Any electronics that will survive an EMP blast? (1 Viewer)

[ChristopherDAC]

AT&T used to have its own power system and everything, and I think the Long Lines were hardened in the late '50s or early '60s, but since the Bell Bustup that kind of thing has gone by the wayside. I doubt that your FiOS box is going to survive, not to speak of local exchanges and trunk offices. Fiber optics themselves are ipso facto immune, but the terminal equipment is not.

 

[JeremyErwin]

Speaking of EMP, when will a DVD of Wim Wender's "Until the End of the World" become available in the states?

 

[GuruAskew]

Camcorders aren't affected by EMP's, I think I saw that in a documentary or something.

 

[Holadem]

Was it called War of the Worlds?

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[JeremyErwin]

Or perhaps in a movie?

 

[LarryDavenport]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. We will be hit by a meteor long before Iran has the bomb, according to the guest on last night's The Daily Show.

 

[GuruAskew]

Nothing gets by you guys.

 

[Holadem]

And I've been called dry.

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[Jay Taylor]

Nathan,

Steel gun vaults are popular here in Oklahoma. They would make a pretty good Faraday shield against EMP. You could stash backup communication devices in the vault as well as weapons to defend your family & home.

 

[Chu Gai]

That would be good. Then you could listen and get video as Iran is incinerated.

 

[Nils Luehrmann]

Steven Spielberg's patent pending anti-EMP camcorder in action:

 

[Scott Simonian]

Oh, you guys.


:b

 

[Jasen Chandler]

If Iran could even get a warhead to our mainland you wouldn't have time to figure out what happened and turn on your radio before Iran was melted into a crater. The US would have nukes on the way long before theirs touched down. Why do you think no one has ever launched. Unless the warlord giving the order to launch was here in the US safe and sound far away from his own country they'd never do it.

 

[ChristopherDAC]

Not beyond the bounds of possibility. It has been speculated that Osama Bin Laden [whom the Iranians would shoot on sight, but that's another story] is in LA — with the various immigrant communities [it's the second- or third-largest city in many foreign countries! ] and the movie/TV industries, nobody would give him a second look, plus there are plenty of health clubs where he could keep up that "I'm living in a cave" look.