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Worse than nuclear war!

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North Korea is threatening to destroy your computer and cellphone! (And the internet along with it.)

North Korea Nears Completion of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb

http://abcnews.go.com/International/ele ... d=13081667

No more facebook or twitter. Charlie Sheen won't be able to fill you in on his Warlock moves filled with tigerblood.
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You can make an EMP device in your garage. Not impressed.
ThunderBunny wrote:(And the internet along with it.)
It would be practically impossible to "destroy the internet" as it exists today. The system is far too large and complicated for a single strike, or even many strikes, to destroy it. You'd have to EMP the entire planet.
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You can also make a projectile weapon in your garage... what does the ability to make a weapon have to do with its use?

Now I'll finally be able to say "Internet is serious business."

...or, was
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You can make an EMP device in your garage. Not impressed.
Er- I don't think you could make a nuclear-powered emp device in your garage...Null. There's a bit of difference in power. :)

Also- the website you linked to seems to be that of some kind of gun-toatin' racist republican tea-partier (as the folks at NPR are fond of saying.) Did you read the content of the site? lol
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ThunderBunny wrote:
Also- the website you linked to seems to be that of some kind of gun-toatin' racist republican tea-partier. Did you read it? lol
Yeah, I've read it. My point is that EMP capability is not really very scary to me. Not to mention, North Korea would be a crater minutes after any such device activated on or over our shores.
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Mommy…I’m scared…make the big bad ThunderBunny stop it.
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There there Spidey, show me on the doll where scary TB touched you.
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ThunderBunny wrote:No more facebook or twitter.
I have a library. And paper and pencils.

I can give cursive handwriting lessons to any of you young folks after the apocalypse.
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Cursive writing is a waste of paper. ^_~
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dissent wrote:
ThunderBunny wrote:No more facebook or twitter.
I have a library. And paper and pencils.

I can give cursive handwriting lessons to any of you young folks after the apocalypse.
Dose the forum support mail-in posts?
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What is this "cursive" you speak of? Is it a new kind of cell phone??
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SilverFJ wrote:What is this "cursive" you speak of? Is it a new kind of cell phone??
LOL!
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TB I've been going back to tha 0ld skool anyway. :P But I don't write in cursive. ^_~

...but seriously, folks...

We don't need an E-bomb to stop fakebook and twit. That'll happen when no one will be able to afford electricity and no ISP will be able to stay afloat.
Isaac wrote:
dissent wrote:
ThunderBunny wrote:No more facebook or twitter.
I have a library. And paper and pencils.

I can give cursive handwriting lessons to any of you young folks after the apocalypse.
Dose the forum support mail-in posts?
heh that would be awesome
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