EMP pulse?

[Horny600]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that if a substation/transformer explodes it generates EMP. Lightning and solar flares can also cause it.

I'm guessing that it's some freak power surge issue, like the one that annoyed commuters in Wales today.

NB: I have no idea what I'm talking about

[Adenauer]

A lightbulb just blew in my office, now I'm getting a little concerned.

[jimbobsimmonds]

Marf said:

Not an EMP. EMP would have destroyed electrical equipment, not just disabled it.

Again, Hollywood would have you believe this...

Not necessarily... Some non safety critical equipment merely has to self recover in a designated period of time... Without going into detail some thing inside aircraft merely need to be able to self recover, since EMP is a pulse if you can live without that equipment for say, 5 seconds, it is not important. If your flight control computer for example fails however.... Different equipment is designed to different standards...

[Marf]

I stand corrected

[Le TVR]

Nothing flown over on the way to Libya with the Electronic countermeasures/warfare equipment accidentally switched on??

[jimbobsimmonds]

Le TVR said:

Nothing flown over on the way to Libya with the Electronic countermeasures/warfare equipment accidentally switched on??

Court martialling in order if that was the case...

[anonymous-user]

No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our worldFolkstone was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, *they* observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globeFolkstone, confident of our empire over this world. Yet across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our planetFolkstone with envious eyes and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us........

[Jerwatt]

jimbobsimmonds said:

Le TVR said:

Nothing flown over on the way to Libya with the Electronic countermeasures/warfare equipment accidentally switched on??

Court martialling in order if that was the case...

Not if they killed everyone around Folkstone who had problems, then they couldn't report what happened. This would explain the lack of any other reports on the news.

Still, every cloud has its silver lining.

[Adenauer]

De De Deeee, dedede dedede, De De Deeee

[GTIR]

Adenauer said:

De De Deeee, dedede dedede, De De Deeee

?

[andy_s]

dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit

[Adenauer]

GTIR said:

?

NO

[gtdc]

GingerWizard said:

Right then you bunch of tossers. All the banks locked them selves down in folkestone breifly and we have been expirenceing massive power surges this morning apprently. Just been "out and about" and half the traffic lights in folkestone are down, sainsburys is trying to restart its generators due to a power cut followed by power a surge earlier which knocked them out.

I popped into Halfrauds for some oil and there where two customers suffering seemingly complete electrical failour in there cars. Its buggered there instrument displays up for no known reason. happened at the same time...ish

So we HAVE had some strong electrical interferance here and it knocked my mobile phone out, which is very weird imho.

So we had a power cut/surge/cut/surge, but i have never expirenced one that affects a mobile.

I'll go and get in my lead lined bunker now just to please you all.

ta,

Gwiz

p.s Jimbobsimmonds cheers for not taking the piss.

Edited by GingerWizard on Tuesday 22 March 13:33

I believe you. It has obviously broken your spell checker.

[Viper_Larry]

jimbobsimmonds said:

And one of the engineers iPhones does not like being in the same room as Audio Frequency testing one bit... Phone just locks up and needs the battery taken out and in...

[Aberdeenloon]

Great thread!

[jdbecks]

GingerWizard said:

Right then you bunch of tossers. All the banks locked them selves down in folkestone breifly and we have been expirenceing massive power surges this morning apprently. Just been "out and about" and half the traffic lights in folkestone are down, sainsburys is trying to restart its generators due to a power cut followed by power a surge earlier which knocked them out.

I popped into Halfrauds for some oil and there where two customers suffering seemingly complete electrical failour in there cars. Its buggered there instrument displays up for no known reason. happened at the same time...ish

So we HAVE had some strong electrical interferance here and it knocked my mobile phone out, which is very weird imho.

So we had a power cut/surge/cut/surge, but i have never expirenced one that affects a mobile.

I'll go and get in my lead lined bunker now just to please you all.

ta,

Gwiz

p.s Jimbobsimmonds cheers for not taking the piss.

Edited by GingerWizard on Tuesday 22 March 13:33

Its the start of the french invasion....

[Hudson]

Viper_Larry said:

Iphones, they just work!

i highly doubt this is an electro magnetic pulse pulse (as the title suggests), probably just a series of coincidences.

that or the mayans calender is a bit st and we'll all be dead tomorrow morning

[Neil H]

Sun spots?

[Skywalker]

This thread is now referenced on another forum

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/forums/off-topic-chat/...

This is how rumours and panic start!!!

[911motorsport]

Skywalker said:

This thread is now referenced on another forum

http://www.redpassion.co.uk/forums/off-topic-chat/...

This is how rumours and panic start!!!

Good find Skywalker!

PH profile of OP Gingerwizard

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Name: Rob
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Rob

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Real name: Rob

"Just been on another forum (pistonheads) and read this from a Folkstone resident:"


Its seems like Folkestone has just been hit with an EMP pulse? All my electrics just went off, phone shutdown (i was on it at time) and my sky box seems fked......

paranoia?

What could it have been?


also two cars have just stopped/ cruised to halt outside, owners scratching heads, not starting????

Really weird.

and then later:

All the banks locked them selves down in folkestone breifly and we have been expirenceing massive power surges this morning apprently. Just been "out and about" and half the traffic lights in folkestone are down, sainsburys is trying to restart its generators due to a power cut followed by power a surge earlier which knocked them out.

I popped into Halfrauds for some oil and there where two customers suffering seemingly complete electrical failour in there cars. Its buggered there instrument displays up for no known reason. happened at the same time...ish

So we HAVE had some strong electrical interferance here and it knocked my mobile phone out, which is very weird imho.

So we had a power cut/surge/cut/surge, but i have never expirenced one that affects a mobile.

One suggestion is EMP Pulse, or power surges however that does not explain cars stopping!!

Any ideas?

Just one

Edited by 911motorsport on Tuesday 22 March 16:25