Posted on 09/25/2011 1:30:34 PM PDT by IbJensen
I do lack a despondent passive malevolence to my fellow man. Really.
“At least my old Jeep doesn’t have a computer. Of course it may be hard to get fuel”
Got a hose?
“windings in the power supply transformers and possed on to the circuit boards from there.”
Not really possible. There is a lot more to it than merely being in the same space together, not to mention a lot of additional circuitry that prevents such a thing. EMP simply is not strong enought to induce EMF in a transformer.
“The biggest problem is the destruction of power transformers for major power lines.”
A good, solid EMP strike, which is still a theory and not a fact, wouldn’t take out all the transformers. We’ve had ice storms that have done far more damage than EMP has ever been expected to cause and there were no zombies...ever.
“* They take 18 months to make”
P.S. That little ditty has been passed arounf the Internet and is an old, tired, myth designed to support the idea of zombification after an EMP attack. The fact is there are loads of transformers all over the US and they are easy to make. In fact, I watched one being made and it took all of 12 minutes. Where the survivalist nerds get “18 months” is just out there.
A laptop in space is also most likely not a hardened laptop and in an extremely hostile environment. Of course, disrupting the circuits with what amounts to electrical noise would disrupt a laptop but not kill it dead. Reboot and all is well. Even some solar activities can cause a few issues here on Earth but no one except those that must reboot notice. Major systems that run power grids, factories, and airplanes are all designed not to be susceptible to such interference and they aren’t.
Seriously, what I want to do is to make folks understand that 20 watts at the right frequency, aimed at the right target can make a bunch of highly structured silicon, copper and gold turn into a highly unstructured lump of minerals.
EMP isn't a problem with some stuff. It is with others.
And none of the stuff works if the power is off because the 1000 mile long inductors (we call them power lines) get a big pulse and trash the transformers.
That's gonna hurt, no matter who you are.
But yes, I can take 20 watts and ruin your monitor. At the right frequency, and for the right pulse duration.
/johnny
Actually, there will be hundreds of millions of "dead" cars full of gas. Don't forget your syphon hose!
I think I'll go to the junk yard and get a used computer module for my truck and wrap it in cardboard and tin foil and bury it in an old microwave.
The key to the EMP scare is that it requires detonating a large thermonucler warhead high over the USA and our Ohio-class SSBNs are hardened against EMP. Using that weapon is an act of nuclear war and we have procedures in place for that and those procedures involve the Ohio-class SSBNs. A towelhead with a suitcase nuke is not going to be able to make this attack a reality.
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So after Iran , Libya or N Korea fires a long dong silver III missile from a non-descript vessel just off our coast to a height of 200 miles over IOWA what are our “procedures” , strike at all possible aggressors? Might make you feel good but that doesn’t save American lives. Maybe it was Putin? ... Me? I’m marching the family to the beach if I can’t get a car to run and stealing a sailboat...I’ll just keep going until I see harbor lights on at night.
“Some of those countries would be unaffected if we retaliated,”
So four 100kT nukes would be shrugged off by a Somalia or Nork or Iran, because they are so primitive they can launch a successful nuke attack against us?
Oops, forgot, THAAD, Standard Missile, Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle are designed to neutralize incoming missiles. BSTS and the varios radar systems are designed to detect and track them.
An inbound set for 150 miles over Denver would need to be pretty stealthy to avoid getting zotted.
No sex, no beer? Life ain't worth living.
I read that the EMP would reverse the field on all the neutrinos, and the earth’s magnetic field would switch its axis, and we will tumble into the sun.
If a microcircuit was sitting on the sidewalk the EMP pulse would raise the Vcc and Gnd pins to the same potential, no current would flow. At that scale, all the pins would be the same. Sort of like dropping it on a car battery terminal- though the battery can supply hundreds of amps, no current would flow between pins.
Connect ONE pin to Gnd and connect another to a TV antenna and you’ll get current flow.
Thanks.
I guess if the bad guys can kill 83% of us with a Hiroshima-sized device with no warning and we have no defense or hope of recovery, we should surrender. What’s the point? They have won.
Actually, I think that IS the point of these EMP articles that show up every three or four months.
The crux of the conversation was about EMTs, and “regular” nuclear bombs would be quite a different matter.
With EMTs, the people in the middle east and in the undeveloped world wouldn’t be as affected as the more technologically advanced countries.
patriot nurse on youtube has some very interesting info...
Since the late 80’s the DOD has had specs and contracts to ‘ruggedize’ computers and PC’s with special shieldings against such an attack.
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