Recently, with the loss of SpaceX's secret satellite (or was it), the numbers have come out showing that 5% of all space launches fail. The form of travel is obviously much less safe than conventional flying, driving or even riding a unicycle.

Why then are so many celebrities signing up for Richard Branson's Virgin Galatic space flights? I only currently know of the following celebrities planning to take a ride into space straddling a rocket:

Ashton Kutcher
Russell Brand
Justin Bieber and his manager.
Angelina Jolie.
Brad Pitt.
Kate Winslet
Leonardo DiCaprio
Lance Bass

Over 500 people have signed up for this ride so far at a cost of $250,000 per ticket. If the 5% rule works out, maybe this could change the game in Hollywood from now on! We can only place bets. Virgin Galatic is planning launches this year! I can hardly wait.

(This was a test to see if I could spin 2/3 articles together with 100% original wording. I kept it short.)

   In these prepper times, a lot of people think about water storage and simply purchase a bunch of gallons of water. That works great for drinking, but what if you want everything in the house to work when there is no city water? In this short article, I will show you how you can do this for about $200, depending on the plumbing fittings.

55-Gallon Drum

   Used 55-gallon drums, food grade, can be found on craigslist for around $20 in most larger areas. Be sure you rinse them out well, one of mine had soy sauce in it originally. You'll need 1 or more of these.

   Next, you need to make sure the shutoff valve for the water in your house is turned off, it's very important otherwise you could leak water back into the sprinklers or otherwise waste it.

   Then you will need the following.

Water Pump & Fittings

An RV water pump is the next item needed, this goes on top of the tank, and the input hose drops down inside the tank. For the output get 1/2" FIP to garden hose thread adaptor. Take off the cold water line to the washing machine, put in a garden hose WYE and hook that up to the pump using a potable water hose. This will pressurize the cold water system, and will actually back feed into the hot water system too.
RV Water Pump Garden Hose Wye

Battery and Charger

   To power the water pump, you'll need some universal battery (look at Walmart) and a cheap charger (Harbor Freight trickle charger.)
Sample BatteryTrickle Charger

   Remember that you don't have to have this hooked up at all times, you can run the hose from the pump to the washing machine line in times of emergency. When the water goes out, turn off the value to the house, hook up the hoses and turn on the pump.

   Now, this is a very simple setup, yet it actually provides water to the entire house. In a long-term outage, you'll need to charge up that battery with solar, or using a vehicle on occasion.

   Also, it's a good idea to put bricks in your toilet tank to reduce the water per flush, and take the hose out of the filler tube, and drop it in the tank. This will use as little water as possible per flush.

   In my system, I have 2 55 gallon tanks plumbed together inside, and an additional tank as extra water that I can pump from if needed. I have 2 additional tanks that can be tossed in the back of the truck and filled up and I have a utility transfer pump that I can use to pump from the truck, into my tanks. I keep a 5' long metal ruler next to the tanks to measure how much water I have left.

   If you do set yourself up a system like this, make sure you check some of our other articles about water purification and safety.

If you have a leak somewhere, you'll also know it because the pump should only turn on when you are using water. It important to install and test your system before you need it.

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Dear Mr. President,

I voted for you to drain the swamp, but it seems like it's not going so well lately. It seems like, although I cannot tell you 100% yet, that you are falling for the old neoconservative war game.

The recent events (past year) in Syria and with Russia seems to have been retaliation without actually proving that Russia or Syria's Assad actually did the deed. (Or did the event actually happen?) I would request you take a moment and let the investigation into what happened complete, by as neutral of a team as possible.

Throughout History, our wars are triggered by events than later on were proven to be staged or allowed to happen.

WW1: The sinking of the Lusitania seems like the start, although even reading on Wikipedia, you'll see there was some provocation by the British to make sure it was sunk, getting the US into the war. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#Outbreak_of_the_First_World_War)

WW2: Not enough evidence to show much about that. Also the Balfour Agreement could have had an effect.

Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin incident was declassified in 2005 to show we were not attacked, and the war was based on that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident)

Iraq War: That should be obvious, there were no babies pulled out of incubators, no weapons of mass destruction, it was all a farce.

Afghanistan: Soldiers guarding poppy fields to make Heroin, now we have a Heroin epidemic in the USA. (No link needed.)

Skripal: UK investigator says no evidence of Chemical Weapons. (This is an ongoing investigation, but the story keeps changing. It doesn't look like a Russian attack. No motive.)

I could go on, but I will pass. There is a pattern of getting into wars by deception. We don't need another war, let us fight the battle at home. Our biggest problem is the Federal Reserve Bank. Lending money out of thin air, and charging interest on it. But I won't go into detail on that. I would just request that you take a little time, when you get your morning briefing, to get solid evidence of "the crimes" presented to you. Don't trust anyone, politicians seek power. The position is highly attractive to psychopaths and narcissists. I'm not concerned about you, I'm concerned that your advisers are fabricating evidence, which they have done before.

Sincerely,

WoodMan

PS: If you liked this article, don't forget to upvote!

This article is the result of just a little google work. It's not an attack on the man, merely a little trip down a rabbit hole.

Kavanaugh went to Yale, and that is where Skull and Bones is. Many crazy accusations can be seen on the internet about this secret society. Although he was not a member of Skull and Bones, he surely would have crossed paths with members of it.

He was a member of Truth and Courage (TNC), nicknamed Titt's N Clits. Some reports of it comment that it was mainly a drinking club and didn't have a tomb such as Skull.

Kavanaugh was also working under Bush during Sept 10th, 2001.

I'm not saying this means anything, but you can cherry pick enough data to make this guy look like the people we are against. He came from an elite rich family, and is definately part of the (((club))) or the (((club))) has blackmail on him for life.

Perhaps his extreme distress during the hearing about the sexual assualt was because this was being held over his head, and now it's exposed. He'll never get a job high up again, regardless, he's done for.

Also note, according to Urban Dictionary the following words are defined as:

Boof: Anal sex
Devils Triangle: 3 Way sex, (2 men, one woman)

This does not represent my personal opinion of him, but it just goes to show how cherry picking facts about these situations can all come to different conclusions. These facts clearly show, he's part of the evil cabal.

@dontgive I keep them inside the house, except the filler tanks, which are empty and it doesn't matter if they freeze. This is actually how my house has water, the well died on me and I'm waiting for it to be deepened.

The laundry machine works, shower, toilet, sinks, basically everything works. Even the outdoor spigots (the ones coming out of the house) work. Been like this a year, and other than fetching water all the time, it's not bad. It works!

I guess the neatest thing is when the power goes out, I usually take a shower (because that's it for hot water). I can still cook and clean, while everyone else is S.O.L.

@dontgive said in Living without water when the grid goes down.:

Backfeeding through washing machine port is brilliant.

It's so cheap to set up too, With a long enough hose, you could put the tanks in a closet, or garage (semi-heated). If it's survival mode, who cares about the garden hose running across the living room to the washer.

Update: Launch a success so far:

Elon Musk:
‏>@elonmusk
5m5 minutes ago
Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.

Update: Delayed until 3:45pm EST

   SpaceX, Elon Musk's outer space division is scheduled to launch today, February 6th at between 1330 and 1730 EST. One of Elon's personal cherry red Telsa cars will be the payload, strapped to the main drive. The launch will be from Florida Space Center.

   The Falcon Heavy has enough propellant and explosive force to qualify as a 2 kiloton bomb. Should anything fail at launch, there will be nothing left of the launch pad. The planned orbit, should it get there (even Musk is unsure) will be an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars. One has to wonder why to send a used Tesla up and put in orbit of the sun, creating space junk. All we can do it hope the launch does better than the market did the past few days.

A video animation of the planned flight can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk338VXcb24

To check the launch schedule, please visit:
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

Watch it live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c

A relative of mine said she couldn't get into her TracFone (cell phone company) online site, so I went online and tried to request a password reset. It took a while but I found something that looked close and clicked it.

Ding! I checked her email, and this is what I received in her email folder:

Seriously? They are storing the passwords clear text and sending them to unknown email servers and clients across the country in clear text? I guess it's true, given that the emailed password worked for the login.

If you aren't aware, anyone that was on that wifi network, or in a data center could have picked off that email with a title of "Your TracFone.com Password" and got her password. Now that's not really that important for TracFone, but what if you use that password for your bank, or a credit card? It's really bad news.

The other problem is that if there is a security breach (I mean, clear text passwords in the user database means they have complete idiots doing the programming and IT work), they would have access to your email address, and your password.

My advice:

If you have a TracFone, leave the same password there and change it on all other sites. TracFone is not secure and is awaiting a disaster. You might want to sell this one.

WoodMan

@b_ Very good and nicely written. I enjoyed reading this. Thank you!

Hmm... Google doesn't seem to be aware of it anymore.

I think most are aware Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, but it was a good voyage that took hard work, skill, and determination. We didn't come and kill the savage natives. Diseases took them out from voyages long before his arrival. The natives didn't even have wheels (which had been invented 4000 years earlier).

It's to Googlecot folks.

Hmm... Google doesn't seem to be aware of it anymore.

I think most are aware Christopher Columbus didn't discover America, but it was a good voyage that took hard work, skill, and determination. We didn't come and kill the savage natives. Diseases took them out from voyages long before his arrival. The natives didn't even have wheels (which had been invented 4000 years earlier).

It's to Googlecot folks.

This article is the result of just a little google work. It's not an attack on the man, merely a little trip down a rabbit hole.

Kavanaugh went to Yale, and that is where Skull and Bones is. Many crazy accusations can be seen on the internet about this secret society. Although he was not a member of Skull and Bones, he surely would have crossed paths with members of it.

He was a member of Truth and Courage (TNC), nicknamed Titt's N Clits. Some reports of it comment that it was mainly a drinking club and didn't have a tomb such as Skull.

Kavanaugh was also working under Bush during Sept 10th, 2001.

I'm not saying this means anything, but you can cherry pick enough data to make this guy look like the people we are against. He came from an elite rich family, and is definately part of the (((club))) or the (((club))) has blackmail on him for life.

Perhaps his extreme distress during the hearing about the sexual assualt was because this was being held over his head, and now it's exposed. He'll never get a job high up again, regardless, he's done for.

Also note, according to Urban Dictionary the following words are defined as:

Boof: Anal sex
Devils Triangle: 3 Way sex, (2 men, one woman)

This does not represent my personal opinion of him, but it just goes to show how cherry picking facts about these situations can all come to different conclusions. These facts clearly show, he's part of the evil cabal.

@b_ Very good and nicely written. I enjoyed reading this. Thank you!

@shitshitshit Well, the point is that anyone who can hack into their database of users will get your email address, phone number, and password. The language spoken at their company is irrelevant.

Most databases store a "hash" of your password instead of your actual password. It's a one-way encryption process that you can't reverse to get the actual password. That is why places have the "reset password" procedure where they send you a crazy temporary password, then you set a new one. That's safer.

TracFone is very unsafe, and very 1990's.

A relative of mine said she couldn't get into her TracFone (cell phone company) online site, so I went online and tried to request a password reset. It took a while but I found something that looked close and clicked it.

Ding! I checked her email, and this is what I received in her email folder:

Seriously? They are storing the passwords clear text and sending them to unknown email servers and clients across the country in clear text? I guess it's true, given that the emailed password worked for the login.

If you aren't aware, anyone that was on that wifi network, or in a data center could have picked off that email with a title of "Your TracFone.com Password" and got her password. Now that's not really that important for TracFone, but what if you use that password for your bank, or a credit card? It's really bad news.

The other problem is that if there is a security breach (I mean, clear text passwords in the user database means they have complete idiots doing the programming and IT work), they would have access to your email address, and your password.

My advice:

If you have a TracFone, leave the same password there and change it on all other sites. TracFone is not secure and is awaiting a disaster. You might want to sell this one.

WoodMan

Dear Mr. President,

I voted for you to drain the swamp, but it seems like it's not going so well lately. It seems like, although I cannot tell you 100% yet, that you are falling for the old neoconservative war game.

The recent events (past year) in Syria and with Russia seems to have been retaliation without actually proving that Russia or Syria's Assad actually did the deed. (Or did the event actually happen?) I would request you take a moment and let the investigation into what happened complete, by as neutral of a team as possible.

Throughout History, our wars are triggered by events than later on were proven to be staged or allowed to happen.

WW1: The sinking of the Lusitania seems like the start, although even reading on Wikipedia, you'll see there was some provocation by the British to make sure it was sunk, getting the US into the war. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#Outbreak_of_the_First_World_War)

WW2: Not enough evidence to show much about that. Also the Balfour Agreement could have had an effect.

Vietnam War: The Gulf of Tonkin incident was declassified in 2005 to show we were not attacked, and the war was based on that. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident)

Iraq War: That should be obvious, there were no babies pulled out of incubators, no weapons of mass destruction, it was all a farce.

Afghanistan: Soldiers guarding poppy fields to make Heroin, now we have a Heroin epidemic in the USA. (No link needed.)

Skripal: UK investigator says no evidence of Chemical Weapons. (This is an ongoing investigation, but the story keeps changing. It doesn't look like a Russian attack. No motive.)

I could go on, but I will pass. There is a pattern of getting into wars by deception. We don't need another war, let us fight the battle at home. Our biggest problem is the Federal Reserve Bank. Lending money out of thin air, and charging interest on it. But I won't go into detail on that. I would just request that you take a little time, when you get your morning briefing, to get solid evidence of "the crimes" presented to you. Don't trust anyone, politicians seek power. The position is highly attractive to psychopaths and narcissists. I'm not concerned about you, I'm concerned that your advisers are fabricating evidence, which they have done before.

Sincerely,

WoodMan

PS: If you liked this article, don't forget to upvote!

He's pulling a Clinton, getting rid of the evidence since they took down Backpage.com.

@shitshitshit Maybe after September he will launch and land something on Mars. It's a long trip. If you have enough fuel, you can go almost anytime.

@shitshitshit

Or is there another clandestine passenger aboard this rocket, the like of this military spy satellite which mistakenly disappeared from the radar last time and that probably never was there to begin with? To me that would be the only reason behind this space stunt. That would be a very clever diversion...

Well, normally on first launches, as I've read in articles previously, they launch a block of concrete or metal.

I don't think there is enough propellant to decelerate for a landing on Mars. They also have no landing vehicle yet. I believe we aren't in the Hohmann transfer orbit range anyways (that's a specific method to get to another planet using least fuel). I think that starts in September, so an attempt to land on Mars launched today would waste fuel.

@shitshitshit Well low earth orbit is a problem, but it's still quite large.