Dr. Strangelove: Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Dr. Strangelove: Mein Führer! I can walk!
Posted on 10/05/2015 1:06:40 PM PDT by Kartographer
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John McAfee has warned a 'doomsday' electronic weapon could wipe out 90% of Americans and urged politicians to is the number one threat facing the country.
McAfee, who recently announced he is running in 2016, wrote in a blog for Business Insider: 'Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure, would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack.
'That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.'
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This is ridiculous.
It’s real, but it’s not effective as a weapon. The range is too small and the altitudes are too tough. 60,000 feet is a lot higher up than it sounds, and actually unless it’s really big nukes you wouldn’t actually destroy much of anything.
No, they don’t. The whole “back to the stone age” thing is quite simply a fiction. Would not happen. A lie from fear mongers.
So why did they build it?
“Democrat population control weapon to save the earth from Global Warming”
Aw, ya think?
One of the great shibboleths of the liberal mindset is that somehow, humanity will outstrip the capability of the earth to supply all the wants and needs of a burdgeoning population, creating a degree of want and famine beyond any that the world has ever known. Therefore, to forestall this all but certain calamity, the numbers have to be reduced NOW, that future generations do not continue to plunder the planet, and leave it, finally, an empty and sterile husk.
Ain’t gonna happen. Clever humans find a way to use a new and previously untapped source of energy, or raw materials that may be turned into useful production of food, shelter and expansion of horizons.
Thomas Malthus was far too pessimistic about the future of humanity.
Boeing built what appears to be a very focused weapon. It would not destroy a country’s electronic systems and cause 90% of its population to die. Just because there are some facts in a story doesn’t mean the overall headline, story, and point are BS.
The same thing with the advertized AMERICAN WARNING.
They will tell you what it is if you send 79.95.
Option 2) Use the billions already spent on nuclear devices to deliver a devastating neutron blast on the target(s).
Both option 1 & 2 result in an immediate response of launching pretty much anything and everything to turn your country into a irradiated parking lot, no matter what the occupier of the White House might have to say about the matter.
To counter this threat, we again make up theories as to what might actually work and deploy it nationally, spending trillions on a possibility that is far less likely than a nuclear exchange.
Then again, we spend billions with McAfee for protection against trojans, viruses, and other programs that are only likely if the user is actively visiting sites that involve illegal activities. In exchange, we sacrifice roughly 20% of our normal computing power and 15% of our computing memory to their bloatware - which actually doesn't work against anything new until after it has already delivered it's payload.
Dr. Strangelove: Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Dr. Strangelove: Mein Führer! I can walk!
‘That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.’
Excellent! More supplies, water, fuel and peace and quiet for ME! :)
Anyone who doubts this is real should read this book:
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
Wrong. You’re overlooking some weird physics, which make it possible with only two EMP weapons.
Check out what the EMP Commission found:
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has204000.000/has204000_0.HTM
Do you have any clue how many thousands of those there are? And those are already built to hand huge voltages and LIGHTENING STRIKES. Some jumped up microwave oven on a drone might take out some office building full of laptops but it ain’t going to do squat to a transformer farm.
John McAfee hasn't had anything whatsoever to do with McAfee the company and the bassturds that took it over, in 15 years.
He hates them.
He may be a fruitcake on his own, of course. But his positions have nothing to do with the company that bought and bears his name.
EMP does not hurt people, only electronic devices of the solid state variety.
Most car electronics would survive or be fixable in a matter of hours. A lot of PCs would survive, heck so would many cell phones. The cellular infrastructure might even survive since those towers can take lightening strikes. Yeah it would cause billions in damage and lost data but that is hardly the ‘stone age’.
The say it will take out tanks.
So the only thing left standing will be old TUBE-based guitar amplifers.
I see one Awesome jam ahead.
He also bought and lived in Belize for years ( until something happened, I don’t know what) and it was probably because he was preparing for such an event. Belize is sparsely populated, cheap, has lots of water and arable land, and outside of the Belize City, it is pretty safe ( or so I’ve read.) The Mennonites have settled there and farm and make furniture. it’s back to basic folks.
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