[ExI] Zuckerberg just bought 26 days of world peace?

[The Avantguardian]

Actually we did have a nation-wide power outage in 1859. Google "carrington event" for details. Not so much   a black swan in my opinion. More like an event bound to happen sooner or later.

Running zombie apocalypse scenarios aren't going help the military protect the elite in such a situation either because the military is almost as brittle as the rest of society. Sure their emp-hardened high tech jet fighters might still be opperational but their fuel trucks and squad radios? Not so much.

Stuart LaForge
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On Sun, 12/6/15, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ExI] Zuckerberg just bought 26 days of world peace?
 To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
 Date: Sunday, December 6, 2015, 8:29 PM
 
 
 
  
 
 From:
 extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]
 On Behalf Of Dan TheBookMan
 …
 
  
 
 >…Recall the last power outage where the
 unwashed masses ran amok and killed off millions of people?
 Me neither…
 
  
 
 The one that was nationwide? 
 Me neither.  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 >>…Perhaps they are training for what
 happens if there is a nationwide power outage or some kind
 of civil unrest, and soon you have hordes of starving
 people, just wandering around looking for some means of
 staying alive?  
 
  
 
 >…Depends on what your
 goal is here. If you're only concerned about your safety
 and well being, then things are quite simple. But if you do
 care about those starving folks, it's an almost trivial
 matter to feed and clothe them and give them shelter…
 
  
 
 Trivial matter?  When we can’t move food? 
 How long will it take to devour all the food available in
 every major city?  I would think about ten days would do
 it.
 
  
 
 >>…  Mikhail Gorbachev writes in his
 memoirs about the communists taking over and forming the
 Soviet Union…They starved.
 
  
 
 >…The
 Soviet Union was in far worse shape then than the US is now.
 Not only does the US have a better over economy, it actually
 over-produces food…
 
  
 
 Sure but what if we cannot
 process it or move it to the population centers?
 
 >>…zombie
 apocalypse?
 
 >…Do you
 see these folks, mainly victims of generations of bad social
 policy, as zombies? I don't…
 
  
 
 Not
 generations of bad social policy, I had in mind victims of
 an EM pulse which took down our communications and power
 infrastructure.  Then the zombie hordes would be seen
 within a couple weeks.  It is not at all clear to me how
 the system could be restarted effectively.
 
  
 
 >… I don't see collapse as all that
 likely anyhow…
 
  
 
 I hope you are right.
 
  
 
 >… -- but the real world system is likely
 to just muddle through, IMO. Regards, Dan
 
  
 
 Hope so.  This might be one of those black
 swan scenarios worth pondering.
 
  
 
 spike
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
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