Posted by gil on January 3, 2010
“The Best of All Worlds” is where we live today. Unfortunately humanity has bipolar disorder. Find an asteroid on a collision course with earth, and all the industrial nations of the world would chip-in to build a spacecraft and go blow it up. After that, we’d just go back to killing each-other. History is full [...]
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Posted by gil on May 15, 2008
There are skills in this world that, independently of where you live and who you are, you need to know. Not only to be prepared, but to be worth of being called human, may I say. Our long line of ancestors made it through a multitude of obstacles, from saber-tooth tigers to World War II, [...]
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Posted by gil on June 5, 2007
Introduction: Trouble sometimes unexpectedly just knocks on your door. Bad things happen to good people, you don’t have to invite trouble to get into it. However safe your lifestyle is, you will never be impervious to nature’s bouts (remember Katrina..), or political unrest caused by politicians you haven’t voted for. Tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, meteorites, war, [...]
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