How do EMPs actually work in real life?
What Matt said. I think they really fry the electronics, or so I recall from the research I did a while back. The military has specially-hardened sites & resources to protect their stuff in case of an EMP.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
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Consuela - May 14, 2012 8:20:07 am PDT #20183 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tom Scola - May 14, 2012 8:27:06 am PDT #20184 of 30001
hwæt
Ginger - May 14, 2012 8:36:03 am PDT #20185 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's really hard to predict. A single continent-wide pulse is improbable, because the strength of the pulse is affected by distance. The scenarios in which bad guys set off multiple devices in different cities are more probable. Unless we're talking about some kind of alien technology, there would be equipment that survived. A number of power plants still have largely analog controls, but a lot of substations would probably be fried.
Jessica - May 14, 2012 8:44:06 am PDT #20186 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's the "and it will never come back on" that's the sticking point. I can buy some kind of worldwide blackout where everything stops working. A flobitinum goes off and all the electric things go boom, fine.
I cannot buy a scenario where this couldn't fix the problem at least temporarily.
§ ita § - May 14, 2012 8:58:54 am PDT #20187 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe no metals are conductive any more?
Magnets are broken?
Hey--they started it. I'm just looking for an explanation.
Jessica - May 14, 2012 9:01:40 am PDT #20188 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What happens in this universe if you rub a balloon on a wool sweater?
Jessica - May 14, 2012 9:01:50 am PDT #20189 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is there still LIGHTNING??
Polter-Cow - May 14, 2012 9:02:30 am PDT #20190 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Lightning has been outlawed.
Theodosia - May 14, 2012 9:08:18 am PDT #20191 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Let me recommend heartily Steve Gould's 7TH SIGMA where alien bug-robots like to eat conductive metals. (don't go near them if you have metal fillings or a pacemaker.). It was the sort of scenario that made my sense of logic pleased.
sumi - May 14, 2012 9:14:29 am PDT #20192 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
That show is JJ Abrams and Eric Kripke.