Preppers’ PING!
There is too much metal lying around to be knocked back to the Stone Age.
Wouldn’t cyberwar allow or promote nuclear war without possible retaliation. Not that Obama would actually retaliate.
After reading “One Second After” I’d have to conclude that it would. I have been structuring my life accordingly.
No.
But it could knock us back to the 1800's.
Which would be enough of a pain.
My tractor has a non-electronic ignition system.
Will make the Islamists feel right at home.
If it would take out the NSA too, I’d be OK with it.
Cyber smyber, the thing to watch for is an Islamic EMP attack. Tow or three well placed nukes at the right altitude could revert the country to mass chaos which would take a decade to recover from, and the survivors would be scarce and hardened.
I’d say the pre-computer era, the 1930s, not the stone age, if the breaches essentially shut down the digital age.
We’d go back to the 1800s after mass EMP attacks.
Stone age only comes up if you have EMP plus nuclear attacks across the world.
Yes..
Back to 1985 would suit me fine.
The “progressive” liberals would live it if it did.
Could you possibly consider this somewhere in the era of the creation of the Eloi Generation?
(ref: art v life/ Time Machine)
It would be a while before I had to throw stones for protection, but I would miss air conditioning and hot water on-demand...
A cyber attack that takes down power takes down everything except manual tools and manual powered transportation.
Kart, you know I'm prepared to live without power for a long time, over a year, and have a fairly good standard of living. It's not difficult to prepare for that over time, except I think time is running out. I don't think one could start now and gather enough items to last very long as I expect major trouble in our existence between now and the end of the year.
The writer of the article got points from me because he knew enough to mention a short wave radio to hear ham radio operators if all other communication was down. Several years ago, I bought the best one I could find, knowing that ham radio communication would remain when other methods were gone, as in dead for a long time.
I lived through a lot of the development of this country, being born in 1933, so I know how it will be without power as my grandparents had no power during their time and I was in those homes to see how they lived. I have prepared to do that, creating ways to get things done without the use of electric lines.
I do have an advantage over my grandparents as I have a solar panel and many rechargeable batteries which can be recharged 1,500 times. However, I don't have their big pot bellied wood stove in the center of the living room that heated that room.
Cooling in the summer where they lived, we're talking Arkansas, was paper fans - I have a folding paper fan in my purse right now. My air conditioning will be fans on water sprayers which lower the temperature of ambient air by 10 or more degrees. I used these fan/sprayers after Hurricane Ike went through, and I was cool in Texas heat with no power for five days. I also have larger battery fans and one of those kept me cool through the nights without central air conditioning.
Here is the bottom line - I don't know what is in the future for this country so I have prepared as best I can for anything that happens. After my prepping, it's up to God to determine the outcome.
Iron Age, maybe. Stone age? Doubtful.
Mmmm, probably not. Could make things really annoying for a while. But it really wasn’t that long ago that we ran this country without computers talking to each other all the time. And thanks to invasions and disaster relief efforts we actually have lots of people that can get an infrastructure up and rolling mid-20th century style fairly quickly. Within a couple of months we’d be back to 1950. Which might feel like the stone age for some, but it’s not too bad.