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So, I'm starting to conceptualize another work about what happens to a floor of nurses when after an EMP blast hits a major country. I've been trying to figure out what exactly an EMP does and doesn't do. So, a whole bunch of questions.
Is there a rough year limit for what vehicles would function? Is it like anything from the mid 80's or 1960s? Or is there a more specific time. Also, I've read where the amount of metal in a car might shield a car's electronics from an EMP? Like would it be possible that a lot of newer cars would fail, but the ambulances, being bigger and considerably more metal might survive? Right? The idea I'm working under is that some modern cars would work and some wouldn't.
Phones? I'm assuming all smart phones would be bricked and while old mechanical land lines would still work the infrastructure would be destroyed.
Nuclear power plants? Are they hardened enough to survive a blast? If not, is there some sort of manual backup to make sure the core doesn't cook off?
Burns? Assuming it's a powerful enough EMP to blanket a significant area would people touching metal be burnt by the heat? Also, would the heat be enough to cook cars? Also, would your average light bulb blow up?
How deep underground do you have to be to get some coverage? In pretty much every major hospital there are non-public basements, some of those house generators. Would that be deep enough that the generators would survive? Also, if they weren't turned on at the time, would that effect their survival? Also, what about basic wiring? Assuming the generator worked would outlets have power?
Radios would be hit and miss, right? Also, say you ran to a walmart and snatched up every walkie talkie you could get, a mass number of them would work, right?
Would "The Cloud" survive?
Is there a rough year limit for what vehicles would function? Is it like anything from the mid 80's or 1960s? Or is there a more specific time. Also, I've read where the amount of metal in a car might shield a car's electronics from an EMP? Like would it be possible that a lot of newer cars would fail, but the ambulances, being bigger and considerably more metal might survive? Right? The idea I'm working under is that some modern cars would work and some wouldn't.
Phones? I'm assuming all smart phones would be bricked and while old mechanical land lines would still work the infrastructure would be destroyed.
Nuclear power plants? Are they hardened enough to survive a blast? If not, is there some sort of manual backup to make sure the core doesn't cook off?
Burns? Assuming it's a powerful enough EMP to blanket a significant area would people touching metal be burnt by the heat? Also, would the heat be enough to cook cars? Also, would your average light bulb blow up?
How deep underground do you have to be to get some coverage? In pretty much every major hospital there are non-public basements, some of those house generators. Would that be deep enough that the generators would survive? Also, if they weren't turned on at the time, would that effect their survival? Also, what about basic wiring? Assuming the generator worked would outlets have power?
Radios would be hit and miss, right? Also, say you ran to a walmart and snatched up every walkie talkie you could get, a mass number of them would work, right?
Would "The Cloud" survive?
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