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One probably does not need to store vast quantities of data to get civilization restarted. For example, this book purports to be a good start: https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047
I've seen it suggested that Gray's Anatomy would provide a huge amount of medical knowledge. A handful of statements like "sickness is caused by living creatures too small to see," "everything is made from tiny indivisible parts too small to see individually," something about basic physics (at the F=ma level), something about the scientific method, something about fertilizer, and then evolution and genetics, etc might save people huge amounts of effort rediscovering technology, medicine, and so on. There was an interview circuit a few decades ago where they asked dozens of famous scientists what one (or three?) books they would want to survive nuclear war, and they all made quite a bit of sense.
You could probably kickstart the industrial revolution with one 10x10x10 room full of well-preserved textbooks.
There are a few like this already but the one that sounds closest to what you're talking about is <em>The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm</em> by Lewis Dartnell. I'd start there for market research and ensure you're offering something in addition to this one.
Yep yep. Max Brooks. Also the author of The Zombie Survival Guide World War Z (the book) is far better, but the survival guide was how I was introduced to it all.
Good for you! It's funny that what you're saying can even be understood as a joke, when reading those books should be utterly unremarkable.
BTW, since you seem to be interested in reading about evolution you should definitely check out Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne. It's the single best popular book I've read on evolution -- clear and well-written, and really makes the case in an irrefutable way. It's worthwhile on its own, but if you're dealing with skeptics it'll also give you plenty of ammunition.
Have a read.
It’s a fun read that takes you from prehistoric times to more modern inventions, with all of the discoveries along the way. Granted, it is rather superficial as it needs to be given the amount of material it covers. I found it fun and fascinating!
The premise is that it’s a handbook for a stranded time traveler and tells you what you need to do to rebuild civilization.
Personally "SAS Survival hand book" by John Wiseman. It's not a prepper book in the sense your looking for, but it is important in that it teaches mental preparedness.
SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062378074/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HzorDbTMVBCZP
I sympathize with you. A great book that I read around 24-25 that really change my perspective is The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. I showed it to two of my friends and they loved it and one of them read it twice in a year. It gave me a great perspective. You still have neuroplasticity in your 20s and can cement good habits now that will last. Whereas it’s much more difficult for your brain to alter its habits and patterns later in life. Here’s the Amazon link, I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754
It’s also relatively short. I also recommend crime and punishment like someone else in this thread but that is a beast of a book. The Defining Decade is like 200 pages and easy reading.
I read,”Why Evolution Is True “ by Jerry Coyne.
It’s an easy read and lays out an argument that I can’t find flaw with.
Only the most obtuse could peruse this scientific aggregate and still try to deny the age of the earth and evolution.
A similar book but a little more directly matching OP's scenario is How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. It's kind of a fluffy book that doesn't take itself seriously, but does attempt an outline of key inventions that allow advancing civilization more rapidly at each point in time.
But the information in that book is easy to absorb and more or less memorize. I'd want to condense it down to key facts, like recipes for simple chemical processes, etc., and then I'd be tempted to say I'd want some math tables, if I don't have a calculator, but I'm not quite sure how soon I'd need that.
A map of mineral deposits would be pretty useful.
I found a book called The Defining Decade to be hugely motivating, practical, and life affirming when I read it in my senior year in college. I hope it inspires you the way it inspired me :)
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https://www.amazon.ca/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754
I'm curious about it and will probably still end up getting it as well as another one that always comes up in the other recommended list. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler I'm suspecting what I've got in mind is just too big.
Got a book recommendation for you: https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Decade-Your-Twenties-Matter/dp/0446561754 from your post it sounds like this might help you clarify your thinking. I hope you find a path you’re happy with.
I think what you are looking for is an Epistolary Novel, which is a novel written in the form of "found" documents. Books like We Need To Talk About Kevin are written in the form of letters from one character to another, or another common technique is when a book is written as if it is the personal journal of a character.
There are also satire books like The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks which is obviously fiction, but written as if it is true.
Gonna go ahead and plug a book, The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. It's filled with case studies of people in their mid-twenties figuring out their careers, romantic lives, and mental well-being. I'm 25 and often panic about career direction and purpose. I feel this book gives a very informed look on how the sky isn't truly falling. It's a quick 200 pages and I walked away feeling a whole lot more confident about my position.
So, between The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks and that one Mythbusters(maybe) episode about zombies and vampires or something like that:
Zombies don't have that gate that prevents humans from using 100% of their available strength. You know, the whole "mom lifting a car off her kid" strength? That's zombies forever. That also extends to their bite force. They don't really care about breaking their teeth or destroying their jaw muscles, so it's full send every time.
So, chipped and broken teeth that might be sharp, a bite force several times stronger than what humans would usually be capable of, and the fact that the smallest cut from a zombie tooth and you're infected. Kevlar would probably work, but I wouldn't be prepared to put on a couple pairs of jeans and assume I'm safe.
Read the reviews for it on amazon or just visit his website (which has a lot of very specific information). He's put a lot of thought into it and makes the argument that you'd be better off in a city during a serious economic collapse.
SAS Survival Guide and the Bushcraft 101 books are two good ones.
> How long would it take realistically for humanity to reach the industrial revolution if we knew everything we know now? I'm talking large scale.
Like if we landed on earth with all the knowledge but none of the stuff, with all of humanity (billions of people) able to help in the effort?
It's a supply chain problem then. You're not talking about how long would it take to get one email sent, you're talking about how long it would take to rebuild all the infrastructure necessary so that most of the world's population can send an email from their phone.
You might find this book interesting, btw. I haven't read it myself but did have it recommended once: How to Invent Everything
So everyone here is going to pretend like lengthy manuals came with the game itself? I remember purchasing game manuals for Pokémon Blue, Ocarina of Time, Halo: Combat Evolved, etc. Always separate but prominent within the section. Even now I can say I own the 544 page VDSG! Amazon link, but I bought mine at a local comic book store. Come on now...don't bandwagon without researching. Also pay no attention to that bolded "condensed edition" right on the cover..
Natural selection is not defined as "survival of the fittest," that's just a colloquialism to help people understand the basic idea. The basic idea is that there is some process by which organisms who are more fit than others will reproduce more often, outcompeting those who are less fit. Natural selection is simply the mechanism that takes genetic mutation and environmental conditions and outputs organisms that succeed. It also outputs organisms that don't, hence the idea of 'out competing.'
I'm on mobile, so here's an ugly link to a good definition and high level overview:
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_25
The phrase "survival of the fittest" reduces the idea down by trimming away the details to make a nice, intuitive catch phrase. However, that loss of information does lead people to misunderstand what natural selection really is.
As for your link, I'll respond with one of my own, if you're interested. I'm not an expert and don't keep the details of evolution handy. The book "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry Coyne goes into great detail about why the Theory of Evolution does make predictions and that those predictions are testable and verifiable. That will suffice as my rebuttal to Dr. Henry Peters' forced "tautology." After all, wouldn't you rather hear it from an expert than some internet stranger?
There are plenty of other books like Dr. Coyne's that would do just as well, however. I was able to check out his book for free at my local library, but here is the Amazon link ($14), so you have the details:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/0143116649
Not Venezuela, but "Ferfal" wrote extensively about his personal experiences in Argentina. He had some interesting observations about precious metals in a Kunstler-style Long Emergency, grindingly slow decline scenario.
Remember as we descend into this, the longest economic calamity in the modern industrial and post-industrial era (19th century onwards) was less than 6 years, say 12 years for "normal folk" to be generous. It will feel like a new normal, but after sufficient asset repricing, there will be buyers and builders creating from the ashes.
first of all, you are insanely talented. animating characters with realistic proportions like these is super hard so great job!!
I do think some of your walkcycles still look a little rough though. If you would like to learn to improve them, consider buying the Animator's Survival Kit: https://www.amazon.nl/Animators-Survival-Kit-Principles-Classical/dp/086547897X/ref=asc_df_086547897X/?tag=nlshogostdde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=430671742064&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7488386459259133356&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1010659&hvtargid=pla-395340047230&psc=1
Good luck with future projects!!
It was a PG13 zombie movie....
If you're impressed with the details just read The Zombie Survival Guide. Same author who wrote the book your gold standard was based on.
How similar is the insect population to earth? It’s labour intensive and alcohol in needed, but some of the first insulation for electronics was Shellac. Plus the other uses.
Basic survival needs include food, water, and shelter (including protection from dangers\weather, clothing, and a safe place to get enough sleep). It looks like your fiance is working hard on the shelter part and on catching food. I would urge you to work on your food sources. What are you going to eat the first spring? Where will it come from. What will you plant first so that you can eat in the summer and into the fall. How much do you need to plant and how will you preserve your harvest for winter?
There are a lot of good resources out there. When we first started we bought "The Backyard Homestead" (book link below). There are probably better books out there, but this one is usually available used and it really helped me with ideas on what we could do. It has basic info on foraging, vegetables, meat, fruit & nuts, herbs and grains. Also includes info on canning and preserving.
Start off small. Practice with some gardening this next year if you can. TX is wonderful to try out a small fall garden right now, and you can plant this coming spring (usually in Feb) and start understanding what works for you. The Backyard Homestead
If you're already painting in photoshop, thats a great place to start animating!
Here's a great tutorial on workflow tips for animating in Photoshop, by a really talented animator named Alex Grigg: https://vimeo.com/80851591
I'd say play around for a bit just making things move around before getting into more technical animation training. Approach it like you would draw flip books in the corner of a textbook. Just make things move around and experiment. Once you've played around a bit, and gotten a feel for using photoshop to work across a timeline, I suggest checking out a book that is one of the standard textbooks for classical animation, "The Animator's Survival Toolkit," by Richard Williams (he was the animation director on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"). You can find it on amazon here:
Hope this helps!
You might want to take a look at Why Evolution Is True by evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne. It's an entertaining, clear, well-written overview--the single best book I've read on the topic of evolution (and in the running for the best popular science book I've read, period). Based on the Amazon reviews of Mayr's book it sounds like Coyne's is the better and more approachable book.
Your arms are moving on some nice arcs. But your legs are really poppy towards the end of the loop. The head seems to move at the same rate of the arms and it’s making it feel robotic. When humans run there’s an up and down motion of the whole body. Like so: walk cycle If you’ve don’t have the Animators Survial Kit by Richard Willams, I highly recommend buying it in some form. Amazon link to paperbackIt has all sorts of useful information.
overall its a solid start. you just need to brush up on the 12 principles of animation.
hope it helps!
This really helped me when i learned animation.
Oh hell yes it does. It will tell you everything you need to know, and where everything is. Quests, random encounters, workshops, locations, armor, weapons, loot, everything. I've bought them for all of Bethesda's games.
It's an encyclopedia.
Forgot to put in the link http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Dwellers-Survival-Collectors-Edition/dp/0744016312