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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2022050, member: 27832"]Well, there's amateur radio. Whenever I see people talking about PMs from the survivalist, anti-government or economic-collapse perspectives, I wonder if they've taken steps to ensure that they can communicate without relying on corporate or government infrastructure. But that hobby has been dealt a serious blow by the Internet and modern communications -- "I talked to people all over the world last night" gets yawns now, as does "I can call people from my car". I'm a long-time astronomy buff, too, but as an earlier poster said, it's getting harder to find dark spots. Photography's fun as well, and can be nearly as much of a money-sink as numismatics. Chemistry used to be fun, but now there's a presupposition that you're making meth. Bleah. Electronics, too, but modern stuff is getting less and less accessible. I can fix things from the 1970s, and some from the 1980s, but modern stuff is mostly toss-and-replace. Of course, it's also cheaper, and immensely more capable.[/QUOTE]