The great day of the LORD is . . . a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
Zephaniah 1:14-15
You must understand that the next global catastrophe will be the “greater” nova event of the 6,000/12,000 year cycle. Half of Earth’s surface will have been incinerated while the other half will have been flooded by the surging oceans.
Nothing will remain.
When you step outside of your survival pod – either your little submarine or your cave – your world will be a wasteland. There will be no trees, no vegetation. It will be a moonscape.
There will be no archeological ruins from our current civilization to scavenge. Much of the Eastern Hemisphere will have been incinerated in the nova-induced blast furnace and then flooded by the surge of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
In the Western Hemisphere everything will be gone, as well. Los Angeles will have been swept to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and buried under thousands of feet of sediment, never to be seen again – not even in an archeological dig thousands of years from now. The Eastern seaboard will be swept to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
When you exit your survival pod, you will not be able to see the Sun – perhaps for years. It will be dark, like the winter-long night of the Arctic. The air will be toxic and thin like the top of Mt. Everest. You will need an oxygen tank. It will be cold.
Although the worst of the Earth-upheavals will likely be over from the crustal displacement and the global volcanic eruptions – now two to four weeks behind you – the Earth will still be spewing rivers of molten lava and forming new seabeds of basalt for many years to come, perhaps for centuries. Crustal uplift will have created new topographical features: mountains where none stood before and new canyons, as well.
The continental shelves will be exposed by a shallower ocean, but you will not yet want to be living near it because of recurring tsunamis and extreme tidal forces. You will need to know where you are, but you can’t see the Sun or the stars. A compass will still be gyrating from newly-made magnetic moraines. You will need to stay in your survival pod for an indefinite period and monitor outside conditions until you can fix coordinates and predict climatic conditions. You might want to live close to a source of geothermal energy to harness it for heat and power, like they do in Iceland. But it will be risky for obvious reasons.
When you leave your survival pod, you will need to know geopolymer technology to build shelters from the mud surrounding you. You will need to know mineralogy to determine soil compositions to make bricks and potting soil. You will have to grow your food under shelter and be prepared for emergency evacuations.
If our civilization has produced millions of survival pods with beacons containing supplies and animals, you might be able to locate some of them to help retool and sustain yourself. If you are not lucky to be near one, you will need a propulsion system to move your survival pod to find them. If you are at sea, you can use the wind to sail; if you encounter currents, you will need a rudder. Your only other option will be an electromagnetic propulsion system which can capture the static electricity from the air to levitate and transport your capsule. The terrain will be too rugged for anything more than limited land travel. Stored power sources (like diesel and lithium batteries) will be too difficult and dangerous. Remember to ground your pod before stepping out.
The world you know today will be gone. Those alive now will probably never again see a forest or a meadow. If you have prepared well enough, your children and grandchildren might again see some of these things if they grow them from seeds. But you must always remember that random secondary disasters will occur from local and regional causes. Your descendants might have just begun to rebuild a civilization when another catastrophe sweeps it all away. Future generations must always be prepared to start again.
There will be new and exotic diseases from the destructive mutations caused by intense cosmic radiation and the sediments churned up from the bottom of the oceans. You will need botanicals to find cures. Antibiotics and antivirals might help. It will be a crap shoot. You will need to learn to pray for God’s help.
Where is God in all of this? This is God’s gauntlet that He requires of our species to be worthy of interplanetary colonization. Suck it up!
We will need a strong doctrine of succession and we will need to try to help our old people live long enough to teach us their wisdom. Otherwise, we will have a “Lord of the Flies” scenario.
— JWS, May 30th, 2022
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