In which the National Geographic channel joins the Heritage Foundation and other EMP crazies in detailing overhyped scenarios of EMP national disaster. Shame on the Huffington Post for publishing this tripe.
UPDATE: George Smith has long been tracking the Cult of EMP Crazies. This is just another day for them.
"Such a weapon would cripple electronics, but not kill people."
Except perhaps those on pacemakers, in various hospital patient modes, and the like.
I walk around with a wire trailing on the ground, ensuring that "I'm earthed". I'm selling them under the brand name of "Livewire" to anyone who believes in this crap, for 6 dollars a foot. J has my address, and I'll give him a negotiated commission, say two dollars a sale. I'm hoping, playing devil's advocate, that there won't be any customers. Surely, they wouldn't fall for it?
Posted by: Ray | 19 June 2010 at 07:09 AM
No, no, I'll take one Ray.
Posted by: NVH | 19 June 2010 at 02:57 PM
In your case, NVH, it's free! It'll look a bit like fusewire; with attachment (another free mystery gift!)but don't take any notice of that, or you'll spoil your surprise.
EMPiricals Livewire International, Inc.
:P
Posted by: Ray | 20 June 2010 at 04:19 AM
Nonsense! Huffpo publishes tripe all the time! All kinds of tripe.
I do think they have a lid of some kind on the troofers and the birfers, and al-Queda doesn't get it's own page. Other than that, it's an open sewer...
Posted by: AreaMan | 20 June 2010 at 05:53 AM
*I do worry about losing my "friends" if EMP takes out my online social network.... Zzzzzz
Huffington Post? Now if that ain't scraping the shallow end of the gene pool.
Not to be outdone by Ray - I am selling the specs for millimeter wave technology, an active denial system built on small scale. It can be used to keep the squirrels out of your backyard or the neighbor's dog off the front lawn.
Call me!
Tammy Swofford
Posted by: tammy swofford | 20 June 2010 at 11:15 PM
Tammy's para-psychological invention, for all those supporters of EMPathy is of course a strategic one, whereas Livewire is tactical.
I see that the potentially devastating millimeter wave technology- active denial system- will keep those "squirrels and dogs off your lawn" but may also subversively disturb those bats in the EMP enthusiasts' belfry.
I'm leaving this now to see whether the advertisement on my invention is printed in the Huffington- Puffington Loco Express and after I've done that, I shall have a lie down in a darkened room... my brain hurts.
Posted by: Ray | 21 June 2010 at 06:12 AM
Para-psychological invention? harrumph! I wrote an article for the Marine Corps Gazette on millimeter wave technology - active denial systems. The stuff works. Kinda like the old Star Trek movies where the force field is put up. Raytheon has been on top of this game for awhile.
Title: Force Protection in the Non-Lethal World
"With the advent of directed energy or electromagnetic-based weapons systems, combat forces must be cognizant of new, debilitating risks." Yada yada
MCG July 2005
Tammy
Posted by: tammy swofford | 25 June 2010 at 09:59 PM
Well! I checked it out and realised and I'm going to have to Un-Deniably apologise and realign my personal magnetic field.
This will require a wave of energy having a frequency within the electromagnetic spectrum and propagated as a periodic disturbance of the electromagnetic field when an electric charge oscillates or accelerates. What it will do to my sacro-iliac is a sacrifice I must make, in the interests of international relations.
My IQ has taken a knock, and the knuckles of my hands are once again trailing the ground, just as they did in my former Navy days.
Posted by: Ray | 27 June 2010 at 05:22 AM