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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16272995" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>EMP effects are crazy-random, like that. The business you see in the movies where there is a big EMP and suddenly all electronics die is not how it works in real life. An EMP, as soon as it finds a path to ground, "collapses" into that path to ground and is pulled from the immediate surrounding area. As soon as an ionization trail is formed, it no longer even needs the original object around which it formed, the ionized gas is now the path to ground and that is where all the energy goes. This makes EMP very unreliable as area electronics-denial weapons. Yes, some will get fried, but also a lot won't; you get a lot better bang for the buck just making a regular bomb.</p><p></p><p>There is one qualification, however: the sun. When the sun spits out a big EMP, such as the Carrington Event in the late 1800's, forget everything I just said, because, well, we're talking about the sun, the literal hammer of God. The EMP is so large there's plenty to go around, and just hold on to your butts and pray, because yes, everything electronic is going to get fried. Shielding? First thing to go.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, the EMP from the sun never actually touches Earth. What it does is compress Earth's own magnetic field, and that compression, and consequent re-expansion, of Earth's own magnetic field is what does the damage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16272995, member: 67454"] EMP effects are crazy-random, like that. The business you see in the movies where there is a big EMP and suddenly all electronics die is not how it works in real life. An EMP, as soon as it finds a path to ground, "collapses" into that path to ground and is pulled from the immediate surrounding area. As soon as an ionization trail is formed, it no longer even needs the original object around which it formed, the ionized gas is now the path to ground and that is where all the energy goes. This makes EMP very unreliable as area electronics-denial weapons. Yes, some will get fried, but also a lot won't; you get a lot better bang for the buck just making a regular bomb. There is one qualification, however: the sun. When the sun spits out a big EMP, such as the Carrington Event in the late 1800's, forget everything I just said, because, well, we're talking about the sun, the literal hammer of God. The EMP is so large there's plenty to go around, and just hold on to your butts and pray, because yes, everything electronic is going to get fried. Shielding? First thing to go. Ironically, the EMP from the sun never actually touches Earth. What it does is compress Earth's own magnetic field, and that compression, and consequent re-expansion, of Earth's own magnetic field is what does the damage. [/QUOTE]
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