Some catastrophe happened and electricity didn't exist so there would be no batteries or ways to charge up things. Cars wouldn't work, would they, so the transport system would come to a halt and goods and foods couldn't easily be moved. Computing and the internet would come to a full stop. Telephone lines wouldn't work .... etc. Just interested to know - what would happen and how would we manage?
2006-12-05 23:42:17 · 18 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
It would be goodbye to answers.
2006-12-05 23:43:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would wait until the forthcoming reversal of the magnetic poles, which is guranteed to happen and is now overdue. This natural catastrophe will go a long way towards knocking out all things like electrical equipment, telecommunications, satellites, etc. It could happen any day now. Or any year now. Maybe in the next few centuries. If it's sooner rather than later then you will very quickly get an answer to your question. I'm sure humans would manage, but it would be the end of civilization as we know it.
2006-12-05 23:49:16 · answer #2 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I spent 3 weeks without power anything due to an ice storm a few years ago. I managed to keep my sanity by reading and actually enjoyed not having the tv for my husband and kids to get lost in. All in all having no power wasn't THAT bad.
Having no car or transportation? No problem. The heel toe express runs anytime. Maybe not having cars and such would give people a reason to walk that block instead of getting in their car and driving that block. There are horses for those "trips" that are too far to make on foot.
People did it years and years before we came along and they managed. We'd just have to take a really good look at what THEY did to survive.
I love this question...good one! Have a great day!
2006-12-06 00:13:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ann 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have to go back to the basics till electricity is restored. With human ingenuity as it is now, we shall overcome the problem in the long run. But as an immediate catasptrophy, a disaster procedure needs to be followed to save lives, as many may be in danger,Opertation theatres, artificial respirators, heart lung machines , lifts, almost anything you can think about will come to a dead stop. A DISASTER of Titanic proportions indeed!
Please don't think of such frightening stuff. A Hollywood film on the consequences will be better!
2006-12-05 23:50:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If electricity ceased to exist (as if by magic) then you'd die in less than 1 minute. Your brain uses electrical as well as chemical signals, and so do your nerves. Your body and mind would stop and the oxygen in your blood would be consumed (you can't breathe because your brain isn't telling your body to breathe) so when the oxygen ran out, your brain would die.
If electricity had never been invented, we'd still be in the middle ages!
2006-12-05 23:56:14 · answer #5 · answered by Chris W 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Quite simply, we wouldn't even be aware of the problem. For there to be no electricity all fundimental particles would have to be neutral, thus depriving matter of the ability to combine at a sub-atomic level. Sounds to me like if electricity ceased to exist in any form, so would we, as would matter in any recognisable form.
2006-12-05 23:54:10 · answer #6 · answered by Batho 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think we would use what we used to use, steam engines! either that or we could make a huge electromagnet and go from there. i mean it would take some time to get back where we are today but with our technology we would either be succesful or completely lost because today even tho we are much smarter than back years ago, we still rely on computers for about 50% of our doings, so we would have to get bill gates to invent a computer that ran of something else. lol.
2006-12-05 23:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by ~*cRaCkNeSs*~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
excellent question, the news media showed recent sattelite pictures of korea at night,the north was all dark while south korea was all lit up, just proof that commnuist countries produces a 1000 times less carbon in the atmosphere then capitalist one, it also proves u can live with power and save our planet from global warming at the same time.
2006-12-05 23:46:32 · answer #8 · answered by w.m.d's_bro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are electro chemical beings. Our mussles work because of electrical input from the brain.
Let us say that some martian ray stopped all electricity from occuring. We would be dead.
2006-12-05 23:55:39 · answer #9 · answered by Alice S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one thing for sure is that the primitive people of the world would do much better than the so called civilized world
just think no big macs and no coca cola not even supermarkets and no TV
2006-12-06 01:45:52 · answer #10 · answered by wimafrobor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would pretty interesting. I would guess life would be much like the 1850's but with a bunch of junk around!
2006-12-05 23:50:05 · answer #11 · answered by oxmmdox 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋