How is a blackout going to cause 33% of the worlds population to suffer fatalities in just a few hours?
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Is Electricity Crucial To Our Survival? || The EMP
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Well, a global blackout would do just as the opening of Revolution. Planes will not crash, they will DROP. Elevators will stop trapping people above and below ground as well as inside them. Places with forced ventilation(underground facilities etc) will lose air and people will suffocate. Subways will stop. Any electrically maintained atmosphere or environment will become uninhabitable whether or not it is occupied. Ships at sea will lose power and flounder. Without even steerage they will drift and the people will either starve, die of thirst or be capsized as the ship fails to steer into weather. Everyone driving will suddenly be in an uncontrollable trap. Most will coast harmlessly to a stop but many will not be able to stop or turn and walls, bridges, canyons, whatever obstacle they were pointed at will stop them at varying degrees of impact. EVERYONE on life support is dead. Everyone on Dialysis will die. As mentioned, all medicines requiring refrigeration will spoil killing those who depend on it.
33%? I don't know about that but millions certainly.
33%? I don't know about that but millions certainly.
There are 6000 planes flying in the air at any given time, which will fall out of the sky, and many will fall in populated areas. Though not 1/3 of the population, there would probably be millions dying in just that one example.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear... Well you're quite squared away it would seem. My knowledge of Nuclear fallout is a tad rusty, however it would seem that in the event of black rain, any electronics exposed would be rendered useless, not to mention the effects on all plant, animal, and human life. From my understanding 1 cGy is enough to kill... That dosage of course not being uncommon following a nuclear detonation.
The probability of a nuclear black out is not completely improbably, however an EMP is more likely. In the case of fallout what would be the best course of action? (Anyone can lend an opinion, feel free to reply)
Yeah, but what is going to cause a world-wide blackout? Super-massive solar flare?
In all probability nothing except as you suggested maybe something sun related. Anything manmade that would cause a worldwide EMP effect would probably be nuclear, and there would be a whole lot more than 33% dead from a worldwide nuclear event.
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That would be the most likely scenario for a world wide outage. The last solar storm to strike the earth that would have caused such an event, happened in 1859, before the power grid was built. It's not a matter of if it will happen, but when, as history has shown it is possible, and very probable. A satellite flying in low orbit with a couple of pounds of enriched uranium detonated above the US would knock the power grid out for the whole US. Those satellites fly over us every day.
Read "Lights Out" and "One Second Later". Two great books a fried told me to read that deal with this subject.
Anyone heard of HAARP?
