Do Real EMP Weapons Actually Exist, or Are They Only a Thing in Movies?
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A few years back people were freaking out about the possibility of an EMP device on a North Korean satellite being used to take out the U.S. power grid. I was telling my wife about it and like what it would mean if the speculation were true. Immediately upon finishing telling her, our power went out.
Me " Guess that was it."
Her "Really?"
Me "I don't know, I hope not."
Power came back on a couple minutes later, but holy crap the timing.
My power went out when i was watching the news about iran shooting down a U.S. drone, when everything went black I just thought "well shit... is this it?😕" (a tree fell on the powerlines)🥳🙏worlds not ending today!
Our power grid is extremely vulnerable but it looks like cyber security is as well.
@@victorclabaugh1373 well, if all power goes out, the *last* thing I'm going to worry about is my "cyber security".🤣
@@Pynaegan well considering a ton of the power plants in the U.S are switching or have switched from analog to digital and computer controlled systems, they are essentially one in the same.
Uh yeah. Thats a crazy real threat. A nuke dont have to go off on the ground to be destructive. High in the atmosphere would destroy many electronics.
The 2003 blackout was one of the best times of my life. The bliss of no electrical background noise and being able to see the stars without light pollution. I remember the streets were full of people at night looking at the stars and just sitting on their lawns. Obviously a terrible time overall but I had a very wholesome experience.
I remember thinking how quiet my house was when there is no power it was alil unnerving.
Where was that at?
@E Van So did something happen to cause you to stop being a sociopath?
I see the stars like this every night because I hate people and live far from them.
@E Van you sir, have the weirdes videos on your channel. But thats not the comment i meant to give.
I dont think its that smart to confess to your, minor yet criminal, actions of steeling from a couple of years ago
Explosively pumped flux compression generator...
Flux compression...
Great Scott! It's an honest to goodness flux capacitor!! Somebody get my DeLorean!
Me too! 😆
that's heavy...
W TF Scotty?? W TF??
Didn't know the Airforce built a B-52 sized microwave, darned impressive!
@@GAMakin dos vidanya comrade!
Simon can say “explosively pumped flux compression generator” three times fast.
He should've been twirling his mustache while saying that for more dramatic effect.
I can see someone saying "your mom is an explosively pumped flux compression generator"
@@collincutler4992 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
"Explosively pumped flux compression generator" sounds like me love life, in that it sounds totally made up.
@@collincutler4992 Good one! It would be something said by Cartman or Rick from Rick and Morty
these tests were primarily to determine how far Indiana Jones could fly in a refrigerator.
It's part of the formula that includes the theatrical variable while being watched relative to plot armor multiplied by his importance in the story (a variable 0.0 to 1.0). Since he was always the protagonist, the plot armor was always 1.0. The theatrical variable is two numbers, the first is the dramatic effect of distance and the second is the dramatic effect of tumbles and incidental direction changes, which the first number is diminished by the second.
But, I digress. As you pointed out, the tests were to test the distance in the said elevator and tweak the math to be able to predict future similar situations. There are also the limits of the suspension of belief, exceeding actual physics but staying within the limit to not be absurd enough to be cartoonish. The best minds are working on the tests and working the numbers.
Hahahaha!
@@GAMakin Well, that depends upon your position in the multiverse, currently here, your origin universe, and how often The Mandella Effect causes your slips between universes or even just glimpsing into others. It's usually utter nonsense but can be rather significant because the arguments are based upon multiversal convergence points.
well it certainly shouldn't have been faster than the shockwave...
sometimes my ADHD kicks in during the video then a few minutes later I'm like, "wtf is he talking about?"
I know what you mean. There was a Nova television episode on dinosaurs that would have these cutaway sequences as a series of flashes that would completely trigger my ADHD I had to watch parts of the episode several times to get what was going on.
Wait thats an adhd thing?
I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD but I get that a lot. Educational content gives me way too many things to think about in a short amount of time and my mind starts running off like a kid in a toy store who can’t hear his parents paging him on the store public address system.
Kinda why school failed me.
Being an old guy, subjects like this have always held a fascination for me. Others would be Nuclear conflict not specific to EMP damage. The Bermuda Triangle, quicksand (as portrayed in entertainments), and to a lesser degree the sinking of Atlantis. Probably a hundred others I can't think of right now.
I enjoy your productions on the multiple channels you have and I hope you will continue them for a long time to come.
Thank you.
Simon is just here recording every single aspect of human civilization, history, society, and technology their content is a whole encyclopedia at this point
"explosively pumped flux compression generators are too classified and too complex for terrorists to understand"
12:50
I don't know fam. That schematic looks pretty easy to me.
They aren't that hard, you just need a very powerful magnet and a explosive lenses.
while the later is used for atomic bomb and it's the hardest part of it, in atomic bomb you need a couple dozen pretty equal one exploding at the same time.
of course, I never build such device, however, it doesn't sound hard to me.
@@youkofoxy what do you need a magnet for? It uses an iron core to induce a magnetic field.
*flashbacks to rockwell automations retro encabulator*
"Starfish Prime"
Why can't I not imagine the nuke as anything more than a starfish version of Optimus Primal, that apparently gives its life for the Muricabots?
Well that's just prime
Avoid Amazon. Buy from brick and mortar only!
I thought of the giant fuck-off mind eating cosmic starfish from DC comics.... Starro The Conqueror!
Lololololol
Gilles did a great job wrapping this one up. We are all worried about terrorists, or nuclear war, when the biggest threat to our electrical infrastructure is a the sever shortage of tree trimmers.
We can now track the time these videos were filmed based upon whether or not Simon is in a sling.
Don't forget solar storms. We had one so bad in the 1800s telegraph lines and machines exploded and caught fire all across the country. It would be pretty catastrophic if it happened today.
@@dustinb1070 The one from the 1800s was mentioned in the video?
1859
Look up on UA-cam what the Russians did to the Donald cook
It's been awhile, but back in highschool I remember reading about a guy who built a capacitor powered electric drag bike, it had a cascade collapse and nuked the timing system
You're lying....
@@Flies2FLL Lying about reading it?
@@SilverionX No. I'm just fucking with you....I fully believe you are correct.
-My little brother used to cross his arms and then put a finger in my face when he knew I was correct: "You're lying!" Occasionally I use that technique here on UA-cam and you should SEE some of the defensive responses!
@@Flies2FLL I didn't write the original comment, I'm just a curious bystander :P
@@SilverionX You're LYING!
The Lock Picking Lawyer has a pocket EMP device to help with cracking electronic locks.
That's not a fluke.
I love that channel !
Doesn't he just use a magnet on those?
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder The magnet, or rather spinning magnets is a different tool for magnetic locks. There was a fairly recent video with an electronic lock and on that he used the pocket EMP device.
I am using my phone at the moment so finding a link is not possible, I can post a link once I am on my computer.
@The Bird
OK back home from having my fingerprints checked by the police, so here are the links:
Spinning magnet to open lock:
ua-cam.com/video/hQTz1OmmHYo/v-deo.html
Pocket EMP v. Timer Padlock:
ua-cam.com/video/eWpOdvMUegI/v-deo.html
Or, more likely than a tree in Ohio, a power company exec wanted to make a quick profit on power futures, and was driving the spot price up and up, till the grid overloaded, with too few power plants available to provide power input during peak power demand. One tripped out on overload, and the failure cascaded from there rapidly, as each successive grid section was tripping trying to either supply too much power, or to transfer too much power to areas that had suddenly lost the local plant.
US EMP weapon test.......................................
an american problem to be sure
Great video, well done! Solid technical part and well researched, keep up the good work!
I just finished Forstchen's One Second After and I can confidently say EMPs terrify me way more than a nuke ever could.
Solar storm should worry you the most. A very powerful one can knock out your watch..
Nuclear Emp will used to take out the US grid. See Dr. Peter Pry.
Well a nuke can make an EMP so technically a nuke should still scare you
I love those books (there are 3 of them in that series). I don't think Forstchen gives enough weight to the groups of people who will eat other people to survive, at least until they can figure out how to properly live off the land and grow enough food for themselves. Those cannibals will be stronger and thus more able to take over the weak and starving groups that followed John Matherson. In fact, 8 out of 10 people that followed John in that story died, so those are not odds I would want to follow. Also, when there are so many millions of people wandering on the roads, 50,000 people massing at your checkpoint, where you only have 5000 people in your town, again, nothing is going to stop that hungry and desperate horde from coming through.
There really needs to be an X factor to survive. Eventually, all the bullets get used up, all the liquid fuels get used up, all the horses get eaten, and it's back to fighting wars over resources with sticks and stones for a while...
Just finished the book, great read !!
My Dr was 90 plus yrs old when he told me "How" he became My Dr.
I think he was honored to tell me, as I may have been one of the 1st "my age" to be Very Interested, and questioned him at length.
He had studied EMP with the development of our 1st A bomb.
We thought about EMP just as much as the other energies with the 1st test.
This is REAL and for a REALLY LONG Time!
RIP Dr Allen
☕️Im glad this is not a video that “scares” people into buying a book about “prepping”, like most of the videos related to EMP do. I call it “scareware”.😳
Im glad I found YOUR video!💕
Damn this is good. Relative numbers speak so well compared to raw measurements in difficult to intuit units. Love all the detours. Felt riveted the entire time. Super concise, great work!
Vacuum tubes are interesting. My grandpa was in the US airforce in the 50s and later worked for Hughes and other companies but one of the cool things he did is work on auto pilot landings. He worked so much with the old tube technology it's crazy and it always blew my mind when he would talk to me about it and what they did really 👍
I tried my best to not be distracted by Simon's excellent beard but I found myself only half listening. What an awesome, mighty beard!
Best full beard on YT.
It takes Beard Blaze to have a beard like that.
What is with the bandage on his chest?
@@Dobviews Negative. Car Wizard has the Beard Of Knowledge!
@@Flies2FLL really? You are going to pick over a compliment? GSDASTFU account muted for intentional rudeness. Fail Army
Mike Mathews (Electroharmonix) brought all those abandoned Soviet era tube factories back into business to make vacuum tubes again for valve guitar amplifiers and SAVED ROCK AND ROLL! - DO that story !!
Wish they had a small enough weapon that I could use on my neighbor's stereo!
Or the guy who pulls up next to you with the 150 dB car audio system.
If it's too loud, you are too old!
Me...the guy with the loud speakers!
Shit yeah James
@@lemmebeulusr1502 or you have a baby with colic who wakes up at the sound of a squirrel passing gas outside.
@@lemmebeulusr1502 Thats when I crank my louder speakers up, with music you'd hate, just to prove a point.
Me..The guy with bigger speakers.
Anytime it’s announced that one of these companies have ‘developed’ something its safe to assume that by NOW it’s already in use
An EMP that takes out a 1st world countries power infrastructure sounds like an intriguing social experiment
If it was powerful enough to take out all of the infrastructure in any of these countries. It would likely kill hundreds directly through causing malfunctions in pacemakers and the such. As well as completely eliminating life support after a time.
Nothing social expirementy about that.
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder seeing how a group of people handle the event amoungst the outage might be valuable information on how a increasing stressful situation impacts on a humans ability to express grieving
It would take a thousand hands to count all the reasons we don't do that haha
@@slaydon3 not saying we should, but it would be intriguing to witness what people do, how they handle themselves and others. Would those in control of food stockpiles help, would medicine stockpilers go to lengths to help those with ailments... would people horde what they have in amplitude out of fear or would they help even in varying degree's. Im not discounting tragic loss. Just curiosity.
Read the book "One second after".
Brilliant. Love your shows. Always educational..
Wow one of the best researched videos on this I have seen! A+ for research effort.
EMI/RFI studies go way back, the threat never went away. Sattelites shut down for it and hardened systems are a topic in some offices still.
@Wayne Smith
But certainly they're still affected by some sort of EMP, right? I mean, depending on the the the bomb works, an electronic is an electronic, even if better protected
In my industry, there is a very powerful broadband EMI generator only half a metre away from the boxes we build. The car ignition system, and it is often not far from the computer that runs it. We have to harden them pretty well.
@Wayne Smith after the Texas winter storms, it is now clear that shutting down the grid is enough to cause massive problems with old equipment. Because it’s not been turned off for decades and most likely won’t restart
The Sun's flares are ramping up at the moment. It is worth keeping an eye on it today.
I'm always keeping an eye on the sun. I've seen no evidence it's ramping up. In fact it's just the opposite. But I'm sure they'll come back some day. We might go through a mini ice age first..
So much of our infrastructure is unprotected because they are owned by private companies and they say an EMP attack by terrorists or a waring country is unlikely and it's like "the sun does EMPs all the time! We nearly dodged a solar storm that could have knocked out all the world's power grids! Invest in protection from the sun now! Forget saving some bucks now by not investing, it'll cost more in the long run when, not if, when it does happen!"
@@livingcorpse5664 Advice the governor of Texas should have taken to heart, just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it will never happen.
@@livingcorpse5664 how would one prepare for something so massive and damaging as a solar storm or flare? Other than going underground, I seriously doubt that there is much that can be done that will be effective
@@binghamup8785 We need to research so we can develop defenses against it, which they aren't funding. They're sticking their heads in the sand.
Always wondered about this. Great video.
Excellent video. Both enjoyable and informative
There's a video floating around that shows how to make a small emp device out of commonly available items.
Yea, but it literally has to be right next to it, within a couple inches.
I would imagine that the rail guns the Navy is testing has an EMP side effect, and it's likely the reason why they are not very prevalent.
It would obviously be localized to the ship, and not much more.
It's not hard to make an EMP. But you get what you pay for. A decent sized EMP can be explosively formed. This requires and explosive. So if you happen to have several pounds of explosives, you can make an EMP and have the FBI come arrest you. Great fun!
@Simon Colby Don't expect a response. I had that problem once and it took me 2 weeks to catch up on the porn I'd missed.
@@jwrosenbury I affect electronics have destroyed a lot of light bulbs and microwave ovens. I wish scientists could figure out what causes it. It started after I was knocked unconscious from a nearby lightning strike and noticed watches wouldn`t work and would be damaged if I wore them. I only recently discovered we`re called "Sliders." There have been a few news reports of very severe cases.
@@baneverything5580 do spoons stick to you?
EMP: *triggered*
Earth: *all power goes out*
Simon, 3 Seconds later: *CANNIBAL MODE*
*new cooking channel has entered chat*
@@russellzauner there are recipes out there
Let the games begin.
@@thetroll1247 Wouldnt general recipes for pork or beef work just fine? Okay, i guess some people are more concerned about the details than others.
Thank you, Simon. Well worth watching. Forwarded to friends and family.
Excellent video. Very informative.
Solid Snake: *throws EMP*
Terrorist: Enemy sighted! HQ Requesting reinforcements.
HQ: ......
Terrorist: HQ respond!
Snake: *Tranqs Terrorist*
Metal Geeeeeeeeeeear.
It's actually more funny when you hold an enemy up from behind and then leave him standing there thinking Snake is still pointing a gun at his back.
If you do it in the patrol route of another enemy in MGS2, the AI is clever enough to interact, and if the other guard comes up on one of his mates standing like an idiot with his hands in the air, he will bash him in the back of the head with the butt of his rifle, the standing guard will crumple like a sack of potatoes, and the patrolling guard will panic and then blame Snake for his now unconscious buddy.
It's kind of hilarious.
1:26 Also the TV series *Dark Angel*, the debut of Jessica Alba.
Also 'Broken Arrow'.
I almost forgot that series. I vaguely remember watching it as a kid.
now that is a throw back, good shout :) have yet to see an barcodes on the back of folks necks though :(
There is also the 1983 TV movie, The Day After.
@@r66f80 Thanks but I don't recall any EMP depicted in that movie.
Did you mean 'The Day After' or 'The Day After Tomorrow'?
Neither?
@@jsl151850b You're thinking of a different movie.
Well done. Well researched and from my perspective, accurate.
The information in this video is quite explosive
I just realized that switching to electric cars might not be the greatest idea, considering how vulnerable our network is.
Vehicles can be hardened pretty easily.
@@alendonvaldor5808 The issue is more of the fuel supply for the vehicles. Once they run out charge, they're useless. Maintaining fuel diversity has a point.
@@613aristocrat On the other hand, how long will internal cumbustion cars keep driving after all the gas stations stopped working?
@@Landogarner83 I hear. I guess we're all doomed.
@@613aristocrat Time to train up on the bicycle :)
Of course the scientist who invented the "explosively pumped flux compression generator" looks like that.
Simon delivers again!
In his video 1323 the LockPickingLawyer used an EMP device to open a timer padlock. So there! All hail the LockPickingLawyer!
That's a great channel.
There's a Raytheon engineering lab like right next to where I work. I had no idea there probably designing stuff like emp weapons right next door.
Yup, that’s about it. There’s a Raytheon plant near my town too.
Hearing about what's happened to the Marshall Islands and the people who live there because of the US' nuclear testing is incredibly depressing. Those people deserve a lot more than they've been given.
Agree. But maybe just as bad is how few Americans know the story at all.
Very interesting. Thank you!
Before being shielded, spark plugs used to generate a radio burst that could be tuned into with the onboard car radio. There is also the original spark-gap signal generator that was used for the first wireless telegram systems. Any spark breaking will generate some EMP, it's just a question of how powerful, duration, and range.
I just had 2 days of downtime when my moden/router died. It to my internet company that long to figure out what the problem was. Made me realize just how much I depended on the internet. At least my cell phone still worked as a phone. I would hate to lose ALL ability to communicate long distance - in any form.
That's why I'm a licensed ham radio operator.
My dad always said the thing that turns a bad situation into a disaster is loss of communication.
@@CowCommando smart dad! 👍🏼
I work at a ISP, several times a year we have to deal with solar storms and them interfering with our TV service.
Just needs to be around March and April here, when at 10AM the sun is within the field of view of the LNB, and swamps the satellite signal out for an hour. Easiest time of the year to align a dish, without using anything other than your eye, just aim it at the right time to cook the LNB front with reflected light.
There's been no real solar storms since the 1980 and early 1990s. The ones today and like a misty rain storm. The sun will come back to life some day. I was working for a fire department back then. We watched the power lines start turning red and the power was shut down at the time.
I lived through that blackout, didn't know it started in my state. Probably on my street because our power went out all the time due to trees. When the houses were built they ran the powerlines next to an existing forest. Later the trees were cut down for more houses but a line of them were left near the power lines because danger.
There was huge city wide black out in Cincinnati back 2009. Lasted for weeks. Everyone got together to grill up everything before it whent bad, and my friends had to watch over their store in shifts since there were no working cameras.
I would go insane from lack of sleep if I didn't have air-conditioning and a white noise machine.
It's ok, I have a holiday home in insane and it's really not that bad, admittedly there are some areas you wouldn't want to go to but there are plenty of eye openers to see and some areas are really good fun!
Try brown noise. More soothing than white trust me
Lists many popular movies with emp weapons but has watched none. AM I RIGHT PETER!!!!!!!
I'm surprised he didn't say the Sonic movie since a emp was the start of that movies whole plot
The matrix. And as tv show 24
Eh. The only one worth watching in that list is Ocean's Eleven, anyway.
This is all great info, Simon, but I'll need to scale this down to backpack size to deal with Boston Dynamics' nightmare droids.
Got 2 more videos to watch so I can follow this one...I love this channel!!!
Most likely a tree in Ohio...putting all fear to rest. Perfect way to end this video. Aannddd that’s why they pay you the big bucks!
In Texas, on the other hand,... ‽
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ua-cam.com/video/zRakAuHQguo/v-deo.html
Well, I just saw the Lockpicking Lawyer open a safe with a pocket EMP device he built himself, so i'd say EMP weapons are prety real.
Not the same thing but its conceptually similar.
Link
"the lockpicking lawyer" Wut
@@user-hp7gc2oy7d It's a great channel. He is a real estate lawyer, not criminal.
@@tomx641 Ahh ok lol
Thanks Simon and team. :)
The Russian Mig-25's radar was created using valves (tubes) instead of transistors, the reason why they did it was because they were less susceptible to EMP (from H-bombs), but the thing is they use the same type of valves, EL34, that a lot of Marshall guitar amps use, guitarist preferring the sound of valves amps over solid state. So years after valves had stopped being made in the West the only place you could get them was Russia (well the eastern bloc and China) as they still needed them for their radar, so next time you hear a cooking guitar riff being playing on a cranked up amp, you have the USSR military to thanks for it.
EMP weapons are a real thing, as well as Direct Energy Weapons. Welcome to the future
Handheld Direct Energy Weapons currently only really seem to be able to set people on fire at range really though lol
You forgot to mention the Carrington event also caused electrical lines to catch on fire!
One of his other channels has a video dedicated to carrington events.
Anton mentioned a CME a few months ago worse than the Carrington Event, but luckily it was pointed directly away from us...
It still knocked out radio communications to the Arctic bases for a week or so.
I just noticed this for the first time in one of your video's so will just ask: does this feature the vaporwave song Resonance by Home?
"are EMP weapons real?"
Let's ask Afghanistan about the CIA EMP drone that shuts off buildings
ooo that's spicy. M O R E
🧐 interesting
We cannot ask. Inzernet connection is bad... oh wait
What a day that was when the power went out back in 2003.
It was super traumatic in the NY area, coming as it did on the heels of 9/11
My friend and I went to the Music Box Theatre to see the re release of The Good The Bad Nd The Ugly. Extra footage cut out back around 68 was restored and Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach provided studio time to re record their dialogue to be dubbed in as needed..after, we went to a now-vanished pizza parlour for a phenomenal Italian Beef. The story was on their tv
This was a very informative and interesting video. I hope no one is losing any sleep over the existence of such things though. I mean, if a person or organization were of a mind to knock out a region's power, they certainly wouldn't need to resort to such extravagant means as all that. A little ANFO, or even good ole' Dynamite, planted at the bases of key high-voltage transmission towers would more-than get the job done.
Good video 👍
I never realised there was even a question about whether they were real. I was introduced to them as a real thing before I ever saw them used in fiction.
I was ON a Trident nuclear sub in 95 when that bullshit went down.
Being taken out by another nuclear power: Tragic.
Being taken out by high tech terrorists: Terrifying.
Being taken out by some tree in Ohio: Tragically, terrifyingly embarrassing.
I'm actually kind of glad that the power went out for one night of the year. I was actually able to see a meteor shower from the comfort of my backyard without any light pollution from the houses around me or the street lights. I haven't seen that many stars or even the Moon that bright in my neighborhood, since I moved in. Sure at night you can see a lot of stars in a rural area, but the streetlights usually drown out a lot of the Stars. I didn't even need my telescope.
Been a while since I’ve been here, is your beard longer than normal?
I believe so
@@snugglecity3500 yeah I never see this channel in my subscription feed. I could tell something had changed with his face haha
All that beard oil
@@GAMakin oh my gosh 😂😂😂😂
Would the 'droid poppers' we saw in Star Wars: The Clone Wars have actually worked against droids?
Would it be possible to have a very short range EMP, like confined to a typical two-story home for example? I believe there have been a few military games like Call of Duty and Rainbow Six: Siege that have used "EMP grenades" to temporarily disable enemy electronics including cell phones, weapon lights and optics, and some other gadgets that rely on electricity to function.
very informatic one .thanks for a qrench
Lock Picking Lawyer uses EMP attacks on electronic locks all the time...
Small scale emp's are fairly easy to make. The issue with them against day, military computers, vehicles, ect, is they are hardened against even large scale emp's. Which is why most movies get EMP attacks dead wrong. Also hate in movies when a emp disables a plane and they just nosedive. Even airliners have mechanical backup systems and can, you know, glide. May still crashland, but a fairly controlled crash landing.
@Adam Courchaine Exactly Xd
Interestingly transistors are quite resilient, it is the fine circuits we use nowadays that get fried.
@@alendonvaldor5808 the military used to be. They've let down their guard bad. They depend on the most fragile systems available, satellites. They also depend on microwave towers on mountain tops that have nothing to protect them. The smaller electronic get the more fragile they become. Focused EMP, meaning tuning to specific frequencies, are impossible to shield against. The shielding itself can turn into an antenna with the right frequencies.
When I was a kid I wanted to move to the Marshal Islands, but then I learned they were a nuclear test site so my dream was ruined. :(
betcha land is pretty cheap there...
@@genxlibertarian9656 You think Godzilla has a first time home buyer's program?
Around 2 decades ago, I actually HAD a set of plans that supposedly gave you a mains powered EMP gun, using the magnetron from a microwave oven.
I don't remember the claimed range or output, and was too scared to try and build it (speaking as an electronics techie at the time)
Also unlike in the movies the electronics are destroyed not just turned off for a couple minutes and turning them off does not protect them.
I wonder if Simon has to pee. How fast can he talk?
I generally listen to him at 2x speed.
@@SteelWolf13 ...because of course you do. True maverick you are.
@@SteelWolf13 Is the 13 your age?
I wonder if he's on coke.
@@SteelWolf13 ametuer. download the video and speed it up to 8x :P
So, what you’re saying is that our electrical system in the US is so unstable, that bothering with an EMP is just overkill when simply just cutting down the right tree will do the trick? Lovely.
I remember the 2003 blackout. I was in Quebec for most of it. Didn't find out about the blackout until a week into it. I finally called my family and they were like "How are you handling the blackout?" And I was like, "What blackout?" Had electricity the whole time. Gotta love military bases and their copious backup generators. Told the rest of my unit about it and they called their families to make sure they were fine. Then we went to the base arcade and wasted some down time. Great blackout XP
Um... Did Simon's beard find a new level of epic awesomeness recently???
Moral of the story: install local solar power. Locally produced energy can enhance community resilience when disasters strike. Consider using inverters that are tested to resist EMP.
I disagree, and without getting too in depth, for most hypothetical scenarios, this set up would be quite vulnerable. A diesel or propane backup generator would be more viable.
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Making an emp is kind of easy. Getting caught with an emp is a serious felony. Even a 9 volt emp can kill a laptop.
@Wayne Smith any immediate and unexpected shutdown can do damage to an electronic. Especially energy induced ones. It gets less likely the weaker it is but damage is still possible.
@Wayne Smith A surge protector helps if the power feeding the machine is the reason for the surge. If you put a handheld emp near a laptop it would rapidly induce current in various parts of the laptop. At the least it would purge most of the stored data, at worst it would fry countless parts.
A surge protector only helps if the surge comes from the wall socket.
@Wayne Smith No it doesn't. A handheld emp can be placed directly on/near a device. The surge protector only protects from the power coming from the outlet. A emp device can create a localized electro magnetical surge, this can happen even in something that isn't plugged in.
A surge protector doesn't do squat if the surge is created inside the device itself.
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about a wave hitting an area, I'm talking about a localized field emanating directly near the device you want to target.
imagine calling people who use search engine dumb while deducing emps dont work because lightning hit your house once
@@ManDogBearPig I just don't understand why he's so combative. It's like he discovered brick doesn't burn so claims brick houses can't fucking burn down.
What a nice surprise to hear KAFB mentioned! I guess it's not unusual to hear about New Mexico whenever nuclear things are being discussed, but it still makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I'm pretty sure it's NOT radioactive side effects.
I just havebti say that THIS Simon sure ain't all that SIMPLE!!
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Thank you
Not all heroes wear capes
Could have used you 18 minutes ago.
Algorithmic help (cool video 😀)
Good call
Reminds me of back during the Cold War, US analysts were basically laughing at the Russians still using Vacuum Tube tech in their front-line fighters. Then somebody realized that that level of tech was extremely EMP resistant. . .
I've heard that urban legend for years but I've never seen any evidence to back up it's specifics. It's possible the legend is rooted in the MIG 25 that a Soviet defector flew to Japan in the mid 70s. I remember the stories at the time said the plane was much heavier than expected, being skinned in stainless steel rather than titanium and, similarity, the avaionics were awfully porky, even using triodes in the voltage regulator circuit. I'm sure no one would laugh at a vacuum tube front end because making a VHF solid state front end that would have low noise characteristics and a wide dynamic range was no easy task in back then and the Soviets always put a priority on reliability and conservative design. But a vacuum tube voltage regulator in their most advanced fighter? I wouldn't be surprised if that earned a snicker or two.
In 97 the northeast US had a really bad ice storm, we lost power for a week. The night of it was pretty freaky, there were transformers blowing all over the area, and then the primary substation for the town blew up. Huge flash, then no power for a week. We were lucky enough to have a fireplace.
Keep in mind, these are the weapons they let us know about.
They're hiding the best stuff.
...okay.
@Wayne Smith not true they hide technology? how brain dead are you leaving other dumb comments too. the truth is too scary to you?
@Wayne Smith you are hilarious. You don't really believe what you are saying do you? I guess you think you are a know it all. Do you even know where the antenna is located that operates in the 50hz range that was designed to communicate with submarines back in the 1980s during an EMP strike? Surely you'll know this if you know about everything they have today. This transmitter was the most powerful one ever built. It literally vibrated the earth. I had the pleasure to work on it.
My science teacher in Highschool made an EMP device in College at MIT, he showed us photos of it. He said it was funded by the government. This was the early 90s so you knew the government has them now to take out cities if they want too
@@peterharrop179 MIT is in the US, so yes.
The caps out of a few boom boxes will work nicely
Simon is a global treasure
I buy all my guns from a T. Rex
He's my small arms dealer.
Whut?
Bears are best arms dealers for all your arms 💪 needs
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This is infuriatingly funny
Gah, damn it, Kevin! 🤣🤣🤣
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You should do a story on Havana syndrome
Can you tell me what that background music is
Can an electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion be used to ""lead"/"seed" a coronal mass ejection directed towards earth? Assuming a country has both a computer capable of making the need predictive models and nuclear arsenal.
For some reason my brain replaced EMP with DEW when I read the title. Liked the vid, but if you could do one on directed energy weapons as well, that'd be cool.
I’ve noticed the plaster on your collar bone on a couple of episodes, did you get a tattoo or something? Inspired by your Yakuza episode?
The NBC show "Revolution" revolved around a world losing all electrical power (which turned out to be a very advanced military weapon) and everything devolving into chaos, colonial ways of life with the southern US relying on steam power making them very technically advanced and stable. There were also mass die offs from starvation and lack of medical infrastructure. It was pretty decent in the first season and partway into the second but started becoming quite unhinged as it didn't answer questions about the newly invading forces which was comprised of US Gov't remnants.
I am convinced you are one of the greatest youtubers of all time.