Cash only and bank failures possible?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by irv

Is that a revision, Cliff, or are you just repeating the one you read over 20 yrs ago?

I’m not saying another word out of abject fear of conjuring up you know who .

[irv]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I’m not saying another word out of abject fear of conjuring up you know who .

LOL. Don't blame you.

Cash is king and only for the Eastern North Carolina Mom & Pop's Barbecue, no credit cards or checks

[chalupacollects]

Well, it is true that if we get hit with an EMP weapon (electro magnetic pulse) anything with a computer or a computer chip will get fried. Cars, electrical grids, water supplies, cash registers, cell phones, gas pumps etc.

It is estimated that if an EMP is detonated by ballistic missile 200 miles above the USA or yet by an even better delivery system, such as a balloon - (sound familiar?) that 90% of our population would be dead within a year.

The good news is that old cars and aircraft would still be able to run until they run out of gas and maybe coal powered trains which would be tough to find.

On that note have a nice day!

[packs]

As far as I know the only way to generate an EMP of that magnitude is to explode a nuclear weapon in high atmosphere above your target. If you're going to do something like that, you'd just drop the bomb on your target.

Doesn't seem like a practical thing to worry about.

[Exhibitman]

If you live in SoCal, it is more or less an article of faith that when the San Andreas Fault finally pops, we will spend up to 2 weeks or so at home holed up without electricity or water. We stock our pantry and emergency supplies accordingly. A calamity affecting the power grid, like a terrorist attack in CA or, apparently, breathing hard on the grid in TX, is the same idea, so same prep. There are some benefits to living in SoCal, though, that outweigh the risk of an earthquake, like excellent universities:

[chalupacollects]

Originally Posted by packs

As far as I know the only way to generate an EMP of that magnitude is to explode a nuclear weapon in high atmosphere above your target. If you're going to do something like that, you'd just drop the bomb on your target.

Doesn't seem like a practical thing to worry about.

Doesn't have to be a big nuke, its the enemies way of killing you without actually killing you...

[irv]

Originally Posted by CW

I don't really want to get into a debate on this, but the first part of that meme, ie. "NASA now admits..." does not correlate with what is currently on the NASA.gov website.

Statistics can also be twisted to fit a narrative, which is maybe what the person who made that meme did. I really don't know, because they didn't state their source, but the first statement in that meme appears to be BS, so how can you trust the rest of it?

Here is the direct link, which may be difficult to explain away:

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/

The meme in question

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...er-than-losses
https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask...lobal-warming/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im...ier-is-growing

I'd say the meme is 100% spot on, but if you think otherwise, I don't blame you, as, just like the news about covid and vaccines, the news changed/flip flopped about 100 times since the first report.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/gl...rnd/index.html

Can you tell me what the ideal temp is supposed to be and at what point in time in the earth's history has the climate never changed?