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Duh. Especially if an EMP hit.
by crb002 7y ago
Duh. Especially if an EMP hit.
- Kuinox 7y agoIf an EMP hit, the ship will just cease to function. There is electronics everywhere.
- situational87 7y agoYes but instead of worrying about the theoretical EMP that has never happened and will never happen how about we worry about the fact that we keep crashing into merchant ships like on the regular? Engineering priorities and all that.
- jodrellblank 7y agothe theoretical EMP that has never happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 > Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks.[20] Telegraph pylons threw sparks. [..] > In June 2013, a joint venture [..] used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the current cost of a similar event to the U.S. alone at $0.6–2.6 trillion.[2] [..] > The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet, missing by nine days.[4]
- jhayward 7y agoA geomagnetic storm is not an EMP. They are completely different phenomena. A geomagnetic storm is a very long duration, low frequency event that causes movement in the magnetic field of the earth. This can induce a voltage on large conductive structures notably very large metal objects, but primarily on long distance electrical lines such as telegraph (in 1859), or electrical transmission lines today. An EMP is an incredibly high-frequency, short-duration event in which a very intense electric field is generated which can affect mostly very small electrical devices such as integrated circuits, etc. They aren't even vaguely similar.
- crb002 7y agoHow about a capicitor bomb?
- lucb1e 7y agoReplacing the touchscreen won't help with that, you'd need to re-do the whole ship with hydraulics, which has its own downsides.