I vote for global mutually assured destruction. No matter who the perpetrator might be.
If we go down — then we’ll make sure that EVERYBODY goes down — all over the planet.
Yep, buy an older car without a computer.
Oh gezz... Not this crap again.
Lock and load.
As usual, we’re all gonna die.
Excellent fictional book on the topic: http://www.onesecondafter.com/
Frightening read, but it will certainly keep your attention.
Maybe Obama should call Tom Beaden and ask him to come out of retirement to set up the woodpecker grid properly so we are safe, and the Soviets can’t shoot down anymore space shuttles with their emp ray guns.
Who cares about EMP? When we have the ENEMY WITHIN KILLING OUR CONSTITUTION, CULTURE AND FREEDOM. Slavery to the state is worse than any fate from some improbable EMP pulse.
The post-EMP disaster is described in this book “http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/0765317583/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252510654&sr=8-1";
Again? Someone in MSM likes to push this concept.
Surrender now, America! One single tiny bomb can wipe you all out forever, and your government is helpless against this threat!
Sort of sounds like Ming the Merciless talking to Buck Rogers, your puny Earth technology cannot save you now!
Read “One Second After” by William R. Forstchen, and you will understand a lot better what could happen to us in such an attackk!
I call BS. If this is true, then just put in a single unit to protect the entire US, or maybe one unit on each coast ... wrong.
You would need to distribute these units along each circuit, across the nation. The EMP pulse is very narrow, and very fast - it's an impulse that any 'antennae' will pick up, whether that antenna is your radio, a chunk of co-axial wire bringing cable TV and the internet into your home, a trace on a PC board, speaker wire, or your home's wiring system itself. You cannot feasibly protect yourself from this, that's why it's so effective. Bear in mind, this pulse also travels at near light speed, so you won't get a little light coming on that tells you to unplug your TV - it will have done it's thing and dissipated long before you eye's would register the light coming on.
I would rather invest my money in a missle shield; so we can stop the EMP pulse before it gets over American air space.
The plot was the KGB stole the plans to make EMF-resistant microchips, which Great Britian developed.
Maybe they should have held back on using the script; the plot would be more tangible to people now.
The more we rely on electronics(ATM, Direct Deposit, etc.)
Nothing new here. EMP is an old story. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t prepare. It is an easy way to cripple the nation.
a meteor can wipe out US and the government isn’t DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT! FEAR! DEMAND ACTION! DEMAND THEY SPEND MORE MONEY! on useless crap
We would immediately be back at frontier days style of life and who of the younger generations has a clue about it?
Riots and home break invasions, pillaging chaos would be supreme. There are a few survivalists that are prepared ... with food and water storage, seeds, solar panels for a bit of low power,vitamins, medicines, wood or coal for burning as heat source, true survival equipment necessary to make it for a time. What we would hope for is a prepared cave somewhere isolated.
The TV program “Jericho” a couple of years ago ... was an idea of what a small town would be like. Interesting show.
Some would say "why try to survive?" For what?