Nothing violent. I just wish Moscow was hit with a huge EMT.

[Baitball Blogger]

Shut it down for two weeks

Or rather, an EMP.

[lagomorph777]

1. EMP? (Electro Magnetic Pulse)?

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Yeah, that.

[MineralMan]

3. Actually, there's no way to produce that EMP that isn't hugely violent.

So...

[sir pball]

4. By that, for the unaware, you mean a megaton-class nuclear explosion.

Yeah, it would be set off so high in the atmosphere that it would cause no direct ground damage, but it's still firing a goddamned nuclear weapon and would...not end well.

[MineralMan]

5. Yes. We're not going to do that, I'm certain.

It's important to understand things, I think.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Obviously, something we should work on.

[MineralMan]

18. You know, an EMP that would be effective

cannot be produced with any technology other than Nuclear weapons, so nobody's "working on" it. Both sides know how to generate a massive EMP. If that happens, we are in deep, deep shit, though.

I suggest that you be careful about what you suggest, particularly if you don't understand enough about it to spell what it's called. Not going to happen.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. I wish I had the kind of power of influence that you accuse me of.

[MineralMan]

25. Of course you don't have any influence.

That was not my point at all. You proposed something you did not understand, and got corrected for that. As always on DU, there are people here who do understand those things. That's why I proposed being more careful with your proposals and checking them out a little before making them.

You're rolling on the floor, laughing. That's pretty funny, all by itself, I think.

[Baitball Blogger]

28. I don't totally agree. The things that were not feasible forty years ago are now part of daily

life. Think about the things on Star Trek that were hatched out of someone's imagination that are now available at Best Buy.

I think it's okay to dream. Throw ideas out there. Fifty years from now we might have weapons that can shut down the electric grid to cities without doing harm to the populace. Everything is possible.

[Dial H For Hero]

30. Everything is *not* possible.

While our communicators are better than Captain Kirk's, we're not going to travel faster than light. The universe enforces that limit rather strongly.

[Baitball Blogger]

31. We'll talk again after the cold fusion

Technology is fully mastered.

[lagomorph777]

6. Basically, a nuke.

Some nukes are tailored for maximum EMP, but they are still huge bombs.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes, so that's not going to happen.

[lagomorph777]

9. Right.

[Dial H For Hero]

8. A massive EMP could result in tens of millions dead. Incapacitating their electronics would throw

them back to the 19th Century, but without 19th Century infrastructure.

Such an attack would certainly be interpreted as the equivalent of being struck by multiple nuclear bombs, and they would retaliate in kind.

[MineralMan]

12. Yes. But, the poster didn't know that.

That's what happens when people post about things they don't understand.

[Hortensis]

23. True, but it is 31 degrees right now in Moscow. Adults understand

that freezing to death is possible, and Russian winters are notorious for that. The OP didn't mention the population of Moscow, though, so I just looked: over 12.6 M, perhaps 2.5 M under 15.

I'm thinking that these days we all need to be more careful about what we say for fear of inadvertently feeding the "rough beast, its hour come round at last..."

[MineralMan]

24. Well, it's all a terrible mess, but solutions

that involve starting WWIII are not helpful, it seems to me.

[Hortensis]

26. For sure. Those are not solutions, to put it mildly.

[LisaL]

10. Emergency Medical Technician?

How huge does he or she have to be?

[MineralMan]

13. LOL!

[ret5hd]

20. BIG! And blonde...with a mustache and no t-shirt!

[BlackSkimmer]

29. My first thought too!

[brooklynite]

11. Because, of course, they wouldn't respond in kind.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Apparently not, if it does cause the damage that I'm being told it will cause.

Oh, well. Back to the drawing board.

[brooklynite]

15. It would appear that the armchair prosecutors have all been drafted.....

[Treefrog]

17. Lol!

Perfect!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. Uh that's pretty violent, whether it's an EMT or EMP.

[Fiendish Thingy]

21. That would start WWIII. nt

[Deminpenn]

27. The US has tactical electronic aircraft that

could disrupt communications in Russia.