I was having this conversation with my daughter and thought it was an interesting topic.

If an EMP or solar flare took out everything electronic in the whole world (permanently), how long do you think it would take for you to die, given your current location and circumstances.

I believe my daughter thinks we would live a lot longer than I do, but she is thinking about how long she can live without the internet while I am thinking the world will quickly descend into anarchy.

With no traditional forms of transport, so supplies would dry up, limited resources, health etc, law and order would be a challenge as things become more desperate.

I think I would live for about 3 months. I would try to get the family somewhere safe and remote and come back later, but I think most people would have the same idea.

  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 days ago

    In any major catastrophe they are abandoned and likely the meltdown and other issues could render whole areas uninhabitable. Might be manageable in certain power loss scenarios… but anything major and sudden like if you’re country suffered a nuclear attack or a major natural catastrophe and you survived I’d stay away from nuclear plants or chemical processing facilities.

    this isn’t chernobyl anymore, we have safe nuclear plants that have excellent emergecy shutdowns (the control rods are held up by electromagnets, and in a power loss they would instantly fall down, stopping the reactor)

    with chemical companies, the idea is the same, but since they’re handled by private corporations i wouldnt trust them that much with safety shut-offs in case of power loss. at most they’ll have a backup battery and a diesel generator, which in a solar flare EMP will get destroyed too