If there was a global EMP

[Firehorse]

How are you using both?

Bling: Modified

[ItsDave]

Everythings of a digital age now so society would be screwed. "Oh goodness, I can't post that the world has got EMP'd on Facebook!" I can pretty much imagine that one. What a stupid world we live in.

[Jordy]

There were ships 150 years ago. People wouldn't automatically starve. People would just have go back to basics.

While that is true, I very much doubt there are many still around today and sadly ship building is a very long process. It would also be difficult seeing as they would run on coal and we import the vast majority of our coal from China. We would need to begin mining again in the UK and there isn't that much accessible without the use of electricity. Pretty much the whole National Grid would need relaying too I imagine, we'd soon run out of gas too.

At the very least there would be some starvation caused by a EMP and anarchy I think, I suspect the people who farmed and fished would be the one's who survive and it'd take about 50 years to get back to where we currently are.

[Recursion]

While that is true, I very much doubt there are many still around today and sadly ship building is a very long process. It would also be difficult seeing as they would run on coal and we import the vast majority of our coal from China. We would need to begin mining again in the UK and there isn't that much accessible without the use of electricity. Pretty much the whole National Grid would need relaying too I imagine, we'd soon run out of gas too.

At the very least there would be some starvation caused by a EMP and anarchy I think, I suspect the people who farmed and fished would be the one's who survive and it'd take about 50 years to get back to where we currently are.

I disagree, way way more than 50 years.

[JackBuddy]

While that is true, I very much doubt there are many still around today and sadly ship building is a very long process. It would also be difficult seeing as they would run on coal and we import the vast majority of our coal from China. We would need to begin mining again in the UK and there isn't that much accessible without the use of electricity. Pretty much the whole National Grid would need relaying too I imagine, we'd soon run out of gas too.

At the very least there would be some starvation caused by a EMP and anarchy I think, I suspect the people who farmed and fished would be the one's who survive and it'd take about 50 years to get back to where we currently are.

Humans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years and technical advances using electricity have only really come about during the past 100 years. Ships can move without fuel, and building them doensn't have to be a lengthy process. Coal isn't really needed anyway so mining for it would be irrelevant.

[Firehorse]

Humans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years and technical advances using electricity have only really come about during the past 100 years. Ships can move without fuel, and building them doensn't have to be a lengthy process. Coal isn't really needed anyway so mining for it would be irrelevant.

Yes but there have been many more advancements than that. We didn't rely on super sized container ships for our food, the world's population was 6x less aswell no more than 60 years ago.

Also there aren't ships around for us to readily use with sails apart from holiday yachts. Also building a ship is a long and painful process because you wouldn't exactly have any elecrical saws to cut the wood or anything, it would even need to be designed with paperwork too.

[cocaine]

society will break down then after a few years we would learn to function without it.

[PaulMacC]

We've been EMP'd our electronics are offline.
Tactical Nuke inbound!

That is what will happen, the Nuke will somehow fire without electronics.

[Tomm]

Most military grade electronics are resistant to EMP devices

We've been EMP'd our electronics are offline.
Tactical Nuke inbound!

That is what will happen, the Nuke will somehow fire without electronics.

[Firehorse]

Most military grade electronics are resistant to EMP devices

not if it was one on a globally strong scale caused by magnetically charged super sized asteroids colliding somewhere in space causing an electro-magnetic boom.