Posted on 06/18/2012 3:33:12 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
“We’ll jump across some friggin’ kind of wires and fire them puppies back up.”
If Iraq can do it, certainly we can do it: http://iraqslogger.powweb.com/index.php/post/3131/Photo_of_the_Day_Man_Battles_Web_of_Wires?PHPSESSID=c5aa4044714cf600c5a3785c5c8aefed
Good grief, man.
All that technology is documented ad infinitum
If computers and calculators no longer worked, would it take decades to manufacture mechanical calculators while we rebuild. I don't think so.
Most of the monumental works of American exceptionalism (the the Obum wants to take credit for) were built long before the age of computers and microelectronics.
My life has spanned both eras, and I refuse to join the luddites.
EMP has the potential to impact anything with sensitive circuits unless it is shielded by a faraday cage or its electronics are built to be resistant.
Yes, the tech is documented. But you have to have the tools to make the tech, and in case of EMP frying microchips, you need working tech from before the chip era. So, you’re talking mid-1960s tech. Except, to make THAT tech, you need the tools that built it, which haven’t been made or used for a generation plus.
It’s the “chicken or the egg” problem, writ large. . .you need a sufficient base of the machines to build the machines, and enough skilled operators to run them.
Oh. . .and how much of the documentation is physical, and how much was scanned and burned to CD/DVD to save space. . . or merely disposed of, by corporate. . .
Meanwhile you’re fighting to find something to eat. Doesn’t leave a lot of time to figure out how to make a toy.
I need to dust off that list I made of the top 50 targets. Most would need only one; a few might need five.
We have the means.
We can satisfy any and all koranimal death wishes in the world.
Simultaneously.
I am totally confident that we are talking about months, not decades.
With no more worries of any kind about a no longer existing enemy, incredible human resources can be brought to bear.
For just a few million grant money this alarmist will study something and a write a report or something.
“Until half of those with the knowledge die from lack of medicine or bad food. “
We have had major electrical outages many times. Millions didn’t die, riots didn’t destroy cities wholesale, and, GOSH, the electricity came back on. EMP will not wipe out all things electrical or electronic and the limited damage it might do is easily repaired. Besides, the ONLY country that can lob a nuke into our atmosphere is Russia and they’re not exactly aiming to do that anytime soon.
“EMP has the potential to impact anything with sensitive circuits unless it is shielded by a faraday cage or its electronics are built to be resistant.”
No, it doesn’t. That is the biggest line of bullsh*t the urban legend types pass around about EMP. If that were the case then maybe you can explain just how we got all those videos and other electronic measurements long before we even knew EMP accompanied nuclear devices. I thought EMP was supposed to wipe out all things electric and electronic.
This is a case of when not if, in 1859 a solar storm caused an EMP that took out telegraph lines. Big solar storms happen.
ping
Perhaps you can answer a question I have had about an EMP attack:
We have deep underground warehouse complexes, such as SubTerra and SubTropolis in the KC MO area and others in the WV region. It has seemed to me that utilities/factories could store replacement components, even transformers, down there that would protected. Those cave warehouse systems are huge. I have read that in just one of them manufacturers already store 10% of our processed non-fresh food supply. I have also read that DOD uses space in these complexes.
Do you know if anyone is storing components and vital infrastructural parts in such places?
“No doubt. All we have to do is crank up our production facilities, which of course run on electricity. Oh wait...
Hey how about using any left over liberals and chain them to a treadmill?
To cover the whole country with that level of damage, you would need a multi-megaton warhead, detonated from orbit, or several smaller (but still 100KT+) warheads at lower altitude. To accomplish this, we are talking about a major nuclear strike by a major power (Russia or China). The W49 warhead weighed 1,640 pounds. Lofting that payload into orbit is within the capabilities of only a few.
We don't make much in the way of chips in the US right now. Most chips are made overseas (outside the reach of EPA bureaucrats). The equipment we use is mostly made elsewhere. We would have to buy a bunch of stuff and wait for shipment, but it would be there.
ONE of the problems with EMP, involves the way IC chips are made: microscopically thin gold wires connect the actual silicon chip to the pinouts on the IC packaging. Certain types of EMP run sufficient current through those wires to melt them. The chip itself isn’t hurt, but since it’s not connected to the case anymore, and it’s molded and epoxied shut, you can’t break the chip back open without cracking the silicon slab and TRULY destroying the chip. . .
“Certain types of EMP run sufficient current through those wires to melt them”
Those wires are waaaay toooooo smaaaalllll to pickup that level of voltage to generate enough heat to melt the solder. The induction from EMP wouldn’t cause enough heat to matter. EMP also has an extremely short duration, hence long wire requirements.
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