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Originally Posted by Rochard
Sure, no problem.
Can you imagine three-fourths of the US without any "electronics"? Computers, cell phone, televisions, radios - all dead. No power at all. No transportation, no cars, no rail, no planes. No food - Without computers you can't ship anything, which doesn't matter much being as the majority of the trucks are dead - but, no power, you can't store anything, and without power you can't buy anything.
In a heartbeat we would be back in the stone ages. No power, no communication, no food, no transportation. And I'm guessing I'm missing a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse |
Funny but since I've lived here in Mass in the last year & a half we have had a Hurricane & a Nor Easter that pretty much knocked out most of the power in the state for up to a week or more in many places. While people were pissed and typical morons fought for stuff here and there over all everyone went about their daily life, just with out power.
While yes it would be a set back, we surely wouldn't end up in the stone age and it wouldn't be the end of the world. Power only became a luxury that everyone became accustomed to over the last 100 years or so.
Life would change that is for sure but one thing is certain, it wouldn't be the end of the world and people would adapt. We sailed ships around the globe for hundreds of years with no power or gas. We use trains to transport people across the country powered by steam and the average family probably had 2 horses vs 2 cars..