The Knowledge Bank

[Hrusai]

the idea behind this is not to have lots of books on hand for you personall per se, but to have a big chunk of knowledge ready for the future, if there is some cataclysm and we revert to medieval levels of knowledge, wheres the progress? whereas if we save some of those amazing things that have occured in the last few hundred years then we'll only have to lose the last 10 years of academic progress, sure we wouldnt have fancy buildings and labs and all that but we could retain the knowledge to do so!....i think skean dhude gets what i mean

and yes im sure there are government "arks" about but how the buggery are they gonna be found, what if they dont survive? then what?...im talking about creating a public and freely available "ark" not just for us preppers but anyone who is interested....and after all who is most likely going to survive to start a new society? we, the preppers and survivalists, therefore if we have reasonably located "arks" cached near our BOL or at least somewhere we know, or even in our BOB's we wont have to trawl for years to find a government one, assuming there is indeed such a thing in existence

and as for sticks and the like, they'd still be useful, after all its not hard to create some energy and as long as a computer isnt on during a solar flare you shouldnt have a problem with it, therefore a basic homemade generator hooked up to a salvaged computer would easily suffice to read some of the contents of such a stick, not to mention how widespread different types of gadgets are becoming, you could easily make a very very simple program/computer that'll read memory sticks with ease!

also would you like to carry 3500 books? or a kindle?...which will be more space and weight efficient .....i will admit you cant use a kindle or some such to wipe your arse or to burn, but if its you only base of knowledge you wouldnt want to! not to mention that survival is a mainly mental exercise, if you lose heart and give up your dead, whereas a kindle with some books on can help you to keep your spirits up