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“Major storm on the sun’s surface will send out heavy bursts of various radiations. That’s what triggers the northern lights.”
“EMP. Electromagnetic Pulse. It’s the by-product of a nuclear detonation.”
“The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will,”
most pampered generations in the history of humanity.
21st.
They don’t know how to survive without a society that supports them even as they curse it or rebel against it.”
!!!!
They’re used to free clinics, homeless shelters when they need ’em, former hippie types smiling and giving them a few bucks.
No idea whatsoever how vicious the world can really be when it’s scared and hungry.
Scale of social order, he thought. The larger the group, the more likely it was that it would fragment under stress, with a few in power looking out for themselves first. Five thousand might be convinced to share and cooperate. A hundred thousand, and self-interests, them versus us, would begin to take over, especially with the breakdown in communications.
America is like an exotic hothouse plant. It can only live now in the artificial environment of vaccinations, sterilization, and antibiotics we started creating a hundred or more years ago.
Hell, if somebody said an offensive word, made a racial or sexist slur, my God, everyone would be up in arms and it’d be front-page news. Turn off the electricity and bang, we’re at each other’s throats in a matter of days.
“People are hungry, scared. We were spoiled unlike any generation in history, and we forgot completely just how dependent we were on the juice flowing through the wires, the buttons doing something when we pushed them.
Our vulnerability increases daily as our use and dependence on electronics continues to accelerate.
One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn’t we do it?
