hitch. Refining it can come later. You can also make a Hawaiian sling if you have any kind of elastic and put a fish gig on the end. Or you can set snare traps with your animal tracking skills for squirrels or rabbits. Or deadfalls, or other traps for bugs or big animals. or trigger traps with bait for squirrels or mice. Or just have a stick to hit things or stab things with. But you may just gather food with your knowledge of edible plants and mushrooms and nuts(roast them or boil them for taste). Make a fishing lure in the shape of an oval and put bait around it.
Making a knife: Use flint knapping using a deer antler or rough thinner rock for pressure flaking and a stone for percussion flaking. And a rough stone for abrading to flatten edges.
But in the end if you ever actually feel like you are ruffing it, then that just means that you're doing things wrong. When camping or hiking or surviving, it is a choice to be cold, or wet or uncomfortable at all, because with knowledge you can avoid all of that out in the wilderness anywhere. Our greatest strength is our knowledge.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
How to build your own coral castle
Why build a coral castle?
There are many ways to accomplish this, but the root of it all is weight and leverage as Ed Leedskalnin always said. So instead of hauling one bag of cement at a time to build a giant wall of cement you would just move a huge stone wall all at once, but only inches at a time. like Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and I can move the world".
I have several theories about moving large stones using leverage. One is to have a big "T" shaped crane with a pully chain over the top from one side to the other. On one side you have the stone to be lifted and on the other side you have the counterweight. With a pully system the counterweight is minimal, but it would theoretically work with out pullies even. This crane could move the blocks up and down within 360 degrees of its reach.
Another method is to make the block into a wheel then prop it up and roll it. To make it into a wheel, mark it's center of gravity by balancing the stone on a small rock. See Wally Wallington's experiments into this. You drill a hole into this center of gravity and another hole along the outside of the stone and place a steel pipe in the shape of an "h" in both holes this is the axle and locks the pipe to the stone. To prop up the stone use the Wallington method of putting planks undernieth the stone but to rock it side to side you use a ratchet tie down of industrial strength(high breaking weight) and high leverage. Or just a strong cable and a truckers hitch(also see video for an alternate method). Now if you prop up the stone onto 2 mobile segmented platforms on either side of the stone, then you can roll the blocks along the platform to anywhere you want it, moving the segments at the back of the platform to the front of the platform.
Another way to roll sturdy stones is to put a cable under it then over the top, both ends leading to your position. Then have one end bolted to the ground and the other end as a pully system. This way as you pulled the rope it would roll the stone in the direction intended. But it would also fall on its flat side a lot as it rolled, so it would need to be strong rock. This is a good method of moving long rectangular stones, if you have 2 cables around the stone. A side effect of this method may turn out to be that the heavier stones just slide along the cable and never actually flip over.
But I theorize that for the heavy stones Ed Leedskalnin made "A"-frame legs in a circle around the 30 ton block, protruding out of the rock, and sort of rolled the block on its extended A-frame legs, with a pully system pulling the top of the block to get it rolling slowly. A lever from the center to the top of the block is what the pully would be pulling.
How to cut the rock:
I prefer the simpler method of getting a concrete saw with a diamond faced carbide tip blade and then maybe stone splitting wedges and shims for large blocks. And the machine would be powered by a portable gas powered electric generator. Later as you assemble the rocks you will want to assemble them in the same positions that they were originally cut from the stone. This is how the stones at Machu Picchu were so perfectly aligned so that you're not able to get a piece of paper between them. Because they were assembled in the same orientation that they were quarried.
The roof:
I think based on a show about Machu Picchu that the roofs there were made of wood because all of the roofs are missing pointing to decomposed organic wood roofs. Also the Machu Picchu buildings had "A" shaped walls meaning they had wood beams spanning the roofs. But I don't know how they made it water proof. The good thing about Machu Picchu though is that lots of the stones were small, so you can still make large structures out of small stones.
Windows:
Have a rock beam along the top of the window to hold any rocks above the window. The windows at Machu Picchu were small. You can also make shelving on the inside of the structures walls in this same way with a wall behind the window.
- Short of creating a lava house, natural stone has a stronger chemical bond than cement or even brick or any other artifical stone. Therefore it is a stronger building material and will last longer, and be more structural.
- Instead of paying for bricks or cement why not get a better building material that is also free. Natural quarried stone on the property. Building a house entirely from sweat equity, instead of needing investment capital and a 30 year loan.
- It will last forever and be a tourist attraction while you live and after you die. And the proceeds can go to charity.
- The house will stay cold in the summer and hot in the winter from the thick heat retentive stone walls.
- You can build the structure in such a way to promote natural airflow by having a chimney on top that forces air upward when the wind blows, by use of Bernoulli's principle(fast moving air has lower air pressure).
There are many ways to accomplish this, but the root of it all is weight and leverage as Ed Leedskalnin always said. So instead of hauling one bag of cement at a time to build a giant wall of cement you would just move a huge stone wall all at once, but only inches at a time. like Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and I can move the world".
I have several theories about moving large stones using leverage. One is to have a big "T" shaped crane with a pully chain over the top from one side to the other. On one side you have the stone to be lifted and on the other side you have the counterweight. With a pully system the counterweight is minimal, but it would theoretically work with out pullies even. This crane could move the blocks up and down within 360 degrees of its reach.
Another method is to make the block into a wheel then prop it up and roll it. To make it into a wheel, mark it's center of gravity by balancing the stone on a small rock. See Wally Wallington's experiments into this. You drill a hole into this center of gravity and another hole along the outside of the stone and place a steel pipe in the shape of an "h" in both holes this is the axle and locks the pipe to the stone. To prop up the stone use the Wallington method of putting planks undernieth the stone but to rock it side to side you use a ratchet tie down of industrial strength(high breaking weight) and high leverage. Or just a strong cable and a truckers hitch(also see video for an alternate method). Now if you prop up the stone onto 2 mobile segmented platforms on either side of the stone, then you can roll the blocks along the platform to anywhere you want it, moving the segments at the back of the platform to the front of the platform.
Another way to roll sturdy stones is to put a cable under it then over the top, both ends leading to your position. Then have one end bolted to the ground and the other end as a pully system. This way as you pulled the rope it would roll the stone in the direction intended. But it would also fall on its flat side a lot as it rolled, so it would need to be strong rock. This is a good method of moving long rectangular stones, if you have 2 cables around the stone. A side effect of this method may turn out to be that the heavier stones just slide along the cable and never actually flip over.
But I theorize that for the heavy stones Ed Leedskalnin made "A"-frame legs in a circle around the 30 ton block, protruding out of the rock, and sort of rolled the block on its extended A-frame legs, with a pully system pulling the top of the block to get it rolling slowly. A lever from the center to the top of the block is what the pully would be pulling.
How to cut the rock:
I prefer the simpler method of getting a concrete saw with a diamond faced carbide tip blade and then maybe stone splitting wedges and shims for large blocks. And the machine would be powered by a portable gas powered electric generator. Later as you assemble the rocks you will want to assemble them in the same positions that they were originally cut from the stone. This is how the stones at Machu Picchu were so perfectly aligned so that you're not able to get a piece of paper between them. Because they were assembled in the same orientation that they were quarried.
The roof:
I think based on a show about Machu Picchu that the roofs there were made of wood because all of the roofs are missing pointing to decomposed organic wood roofs. Also the Machu Picchu buildings had "A" shaped walls meaning they had wood beams spanning the roofs. But I don't know how they made it water proof. The good thing about Machu Picchu though is that lots of the stones were small, so you can still make large structures out of small stones.
Windows:
Have a rock beam along the top of the window to hold any rocks above the window. The windows at Machu Picchu were small. You can also make shelving on the inside of the structures walls in this same way with a wall behind the window.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Stone house

This is what a perfect world would look like.
A house made out of stone, with air flow built in. Like Stonehenge.
An energy machine that can make energy anywhere and never break.
A community food machine that can pump out cookies or something from ingredients.
A water machine in every home that condenses water from the air, with a faucet attached.
A mode of conveyance that uses infinite energy tech, to fly anywhere.
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
New house production method
This is a method for a structure anywhere where there is dirt.
First dig an under ground chamber, then gather clay from that dirt by separating clay and sand by mixing dirt with water, in a pit, until a mud slurry and then leaving to dry for the smallest clay particles to settle on the top.
Then on the interior of this underground chamber, you will put one solid unbroken strand of steel wool along the walls of the chamber. This may be done in sections. Then you will put a layer of clay over the steel wool.
Now hook up a high amperage power source like a car battery to both ends of the steel wool making sure that none of the steel wool is exposed to air, therefore not oxidizing and burning away.
And the final product of this is a ceramic wall that is water proof and structural. The more energy going through the wires the hotter the wires will get.
An alternative method of doing the same thing is put lots and lots of already burning hot coals into the underground chamber and then sealing in all of the heat by sealing off the chamber. The more coals put in, and the smaller the chamber, the hotter the temperature will get and the better the clay will turn into ceramic.
First dig an under ground chamber, then gather clay from that dirt by separating clay and sand by mixing dirt with water, in a pit, until a mud slurry and then leaving to dry for the smallest clay particles to settle on the top.
Then on the interior of this underground chamber, you will put one solid unbroken strand of steel wool along the walls of the chamber. This may be done in sections. Then you will put a layer of clay over the steel wool.
Now hook up a high amperage power source like a car battery to both ends of the steel wool making sure that none of the steel wool is exposed to air, therefore not oxidizing and burning away.
And the final product of this is a ceramic wall that is water proof and structural. The more energy going through the wires the hotter the wires will get.
An alternative method of doing the same thing is put lots and lots of already burning hot coals into the underground chamber and then sealing in all of the heat by sealing off the chamber. The more coals put in, and the smaller the chamber, the hotter the temperature will get and the better the clay will turn into ceramic.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
What is a house worth?
I was thinking about how we will all be working for the rest of our lives to pay for the monthly bill of rent or mortgage just to have simple shelter. So then I wondered, what are we really paying for?
And using a house boat as a reference, you can get an idea of what that monthly bill is actually paying for.
If you bought a large 2br 2 ba. houseboat, and then bought an equally sized house. The differences are:
So if you're smart you should construct your own house using free or self bought materials, in an area where there is high supply and no demand for the land(water or mountains or cold). And also go to where you don't have to pay taxes and live under building codes(Alaska or water or in a landlocked/unvisited area). You can make a house better than code easier anyway. This way you won't get stuck paying that 800$ monthly bill for the rest of your life, like the rest of us, and instead spend that money on actual products and services instead of paying forever for the imaginary worth of 3-d space.
Why not work for yourself 8 hours a day building your own house, instead of working to pay the bank that actually owns your house.
And using a house boat as a reference, you can get an idea of what that monthly bill is actually paying for.
If you bought a large 2br 2 ba. houseboat, and then bought an equally sized house. The differences are:
- The land is free on a boat, because nobody wants water, but the land on a house is expensive because of supply and demand.
- The boat depreciates with age while a house appreciates over time.
- The boat requires maintenance but no less than a house.
- The taxes are less on a boat(half that of a car).
- There is skilled labor involved in constructing a house or a boat, but boats loose that value while houses add that value.
So if you're smart you should construct your own house using free or self bought materials, in an area where there is high supply and no demand for the land(water or mountains or cold). And also go to where you don't have to pay taxes and live under building codes(Alaska or water or in a landlocked/unvisited area). You can make a house better than code easier anyway. This way you won't get stuck paying that 800$ monthly bill for the rest of your life, like the rest of us, and instead spend that money on actual products and services instead of paying forever for the imaginary worth of 3-d space.
Why not work for yourself 8 hours a day building your own house, instead of working to pay the bank that actually owns your house.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
New house design for 2009
My current most well thought out simplest house is a cave house. I've come to this conclusion for the following reasons:
Phone, Internet, and TV: "wireless broadband mobile internet". If you can get cellphone reception where you are. Also see my free cable post. And have a Google android for house phone, if it can connect to the wifi of the mobile internet, and a go phone for emergencies.
Food: Be on a south facing part of the mountain, and grow food nearby, or collect from the forest. and have a road to a nearby town also.
Dishes: Make pottery from self separated clay, which you get from the way you make adobe, and fire them in a self made oven/kiln. Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material so it won't crack, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
Lighting, Cooking, Heating, Fridge, Transportation: All electric and solid state.
Toilet, Shower,Clothes washing: Toilet is the outdoors (bury it for no smell, also test a post hole digger). Shower the same way as Alaskans, a rag and bucket of soapy water. Bucket of soapy water and plunger for clothes.
Electric: Wind power enough to fill the batteries. Or just solar power.
Income: A home business of some kind like as seen in my home business post, so that you won't have to commute to work.
Road access: Build your own dirt gravel road out of the chips left over from excavation.
Excavating: Use a pick axe for soft rock and osmocote and chemical fertilizer for hard rock. Video
This would be one of the most fun houses ever also because first of all you'd be living like the Flintstones and it would be just like when you used to build forts as a kid however precarious they were. Start out with just a cave and whenever you feel you're lacking anything, just add a new amenity to make yourself more comfortable, with all the spare time you have from not working 8 hours a day to pay a mortgage.
- We can! We are the only species on earth capable of making their own cave out of rock.
- Our planet has been around for a long time, and that naturally gives our planet lots of mountain ranges that have formed over eons, so lots of places to make cave houses.
- High supply, and low demand means mountainous terrain is CHEAP!
- There is no need for air conditioning, AT ALL, EVER AGAIN, even if it's solid state and never needs repair, or energy to run.
- Once you build it, this house will be there for eternity. Site: Cave paintings.
- We have the tools necessary like homemade explosive charges and electric blast cord, and hammer and chisel and jackhammer, and generators to power it, and pick axe, and some rocks are easy to chisel out.
- The only fire possible is from the contents of the house.
- It's weather proof other than water leaking from fissures(just use silicone).
- There is constant wind power right outside the door, because along the sides of cliffs and buildings there is a natural chimney effect(Bernoulli's principle) as air flows across the top of a cliff or building, air will travel up the sides from the bottom.
- You'll have the biggest house around(mountain sized).
Phone, Internet, and TV: "wireless broadband mobile internet". If you can get cellphone reception where you are. Also see my free cable post. And have a Google android for house phone, if it can connect to the wifi of the mobile internet, and a go phone for emergencies.
Food: Be on a south facing part of the mountain, and grow food nearby, or collect from the forest. and have a road to a nearby town also.
Dishes: Make pottery from self separated clay, which you get from the way you make adobe, and fire them in a self made oven/kiln. Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material so it won't crack, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
Lighting, Cooking, Heating, Fridge, Transportation: All electric and solid state.
Toilet, Shower,Clothes washing: Toilet is the outdoors (bury it for no smell, also test a post hole digger). Shower the same way as Alaskans, a rag and bucket of soapy water. Bucket of soapy water and plunger for clothes.
Electric: Wind power enough to fill the batteries. Or just solar power.
Income: A home business of some kind like as seen in my home business post, so that you won't have to commute to work.
Road access: Build your own dirt gravel road out of the chips left over from excavation.
Excavating: Use a pick axe for soft rock and osmocote and chemical fertilizer for hard rock. Video
This would be one of the most fun houses ever also because first of all you'd be living like the Flintstones and it would be just like when you used to build forts as a kid however precarious they were. Start out with just a cave and whenever you feel you're lacking anything, just add a new amenity to make yourself more comfortable, with all the spare time you have from not working 8 hours a day to pay a mortgage.
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Good Enough Reason Theory
The theory is that if you have a good enough reason you can do anything. It could be that you'll get paid a million dollars for whatever it is(like movie stars to prepare for a role) or it could just be to feel good about yourself if that's a good enough reason for you.
- You can get superhuman strength to rescue yourself or family members from a crash.
- You can learn to not eat in order to lose weight like I'm doing and succeeding at right now because I have a good enough reason.
- You can quit smoking like lots of people do after having a bad smoking experience or thinking about it long and hard for a good reason.
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Home Business
The perfect job is a home based business that requires little time and effort but is still profitable. The more of these businesses you have from home the more likely you will get a full income every month in the end.
Equation to remember is: Fun=Time/Money
So to have the most fun you need the most time and money possible.
Also another random idea is that if you had a family member or good friend living in each state then you could vacation at each others houses very cheaply, every year. But this might not be the most fun vacation.
Comic book business: Buy at 33% sell at 50%, and for early or key issues buy at 40-70% and sell at 60-100%. But only specialize in the best selling comics like silver age marvel. Which means you will only buy one at a time on ebay instead of in bulk, because in bulk means you'll get lots of other stuff that isn't silver age marvel. Also buy only the ones that are currently flooding the market to get the best price on those comics. (Currently it's spider man that has too many out there and is cheap).
Artist: Go to school and hone your skills to either become a freelance commercial artist or a self made artist. Then sell your stuff on ebay or at a fair.
Firewood selling cheaper than the competition: Just need an electric mauler and a large property.
Become a craftsman: If you can make something from scratch out of wood or clay or metal or anything then you can sell it on ebay one at a time from home. Either auction style or ebay store style. Examples: Fishing lures, pottery, furnishings, art, sculpture, fabrics, gadgets, trinkets.
Writer: Write editorials, or comic strips, or fiction, or real news over the internet.
Make your own food: A penny saved is mathematically the same as a penny earned. This may be a seasonal money saver though.
Equation to remember is: Fun=Time/Money
So to have the most fun you need the most time and money possible.
Also another random idea is that if you had a family member or good friend living in each state then you could vacation at each others houses very cheaply, every year. But this might not be the most fun vacation.
Comic book business: Buy at 33% sell at 50%, and for early or key issues buy at 40-70% and sell at 60-100%. But only specialize in the best selling comics like silver age marvel. Which means you will only buy one at a time on ebay instead of in bulk, because in bulk means you'll get lots of other stuff that isn't silver age marvel. Also buy only the ones that are currently flooding the market to get the best price on those comics. (Currently it's spider man that has too many out there and is cheap).
Artist: Go to school and hone your skills to either become a freelance commercial artist or a self made artist. Then sell your stuff on ebay or at a fair.
Firewood selling cheaper than the competition: Just need an electric mauler and a large property.
Become a craftsman: If you can make something from scratch out of wood or clay or metal or anything then you can sell it on ebay one at a time from home. Either auction style or ebay store style. Examples: Fishing lures, pottery, furnishings, art, sculpture, fabrics, gadgets, trinkets.
Writer: Write editorials, or comic strips, or fiction, or real news over the internet.
Make your own food: A penny saved is mathematically the same as a penny earned. This may be a seasonal money saver though.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Inventions for the future
I plan on making these inventions soon but it requires a lot of materials searches which means time. These are all solid state and self powered. Inventions that use physical laws, effects and principles are the best inventions because they never fail.
But they are only theory until tested and proven.
Solar distiller: Has a cone shaped translucent top on top of a shallow pan that holds any distilled liquid, the undistilled or "dirty" liquid is inside of a cup in the middle of the cone enclosure. take cone off and use the liquid left in the pan. Utilizes: Condensation and the greenhouse effect.
Solar heater: Have a glass or acrylic box with a heat absorbent material inside of it like black rocks or cement chunk or whatever. Also have 2 small holes on either side of the enclosure one is the air intake side and one is the air output side. On the air output side you have a tube leading to the house with an on/ off nozzle inside of the house. And even further beyond that on the roof of the house you have a chimney which uses Bernoulli's principle to force air upwards providing the air flow needed to force the hot air inside. Utilizes: Greenhouse effect, heat retention, bernoulli's principle.
Later added: I now think that the better way to make a house now is in the ground or in a mountain as a cave house. This way you never need any air conditioning at all. So instead just use the following invention as a distilled water maker.
Free air conditioning and free distilled water as a biproduct: The simple version for AC only is to have a tube inside of a bucket with both ends leading out of the bucket, then fill the bucket with gravel and then fill with water(the water is a good conductor of heat). Then bury the open lid plastic bucket 10 feet underground. have a mesh cage on the outside end of the tube to keep bugs out, and have the other end of the tube inside the house with an adjustable on/off nozzle. And beyond that there would be a chimney in the roof that uses bernoulli's principle to create the air flow necessary for the underground cooled air to flow into the house.
Later added: I recently revised this invention to only be made of small tubing, which means that it is self draining because as air flows through the thin tube and creates condensation along the way, and the water droplets grow bigger, eventually the water droplets will get big enough to block the air flow in the tube, meaning that the water will be pushed all the way out of the tube by the air flow, and into whatever container you have at the other end.
However, this would always create condensation inside of the tube because of the temperature differential. So to take advantage of this you would have a small container in the bottom of the bucket with the air tube entering and exiting this small distilled water container. As the water collected in this container, being the low point, it would then go into one more tube leading out of the bottom of the distilled water container and up above ground and into another bucket that had an open top which also acted as a chimney, so that when the wind blew the bucket would have a lower air pressure, effectively you are now converting low air pressure into a water pump(like sucking a drink out of a straw). I call this aerodynamic pumping. To pump to greater heights you need a bigger chimney top and a thinner water tube.
Also translating the aerodynamic pumping invention into a way to automatically water plants is fairly straight forward. Once you have built up water pressure it's only deciding what to do with it(automatic sprinkler). Also have an artificially dug storm water retention pond to supply water into perpetuity.
Utilizes: Bernoulli's principle, condensation, stable year round underground temperatures, conduction, artificial pond, aerodynamic pumping
But they are only theory until tested and proven.
Solar distiller: Has a cone shaped translucent top on top of a shallow pan that holds any distilled liquid, the undistilled or "dirty" liquid is inside of a cup in the middle of the cone enclosure. take cone off and use the liquid left in the pan. Utilizes: Condensation and the greenhouse effect.
Solar heater: Have a glass or acrylic box with a heat absorbent material inside of it like black rocks or cement chunk or whatever. Also have 2 small holes on either side of the enclosure one is the air intake side and one is the air output side. On the air output side you have a tube leading to the house with an on/ off nozzle inside of the house. And even further beyond that on the roof of the house you have a chimney which uses Bernoulli's principle to force air upwards providing the air flow needed to force the hot air inside. Utilizes: Greenhouse effect, heat retention, bernoulli's principle.
Later added: I now think that the better way to make a house now is in the ground or in a mountain as a cave house. This way you never need any air conditioning at all. So instead just use the following invention as a distilled water maker.
Free air conditioning and free distilled water as a biproduct: The simple version for AC only is to have a tube inside of a bucket with both ends leading out of the bucket, then fill the bucket with gravel and then fill with water(the water is a good conductor of heat). Then bury the open lid plastic bucket 10 feet underground. have a mesh cage on the outside end of the tube to keep bugs out, and have the other end of the tube inside the house with an adjustable on/off nozzle. And beyond that there would be a chimney in the roof that uses bernoulli's principle to create the air flow necessary for the underground cooled air to flow into the house.
Later added: I recently revised this invention to only be made of small tubing, which means that it is self draining because as air flows through the thin tube and creates condensation along the way, and the water droplets grow bigger, eventually the water droplets will get big enough to block the air flow in the tube, meaning that the water will be pushed all the way out of the tube by the air flow, and into whatever container you have at the other end.
However, this would always create condensation inside of the tube because of the temperature differential. So to take advantage of this you would have a small container in the bottom of the bucket with the air tube entering and exiting this small distilled water container. As the water collected in this container, being the low point, it would then go into one more tube leading out of the bottom of the distilled water container and up above ground and into another bucket that had an open top which also acted as a chimney, so that when the wind blew the bucket would have a lower air pressure, effectively you are now converting low air pressure into a water pump(like sucking a drink out of a straw). I call this aerodynamic pumping. To pump to greater heights you need a bigger chimney top and a thinner water tube.
Also translating the aerodynamic pumping invention into a way to automatically water plants is fairly straight forward. Once you have built up water pressure it's only deciding what to do with it(automatic sprinkler). Also have an artificially dug storm water retention pond to supply water into perpetuity.
Utilizes: Bernoulli's principle, condensation, stable year round underground temperatures, conduction, artificial pond, aerodynamic pumping
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
How to make your own country
Build it based on basic principles of human nature:
Then make a currency that is based on something trustworthy. If you can print as much of it as you want then it requires faith that you have to hope everyone believes in. So instead use something that you know is valuable such as gold or artwork or a limited amount of unique coins to create rarity as value.
Some forms of currency could be:
And maybe pay for taxes with an interest earning fund of the amount needed every year.
To get around taxes just renounce your citizenship and live on a yacht on international waters and go to uninhabited islands for recreation and food. Also to not pay property tax on a house you can build a floating house on the water, even next to land. To not pay luxury tax on a ferrari you can sign the title away to a friend for cheap and then have them give it back to you somehow and you technically don't own it anymore, and won't know you're still driving it. See: part 2 of the unemployment episode of "mission hill".
When buying an island it will have no electricity or buildings or water or sewer and may just be solid rock. But if its only you on the island then you don't need a sewer system. Also with all of the spare time on your hands, building the rest should be easy at working 8 hours a day like at a normal job.
Also the biggest and most productive country has always won all of the wars. But if nobody else is after you then you will have no wars to worry about.
- People always do what they believe is in their own best interest even if that just being happy by helping others.
- People will always work toward improving their standard of living and becoming wealthy, which is why socialism doesn't work.
- Will trade with others that can do other things better than themselves.
Then make a currency that is based on something trustworthy. If you can print as much of it as you want then it requires faith that you have to hope everyone believes in. So instead use something that you know is valuable such as gold or artwork or a limited amount of unique coins to create rarity as value.
Some forms of currency could be:
- gold unique stamped coin currency is the most trustable.
- salt
- Stamped game machine coins
- Unforgeable ink stamp on paper of limited run of papers
- Or trade reprints of pre-comics-code horror comics as currency for all anyone cares.
By the way this is a good way around sales tax and the freedom coin and hours worked credits and burning man project are taking advantage of this principle.Then buy land, or an island with enough land to house and feed the people living in your country.
And maybe pay for taxes with an interest earning fund of the amount needed every year.
To get around taxes just renounce your citizenship and live on a yacht on international waters and go to uninhabited islands for recreation and food. Also to not pay property tax on a house you can build a floating house on the water, even next to land. To not pay luxury tax on a ferrari you can sign the title away to a friend for cheap and then have them give it back to you somehow and you technically don't own it anymore, and won't know you're still driving it. See: part 2 of the unemployment episode of "mission hill".
When buying an island it will have no electricity or buildings or water or sewer and may just be solid rock. But if its only you on the island then you don't need a sewer system. Also with all of the spare time on your hands, building the rest should be easy at working 8 hours a day like at a normal job.
Also the biggest and most productive country has always won all of the wars. But if nobody else is after you then you will have no wars to worry about.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
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