Anybody watch "Revolution"?

[Rod]

Without electricity you can't have atoms, so that's the end of....everything

How do they explain away electricity no longer existing on a macro scale, but not on a micro scale ?
Do they even try ?

One explanation could be (and I'm not a scientist nor an engineer) that it's like bacteria. Higher forms of life could disappear but they'd still be around?

[Highspeed]

I see what you are getting at Rod, but the electromagnetism which makes modern devices work ( or not work in the case of our TomTom satnav ) is exactly the same force that affects interactions of particles on a sub atomic level.

To make the premise of the show believable you need to have 'big' electricity and 'little' electricity - like your bacteria analogy.

[tfbncc]

Hmmm, so following that line of thought. If for some unknown reason all the electricity stopped, why aren't we all dead since our brains operate on bio-electricity? Is that what you're implying?

I blame it all on CERN.

[Highspeed]

It's much more fundamental than that - every atom in the universe would disintegrate because the forces inside them would become unbalanced.

[tfbncc]

Yeah, that would be a bad thing, wouldn't it?

(once again demonstrating my superior grasp of the obvious)

[Frankingun]

What about the Earth's magnetic field? I'm thinking that if a primitive dynamo can't make electricity, then there goes the magnetic field. And life on earth....

[HTRN]

I blame it all on CERN.

See, I told ya my "Silicon no longer a semiconductor due to those jackasses in Switzerland" was a much better idea.

[Highspeed]

Yeah, that would be a bad thing, wouldn't it?

(once again demonstrating my superior grasp of the obvious)

One of my favourite sayings is " No matter how bad things are right now, they can always get worse "
That would definitely not apply in this case

I like HTRN's idea, I haven't really thought about how it might work in detail though...any takers ?

[evan price]

Mrs Price watched it, saved it on the TiVo for me to watch...but the trailers I saw left me totally uninterested.

So the electricity goes away. OK. Then there's steam power.


What about a simple Diesel engine? No electricity required, not even to start some of them. Can burn anything from K1 to heating oil to veg oil to liquified lard. Lots and lots of pre-electronic Diesel equipment and trucks, tractors, etc out there to this day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkn5Kpsbs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8wGiF1yU

Here's a Caterpillar Sixty Diesel crawler tractor. No electrics of any kind- Take that, militia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9No5vWlfx4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeEKR7UHECc



I don't care how big and scary the militia is, there's enough guns and ammo out there to prevent that stuff from happening.

Half the trouble with pre-industrial revolution world is that they didn't KNOW the things we have now were possible or could be made. With all the knowledge of 15 year ago, there's no excuse for not having a more advanced society.

Sounds like a stupid alt-reality world to me. What would you expect from NBC?

[Yogimus]

Watched preview, noticed lack of guns, giggled a bit, then turned it off.

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