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I agree with this, but mankind has adapted to electronics and would find it very difficult to survive without this technology. For instance, how many of us can exist without gasoline of desel fuel? Do you think we can get this without electric pumps? If something happens to our electric grid, most of us are history.
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Read a book called "One Second After" , by William Forsthen. It is fiction but it will open your eyes up to how bad an EMP attack could effect the world we live in.
Read a book called "One Second After" , by William Forsthen. It is fiction but it will open your eyes up to how bad an EMP attack could effect the world we live in.
It's fiction, but well researched and not unrealistic. It scared the utter crap out of me, and is, frankly, the primary reason I own a so-called "assault weapon". I'd like to be able to hunt and protect myself and family if it ever happens. Unfortunately, due to the gun run, I can't get ammo right now, and though I have enough on hand for any run of the mill defense type scenario (home invasion, car jacking, whatever), I don't have enough for long term survival, and I can't find any anywhere.
Is it likely to happen in my lifetime? No. The last time one of sufficient strength to cause "one second after" type of damage occurred in 1868, over a century before I was born. But there will be a "next time", about that there is no doubt. The question is not "if", it's "when".
Man existed for thousands of years without electronics...a few million may not make it but man as a species will survive.
I agree. It would end modern civilization, And then it's back to the land and days of old. Farming, Hunting, Building and raking the soil.
The stress of no more modern conveniences especially would be too much for most people to handle on a psychological level even. As tech advanced, So did our dependance on it.
Let's face it: our society is 100% enslaved to electronics. Everything we do in going about our daily lives relies totally on electricity and electronic devices. It's like a baby depending on mother's teet. We have nobody to blame but ourselves for relying so lopsidedly on that particular resource. In the event of an EMP or a magnetic pole shift, at the very least, all our lives would be unrecognizable within weeks, or probably days. At worst, of course, we die. Which I think a good chunk of the first and second world populace would. Some of the third world would--the one's who rely on the first and second world for resources. But another part of the third world would see minimal lifestyle change. These would be poor societies that have little contact with the outside world. And there aren't too many of those left around.
Personally, I don't see it as being so far-fetched as most people think it is. An EMP blast is certainly the best way to negatively affect a maximized group of people. Bombing a trade center or firing some rockets or even setting off a nuclear bomb is a drop in the bucket compared to the potential effects of an EMP event.
Well, I just looked up the 'One Second After' book. It was recommended on the floor of Congress, as something every American should read. Considering that someone on the floor of Congress also expressed concern that Guam could capsize if too many American soldiers arrived there... ...well, I'm having doubts about the book.
But ya know... If I were a foreign power with a Nuclear Pulse Machine thingie, I'd prep my target by bribing its pitiful excuse for a 'government' to round up all the 'assault weapons' in private hands. That way, the hostile foreign power would meet with greatly reduced resistance, as its forces swept across the land.
Thanks, Adam Lanza! Thanks a bunch! You made it so much easier for the bad guys!
Dentalfloss worries:
"I don't have enough for long term survival, and I can't find any anywhere."
Make your own. It requires some study, but it isn't really more complicated than any other simple assembly of components. Find somebody local who is experienced and they will help you out. I cast my first bullet in 1946.
I am not worried about an EMP attack as that is basically going to start a nuke war and MAD rules are in play there.
However, if the sun has another solar burst like it did in 1850ish then it will have a similar if less extensive impact that will make things pretty dicey here in the US for a while (assuming it hits our side of the planet).
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