Nothing brings a cookout to a pause like a wild raccoon choking on a piece of cheese! Michigan resident John P. has been telling the story of how his buddy managed to rescue the animal during guys’ night. He even captured the harrowing moment on camera! As he explained to The Dodo, his friend group was minding their own business when an unvisited guest decided to join the party. “We were sitting around a campfire late into the night, drinking some beer, when a raccoon showed up and scared us at first,” he recalled. “We’ve never seen a raccoon before, and we’re over there every Friday night.” Realizing that the humans meant no harm, the critter started foraging for snacks while the men continued to enjoy the campfire. Unfortunately, the raccoon found a large piece of cheese, which they proceeded to start choking on! Thankfully, John and his friends noticed the animal “acting weird.” “He started opening his mouth and making choking sounds,” he said. Bill to the rescue! View this post on Instagram A post shared by John P (@redshadow1891) That’s when John’s friend, Bill, jumped into action. He immediately started hitting the raccoon on the back to dislodge the piece of food they were choking on. Finally, the creature managed to hack up the morsel. John shared an incredible clip of the rescue on Instagram. “Random raccoon showed up to the campfire last night and started choking, and my buddy Bill saved its life!!” he wrote in his caption. “Pretty crazy, I wish I had the 30 seconds or so before this when it was standing on it’s hind legs and swaying back and forth really struggling. It was wild!” Screengrab from Instagram He added, “It hung out with us all night after that. Pretty cool!” It’s a good thing that Bill had the presence of mind to save that poor racoon from choking. This is one guys’ night these friends will probably never forget! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Caught On Camera: Man Saves Wild Raccoon From Choking appeared first on InspireMore.

The universe, already impressively big compared to say, a planet, is expanding. According to the cosmic microwave background (CMB), this expansion is happening at the rate of about 67.5 kilometers (41.9 miles) per second per megaparsec (3,260,000 light-years). Meanwhile, measuring the distance of Cepheids stars – by observing how their light has redshifted as it loses energy on its long journey across the universe – leaves us with an estimated expansion rate of 73 kilometers (45.3 miles) per second per megaparsec.While the astronomical community attempts to refine the expansion of the universe and attempt to explain the "Hubble tension", very few scientists are of the opinion that it isn't expanding at all. The distance between us and other stars is increasing, and one day this will result in our observable universe becoming smaller. There are puzzles to be figured out about the expansion rate. Observations suggest the expansion is accelerating, suggesting dark energy and exotic dark energy – or another explanation far beyond us – may be needed to explain it.While interesting, people of the Internet have more basic concerns about the whole deal; namely, if the universe is expanding, are we expanding along with it?       IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.While it may be fun to mock such questions (like why the magnet car won't work) it's a reasonable thing to ask for people first coming across such concepts as the expansion of the universe.The short answer is no. The matter that you know and love, from olives to Danny DeVito, is not expanding along with the universe.  The expansion of the universe only affects regions of the universe not bound together by other forces. So the expansion does not affect the distance between the objects in the Solar System (e.g. between the Earth and the Sun) as they are held together by the force of gravity. Meanwhile gravitationally unbound objects – e.g. two galaxies far enough away from each other to not be held together by gravity – move away from each other as the space between them expands. The galaxies themselves, bound together by the gravity of matter and (far more prevalent) dark matter, do not expand, just the space between them. The atoms that make up you, Danny DeVito, and olives, meanwhile, are held together in their pleasing clumps by the strong nuclear force, the electromagnetic force, and the weak nuclear force. The expansion of the universe does not overcome these forces (much stronger than gravity, the weakest fundamental force, that nonetheless binds the planet together) and so you do not have to worry about yourself inflating along with the universe. All “explainer” articles are confirmed by fact checkers to be correct at time of publishing. Text, images, and links may be edited, removed, or added to at a later date to keep information current.

“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.” – George Armstrong Custer The post The Editors’ Quote of the Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies located in the American Redoubt region that are of interest to preppers and survivalists. Today, we focus on the recent eastern Idaho agricultural water controversy. (See the Idaho section.) Idaho Will 500,000 acres of Idaho farmland lose access to water? An update: Water curtailment order lifted for East Idaho farmers.  Here is a quote: “Groundwater irrigators and surface water irrigators have … The post SurvivalBlog’s News From The American Redoubt appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

In February of this year, our neighbor sold his two houses and business. One of those houses was sold to our new neighbors. They are Old Order Amish who still do not use any electric lights on their buggies but rather use Kerosene lamps. It has been an interesting few months watching them transform their new-to-them home to their off-grid Amish lifestyle. I was wondering how the new owners would heat the large old farmhouse and get their water since the old neighbor used electricity for such things. The previous neighbor had an outside wood furnace that supplied both heat … The post Learning From My Amish Neighbor, by 3AD Scout appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On June 25th, 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeated the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River. The Battle of Little Bighorn – also called Custer’s Last Stand – marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. While complicated, the generally accepted reason for the battle is that the discovery of gold in South Dakota’s Black Hills in 1875 led to the U.S. government disregarding previous treaty agreements. The gruesome … The post Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — June 25, 2024 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

I have written in the past about the Dr. Ellis’ study on Resilient Citizens and the kinds of data that FEMA is collecting on people in the United States. I have done a lot of research over the years on the capabilities of FEMA and what they really can do in an emergency. My sources […] The post FEMA Is Here: The Only Rights You Still Have appeared first on Ask a Prepper.

The following article, There’s a Plan To Steal The 2024 Election: Will God Intervene?, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. The America we know hangs by a frayed thread attached to a pendulum of moral and biblical decay. I’m convinced that the zeitgeist of today will come to a near abrupt end, if God’s plan for the immediacy doesn’t include a second term for President Trump. My outlook or prognostication, if you will, extends to … Continue reading There’s a Plan To Steal The 2024 Election: Will God Intervene? ...