How seriously is this being taken, or is it just scaremongering?

[RATTER15]

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/future-weapons-emp-bomb/


How seriously is this being taken, or is it just scaremongering?

[RATTER15]

oooops, I posted that all the wrong way around for some reason!

[AB Editor]

fixed.

[RATTER15]

Thanks Ed!

[AB Editor]

Well, a massive amount of the internet's traffic goes through amazon servers:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/04/the-unbelievable-power-of-amazon-web-services/391281/

So if you dropped an emp in the right place, you could shut a great deal off. Not all of it would be important, but lots of it would.

[Old_Geezer]

For some reason the video isn't running when I go there. Bit in any case electro magnetic pulses and their effect on circuitry is well known. Don't worry, the military used hardened chips that are difficult to fry.

[Old_Geezer]

BUT in any case...
Like I damned well typed >:-(
Why does tech change things as the submit is pressed

[EDDIE51]

EMP (electro magnetic pulse) weapons exist , the USA and USSR have them.
The problem is they disable all electronics friend and foe civilian and military, you can't target them at a specific location.

[Gromit]

http://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-myths.html

[Haggisdj]

For the true facts please watch the documentary A View To A Kill which explains everything in great detail ;)

[Hypognosis]

Good link, Gromit. Bookmarked.

[Hypognosis]

@ABEd

I pressed Submit on the Moderators thread at 15:32 and it said thread closed 15:06! I just wasted 20 minutes! What made you think it was all done with.

For instance, andy said

//The moderation system works perfectly well for 99% of the people who post//

I wanted to say: I missed that poll. Can we run surveys every so often?

[Peter Pedant]

In the sixties this came to the fore - EMP associated with a nuclear blast

and in the progo on the nuclear attack on Sheffield on is it Leeeds ?
it is preceded by a blast over the north sea which generates an EMP and blows 90% of all circuitry

The American one with Jason Robarts also features an EMP

If you look at the Hiroshima bomb some articles begin with a Japanese notice to Tokyo - "at 8.i5 am today all communication with city of Hiroshima suddenly ceased...." They then decide someone from Tokyo has to go down and have a look, which they say will take three days on a/c of American bombing...

so yeah it has been known about for a along time - 50 y or so

[New Judge]

Is this one of the things that will happen if the UK leaves the EU :-)

[Peter Pedant]

this has more detail that the average posting from Mr Hughes ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

and contains far more details that you would ever want

[Peter Pedant]

//Is this one of the things that will happen if the UK leaves the EU :-)//

yeah an EMP post brexit

imagine all her majesty's judges in the the supreme court all going floppy mid-sentence as a result of all their pace makers blowing
( it could be like a scene from Alien as the contents come out of their chests - or Scanners )

[Togo]

I am OK sitting in my lead shed. Not right there pp. There is not more info there than an average posting. But some of it is relevant.

[Togo]

Just leave my 'chips' alone.

[Peter Pedant]

Togie

great !

re-read ( the erm article on EMP c gtr concentration ) - I think it has to copper ( lead is not a good conductor for these purposes ) and it doesnt have to be solid --- a faraday cage will do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage