Landlines may soon go extinct

Would not go quite that far. National Security would would keep those lines working. Because a EMP would knock out the wireless and land lines would a better percentage that could route around the effected areas.

Yeah not to mention the continual reports that keep coming out on the incidence of head cancer from the microwaves. For teens and younger the risk of getting cancer of the brain is 4 times higher.

R.S.

Yeh I saw an article about wireless hifi speakers the otherday...

Who wants to live in a swamp of RF? Certainly not anyone who knows anything about electronics.

Which reminds me I must run a cable up to Mrs Cat's 'office' (spare bedroom) so she can get on the internet...apparently some jerk is on it all the time .

I got the wireless router ... it was unreliable and slow... once I got into the system and switched off the RF and went cable it's been brilliant. I've wired a socket into my son's room...I asked Mrs Cat at the time 'shall I wire your room too?' ... she said no .. but doesn't remember that now...hmmm ...
Yes Dear I'll do it tomorrow.... (now where's that thread on procrastination?)

So wires get my vote.

Del

Remember that you don't need to use a cellphone yourself, to get head cancer.

The constant flux which permeates everything except a Faraday Cage, ensures we all are being saturated with radiation, on a 24/7 basis.

Ever wonder at the sharp rise in Mental illnesses, which are directly related to Radio, TV, and 2-way radio transmissions.

Radio is vulnerable to an EMP, but so is almost everything which has at least one semiconductor junction inside.

Wireless connections to the Internet are easy to hi-jack, because most folks do not have a strong encrypted password, as you can find out if you drive around almost any suburban street, and can easily access via someone's wireless system, for free.

Kind Regards....

Hi Sparkstation,

"Ever wonder at the sharp rise in Mental illnesses, which are directly related to Radio, TV, and 2-way radio transmissions."

Maybe that's because they actually watch all that garbage on TV?

Oh, and I thought the wires between the telephone poles would be fried from an EMP, no?

S

Hello StandardsGuy

<"....I thought the wires between the telephone poles would be fried from an EMP, no?....">

Only if that nuclear explosion was near.

The EMP pulse normally would not damage copper wiring, such as telephone overhead cabling, unless very close, at which point the blast would damage the wires to a greater degree.

Remember the Russian Military Electronics, which they hardened against EMP failure, by using Electron Valves (Tubes in US), instead of semiconductors.

If a person is involved in an EMP field, the synapses are generally destroyed, resulting in a "skull-full of mush", which cannot work properly, ever again, short of a Miracle.

Thus a good reason for wearing a "tinfoil hat", which acts as a Faraday Cage.

Kind Regards....

Lotsa pros and cons...about wireless.

But what about the "Why's"? And where it all leads to?

For starters (in the first instance): Because the metal is becomes more valuable as a commodity than as capital?

And...(in the second instance): Because it could eventually allow the "telephone" consortiums to bill us for our very thoughts...about others—about fellow telecommunicate "subscribers," that is?

...and also bill us for being thought about?