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.
Godort@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Wired communications would take over immediately and it would be a massive pain in the ass, but we’d ultimately adapt.
If the EM jamming is enough to also degrade the signal in copper lines, which at 1000x thr strongest signal, might happen, then basically all modern society would collapse within 48 hours
youngalfred@lemm.ee 3 months ago
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
They also did that in Dr Stone
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
subtext@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can also buy shielded Ethernet cables (especially for installation parallel to power lines) which would be much, much harder to jam.
ramble81@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I wonder if there’d be enough fiber communications to get by.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 months ago
For urban areas probably. Ohh and the stock market would be fine.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yeah, the dedicated cables for international market coordination and HFC would be unaffected except in the most dire situation.
Juice@midwest.social 3 months 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?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
“Dang it, I’m being cooked AND the internet isn’t working!”
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
Dude, the internet is cooked!
WE’RE being cooked!
That too.
logi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How the hell am I going to post this on the socials?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yummy fried human meat! 😋
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.
Infynis@midwest.social 3 months ago
We better not run out of whales then
pikmeir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To serve men.