Posted on 09/25/2011 1:30:34 PM PDT by IbJensen
These morons are not only brain-dead children running an adult nation, but they have been on their own tangent to ruin America so that like-minded fools could rebuild it. They have no concept of what outside haters could do that would undermine even their evil shenanigans.
Seems highly unlikely. EMP would not destroy the entire infrastructure, just the local area.
At least my old Jeep doesn’t have a computer. Of course it may be hard to get fuel.
The veneer of civilization is extremely thin. An EMP would do all that you have described, but that would only be the beginning of the damage. The police and National Guard could not hope to contain the rioting and lawlessness that would result when the food and fuel run out. It would make zombie apocalypse movies look tame in comparison. Starvation, disease, exposure to the elements, and extreme violence would wipe out nearly everyone.
It be a life consisiting of enjoying camping, hunting, fishing, and avoiding urban areas like the plague.
A short life, living like a Neanderthal man without medicine or proper shelter. A broken limb or serious infection would do you in.
someone must have recently read the book, “One Second After”.....since I read it about 2 years ago....I’ve been planning....hoping that will help....
All you need is a siphon hose and a gas can, fill up at any "fried" vehicle.
We have an old car, too.
We have bicycles.
We heat the main area of the house during the winter with propane.
I store charcoal to cook with in an emergency.
We have an old landline telephone, so if the low voltage stuff can get back up with the phone company, we can communicate.
We have a hand-cranked short-wave radio.
We have food and water stored.
We have shooting irons.
Guess we’ll survive.
So would being a diabetic, on dialysis, etc...or in a nursing home...
Yo! It be.
Fat chance. This “EMP is going to ruin the world!” thing has gotten out of hand.
Even if everything, from having the correct nuclear bomb in the first place, to having a missile that can get it into high altitude over the US, to the actual EMP getting into long wire devices, etc., were to be in place the damage would be very minimal and corrected within hours and days.
EMP DOES NOT destroy all things electrical and electronic, counter to what all the ignorant survivalist types claim otherwise.
I heard Frank Gaffney discussing this on Talk Radio earlier this week. What I want to know is, why is it suddenly front and center? Seems like it would have to be a highly scientific development that most of the 3rd world is not capable of achieving.
Seems like scare tactics to me. Anyone?
Too bad we can’t run a simulation to test the theory.
Yeah, I read that too. Very scary stuff. I have no doubt that more than 50% of our population would not survive.
An EMP would destroy EVERY local area.
Water purification plants would shut down - no water. Most cars would quit running - almost all trucks. Trains would stop and planes would fall out of the sky... The power grid would fail. If your house caught on fire, 911 wouldn't work - the firetruck wouldn't start, water would not flow to the hydrant... But IT would be local.
Every city and town would have the same situation - so there wouldn't be 'help' coming from out of the area... I think half the population would die in the first 20 days... lack of water would take out the first bunch...
For instance, what field strength at the surface do the EMP models predict? Pushing enough magnetic or electrostatic field through a metal surface, like the hood of a car, in order to generate an internal current in a semiconductor installed deep in the car sufficient to damage it is very hard.
And its pretty hard for me to imagine generating by capacitive or inductive coupling into a power line from 500 miles away as much energy as a single bolt of lightning puts into a power line.
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