The Survival Machine Farm

pacopico writes "There's a 30-acre plot of land in Maysville, MO where about two dozen people have gathered to build a Civilization Starter Kit. As Businessweek reports, they're working on open-source versions of bulldozers, bread ovens, saws and other tools right on up to robots and chip fabs. The project has been dubbed the Factor e Farm, and it's run by a former nuclear physicist and a bunch of volunteers. The end goal is to have people modify the tool designs until they're good enough to compete with commercial equipment."

Ah... Yeah...

[Frosty Piss]

wskiâ(TM)s hut anchors a 30-acre compound near Maysville, Mo., full of wooden shacks, yurts, work sheds, flapping laundry, clucking chickens, and a collection of black and strange-looking machinery. A dozen or so people in their twenties, none of whom appears to have bathed in a while, wander around or fiddle with the machines."

I'm not sure these people are queued for success...

Don't forget ...

[PPH]

... the mineshafts [youtube.com].

Re:Ah... Yeah...

[JWW]

When you said archive for survivors, this concept for a post-apocalyptic movie just popped into my head.

In 2275 on a wasteland Earth, survivors seek the fabled temple of Google, rumored to contain all the knowledge of mankind before the great cataclysm....

Re:Open Source???

[Anonymous Coward]

Lawyers, like cockroaches, can survive most kinds of disasters.

Re:Open Source Bulldozer?

[Anonymous Coward]

The open source bulldozer is fully documented here [wikipedia.org].

Chip fabs huh?

[ddd0004]

I took a look at the picture on the first page and your clean room needs a little work

Re:Ah... Yeah...

[RMingin]

Go play Fallout 1. Been done. We called it a GECK there.

Re:Ah... Yeah...

[ArhcAngel]

If cockroaches survived the last apocalypse then I suspect patent trolls will survive this one.

Re:Who cares

[ScentCone]

Has it ever occurred to you that the people who know how to farm, hunt and gut a deer, hand-load ammo, and know which mushrooms will or won't kill you ... that they think you're the one that will make a post-apocalyptic world intolerable? Where's my latte! Why isn't there a better set of legislative checks and balances on who in this survival village gets to own a gun! Who do I get to do the laundry around here? My mobile device isn't getting any kind of signal out here! Say, who's the local dentist - I've got a toothache ... but he's got to take Visa, because I have nothing valuable to trade except awesome WoW skills and some excellent Class 10 SD cards.

Blam. Get his shoes, and check those SD cards for any quality porn.