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| January 28, 2010
| Clifford D. May
Posted on 01/28/2010 11:30:12 AM PST by neverdem
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To: JasonC; neverdem
The military does harden their equipment though. American LRRP/LRS carrying very heavy, bulky radios envied the other NATO LRRPS like the Danes, with their light, little, unit created, or modified radios.
The explanation for our massive radios was that our policy was to prepare for EMPs, this was in the 1980s.
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posted on
01/29/2010 10:09:14 AM PST
by
ansel12
(anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
To: JasonC
The military consists of boy scouts who have a motto. I meant to ask, what does that mean?
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posted on
01/29/2010 10:12:27 AM PST
by
ansel12
(anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Simplistic fix: Build your garage into a FARADAY CAGE. Would probably work, too.
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posted on
01/29/2010 12:25:04 PM PST
by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: ExSoldier
"Build your garage into a FARADAY CAGE. Would probably work, too." Provided the EMP hit while you were parked there and not at work, the grocery store, etc.
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posted on
01/29/2010 12:31:43 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: ansel12
The motto of the boy scouts is "be prepared". They don't care how likely something is, they will go out of their way to be prepared regardless. It could be a snowball's chance in hell - they will still prepare for it. It's a motto.
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posted on
01/29/2010 2:30:18 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: JasonC
Got it, that makes sense.
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posted on
01/29/2010 6:14:18 PM PST
by
ansel12
(anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
To: hinckley buzzard
"Might have trouble storing their daily milk crop "Cheese it!!
To: hinckley buzzard; sinanju; GraceG
GraceG had a good point.
The Amish ARE pacifists.
I take back what I said.
The Amish will be the entree on the menu.
To: trickyricky
>> GraceG had a good point.
The Amish ARE pacifists.
I take back what I said.
The Amish will be the entree on the menu. <<
No No No, We protect the Amish from the city Zombies and they teach us how to live like it is the 1800’s again. Maybe they can help us build a few barns as well.
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:53:23 AM PST
by
GraceG
To: TonyInOhio
to destroy us completely; two or three nuclear weapons would send us back to the 1850s. And being sent back to the 1850s would "destroy us completely" why?
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:57:31 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Hu's the communist?)
To: Jim Noble
And being sent back to the 1850s would "destroy us completely" why? The infrastructure of 1850 could support the then population of approximately 23 million citizens. The destruction of much of our modern infrastructure would necessarily lead to great loss of life, mostly through starvation, until our population declined to the point where the surviving resources could support it.
In 1850, people grew their food and had food stored and on hand to keep them alive until the next harvest, and local communities grew around sources of food and water for basic sustenance. The life expectancy in 1850 was approximately 39 years, so the demands on food production were correspondingly fewer.
How will we feed the East Coast during the first winter without electricity and transportation? We won't.
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02/02/2010 11:57:08 AM PST
by
TonyInOhio
( Who is Ellie Light?)
To: GraceG
"No No No, We protect the Amish from the city Zombies" I'm on-board.
But if I offer the Amish protection, and they rebuff me,
do I slap them around, or what?
Does this qualify as thread drift?
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