I'm not all that fussed, really. I think we should all take a look back at how it was a hundred years ago. SO much less aggravation and stress....people were much more civil then.
I could easily live without my TV, computer, microwave, cell phone..COULD YOU??
2006-08-26 14:38:40 · 12 answers · asked by sekhtet 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Smart kid! What she is talking about is if Terrorists fire off a small atomic bomb not far off the ground, it produces a strong electromagnetic pulse, which will instantly fry all the electronics.
All the car computers and ignition boxes. All the TV's and radios. All the computers. All the electronic computers that run the electrical generators and feed in the coal or gas.
Everything dead, dead, dead. Except for the old cars owned by collectors which would run fine until they run out of gas, because there would be no electricity to run the pumps.
Well, the military bombers would still work. I used to run EMP test on one of the boxes for the B-2 and the B-2's will still continue to drop A-bombs all over the country who harbored the terrorists who did it to us. Cool!!!!
2006-08-26 14:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it would lend a new meaning to "slow the world down so I can get off" like you said less aggravation and stress, for a short period. With everything being documented it would not take as long to rebuild as it was to initially build. BUT lets how we would do it right the next time.
2006-08-26 14:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Tom H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right, technology has made people less ready to use their brains and it's a muscle like any other; use it, or lose it. I work in education and you wouldn't believe the amount of students who don't think I will notice the difference between their work and something they've copied and pasted. I even, once had a student say that "Jesus came to me and helped me write it." I wish I was joking.
On the other hand one only has to read Hardy, Dickens, Shakespeare, St. Augustine, Suetonius, Plato et al... to know it was ever thus....
2006-08-26 14:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by wilf69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would definately take some adjustment, but I already think tv sucks. I wouldn't miss it. I've got a horse, so transportation wouldn't be a big deal. Besides, my part of the world is so far behind anywhere else, it wouldn't be that hard to adapt.
2006-08-26 14:51:59 · answer #4 · answered by sandeecbell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh? Magnetic whatsit? Well if it happens that will be ... interesting. I'd be a tad fussed though, 'cause I like the internet. And the TV. And video games aren't bad. And the microwave is handy...
2006-08-26 14:42:11 · answer #5 · answered by Mountaineer 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What about all the convenience, the decrease in mortality rates, the disease prevention? I don't think I want to go back a hundred years, but I do agree with you that we need to live more and put our values on life, love, and living instead of running the rat race.
2006-08-26 14:44:10 · answer #6 · answered by whereRyou? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hey, maybe it'll do something to the magnetic thingie in library books. Free literature for all!
2006-08-26 14:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you. If the only thing it did was get rid of the nim-nils with the cell phones. I'd be happy, in my log cabin in the hills.
2006-08-26 14:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by charley128 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What "things"? When you start breeding with your TV or microwave, do let us know.
2006-08-26 14:47:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done without them before, and I could do without them now, but, the wife loves them, so . . .they're in the house, whether I like it or not. God Bless you.
2006-08-26 14:45:21 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋