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RATTER15 | 09:40 Tue 08th Mar 2016 | News
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http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/future-weapons-emp-bomb/


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http://www.futurescience.com/emp/emp-myths.html
10:06 Tue 08th Mar 2016
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oooops, I posted that all the wrong way around for some reason!
fixed.
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Thanks Ed!
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.
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.
BUT in any case...
Like I damned well typed >:-(
Why does tech change things as the submit is pressed
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.
For the true facts please watch the documentary A View To A Kill which explains everything in great detail ;)
Good link, Gromit. Bookmarked.
@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?


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

Is this one of the things that will happen if the UK leaves the EU :-)
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
//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 )
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.
Just leave my 'chips' alone.
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

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