[newheart]

the big question I have is whether the power went off due to an EMP or something else. Obviously the results look like an EMP, but there is no indication that it was a weapon, so the door is open for something else.

Should be a fun ride. I’m a big fan of JJ Abrams.

Bad Robot.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

The big question I have is whether the power went off due to an EMP or something else. Obviously the results look like an EMP, but there is no indication that it was a weapon, so the door is open for something else.

I'd say EMP for "computers and electronics to car engines, jet engines" since all are reduced to computer control along with utility services in big cities but "batteries" are simple electrochemical devices and would not be subject to EMP if not in circuit. The big question for me is what happened to all the diesel engines? I've seen diesel power applied to Amish grain mills. Starters are compressed air powered so no electricity anywhere and no EMP failure mode. Everything from farm/construction equipment to highway haulers would be up and running unless the "BAD Ju-Ju" is something else.

Regards,
GtG

[PLMerite]

“the big question I have is whether the power went off due to an EMP or something else.”

Early in the episode one of the characters was talking to some children and he said that “physics just stopped working,” so that’ll excuse most logic and reason.

But I was happy to see that modern firearms still worked, as one of the militia men had a desert eagle. But apparently most of the good guns and bullets are not available to the masses.