Nice to see just what we are getting for our tax money – in this case we seem to have been shortchanged.

Just a storm in a b-cup.

If we are going outside of Carry on then Laurel and Hardy. It might be almost a century old but stuff like this still makes me laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQq2d8S3-ls

Kenneth Williams (as Julius Caesar on being murdered in the senate): Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me! 😀 (Carry on Cleo)

The one that still gets me in that movie is when Sid James says:

“Markus!” and the guy replies ‘nah, I’m Spencius, thats Markus over there’

then the camera pull back to show ‘Markus Et Spencius’

Or the Kenneth Williams scene where he says

‘Ohh where are me laurels?! Oh there they are. I was sitting on them’.

you don’t need a nuke to generate an EMP, a nuke just has the added bonus of an EMP shockwave which is why exo-atmospheric detonations are valid methods for disrupting enemy electronics.

An indoor emp test lab is simply a shielded box that throws out EMP ‘noise’. This is something that’s been standard in civilian circles for some years.

For example, Airbus do electrical interference testing.

I’m not entirely sure but an EMP bomb on the ground would be very much localised where as one in atmosphere will affect a lot more and could overload things like power lines, affect radio and so on.

With an atmospheric blast the effect can last a few hours which is good if you want to block most comms for a while.

Not really, water acts as a near perfect radiation shield, that’s why nuclear fuel rods are often kept in water.

Emp works better in space, ok in atmosphere and pretty much useless for anything else.

Shielding things from EMP basically means putting them inside a faraday cage, which looks like a wire mesh cage. I’m not an expert but I can’t see why this can’t be incorporated into buildings is as HAS, command and control centers etc.

It’s also incorporated into some processors. I can’t recall the details but there some something like three types of hardened processor each one offering stronger resistance to EMP. These processors are often used on spacecraft like Cassini which operate in a high radiation environment.

Any nuclear device is also an emp, part of the radiation released from an nuclear blast is EMP. There were thoughts about detonating nukes high the atmosphere over a target to disrupt communications prior to a land invasion.

Coke tried this a few years back with Dasani and that was a bust.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3523303.stm