If there was a global EMP

[AlexOC]

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.

yeh too right!

[Wig44.]

Think of all the deaths in hospitals etc.

[Tenbeta]

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.

That's just ridiculous.

[Firehorse]

That's just ridiculous.

or is it?

[GommeInc]

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.

It's likely this would not happen. There's enough chance that the EMP from the asteroids would just go around the earth in a sort of "Faraday Cage" effect, where the EMP will follow the curve of the earth and go around the atmosphere, then out the otherside. Top Gear tested this a few years ago with cars and lightning, and there's a scientific chance the same would happen on a large scale between the earth and an EMP blast from outside space.

[Firehorse]

It's likely this would not happen. There's enough chance that the EMP from the asteroids would just go around the earth in a sort of "Faraday Cage" effect, where the EMP will follow the curve of the earth and go around the atmosphere, then out the otherside. Top Gear tested this a few years ago with cars and lightning, and there's a scientific chance the same would happen on a large scale between the earth and an EMP blast from outside space.

would sure knock down all the sattelites tho, no more sky tv or gps!

[herrfishhead]

Solar flares could easily have the same effect as EMP's.

[sammy]

The society would just plummet !