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11 ways the world could end: Electromagnetic pulse
11 ways the world (as we know it) could end
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Oct 24 2011 at 2:29 AM
"90 percent of all Americans could be dead within a year". I looked at the EMP Commission's report. Where are you seeing this?
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Oct 24 2011 at 10:37 AM
I look through both reports and the only 90% reference is as follows:
"Significantly, this exposure would cause radiation sickness to
the astronauts within approximately 1 hour and a 90 percent probability of death within 2 to 3 hours."
This is in reference to the ISS (international Space Station)
this was in the Critical National Infrastructures Report.
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Oct 22 2011 at 9:43 AM
electricity free would end the world "as we know it." how's your horse & plow today?
Ed Debevic
Oct 22 2011 at 1:01 AM
Nowhere in the Congressional EMP Commission report does it project a list of casualties. The report is here ( http://www.empcommission.org/index.php ) for those with the journalistic integrity to actually READ it. Ahem.
On top of that, EMP pulses pose no danger to living organisms. So, you know, they don't kill people directly. All right?
Ed
"If such a blast occurred over the United States, 90 percent of all Americans could be dead within a year, according to the Congressional EMP Commission."
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Oct 24 2011 at 10:51 AM
Although there are no direct effects of EMP's on living organism there are plenty secondary effects.
Without electricity tens of thousands patients in hospitals will die within days without electricity. Respirators, pumps, dialysys machines no longer able to work. I think EMP's will also effect pacemakers but not sure about this one. Medications that need to be kept cold will spoil very fast as well depending on the time of year and location. .
Without electricity to run pumps lack of sanitation
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will kills many as well within months. Americans are not prepared to deal without running water and sanitation services. dysentery will kill millions.
I think a very small percentage of the populations is prepared in someway to deal with something like this. The vast majority will panic.
Mcnoodle
Feb 17 2011 at 2:08 AM
Every second point in this article is "electromagnetic" something or other, I heard most of these. I will say this though, humanity has lived without electricity before, got forbid we have an "electromagnetic" disturbance and have no electricity for a few years. Might do the world some good considering that we have a greater threat of dying due to the morons and duchebags on the planet now.
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