I actually think about this quite a bit, because I live on an island which up until recently was extremely low tech and rural. Virtually every home has a working fireplace, and we have vast peat bogs where fuel can literally be dug up with a spade. We have a largely agricultural export economy as well, and a lot of it is traditional farming, like sheep on the side of a mountain. Up until maybe 50 years ago, Ireland was extremely primitive by western standards, so a lot of the skills and infrastructure is still there, but also an entire generation of well educated tecchy people. Here's another thing: we have a huge industry based around horse racing, and the travelling community (gypsies) keep an inordinate amount of horses as well. Also, potatoes. So when the revolution comes, we're kind of hooked up. Until, of course, the Vikings arrive.
It would be really interesting to compare/contrast such a scenario play out in the US vs in a developing country, who would be much less inconvenienced by the whole thing.
The book Into the Forest by Jean Haglund is kind of like Revolution (as far as I understand, I haven't seen it) but it really just focuses on 2 girls and gets out of having to explain any of the Whys because they don't know & have no real way of finding out. They just have to dael.
didnt the aliens in war of the worlds somehow stop electricity? or it like zapped everything to knock them out until tom cruise figured out to reverse the charges?
well THAT they just made it stop working TEMPORARILY, which idk for some reason is way more plausible than things going out PERMANENTLY. He changed the spark plugs or something which made the car work. It's like they sabotaged all the electronic EQUIPMENT, not electricity itself.
what a weird concept that i guess at face value would be interesting... oh, back to amish times? ok, we'll figure it out. maybe this line of thinking that you had, about ions and salt water, could be a springboard for lots of science teachers to propose to their classes as a project or debate. gotta work pop culture in there somewhere to keep the kids interested. have them watch the first few mins of the show then present the question: what if there was no electricity?
haha I like that. And an eighth grade Earth Science class would probably come up with a more plausible reality than the one these Hollywood twerps did.
Let me preface this by saying that you have an awesome LiveJournal, which I have just started reading. I'm mostly just reading your commentaries on things that I have already read/been exposed to, like your Les Miserables 1998 vs. 2012 comparison. Thanks for letting anonymous internet users comment.
However, sodium cations and chlorine anions. Electrons don't necessarily need to flow to have attraction to positive charge, perhaps the potential difference could exist without current flow. Seawater's continued existence is dependent on electrostatics, no current flow, and doesn't contain ionic bonds per se because the ions of sodium and chlorine are solvated. However, you are right that all manner of things would go wrong; if redox reactions are affected, for example, biology goes out the window. I think that EM waves like light wouldn't work in this world. I'm interested in biology so I have no idea whether there would be some quantum hullabaloo going on.
Thanks for commenting though! I often feel like a crazy person writing all these entries for what feels like two or three people (lbr though they're really for myself), so it's nice to be reminded that random internet wanderers could still stumble upon them.
I wrote this with like a 10th-grade understanding (and misremembering, that was kind of a long time ago) of electricity, so I'm sure a lot of it is not correct. However incorrect I am though the show is like 10 times worse.
The reason why I came across this is because I was Googling "arbron animorphs" while reading The Andalite Chronicles. I see that you consider Arbron's punishment karmically unjust, but I was wondering more about Alloran, who you think had a "shallow" lesson. Do you have a link to the post you cite about this?
It's been ages since I read any Animorphs books, which I honestly didn't like much when I was little and gave up on reading after skipping around. However, I had never read these "Chronicles" companions. The ending of the original series makes a lot more sense now, considering that most of it parallels The Andalite Chronicles.
the "shallow lesson" was referring to the end of the series, which I'm not sure if you've reached yet, in which Alloran has a scene where he admits that he was wrong to genocide the Hork-Bajir and his years as Visser Three's pawn had taught him empathy and humility, or something.
And if you haven't read The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, I would read those first before you read my comment. The companion books were my favorite part of the series.
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It would be really interesting to compare/contrast such a scenario play out in the US vs in a developing country, who would be much less inconvenienced by the whole thing.
The book Into the Forest by Jean Haglund is kind of like Revolution (as far as I understand, I haven't seen it) but it really just focuses on 2 girls and gets out of having to explain any of the Whys because they don't know & have no real way of finding out. They just have to dael.
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Let me preface this by saying that you have an awesome LiveJournal, which I have just started reading. I'm mostly just reading your commentaries on things that I have already read/been exposed to, like your Les Miserables 1998 vs. 2012 comparison. Thanks for letting anonymous internet users comment.
However, sodium cations and chlorine anions. Electrons don't necessarily need to flow to have attraction to positive charge, perhaps the potential difference could exist without current flow. Seawater's continued existence is dependent on electrostatics, no current flow, and doesn't contain ionic bonds per se because the ions of sodium and chlorine are solvated. However, you are right that all manner of things would go wrong; if redox reactions are affected, for example, biology goes out the window. I think that EM waves like light wouldn't work in this world. I'm interested in biology so I have no idea whether there would be some quantum hullabaloo going on.
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Thanks for commenting though! I often feel like a crazy person writing all these entries for what feels like two or three people (lbr though they're really for myself), so it's nice to be reminded that random internet wanderers could still stumble upon them.
I wrote this with like a 10th-grade understanding (and misremembering, that was kind of a long time ago) of electricity, so I'm sure a lot of it is not correct. However incorrect I am though the show is like 10 times worse.
And it's coming back soon, I cannot wait.
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The reason why I came across this is because I was Googling "arbron animorphs" while reading The Andalite Chronicles. I see that you consider Arbron's punishment karmically unjust, but I was wondering more about Alloran, who you think had a "shallow" lesson. Do you have a link to the post you cite about this?
It's been ages since I read any Animorphs books, which I honestly didn't like much when I was little and gave up on reading after skipping around. However, I had never read these "Chronicles" companions. The ending of the original series makes a lot more sense now, considering that most of it parallels The Andalite Chronicles.
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I think that's a shallow lesson because I don't really think he meant to commit genocide.
And if you haven't read The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, I would read those first before you read my comment. The companion books were my favorite part of the series.
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