We have been warned, I guess...(groooaaaannnn....)
BTW check out the excellent illustrations on the Website.
1 posted on
09/28/2003 10:58:01 AM PDT by
Psalm118
To: Psalm118
Popular Mechanics is now in the business of giving detailed instructions to terrorists in how to build devices to destroy civilization?
Maybe this sort of thing increases their current circulation, but it could be very damaging to future sales if civilization vanishes, no?
2 posted on
09/28/2003 11:03:27 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: sourcery; Ernest_at_the_Beach
ping
To: Psalm118
Pure unadulterated nonsense.
The article fails to mention that the range of these so-called poor-mans EMP weapons is very, very small. That would mean that these devices would have to be deployed WITHIN a facility to do any damage at all. EMP weapons with any decent range are too large and way too sophisticated to be of any use to terrorists.
Our own government used to have to use a nuke to get enough available power for decent EMP ranging.
So, relax.
4 posted on
09/28/2003 11:04:54 AM PDT by
Pukin Dog
(Sans Reproache)
To: Psalm118
Hasn't this been debunked? Something about lack of range I think.
5 posted on
09/28/2003 11:06:12 AM PDT by
palmer
(/sarcasm)
To: Psalm118
This was the only real world weapon that humans in the movie the Matrix had against their machine enemy.
Interesting article. Scary as Hell too.
7 posted on
09/28/2003 11:09:11 AM PDT by
bicycle thug
(Fortia facere et pati Americanum est.)
To: Psalm118
Are there instructions on how to shield electronics?
8 posted on
09/28/2003 11:09:49 AM PDT by
hocndoc
(Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
To: Psalm118
2 year old article. Could be a bit dated.
9 posted on
09/28/2003 11:10:25 AM PDT by
Leroy S. Mort
(Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained by stupidity.)
To: Psalm118
Wanted:
Tight-focus unidirectional EMP device to disrupt obnoxious neighbors' stereo. Not necessary to destroy circuitry but functional disruption a must. Most parts need to be obtainable at retail outlets.
13 posted on
09/28/2003 11:34:15 AM PDT by
NewRomeTacitus
(deport deport deport deport deport deport deport deport deport deport deport...)
To: Psalm118
The effective radius of the largest proposed non nuclear EMP device is only a few hundred meters. It would take a saturation attack with thousands of weapons at once to take out even one city.
So9
16 posted on
09/28/2003 12:41:18 PM PDT by
Servant of the 9
(The voices tell me to stay home and clean the guns.)
To: Psalm118
This hoax again? I figured Jim was above this silliness, but then again he still writes for PM, the National Inquirer for nerds. :)
25 posted on
09/28/2003 1:24:26 PM PDT by
anymouse
To: Psalm118
the Flux Compression Generator (FCG).If we spent more time working on the Flux Capacitor rather than the FCG we could go back in time (ala "Back to the Future").
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