The race is on for better forecasting abilities, as the next peak in solar activity is expected to come around 2012.
NICE.
What if an EMP detonated above the USA?
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The race is on for better forecasting abilities, as the next peak in solar activity is expected to come around 2012.
NICE.
I dunno about you, but I'm just going to soil myself New Year's Eve of 2011. Just to get that out of the way.
I just told a buddy that Im quiting my IT job before then. I dont want to deal with it. He said he is going to quit his job and sell guns. Thinks a profit would be had. I figure someone with a gun would just shoot him and take his stash.
It only effects electronics so unless bambi is rolling with a walkman I think they will be ok.
Like a poster below says - I would kind of like no technology and no reason to have to go to work.
Hell I am working now so I can retire to hunt and fish all the time anyway.
Would I betray my smart*** nature if I were to say that "ON" doesn't matter if the entire grid is fried?:wink:
I dont understand alot about this stuff. Since an EMP can effect electrical current, could it also have an effect on living creatures since we all have an electrical system somewhat in our bodies? Not saying we would die or anything, but could it briefly mess with our brain and make use **** ourselves?
Yeah, I'm glad someone else pointed that out so I didn't have to be "that guy".:yes:
This is no joke. Two detonations well placed off each coast would destroy our country and economy. Now that is why we do not want NK to have rogue missiles firing at us. That is why missile defense is a critical go/no go. It would take years to recover from such a catastrophe. This is no joke.
The fiberoptic lines for the interent would be about the only thing not blown out.
No cars with computers, no computers, no electrical substations, no power for farm irrigation systems, no televisions, no radios, no clocks, no blackberries, no cellphones, no air condtiioning, no jobs, no work. Is that a good start?
What if it detonated over Iowa City and someone yelled someone got bombed today? The response would be who and what position did he play?
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Yes, very scary, and the ultimate outcome of a nuclear winter is very vividly dramatized in "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy; he is the author of "No Country for Old Men," which won some awards last year. All the fears and more expressed in the link article are depicted in "The Road." Happy reading.
I beg to differ. EMF going of over the U.S. would make the scene in "The Day After" look like a trip to Disneyland.
