Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Zron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If it wasn’t for the stupid Darrel Dixon show, my head canon of the walking dead only affecting America would still stand.

  They literally just walk, and it would be pretty obvious that everyone is infected after the first year or so of people dying from the flu and shit. Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.

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  • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    After experiencing the covid-19 outbreak I am now fully convinced that a zombie apocalypse is feasible, there would be people denying the existence of the zombie virus, just going to the infected an getting bitten because they wanted a pizza or something, that and people just drenching themselves in bleach or something because they heard that keep the zombies away from some dude online. Stuff like that.

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    • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Stuck having to go to work in a zombie apocalypse because you’re an “essential worker”.

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      • notgold@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the case in the 28 X later series? Like England fell to a zombie apocalypse but the rest of the world is doing fine?

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    • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any country with competent leadership could have squashed the zombies in a couple months.

    True but you underestimate people stupidity.

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    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Imagine the zombie rights guests on a Joe Rogan podcast.

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      • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah we need to stop giving dumb idiots microphones

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      • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Exactly

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve always thought that if I’m in a zombie apocalypse im just gonna carry super soakers filled with hydrogen peroxide

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• REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oooh, so that’s why apocalyptic movies are almost always only US oriented

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• noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …and simply agrees to never, ever, set foot in North America again. I’m not sure how this ploy works work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours to The Wastelands.

  I’m in.

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  • pjwestin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not sure, though, how this ploy would work out for our fine fellows in South America and Canada, the ones currently belabored with being the closest neighbours…

    Fuck Mexico, I guess.

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    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My sincere apologies, Mexico is definitely on the good list.

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  • Zanshi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just uhhh… Build a wall, I guess?

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are A LOT of BIG countries with big electric grids in the world today. Which countries GRIDS get hit the worst depends on which side of the Earth is facing the ‘hit’. Could the West (US, Brazil) or Europe or the East (China, India).

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is a little more complex than that. You cannot only consider how big is a country or how big is its grid.
    If the Europe would be hit by a solar storm, assuming that not all of it was hit we can recover the grid in about a month and the blackout would not be longer than maybe a week.

    But a solar storm would destroy also everything else, so how big is the grid is really irrelevant when you basically have every other piece (excluded the few hardened enough) destroyed.

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