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-Espiritu-
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Registered: 2004-11-29 18:27:00
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how does "gun powder" stop working?
I know their are hypothetical reasons that all electrical systems could fail (sun/emp/magnetism), but things would still burn.
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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-Espiritu- posted:
how does "gun powder" stop working?
I know their are hypothetical reasons that all electrical systems could fail (sun/emp/magnetism), but things would still burn.
I don't really know. It's the premise of the book. I've just started "reading" it (it's an audio book so I'm like 2 hours in on a 23 hour book), I didn't write it.
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BubbleDude
Title: Perma-N00b
Posts: 488
Registered: 2003-2-27 21:04:24
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this is the premise of this book I just started reading "Dies The Fire" by S.M. Stirling
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Lyken-P
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Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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As someone working as a Tech... Somedays I long for a world without Technology. I swear, I'm going to shun the whole thing one day and become a farmer or something.
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eodoll
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Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
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Cawlin posted:
Imagine if suddenly and without warning, all electricity and electronics stopped working. Imagine all internal combustion engines stopped working. Imagine all gunpowder and other forms of high density fuel/explosives stopped working.
TBH I really can't get past the physics premise of this scenario.
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paulg_68
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Registered: 2009-7-27 18:45:54
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BubbleDude posted:
Very first post posted:
this is the premise of this book I just started reading "Dies The Fire" by S.M. Stirling
tldr
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NuEM
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Registered: 2004-3-2 09:08:11
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If electricity stopped working would atoms still bond and form molecules? 
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Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
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NuEM posted:
If electricity stopped working would atoms still bond and form molecules?
If combustion stopped working would carbohydrate catabolism also end?
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Aerlinthian posted:
Cawlin posted:
Imagine if suddenly and without warning, all electricity and electronics stopped working. Imagine all internal combustion engines stopped working. Imagine all gunpowder and other forms of high density fuel/explosives stopped working.
TBH I really can't get past the physics premise of this scenario.
Admittedly, that really requires some sort of mysticism force I agree. As absurd as it is to say, I find a zombie apocalypse more "plausible". That said, suspension of disbelief is one thing I can achieve relatively easily within the confines of a story or movie or whatnot. Mostly what makes it interesting is not so much how people cope and get around "modern convenience" but how people behave in the absence of any sort of order.
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