30 or 50 years? How about hundreds? Back to steam engines and burning oil and coal, and oh yeah, we would also have to cut down trees for convieniant fuel. No antibiotics, all the insulin gone, (bye bye diabetics)
For some reason cars were stopping, too, those are basically steam engines. Not sure how that works, maybe the aliens disabled fire lol
Why would antibiotics and insulin be gone? Those are biological substances that exist without technology. Gaining them would be harder.
And I am pretty sure enviro conservatives don't want million and billions of humans to die. They should have shown some people dropping dead because of their evil pacemaker tech.
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starwolf
7 years ago
For some reason cars were stopping, too, those are basically steam engines
The assumption is it was something similar to an EMP which wrecks electronics but would leave mechanical things alone. As such modern cars, generators, etc with electronic control circuits would fail.
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jamotide
7 years ago
The assumption is it was something similar to an EMP which wrecks electronics but would leave mechanical things alone. As such modern cars, generators, etc with electronic control circuits would fail.
But would they stop? if the electronic control fails maybe it would make them improssible to stop before the gas runs out.
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starwolf
7 years ago
But would they stop? if the electronic control fails maybe it would make them improssible to stop before the gas runs out.
I think (emphasize on the think, because I don't know) that the timing and spark are all the result of the electronics. With that in mind, diesels might chug until they die but I don't think any gas powered engine except the simplest (like lawnmowers and weed whackers) would continue running.
Good question, though.
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strntz (10839)
4 years ago
The EMP is presumed to have destroyed all electric grids and electronics. Even lawnmowers and weed whackers have a rudimentary ignition system, so they would also not work.
But yes, modern cars use a computer to activate the ignition and make calculations for timing and fuel injector operation, so an EMP would immediately disable all cars and all gas burning engines.
Older diesels that used mechanical fuel pumps would presumably still work, but modern diesels use a computer to control throttle and fuel injection.
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