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Government idiocy at it's finest.

Let us suppose for a moment that very small gadgets, that operate as transcievers really could impart an electrical current into another device to the point of actually disrupting, or disabling said device. If this were true, we would have seen such a capability used against many targets. Why use explosives, when a cell phone will do just fine?

In reality, there are only two ways that I can think of that will achieve a disruption of an electrical device to the point of inoperabilty, or destruction: Nuclear Weapon, or an EMP bomb.

Nukes are somewhat tough to get a hold, or so I am told. An EMP device is possible, but that requires a knowledge of explosives, and electrical theory at a College graduate level.

Even if one constructed an EMP device, the range would be limited, as the propagation of the EMP is determined by the strength of the EM field, and the detonation rate of the explosive that has to be perfect so as not to destroy the EMP via the plasma travel rate (detonation speed) being so fast that it destroys the EMP, or too slow that it does not 'push' the EMP.

Either way, such a device would be rather bulky, and easy to detect.

Years ago, folks made fun of Soviet Military Aircraft, because they utilized vaccum tubes, instead of transistors. Nukes were the reason why they did this, because vaccum tubes are resistant to EMP's.

Yes, I realize that we do not employ vaccum tubes in airliners, but has it ever occured to anyone that lightning strikes on aircaft occur on a regular basis, yet even at that extreme level of voltage, airplanes are not affected?

On the lighter side of things, one buddy told me that the only way the Detroit Lions could win eleven games this season, would be if every teams airplane fell out of the sky all at once.

Hmmmm, where did I put my cell phone?

12/28/2011 11:15 AM  

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