On May 1, 2012, at 8:23 PM, David R. Block wrote: > http://www.onesecondafter.com/pb/wp_194d9c9d/wp_194d9c9d.html > http://www.futurescience.com/X5DNA/X5DNA.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse > http://afteremp.com/
Thanks. The good news is that a long-range EMP apparently requires satellite-level altitudes, so it is beyond the reach of ordinary terrorists. Yeah, China could hit us with an EMP, but they could also hit us with a nuke (and vice versa), so we're back to MAD. Points to Billy for credible information on the likelihood of a massive solar flare, which does seem like a plausible threat. I suppose there's a potential geopolitical effect if our hemisphere is hit while China's isn't, but that's much harder to game out. Most of the preparations for dealing with an EMP sound similar to those for dealing with a tornado or earthquake. I have no doubt it would be ridiculously expensive, though I'm still skeptical of the broad-based technological collapse claims. I do think the sanest national preparation is to move much more quickly to a post-industrial society, where we have tighter local economies and more distributed just-in-time manufacturing capability. In other words, create built-in resiliency rather than massive redundancy. -- Ernie P. > > There are some starters on EMP. > > David > > "Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by > definition, needs no protection."—Neal Boortz > > > On 5/1/2012 11:00 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote: >> >> Hi Billy, >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 30, 2012, at 16:47, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> >>> 100 % certainty, if one hit us with no warning it would blow out at least >>> half >>> of the transformers in the country. Maybe more like 80% plus. >> Is that really true? I'd like to see.a source cited. Like with EMF pulses, >> there's a lot of claims that sound suspicious to me. >> >> That much energy might scramble radios, but if it was really strong enough >> to burn out high-voltage transformers across an area larger than a city, I'd >> think -we- would all be fried too. In which case it doesn't really matter. >> :-) >> >> E >> > > > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
