Blackout Madness!

[PepperElf]

not only that but... with the ENTIRE BLOCK out... even if you had generators it wouldn't mean you could get online - cos the switches your cables go through could also be out.

[mikoyan29]

Maybe they thought you had one of those amulets that briefly restores power.

[Gonzo]

But I thought the internet was WIRELESS...

[RetailWorkhorse]

Quoth raudf

You mean, computers and internets don't run on just magic smoke?! *ducks and runs away giggling*

Nah, they run on bro-man tears and unicorn farts.

Quoth bbbr

At my old grocery store we used to routinely have people try to open the doors after we had closed for the night and locked them because they could see us pulling cash draws

I had two idjits do that to me TONIGHT.

Quoth Gonzo

But I thought the internet was WIRELESS...

.....

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Quoth Sandiercy

What makes you think that we might be open and what kind of person thinks that the internet and computers run on something other than electricity??? I knew SCs were stupid but this takes it to a whole new low.

You mean that computers and the intar-webs aren't run on pixie farts and rainbows ejaculated by bunnies masturbating in mushroom rings?

[draftermatt]

To quote a twitter post on our local electric company's feed.

"When will electric utility switch to wireless electric delivery?"

Yes... That was posted...

[Zaiida]

The only way that's gonna happen is if someone ressurects Telsa

[sstabeler]

actually, over relatively short distances, it IS possible. After all, a transformer does it. (it boils down to two coils of wire, one of which is powered, creating an electromagnetic field, inducing an electric current in the other.) It can't work over distances of more than a couple of CM, however, as far as I know.

[Dadeo]

There's the Powermat recharger unit for small electronics. And there's at least one major auto manufacturer that uses an induction driven assembly line - no wires so each vehicle moves on its own platform through the line, even doing curves and right angle changes.