Posted on 06/18/2012 3:33:12 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Sounds like the whole country could be protected for a small fraction of the cost of Gov. Moonbeam’s bullet train to nowhere. But of course Zero won’t do anything to displease his Muzzie Buddies.
Hey, unless an EMP attack also wipes out all our brains so we are as dumb as politicians or liberals, we will retain the knowledge to rebuild anything which was destroyed.
Only the glass is half empty communists in this country want a dead America. They would love it if we could not recover because they detest our success as it always makes their beloved Marxism look so bad.
An EMP over Mordor-on-the-Potomac might actually save the country!
>>Mordor-on-the-Potomac<<
My FRiend, you are Brilliant!!
It would cost $200M just to create and implement the government bureaucracy to make this happen. I worked in power generation before and during Y2K and remember the volumes of government regulations and reports we needed to “prove” that every “clock chip” would not be affected by Y2K. A “clock chip” is an electronic device that cycles on and off at a fixed rate, but since they were called a clock, they must have a calendar too, right??
And the federal government of 1999 was much smarter than that of the Obamanation.
No doubt. All we have to do is crank up our production facilities, which of course run on electricity. Oh wait...
But taking away their only chance of defeating us would ruin NASA's efforts to make them feel good about themselves. :)
We're Americans and we can do anything we put our minds to do.
Yeah, we're a little out'a practice with this national thing ... patriotism an' all ... but America with no microwaves and computers?
We'll jump across some friggin' kind of wires and fire them puppies back up.
America with no morning coffee?
Just get the hell out of our way.
Americans will find a way and will recover quickly, assuming they are allowed to rebuild basis their local needs
As for the present American Federal Gov’t? EMP attack, Bankruptcy, plague, Act of God? Any major crisis will quickly reveal that much of what the Feds do isn’t needed, and won’t need to be replaced once it is gone.
Where in the world do you get the idea that the “whole country could be protected”?
It really depends on who’s running things when it happens. If we have a bunch of “can-do” people, we’ll get out of it. If we have a bunch of “hand-wringers,” we won’t. And there are plenty of both kinds on both sides of the political divide.
>As for the present American Federal Gov’t? EMP attack, Bankruptcy, plague, Act of God? Any major crisis will quickly reveal that much of what the Feds do isn’t needed, and won’t need to be replaced once it is gone.<
If enough people say that, in those exact words,our government will do everything in their power to prevent it.
The biggest disaster in the eyes of the government is for the unwashed masses to actually realize that most of the government is unnecessary.
The problem is, knowledge is NOT sufficient here. We lack the tech base to repair after an EMP Burst that basically fries every microchip in North America.
Yes. . .we could go back to straight transistors. Except nobody makes them like we did in the 1950s, with straight electromechanical manufacturing methods.
We simply lack the tools to MAKE the current tools from a lower tech base: it would effectively knock us back to 1920s tech, and we’d have to gear back up from there. . .
The problem with EMP as a weapon is that nobody knows how much or how little damage it will do.
While the EMP pulse has a different frequency profile than a lightning strike, consider how many cell towers and radio station towers are regularly struck by lightning and the equipment at the base of the tower continues to operate.
Also consider how often home electronics are subjected to very close lightning strikes or overhead bolts and survive. Or better yet, when a close strike occurs, that some home devices survive while some others are fried.
Of course, there will be a lot of disruption if even 10% of the electronics were fried in the grocery stores over a large area of the US, especially when some of that equipment will be refrigeration controllers.
While we are in a rush to install smart meters and a smart grind, the really smart people in Washington would do well to also attempt to mitigate losses from EMP as well.
Yep, like most self proclaimed "experts".
My father-in-law was in the nuke weapons assembly business for 40 years (he died in Dec. 2009). I was in the plant with him less than 3 years ago. I know some of his people. Capable engineers & craftsmen.
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