TACAMO in Prime Time!

[gotta_fly]

Just got this in my email at work and thought others might be interested:

National Geographic Explorer presents "ELECTRONIC ARMAGEDDON"

"Not If, but When... Picture an instantaneous deathblow to the vital engines that power our society -- delivered by a weapon specifically designed NOT to kill humans, but to kill electronics. Its called a High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse or HEMP. This is the story of what could happen when an electromagnetic pulse surges to earth and cripples every aspect of infrastructure by destroying our most depended upon, and therefore vulnerable, aspect of modern society: the electrical grid. While predicting the odds of a nuclear HEMP attack from terrorist groups are less certain, most experts agree that another source of an EMP, the sun, is imminent."

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/could-electromagnetic-pulse-make-u-s-dark/26jck314?from=sharepermalink

 

[fc2spyguy]

Your links fail, both are 404.

 

[nittany03]

Your links fail, both are 404.

That's what he's talking about.

Get it?

*tap, tap* Is this thing on?

 

[East]

Same here; Linkee no workee...

 

[FlyBoyd]

Try this...

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4821/Overview#tab-Overview

 

[gotta_fly]

Second attempt:

 

[SynixMan]

So I watched it, and they show 30 seconds of a E-6B "scramble", then say that's how the President would communicate with troops in the case of an attack. If this is primetime, you guys must really be hurting for press, huh?

No matter, TACAMO is near the top of my dreamsheet currently.

 

[Mumbles]

wow........just.....wow

 

[gotta_fly]

So I watched it, and they show 30 seconds of a E-6B "scramble", then say that's how the President would communicate with troops in the case of an attack. If this is primetime, you guys must really be hurting for press, huh?

No matter, TACAMO is near the top of my dreamsheet currently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time

I was referring to the time of day that the show will air... :icon_wink

 

[fc2spyguy]

Suddenly my new glass cockpit looks a little less cool, but I'll take the chance

 

[Kycntryboy]

What a shitty day to be on watch.

 

[zippy]

What a shitty day to be on watch.

Every day is a shitty day to be on watch- some just more so then others.

 

[phrogdriver]

As I understand it, the phone won't be ringing. Sounds like a good day on watch.

 

[Beans]

I have some important questions about this video:
1. How do they fill the E-6's presumably enormous fuel tanks with what looks like a small gravity hose?
2. How did that Physicist get the lightning bolts in his hand?
3. How'd they make the simulated EMP take out the USA all the way up through Maine w/o taking out Toronto?

I await your informative answers.

 

[FlyBoyd]

I have some important questions about this video:
1. How do they fill the E-6's presumably enormous fuel tanks with what looks like a small gravity hose?
2. How did that Physicist get the lightning bolts in his hand?
3. How'd they make the simulated EMP take out the USA all the way up through Maine w/o taking out Toronto?

I await your informative answers.

1. The small "hose" three minutes in being pulled from the left side was a GPU not fuel.
2. You can't do that? We can.
3. The light from Toronto wasn't from light bulbs. It was the cumulative glow off all the bongs.