Dual-Use Nuclear War Prep Ideas

Ideas on how to prepare to survive a non-direct-hit nuclear blast that you can also use for other purposes, so you're not wasting your money and accumulating junk which will probably never be used, including an extendable roof that can extend all the way down to the ground to cover your windows during a bomb blast and also allow you to have more solar panels on your roof or to sled down it in the winter, a sprinkler system on your roof to protect your house from burning down during a bomb blast or a forest fire, a storage space underneath a waterbed that you can lay in to use the water of the bed to block the radiation that seeps through your walls. Also: levels of sadism at which you can find something funny without feeling guilty about it; pressing a board against the inside of your windows to support them and painting the board to look like the inside of your house from the outside (Wile E. Coyote style) so your neighbors don't judge you; the 3 things we'd want in a bomb shelter

Ace Armstrong (Twitter: @AceSmellsFunny YouTube: @acesmellsfunny)
Deepak "DP" Aggarwal (Twitter: @not8AllFunny)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma Twitch: @gameymcfitness)

Outdoor Concert Survival Bunkers

Idea: An outdoor concert venue where each set of 4 or so seats has a bunker underneath, where you can use the restroom, take a shower, sleep, etc. People would own the bunkers, and they could rent them out during concerts to help pay for them, and also use them as survival bunkers during nuclear wars, floods, hurricanes, etc. Also: you could go down into the bunker for peace and quiet and to check your phone during the boring parts of a concert; bums might want to live in the bunkers full time; there might be chaos if a disaster occurs during a concert and both the people who own the bunker and the people to whom they rented it out for the concert want to use it

Evan Sasiela (Twitter: @SalsaEvan Instagram: @salsaevan)
Connie Ettinger (Facebook: @connie.ettinger)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)

Historical Concept Societies

Idea: To create societies of 100,000+ people who *loosely* live the lifestyle of a historical era (but with flushing toilets), including both the popular culture and the technology of the era. That way, they can make money on tourism, and if a huge global disaster occurs, and we lose all electricity or all computers or something, we have a large supply of people who know how to do stuff using older technology, who can instantly step in to help the rest of the world and prevent mass starvation. Also: the need for more physical leisure activities; as tech advances, there'll be a need for more and more societies based on different levels of technology, which will create more and more jobs

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 46

David Shank (Broken Knuckle Podcast Recording Studio Sitting Down WIth Standups Podcast)
Jason Spitsbergen (Twitter: @JSpitsbergen)
Josh Bowab
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (Podcast Detroit)

Hurricane-Proof Housing Ideas

Ideas for hurricane-proof housing by myself and others, including floating houses in water-filled holes, "indoor tiny house(s)" that reside inside a full-sized house or skyscraper or standalone "shell" (like an iPhone case for a house) which can be towed away with your stuff inside if a hurricane comes (leaving the shell behind), houses where most of your stuff is continuously wheeled in and out of your house by robots to and from a neighborhood warehouse which can be hurricane-proof and/or flood-proof, and floating entire cities on ping-pong balls. Also: People seem incapable of seeing beyond natural disasters to design and plan houses and cities to withstand hurricanes and global warming sea rise. They're like the villain who was frozen in fear as Austin Powers drove a steamroller towards him at a snail's pace

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 45

Ondrej Balas (Twitter: @ondrejbalas)
Ron Rigby (Twitter: @RonRigby)
Bryan Harrison (Podcast: Moist Definitely)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit (Podcast Detroit)

Apocalypse Tiny Houses

Tom's obsession with "black balls" (author Nick Bostrom's metaphor for future technologies that could end humanity) gives him the idea for tiny houses which are built to withstand apocalyptic disasters, such as virus outbreaks or nuclear/meteor firestorms. Since they're mobile, you can drive them into apocalypse testing facilities, such as a "car wash that uses fire instead of water", to make sure they actually work

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 86

Kurt Brown (Twitter: @KurtBrownTown)
Justin Siekierka (Facebook: @justin.siekierka)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Global Warming Apocalypse Party

Idea: Set a deadline to fix global warming emissions, and if we fail to meet the deadline, "calling it quits for civilization", and conducting a worldwide party for a couple years, or until the food runs out. That way, everybody gets a couple years of the highest quality living, instead of slow miserable decline towards a Mad Max hell

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 82

Brent Von Kalamazoo (Twitter: @brentvonkzoo)
Greg Sharp (Twitter: @GregSharp)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit

Cars Without Batteries

Idea: Cars don't need batteries. Brakelights can be LED lights with batteries built into the bulb. The speedometer and console (except the fuel gauge) can be a phone app. The electricity needed to start the car (i.e. ignition) can be obtained by electric car charging stations which are being added to parking spots.

Originally from Creativity Wasted episode 70

Derek Brand (Instagram: @brand9470)
Tom Walma (Twitter: @thomaswalma)
Recorded at Podcast Detroit