Glowsticks as a survival item

For real though

Good for zombie apocalypse:gdb:

You can make a Faraday cage out of a garbage can and cardboard.

You can make a smaller one out of other supplies

Once activated Glow Sticks kept in Freezer last that little bit longer,it is possible too freeze them, then activate in emergency.

It's better to just get a flashlight and batteries.
Fuck the glow sticks.

I'm the OP of this topic and I still think they're worthless.

I'll weigh in, glowsticks might potentially be utilized as as a fish attractant for a troutline. They used to make a chemical maybe some kind of phosphorus that was in a drug store with sweet oil and and fisherman a long time would produce a lantern underwater for this purpose. But here's the deal, the length of time is so short, and one time use. Seems like a very cheap LED flashlight that was waterproof would be much better. Even still, pack another MRE.

There's probably lots of uses, like that, but if you're limiting the equipment, or trying to save money or both, then I'm not sure that a glowstick is the right item. It produces very low lumens for what it does. If you had a red one, then maybe it might be more useful for casting a red light, something that's done to read map, but that's supposed to be a myth, an old chestnut that's not true about bightvision. Seems of dubious value.

Re the chemical remark, well...pack some chemicals instead for the same price. Lots of things like a gel cooling pack can be converted for "other" chemical use(things that go boom), so maybe the chemicals in a glowstick can too?

Like this fishing lantern:
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So maybe for the brief period it worked (5 to 12 hours based upon vastly reduced lumens at the end and temperature), you'd have a fishing lure.

Magnesium, and flint will get a fire going even in the wet,
the glowsticks have a limited application with a short life duration, and will not keep you warm on a cold night.

Or whip off your shoelace make a small bow and start a fire the old fashion way.
Survival basics 101.

yea glow sticks seem pretty fucking useless. ill take my rayovac roughneck. best 25$ ive ever spent

Cigarette lighters don't spark when they get wet. You gotta wait for them to dry. I tried lighting a cigarette after swimming couldn't get a spark. The good thing about glow sticks are they don't send off smoke or shine to far and they're disposable. So if you are in some place at night and you want to avoid detection a glow stick makes a great help and you don't need the big ones small ones work just as well.

you dont need power to use glow sticks

For the tracers man, the tracers XD