Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this?

Godort@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If the jamming was spread spectrum and affected wired signals, it would also be strong enough to cook every living thing on the planet.

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Dang it, I’m being cooked AND the internet isn’t working!”

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude, the internet is cooked!

      WE’RE being cooked!

      That too.

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    • logi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How the hell am I going to post this on the socials?

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yummy fried human meat! 😋

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess if the aliens were carbon-based, it would let them cook planets and then sample the biological products at leisure.

      The oceans and lakes would boil off, of course.

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      • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We better not run out of whales then

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      • pikmeir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To serve men.

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• youngalfred@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interestingly in Ukraine they are beginning to use drones with huge spools of fibre optic cable to transmit control and video signals. They’re doing this because of the jamming.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They also did that in Dr Stone

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not nessasarilly. U can reletivly easily block signal jamming for a confined area with a Faraday cage and most long distance is fibre optic nowdays.

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  • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can also buy shielded Ethernet cables (especially for installation parallel to power lines) which would be much, much harder to jam.

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In addition to wired you’d probably also see an uptick in line of sight optical transmissions via laser. Both of those options would really be the only two ways around it.

  For me, since my entire house is wired, I’d just lose use of my cell phone. Most all internet infrastructure is wired too, so all that would continue to operate.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if there’d be enough fiber communications to get by.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For urban areas probably. Ohh and the stock market would be fine.

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, the dedicated cables for international market coordination and HFC would be unaffected except in the most dire situation.

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• Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At what point does an EM jamming signal just become electricity running through the wires? That’s what would happen in a so called Harrington event, right?

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