One Second After: The Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Weaponry

[Nesterus]

Where do you think these ideas for the game came from? Obviously it could happen "theoretically" it is possible.

But I clearly laid out the circumstances for that to happen, you cant just go to walmart and build a bomb

and some jihadist just cant get his hands on one that easy either

[FoxyBunny]

I think that society as a whole has generally become numb to these sorts of dire warnings. I grew up in the cold war. I lived on military bases at the time, and when public schools did the hide-under-your-desk drills for nuclear attacks, our parents levelled with us and said "you might as well watch the show....we'll be the first to go so you won't be around to worry about it."

Because books/tv specials/movies like these are bestsellers, and because there are people who latch onto worries like a dog onto a porterhouse, the doomsday scenarios have gotten out of control. Apparently, I need to make my children today worry about the following:

Pollution
Greenhouse gases and global warming
Solar flares knocking out all electronics
EMP from man-made nuclear devices doing the same thing
Nuclear war
Conventional war
Terrorists with pilot licenses
Dirty bombs
Invasions from aliens
Planet X
Species going extinct and ruining the foodchain
Computers gaining sentience and starting a war to kill off their human overlords
H1N1
Lyme disease
Flesh-eating bacteria
Super-colds that don't react to antibiotics
AIDS
Hepatitis from tatoos
Multiple STD's
Unplanned pregnancy
Cults
Internet bullies
RL bullies
Stalkers
Child predators
Blizzard wanting their real name for the forums
Rabid animals
Speeding cars
Drunk drivers
Police on ego trips
Discrimination of all types
Peer pressure
Drugs
Alcohol
Smoking
Advertising
Video game violence
Red dye #5
Childhood vaccines
Trampolines that don't have spring covers
Unattended pools
Poisonous spiders, snakes and plants
Mosquitoes
Gluten
Sodium
Sugar
Sugar substitutes
Caffeine
Not getting enough fiber
Fat
Vitamin D deficiencies
Hearing loss from listening to music too loudly
Sunburn
Skin Cancer
Improperly constructed potato guns
Firearms in the home
Music with hateful or obscene lyrics
Too much sex in the media
Con artists
Salesmen
Real estate agents
Food that wasn't chewed enough
Hot things
Cold things
Thin spots in the ice on a lake
3-wheelers
4-wheelers
motorcycles

I can't type anymore....but there's more! And I guarantee you that in the course of every year, every one of these issues is brought up somewhere in the media as "the silent menace" or "the unseen killer" or "the threat hanging over our world." At some point, you have to shrug, say "oh well" and just get on with your life.

[Nesterus]

when you walk out your door you can die its a part of living


worrying about it will just get you down

[BrotherhoodUK]

I think that society as a whole has generally become numb to these sorts of dire warnings. I grew up in the cold war. I lived on military bases at the time, and when public schools did the hide-under-your-desk drills for nuclear attacks, our parents levelled with us and said "you might as well watch the show....we'll be the first to go so you won't be around to worry about it."

Because books/tv specials/movies like these are bestsellers, and because there are people who latch onto worries like a dog onto a porterhouse, the doomsday scenarios have gotten out of control. Apparently, I need to make my children today worry about the following:

Pollution
Greenhouse gases and global warming
Solar flares knocking out all electronics
EMP from man-made nuclear devices doing the same thing
Nuclear war
Conventional war
Terrorists with pilot licenses
Dirty bombs
Invasions from aliens
Planet X
Species going extinct and ruining the foodchain
Computers gaining sentience and starting a war to kill off their human overlords
H1N1
Lyme disease
Flesh-eating bacteria
Super-colds that don't react to antibiotics
AIDS
Hepatitis from tatoos
Multiple STD's
Unplanned pregnancy
Cults
Internet bullies
RL bullies
Stalkers
Child predators
Blizzard wanting their real name for the forums
Rabid animals
Speeding cars
Drunk drivers
Police on ego trips
Discrimination of all types
Peer pressure
Drugs
Alcohol
Smoking
Advertising
Video game violence
Red dye #5
Childhood vaccines
Trampolines that don't have spring covers
Unattended pools
Poisonous spiders, snakes and plants
Mosquitoes
Gluten
Sodium
Sugar
Sugar substitutes
Caffeine
Not getting enough fiber
Fat
Vitamin D deficiencies
Hearing loss from listening to music too loudly
Sunburn
Skin Cancer
Improperly constructed potato guns
Firearms in the home
Music with hateful or obscene lyrics
Too much sex in the media
Con artists
Salesmen
Real estate agents
Food that wasn't chewed enough
Hot things
Cold things
Thin spots in the ice on a lake
3-wheelers
4-wheelers
motorcycles

I can't type anymore....but there's more! And I guarantee you that in the course of every year, every one of these issues is brought up somewhere in the media as "the silent menace" or "the unseen killer" or "the threat hanging over our world." At some point, you have to shrug, say "oh well" and just get on with your life.

Basically, thanks to the media and scaremongering, we must be terrified of everything.

Look, people even get scared over nanobots taking over the world! GET REAL!

[Montros]

I think that society as a whole has generally become numb to these sorts of dire warnings. I grew up in the cold war. I lived on military bases at the time, and when public schools did the hide-under-your-desk drills for nuclear attacks, our parents levelled with us and said "you might as well watch the show....we'll be the first to go so you won't be around to worry about it."

Because books/tv specials/movies like these are bestsellers, and because there are people who latch onto worries like a dog onto a porterhouse, the doomsday scenarios have gotten out of control. Apparently, I need to make my children today worry about the following:

Pollution
Greenhouse gases and global warming
Solar flares knocking out all electronics
EMP from man-made nuclear devices doing the same thing
Nuclear war
Conventional war
Terrorists with pilot licenses
Dirty bombs
Invasions from aliens
Planet X
Species going extinct and ruining the foodchain
Computers gaining sentience and starting a war to kill off their human overlords
H1N1
Lyme disease
Flesh-eating bacteria
Super-colds that don't react to antibiotics
AIDS
Hepatitis from tatoos
Multiple STD's
Unplanned pregnancy
Cults
Internet bullies
RL bullies
Stalkers
Child predators
Blizzard wanting their real name for the forums
Rabid animals
Speeding cars
Drunk drivers
Police on ego trips
Discrimination of all types
Peer pressure
Drugs
Alcohol
Smoking
Advertising
Video game violence
Red dye #5
Childhood vaccines
Trampolines that don't have spring covers
Unattended pools
Poisonous spiders, snakes and plants
Mosquitoes
Gluten
Sodium
Sugar
Sugar substitutes
Caffeine
Not getting enough fiber
Fat
Vitamin D deficiencies
Hearing loss from listening to music too loudly
Sunburn
Skin Cancer
Improperly constructed potato guns
Firearms in the home
Music with hateful or obscene lyrics
Too much sex in the media
Con artists
Salesmen
Real estate agents
Food that wasn't chewed enough
Hot things
Cold things
Thin spots in the ice on a lake
3-wheelers
4-wheelers
motorcycles
1-wheelers
Bad spagetti O's
Some Thrid-World countries
Natural population decrease
Alergies
Broken Condoms
Al Queda
Deep V's
Shallow V's
I can't type anymore....but there's more! And I guarantee you that in the course of every year, every one of these issues is brought up somewhere in the media as "the silent menace" or "the unseen killer" or "the threat hanging over our world." At some point, you have to shrug, say "oh well" and just get on with your life.

America isn't the only one with the threats, you know. Japan with North Korea would be another problem.

And yes, the world is filled with dangers around every corner (as I have added to the list), but that doesn't mean you can go around not caring if you die or not. Which goes to show that you shouldn't be too careful, or too layed back. You should be...Causiously relaxed...