Originally posted by divegeester We would still get buy as long as there was cash. Once money (as cash) finally disappears and the then the internet goes down it will be carnage; no economy, no food, cannibalism within 3 weeks.
Back to the jungle, overnight. Reads like fiction but likely, given the question's scenario.
Had a chance to test your theory for about two hours this morning. Setting: a howling north wind and blowing snow for 12 hours. Power outage. Temperature 6 degrees. Rural America has no water when the power is off....hence not even able to flush a toilet. Out came the kerosene lamp which is over 100 years old. On went the layers of clothing. Flashlight and LED lights lighted our way to even FIND the trusty old lamp. Cold cereal and milk for breakfast. We longed for the old cookstove! About to get some logs into the house, but looked at the snowbank in the way. Door practically unopenable due to snow stacked up on frontstep. The phone still worked, and learned that the brave linemen had found the damaged line in the dark of night and had it fixed before we lit the fire. Really do need a potbelly stove to cook on instead of a fancy fireplace. Think I will pass on building an outhouse. Could not reach it in the blizzard anyway. As a child, we had an emergency one built into the coal shed attached to the house. We thought we were most fortunate quite modern. Yes, I grew up with no running water but we had a well with a pump, and a cistern that caught the rainwater off the roof of the house. A small pump carried it up into the kitchen sink. And we lived in town!
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby "What if one fine day or moonlit night the internet collapsed? What impact on government; military; judicial systems; law enforcement; [b]satellite communications; electrical grids; medicine and hospitals; food distribution; banking and merchant transactions; research and development; information dependence on Google; dating sites; chess sites; email contact; etc? What would you do?"
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Had a chance to test your theory for about two hours this morning. Setting: a howling north wind and blowing snow for 12 hours. Power outage. Temperature 6 degrees. Rural America has no water when the power is off....hence not even able to flush a toilet. Out came the kerosene lamp which is over 100 years old. On went the layers of clothing. Flashli ...[text shortened]... the roof of the house. A small pump carried it up into the kitchen sink. And we lived in town!
We lived in an electric world. We relied on it for everything. And then the power went out. Everything stopped working. We weren't prepared. Fear and confusion led to panic. The lucky ones made it out of the cities. The government collapsed. Militias took over, controlling the food supply and stockpiling weapons. We still don't know why the power went out. But we're hopeful someone will come and light the way.
The OP said the internet goes down, and everything that relies on it, and that it is 'permanently severed'. Why couldn't the web be rebuilt?
Originally posted by ale1552 Had a chance to test your theory for about two hours this morning. Setting: a howling north wind and blowing snow for 12 hours. Power outage. Temperature 6 degrees. Rural America has no water when the power is off....hence not even able to flush a toilet. Out came the kerosene lamp which is over 100 years old. On went the layers of clothing. Flashligh ...[text shortened]... the roof of the house. A small pump carried it up into the kitchen sink. And we lived in town!
Brad Thor's Black List is a thriller about such a thing happening. The villains crash the internet, install themselves in power, and produce Internet 2.0 with the new government in charge. One needs an ID to get online, and everything you do is monitored by the government.
An interesting book that explains what is going on today as far as GPS, government data banks. Big Brother is here.
Brad Thor's Black List is a thriller about such a thing happening. The villains crash the internet, install themselves in power, and produce Internet 2.0 with the new government in charge. One needs an ID to get online, and everything you do is monitored by the government.
An interesting book that explains what is going on today as far as GPS, g ...[text shortened]... ler-Brad-Thor/dp/1439192987/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355118899&sr=1-1&keywords=brad+thor
My son read it, recently, 'almost' at one sitting. Boston based corporate internet security whiz, himself, enjoyed it immensely. Thanks.
09 Dec '12 11:34
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