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by throw0101a 2193 days ago
> […] repository for survival and rebuilding society if a major SHTF scenario occurred.

There's a book (ISBN 978-0143127048):

> Maybe it was a viral pandemic, or an asteroid strike, or perhaps nuclear war. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch?

> Once you’ve scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines, or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment?

* http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/

Of course it's at layman's level of understanding, so further resources would be needed to get all the details.

3 comments

> get metal out of rocks?

I'd imagine that prioritising getting metal out of old components would be a more efficient process. It's my understanding that there aren't many easily accessible metal deposits left, as there would have been thousands of years ago.

> I'd imagine that prioritising getting metal out of old components would be a more efficient process.

Covered in the book: recycle first, especially early in the post-collapse world when there may be a lot of stuff just sitting around.

This would be a great starting point for the repo. The goal would be to have this layman-level knowledge like this and then flesh out the extreme technical details by crowdsourcing verified experts. I'm especially interested in how to organize traumatized people in a productive way, since that will likely be one of the biggest hurdles to overcome.
Like a wikipedia, but condensed, useful, and navigable. Preferably able to store offline / locally or decentralized. Would have to identify what basis is necessary for rebuild and what is luxury. A large majority of things today are simply luxury. I love the idea of it though and would def try and contribute somehow even though my skill and knowledge base isnt comparable to others.
An offline dump of Wikipedia would be a valuable addition to such a library. I've been thinking of storing something like this on a durable laptop stored in a Faraday cage, along with solar chargers and so on.
Plenty of projects like that. Here's one: https://github.com/ligi/SurvivalManual
Protip: order the paper version. I suspect having a working, charged Kindle may be difficult in the event the book is actually required.