What if everything electronic died? Fried completely, never to work again? It looks kinda likely
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My first words, "OUTSIDERS! Defend the fire" as a great man once said.
Seriously though, some anarchy would reign for a while.
Seriously though, some anarchy would reign for a while.
And then you would starve to death.SimuLord said:
OP: It's just another doomsday theory in a sea of mans' innate desire for self destruction.
Hmmm worst case scenario would probably something like this:mythicdawn12 said:
A large EMP event goes off, and all unshield electronics short out. Most critical military gear and kits would continue on doing what they do, although air travel would probably be limited to a priority usage. In the industrial sector, what systems that aren't blown up would probably be locked down, and workers sent home. Unfortunately that would mean, any mass production operation including oil refineries would be slowed down if not halted, though small scale production would probably continue after a few days with the vitial systems replaced. The principle reason behind the industrial sector's slow down won't be due to their inability to produce, though they will place that as the public reason, the main reason will be because of the consumers' sector financial infrastructure's being a bit scrambled for a while. However, the national banks and private banks will scramble to have their back-up records up and running, which can be pretty reliable if they are a major group and have something to lose; most financial insitutions from an industrised nation have a lot of redundancies in their record keeping, basically because there aren't many financial institutions that will let you off the hook easily if you owe them money.
With the civilian population its a whole different story. Globally, for most developing countries the daily life activities will continue as usual, some if they even notice will laugh it off, give more industrial nations the finger or sarcastically welcome us to 'the Club.' In industrialised society, most urban centers will face panic, while rural areas not so much. The panic will stem from the uncertainty of having their daily routines getting body-slammed into the wall (Let's face it half of North America's population will be unfit and definity not mentality prepared to face any personal crisis let alone a national one.). The uncertainty, will cause a lot of people to start hoarding, looting, or profiteering, even if the crisis spans a week or less. Petty and assault crimes will be a high if the military isn't on the ball and are unable to declare/enforce martial law. The very rich and the very poor will withdraw into their kin groups and become very very dangerous to approach. Generally being in a city during a period like this is pretty grim, mainly due to having your general freedoms of movement limited and it'll be even more grim if stupid or people with entitlement issues start making trouble for the dominant authorities. (FYI, my family's past history includes time spent having an attacking communist army over-running and occupying the city we were in, so I do know what I'm talking about in this case.)
As for the petty electronic stuff, all electronics can be replaced. For an electronic dooms-day scenario to happen, the majority of engineers would have to die, lose their minds, or disappear from the face of the planet. Human technology stands on the shoulders of all our past intellectual fore-runners, like Enstein stated, once the genie is out of the bottle it's out for good. Providing we have the ability to make glass, melt copper, and run a current on and off, we can replace any critical electronic or battery.
This. This. This.Blue_vision said:
lolol look a theory guys they destroy our consoles and stuff omg be afraid!
no. It's not gonna happen. If it does, I'll be happy like this fellow.
Also, stop playing mw2 and any other shooter thats currently out. And yes, stop looking at trailers to.
from the basis of the OP (couldn't be bothered to click the links) is that the sun is apprantely not doing what the scienctists thought it would and now they think its gonna lash out or something. This sounds like they think its a little kid or something.
Meh, real Canadians can withstand temperatures below -40 degrees (doesn't matter if it's Celcius or Fahrenheit because they're the same at that temperature).lacktheknack said:
OT: It would suck, but in the end it would probably help the world more than it would hurt it (we could recycle the metal from the elecronics in order to make more usefull conventional tools).
I do still hope it won't happen becuase I like my video games.
NINJAED...that is one of my favorite series; "Change" novels. Bonus points because it takes place in my home state of Oregon. Some physical laws are changed by an Event in Nantucket. What follows is a mass die-off as food vanishes, people start eating each other, and disease wipes out entire cities.Ciran said:
Let's assume this change was permanent...
Pretty much any major metropolitan area is fucked. Food will last for a couple weeks at best, water will continue to flow if you are below the source. People will panic and more than likely destroy many parts of the city. After that the smart ones will begin to exit city and head into the countryside.
The Rural areas stand a much higher chance of survival but then they have to deal with the threat of refuges seeking food. However most farms today only grow one or two crops in order to sell ...not to subsist on them. And they tend huge swaths of land with machines.
The only way TO survive would be to create cooperative farming communities with a strong military presence to protect yourselves. Think Sparta, where everyone knows how to swing a sword/shoot a bow and you'll get the picture. Life expectancy would be cut in half after all medical supplies run out. 99% death-rate is not an unreasonable figure.
That would be true if it was exactly like dies the fire. The difference would be that we could still use gas, steam, and many other sources of power that we had before electricity. Not only that, but we could use these to generate electricity again, getting us back up to steam fairly quickly. Yeah, individual people would suffer for a lot longer, but I think we would get the necessary functions up and running again fairly quickly or at least replace the ones that have been ruined.s0m3th1ng said:
There's no eBay.mikozero said:if i wrap my old solid state consoles in tinfoil and earth them before it hits do think i might become an ebay millionare after the fact ?