Now you will have to excuse me cause I havent seen this film in like 5 years. But I do remember one scene where they are driving and flipping through the radio stations and only picking up static. Since most major business like radio stations have backup generators, couldnt they still run the station??? this is one major flaw in the story. some might say that there was a huge EMP that took out the station. If that is the case then how could Cars run.
shareI just watched the movie on the TV and found it pretty plausible.
Exactly that is going to happen if we are left in a blackout for a longer period of time in a wider area or a country. And it's going to be even worse if we run out of gasoline and no alternative is available. That's why the war in Iraq and the focus on Middle East - 75% of oil reserves are there.
Ok, now on the point. Radio Stations, just like hospitals may have backup generators. But they can work for a couple of days at most, and if they're gasoline, until gas is over.
Cars could run because their owners had still some gas left just before the blackout - the impulse to the turmoil.
Once again - a really plausible movie, thus very entertaining for me.
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Yeah, that other guy used his post to point out lameass political bs, and then ended it with a false weak answer.
EMP would mean that anything electric would be useless.
Actually, EMPs only affect anything electric that is turned on. If your car was turned off when the EMP went off, then your car would be fine. If the car was on when the EMP went off then all the circuits are fried and it would be useless. All of this is of course assuming that it was in fact an EMP that took out all the modern conveniences in this movie. As a matter of fact, since the movie never bothered to explain what happened, something tells me that the power outage was simply a device to drive the plot. One of the main aspects of the plot being: when modern conveniences go, so does "civilized" behavior.
share"Actually, EMPs only affect anything electric that is turned on."
Wrong - things that are "turned on" requires that they're hooked up to a primary power supply (like a battery or the AC mains) but even if that switch open and nothing on standby or active there are still circuits on the secondary side of the switch with inductance (loop area) and the EMP will, in theory or depending on magnitude & proximity, induce and over voltage condition that may blow out semiconductors and even passive components and perhaps even fine wire/traces rated for smaller signals....yes, even without them connected to primary power or as you called it "turned on" (though an item turned on may be even more vulnerable).
So back to your example - even when your car is turned off there's still plenty connected to the battery and powered up. And even if the battery disconnected there's lots of wire & PCB conductor loop area that the EMP will induce an over voltage spike into and could cause damage. Even a pre electronics vehicle has wiring and a coil where enough of an EMP could blow our the condenser or fuse the points or fry the coil....again that's in theory (proximity & magnitude of the event always come into play).
This was a decent movie...though we never got our answers as to how big or ho long the power outage event went on. An EMP seems the least likely - our infrastructure has much more mundane flaws that have & may again come up without nuclear weapons being involved. As others have pointed out this is a story about human behavior and choices made in a crisis.
"Ok, now on the point. Radio Stations, just like hospitals may have backup generators. But they can work for a couple of days at most, and if they're gasoline, until gas is over."
The stations were ALL off the air the morning after the blackout started, when the power had only been out for a couple of hours. And lack of gasoline would not explain why the telephones weren't working, either.
When the neighbors have their meeting, one person claims to have heard the blackout was caused by a solar flare. A very power solar flare could theoretically knock out power over a wide area for an extended time. I don't know if it would affect radio and telephone communications, though.
Nobody got to work so no radio station.
shareIt isn't that the stations weren't working; it was that the signals couldn't be picked up
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