The Walking Dead and other SHTF shows....., page 1


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reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 03:36 AM by Vendetta1776
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the show does give some ideas in a fictional non stress environment (since zombies are fiction). but the analogy to non preppers does seem applicabl

but as far as learning ...check YouTube for "Armageddon "

otherwise the book "patriots" is more helpful even though i can tell the author understands financial markets from a completely self educated and thus incomplete usually when h tries to speak from a position of authority. makes me wonder if he is not a real expert in some other areas and just profiting from fear mongering like that Joe nobody author.

on my phone so having trouble pasting the YouTube link. its called "Armageddon " and it is by the History Channel.


reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 03:42 AM by Vendetta1776
reply to post by ownbestenemy


unfortunately not so. Google "science fiction is now science fact". they recently demonstrated EMP


reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 03:54 AM by ownbestenemy
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An EMP device only affects electronics that are not hardened and in use. The show Revolution is premised that someone had an "off" switch and not even newly built devices will work. Are you sure you want to argue the realism here?


reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 04:48 AM by Renegade2283
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by Vendetta1776


An EMP device only affects electronics that are not hardened and in use. The show Revolution is premised that someone had an "off" switch and not even newly built devices will work. Are you sure you want to argue the realism here?


Tell that to the shows writers who actually hired a "physicist" to ensure the shows realism. He even said that it would be "absolutely possible". So some physicist some where says it is possible, so it must.

In fact there was a thread about it but I did a search and has been 404'ed, anybody know why?

It was originally found here: ask.abovetopsecret.com... (just type "revolution show possible" and it is the first one)

ETA: I think I found out why, because the OP lied. The physicist never actually said that, sorry for jumping the gun.

In fact he said this:

“I had an answer that explains all the different facets – why the power went off, and why certain people are able to turn it back on — but of course that was coming from just a writer’s imagination,” Kripke told TVLine after the TCA session. “So we brought in a physicist and asked him very specific questions – if this technology were possible, and if this happened and this happened, would such a thing be possible? And he said that it would, that it actually explains it and makes sense.” Read More at: tvline.com...
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reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 05:13 AM by Renegade2283
Hey OP, I think you should add another show to that list. ABC has a relatively new show called "Last Resort", I think most people here on ATS would love it.

Here is a description, sorry it is rather lengthy but I didnt have much time to edit it down for a thread that is probably dead anyways.

The series is about the renegade crew of a United States Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the fictional USS Colorado (SSBN-753). Following the at sea pick up of a clandestine U.S. Navy SEAL team off the coast of Pakistan, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan. When Colorado 's Commanding Officer, Captain Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher), asks for confirmation of the firing order, because they were received through a legacy Cold War secondary communication channel, only to be used in the event that Washington, D.C. had already been destroyed, he is relieved of command by the then-Deputy Secretary of Defense William Curry. His second in command, Lieutenant Commander Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman), is put in command in his place, but when he, too, questions the orders and asks for confirmation, the vessel is fired upon by the Virginia-class submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786). Two nuclear missile strikes are subsequently made on Pakistan by other United States forces.

Realizing that they have been declared enemies of their own country, they and the crew seek refuge on the island of Sainte Marina (a fictional French island located in the Indian Ocean) and commandeer a NATO communications and missile warning facility. When a pair of B-1 bombers are sent to attack the submarine and island, Captain Chaplin launches a Trident nuclear missile towards Washington, D.C. to impress upon the national leadership that he is serious. The B-1s turn away at the last minute, but Chaplin (who has altered the missile's final target coordinates) allows the missile to visibly overfly Washington, D.C. and explode 200 miles beyond in the open Atlantic, the explosion clearly visible from both Washington and New York City. Via a television feed to the media, he then declares a 200 mile exclusion zone around the island Sainte Marina.

Now the crew must find a way to prove their innocence and find out who in the United States Government has set them up so that they can finally return home


en.wikipedia.org...
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reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 05:36 PM by r2d246
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by Vendetta1776


An EMP device only affects electronics that are not hardened and in use. The show Revolution is premised that someone had an "off" switch and not even newly built devices will work. Are you sure you want to argue the realism here?


Give us an example of what you mean by 'hardened and in use???"


reply posted on 5-11-2012 @ 05:39 PM by r2d246
Originally posted by Renegade2283
Originally posted by ownbestenemy
reply to post by Vendetta1776


An EMP device only affects electronics that are not hardened and in use. The show Revolution is premised that someone had an "off" switch and not even newly built devices will work. Are you sure you want to argue the realism here?


Tell that to the shows writers who actually hired a "physicist" to ensure the shows realism. He even said that it would be "absolutely possible". So some physicist some where says it is possible, so it must.

In fact there was a thread about it but I did a search and has been 404'ed, anybody know why?

It was originally found here: ask.abovetopsecret.com... (just type "revolution show possible" and it is the first one)

ETA: I think I found out why, because the OP lied. The physicist never actually said that, sorry for jumping the gun.

In fact he said this:

“I had an answer that explains all the different facets – why the power went off, and why certain people are able to turn it back on — but of course that was coming from just a writer’s imagination,” Kripke told TVLine after the TCA session. “So we brought in a physicist and asked him very specific questions – if this technology were possible, and if this happened and this happened, would such a thing be possible? And he said that it would, that it actually explains it and makes sense.” Read More at: tvline.com...
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Well they have UFO's obviously so they must have the technology to turn off all power if need be. They have nation wide kill switches for: people, power, utilities, communications,
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