EMP pulse?

[Zaxxon]

Has a Nuclear device just gone off in the chunnel?

Hope not, I was going to use it in June.

[Carrot]

It was the second coming of jeebus.

[Nardies]

The Martians are coming.

[jesta1865]

Nardies said:

The Martians are coming.

ssshh!!! been here ages!

[Shaw Tarse]

[Harry Monk]

Kim Jong Il has detonated a massive nuke in space, crippling the vital infrastructure of Folkestone, Frogholt and Peene.

Once you've eliminated all other possibilities, it's all that remains.

[GingerWizard]

So no one can answer it then other then a power cut. (which would not effect a car or my mobile)

[Neil H]

Maybe the cars were just slowing down to have a good look at you?

[NoNeed]

GingerWizard said:

So no one can answer it then other then a power cut. (which would not effect a car or my mobile)

Did you ask the drivers of the cars that stopped what they thought had happened?

[slomax]

GingerWizard said:

So no one can answer it then other then a power cut. (which would not effect a car or my mobile)

IIRC, an EMP would kill everything that had power running through it at the time. Your watch would be dead, everything left on standby would be dead, virtually all electronic items would have been wiped out.

I can't explian what happened, but it's pretty odd.

[JFReturns]

Go down to Folkestone high street. Do you see this?

[Carrot]

I just had the PH "A problem has occurred, the technical team has been notified" message when I clicked on this via "My Stuff"

Is this related?

[Oakey]

Solar flare?

[Landlord]

GingerWizard said:

So no one can answer it then other then a power cut. (which would not effect a car or my mobile)

A mere coincidence, perhaps? You know - the odds aren't that long.

The cars cruising to a suspicious halt... they weren't right by a set of traffic lights, were they? The mobile turing off... had you noticed any "10% battery remaining" messages in the past few hours?

[jimbobsimmonds]

I work in an EMC lab (see wikipedia. It explains it better than I can) and although I do not work specifically on car components I work on a lot of defence and aerospace items and all safety critical items must withstand an Nuclear-EMP pulse (well, lots of different ones actually) without failure, as well as Lightning-EMP. I don't know if car systems would be tested for N-EMP but I can pretty much guarantee they will be tested for L-EMP. I would imagine a car turning off is a safety critical situation as all of a sudden you have loss of servo assistance therefore significant less control of the vehicle. Things like radios are not safety critical but the operation of the engine and controls are...

I don't know what caused it though it does sound like an EMC issue...

Gaddafi got the E-Bomb I wonder and decided to mess with Folkestone?

[spurs-442]

Were the cars fitted with start/stop?

[911motorsport]

This will be to do with the raids on Libya:

EMP Cluster South East

[Carfiend]

Snake Pliskin used the world 666 code in the United States network of EMP orbital cannons. I am afraid it is back to the Dark Ages for us (otherwise known as Yorkshire).

[PHmember]

Zaxxon said:

Has a Nuclear device just gone off in the chunnel?

Hope not, I was going to use it in June.

WTF were you going to use a nuclear device for?

[Carfiend]

Landscape Gardening of course.