Originally posted by: ferris209
It WILL happen unfortunately. Electromagnetic Pulse Bombs are already a fact and, if set off, could render all electronics useless, very scary thought. Imagine being at work when suddenly you hear an explosion and then everything goes out, no lights, no computer, no phones, no modern cars, no nothing. It would make getting home a whole new adventure and you'd be trying to the get there wondering the whole time if your family is okay, because they couldn't tell you except by letter. Very scary to me.
Originally posted by: C3PX
America. Let's say there is a nuclear attack, which is all to likely these days, even if the actual location of the hit is small there are ways they could potentially knock out electricity across the continent. If that happened, it could cause all sorts of grief for us. Mass panic, nuclear powerplants melting down, followed by a fun adventures with fallout. It could potentially be the sheer definition of terror with very few people actually dying from the bomb blast itself, and multiples of that amount dying in the following days, weeks, months, and even years. Of course we cannot say exactly what would happen in that event, but what I described is a small part of the general theory.
Also who knows what other events the future may bring us? Who could have foreseen this bee thing? I suppose there are other things that could render us without electricity.
America. Let's say there is a nuclear attack, which is all to likely these days, even if the actual location of the hit is small there are ways they could potentially knock out electricity across the continent. If that happened, it could cause all sorts of grief for us. Mass panic, nuclear powerplants melting down, followed by a fun adventures with fallout. It could potentially be the sheer definition of terror with very few people actually dying from the bomb blast itself, and multiples of that amount dying in the following days, weeks, months, and even years. Of course we cannot say exactly what would happen in that event, but what I described is a small part of the general theory.
Also who knows what other events the future may bring us? Who could have foreseen this bee thing? I suppose there are other things that could render us without electricity.
It WILL happen unfortunately. Electromagnetic Pulse Bombs are already a fact and, if set off, could render all electronics useless, very scary thought. Imagine being at work when suddenly you hear an explosion and then everything goes out, no lights, no computer, no phones, no modern cars, no nothing. It would make getting home a whole new adventure and you'd be trying to the get there wondering the whole time if your family is okay, because they couldn't tell you except by letter. Very scary to me.
The electricity grid is sectional and has redundancies. An EMP bomb in one place isn't going to take out electricity over a giant area. Maybe a few square miles at most. Yes, it would blow out everything in the immediate area, but I don't think the grid would be down for more than a few days.
Also, you don't have to hear an explosion. An EMP bomb doesn't need to make sound, it just needs to emit a strong energy blast. Of course, if one did go off, I imagine it would be incredibly easy to find the epicenter and apprehend the individuals involved. It's not like everything would get destroyed, electronics just wouldn't work until the lines are repaired.