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Roachor:

--- Quote from: Fat Man on November 22, 2012, 02:18:54 am ---EMP is an electromagnetic field that can fry electronics its a type of radiation that gets emitted after a nuclear blast.

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Yes I know that, I've just never heard of emp causing harm to biological entities.

Fat Man:

--- Quote from: Roachor on November 22, 2012, 02:22:55 am ---Yes I know that, I've just never heard of emp causing harm to biological entities.

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I think what marko was trying to say that the radiation can penetrate metal and would cook a person alive from trapping in the heat, than opposed to a guy who is outside of the tank would probably still get radiated but wouldn't die as quick. Kind of stupid if you ask me inside the tank or outside going to die anyways. Guy outside tank may not die right away but would probably die of other health problems.

But anyways while on the subject, I read somewhere taking potassium iodide will help with the damaging affects of radiation.

Marko:
I read that 20 years ago in a science magazine handed to me by my marine corps college room mate, so i don't have a link lol.

The article was not necessarily about heat. It had to do with deadly rays produced as EMP waves pass through steel. The waves outside are not exactly healthy, but the rays produced inside the tank are deadly. Hence they were showing how the guys inside a tank, though they might expect to be better protected, would be more impacted by EMP. The whole article was about EMP.

Horatio:
They don't get generated by passing through steel, they bounce inside from walls thus increasing the exposure of the crew to microwave radiation, while the guys outside get exposed to it just once.
The tank crew get cooked.

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