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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
BTW, for future reference, you can always request that one of us post the deals if life gets in the way. It's not an imposition and someone will gladly step in for you.
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I know, but I thought I'd have time to do it before we left for the hospital that morning. And of course, then I didn't.
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Hmmm: "Oceans of Storms" blurb says "the massive electromagnetic pulse it unleashes obliterates Earth’s electrical infrastructure. To plumb the depths of the newly created lunar fissure and excavate the source of the power surge, the feuding nations are forced to cooperate on a high-risk mission to return mankind to the moon."
I can't imagine ANY mission to the moon, or even contact between the US and China after the electrical infrastructure is obliterated. I think we'd be back in the dark ages.
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A huge electromagnetic pulse (EMP) like that would take out much, maybe even most of our global electronics infrastructure, but not
all of it. Plus most of what was damaged could be repaired. Something similar happened in 1859, with a huge
coronal mass ejection from the sun. It induced currents in telegraph wires, taking out a significant chunk of the telegraph infrastructure. (It even shocked some telegraph operators.) After it was over, the damaged equipment was replaced and telegraph service got back to normal.
So we'd do the same thing after an EMP of this size. We'd work on replacing equipment that was destroyed by it, and repairing the stuff that was just damaged. Equipment that was turned off at the time might even survive undamaged, ready to replace destroyed equipment. Gradually we'd get everything working again, but it would likely take years. It would be quite possible to prioritize the infrastructure necessary for a moon program so it was fixed first. And that might even be the smart thing to do, since it'd be best to find out what happened to try to prevent
another EMP from happening.
I actually found out this past summer what having an EMP hit your home is like. We had lightning strike about ten feet from one end of the house. Didn't damage anything directly beyond taking out a tree branch, but it took out a wireless access point, two Ethernet switches, fried the uplink port on a third Ethernet switch, and fried a laptop's power brick.
(But somehow failed to damage two other power bricks sitting in the same location. All three were in use.) But it didn't damage the TV in the den (closest location to the strike), nor any other electronics (including a PC) in there beyond the networking equipment. A few new switches and a new access point and we were back in business.
I went with
Ocean of Storms myself, but haven't read it yet.
