Thanks for posting this. I find it very interesting and somewhat appealing. I think that, if there were a natural disaster, it would be a brilliant place to wait it out and then work from after; however, I don't think I'd want to hide out there in case of war or something humans may have a chance to fight and win. I guess I'm stubborn but I'd rather stand for something than fall for anything.

I'll have to look that up. I'm currently reading Descartes' "Discourse on Method", but it's pretty easy going. Then I want to read his "La Geometrie" as I've been wondering how exactly he himself saw the application of algebra to geometry.
(Note: I've always thought the "Cartesian Method" was the xy coordinate system; the 2-space and 3-space dimensional positioning system for algebraic curves. I'm finding out it is simply Descartes' views on "How will we know".

I am not sure about the fireball above atmosphere.
The sledge hammer is the Compton effect. The magnetic field grows at an exponential rate.

I put it in my wish list for early next year. I'm interested in the emp. Have you seen pictures---videos---of the atomic fireballs in thermonuclear detonations? I can't figure out why that fireball only expands to a certain volume and then collapses. That particular question is on my to-do list as well.

Did you know the temperature inside that fireball is around 10,000,000 degrees Kelvin or more?

Here's a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXHJX...

Where does the heat, most likely in the form of electromagnetic energy, go? Is that what forms the emp? Guess I'll check it out in my Tipler. Releasing the binding energy of the nucleus?

(We need to keep reminding world leaders...)

I get all my books from thriftbooks. The Works of Archimedes, Experimental Researches in Electricity (Farady), The Two Systems of the World (Galileo), etc.

Check out the link below. There is aforeword by Newt Gingritch. This is a novel. There is science but no fiction in the science. If that makes any sense.
Author: William R. Forstchen

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/one-sec...

Who's the author? Sounds interesting. I'm an SF fan from way back. Like since I was about 12. Then, sometime in the '80's, SF became science fantasy and no longer interested me.

Have you read "One Second After?" It is the first book in a trilogy.

I think I read that in some SF story some time ago!

I believe the simplest solution is to set up to survive without electricity. Keep some silver on hand for transactions. When TSHTF being the house with a generator running and the lights on just makes you a highly visible target.

Interesting. Vacuum tubes will survive an EMP?

Wah! Me maybe to be a gagging if not a feezing to death dino is jealous!

If that caldera goes, it will take out most of the Western United States, according to the predictions. It won't just be South Dakota, but Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and probably extend into southern Canada, Eastern Oregon and Washington, Northern Nevada, North Dakota, and Colorado. And that's just the initial effects from the blast/eruption. The resulting ash cloud would be predicted to blanket not only the United States, but half the globe, ushering in a nuclear winter. And if the geologists are correct, we're about 800,000 years overdue...

I'm not going to bother worrying about that one because if it goes, I'll find out about 15 minutes before I'm dead and gone.

I did some temporary clerical work back in the early '80's. I was sent to an architect's office around 1984, and while glancing---well, okay, perusing---the files I found plans for a bunker type arrangement for the baby bell: Qwest, in Colorado.

It was designed to survive an emp. At least so far as what was known at that time.

Before I retired, I was a civilian engineering contractor for the Air Force for 35 years, I can speak to the EMP aspect. your government has some Rad-Hard electronics, by no means everything. A lot, if not most, of what they use is COTS, commercial off the shelf. Plugged in or not, if it is not heavily shielded, it will burn. Faster and more modern devices (smaller IC feature size) are most at risk. The Russians take a total different tact, they use vacuum tubes for critical comms. We also employ micro-sized vacuum tubes for critical comms. (As small as transistors). Aside from saving your precious electronics, it won't matter if the rest of the world has reset to 1822. Back then, people were equipped to live off-grid. Today hundreds of millions will riot, then starve. I am old. I'm unsure as to how much effort I am willing to exert to eek out the last few years. That part of the country gets cold. Real cold. My old bones don't relish that idea.

No one can answer that question for anyone else. I'm old enough to know not to even try, even with blood.

Even so, A=A, and in this case reality sucks and it doesn't look to be getting any better.

How should I proceed?

Coercion to choose is what we're seeing as 'voluntary isolation' these days, coercion into accepting the jab, coercion into wearing masks, coercion into staying several feet apart...all considered voluntary these days. Where have we the opportunity to start and stop this freedom crippling madness? 24/7/365 everywhere you look (even sling your search field on the windows task bar, sticks covid fear in your face) to make you think its your choice, but its not.

Sadly, I don't thinka that word means what you (or I) thinka it means anymore.

I am told by electrical people that anything plugged in will be cooked by an EMP.

Voluntary means you decide where and when it starts and stops.

Please dumb it down for me.

Living in shelter or dying is choice I hope you don't make. The electrical hardware will become valuable as society starts to rebuild.

Few structures will survive a direct hit.
The missile may be worth more than what s in the bunker.

I'm actually starting to think this kind of thing may happen here. If under any president it'd be this clown, too...