Posted on 04/20/2015 9:54:05 AM PDT by ClaudeDavis
Why, Claud, oh why.. do you dodge my question about you being the supposed “author” of this mess..
According to the poorly written and ill-designed blog,
“By Claude Nelson”... a whole different “Claud” is the supposed “author”.
Please explain how this can be.
Joined just today?
Bagpipes. Should be #1 or 2 on the list.
Read what this guy has to say about the vehicles that were used in government EMP tests. THEY HAD TO BE RETURNED TO DOD IN WORKING CONDITON!
http://www.futurescience.com/emp/vehicles.html
...and banjos....and accordions.
I'd love to put a band together, but... Geneva Conventions.
Ya might want to add Emergency Cooling Systems for big Nuke Plants to avoid a Fukushima Daiichi replay to Your list.
Lol, and crimes against hugh manatees.
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I’m sorry to hear about the added weight (former Marine mom), and I am considering that while training is cut you have to buy your own uniforms, etc, and maintenance is down, but communications to the boots is good to go. Interesting. Will my super fast spinning tin foil hat protect me? ;-) Semper Fi!
Not after it is ransacked. Good thing Pendleton is between LA and the border.
they should be, but they will be the first to be murdered.
Good point. I’m sure they have redundant cooling systems, but are those systems hardened against an EMP? They need to be.
>> The Amish will inherit the earth <<
No, because looters and mobs from nearby cities will overrun the Amish in short order.
The EMP Band
>> I think I’ll be still driving my ‘61 VW <<
Only until your gas runs out. Remember, the pumps at your neighborhood gas station depend on electricity.
>> I am not convinced that isolated appliances and battery operated tools will be damaged in any way <<
Anything that uses solid-state devices will probably be inoperative. Older stuff should work OK, unless it’s at the epicenter of the EMP effect.
Solar scientists have diagnosed that event as basically a GEOS X-Class solar flare that had flooded all sunward facing parts of the Earth with a huge magnetic flux wave. The flare acted much like an EMP attack - but instead of attacking a single country it was a natural event that happened across the whole hemisphere facing the sun.
The Carrington Event of 1859 made telegraph machines catch fire. Can you imagine what that would do today? In a flare that powerful every electronic component on the sunward face of the Earth could get fried: Every vehicle, every appliance, every gas station pump, everything would be gone. Half the planet could be knocked back to pre-Industrial times in 60 minutes.
You did fine, don’t worry about the whining ninnies
>> Half the planet could be knocked back to pre-Industrial times in 60 minutes <<
Not exactly. You’re confusing the effects of a Carrington Event with the effects of a nuclear EMP.
A nuclear EMP would knock out the power grid and almost all devices that depend on solid-state electronics. But it’s thought that a Carrington Event would mainly destroy the power grid, while leaving most solid-state devices OK.
Still, just stop for a moment to ponder what would happen if the power grid stopped working. Water not pumped, gasoline and diesel not pumped, all Internet-related activities stopped, food shipments halted. Civil order would break down, as food riots swept the nation. We’d be lucky if even 10% of the population could survive.
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