Ed Helms

I mean, it must.

The Matrix is the most obvious example.

Oh, well, of course, the Matrix, they use EMPs to fight the— The squiddies, the machines.

Right, of course.

There is the book—there's a book.

I don't know how well-known it's called.

It's called One Second After, and it's written by somebody who's long—

wanted to warn, you know, our government about the effects of an EMP, specifically, I believe, detonated somewhere over Kansas, roughly central to the United States, which would effectively black out most of the country.

And a lot of things that people, you know, unless your equipment is very specifically hardened or predates something or is like in a Faraday box,

or whatever, it's gone.

I mean, planes are going down, cell phones don't work.

And by the way, it's, like you said, Ed, it's fried.

They cannot be rebooted.

They cannot be restarted.

They can't just be turned back on.

No, this is not, you know, blow in the cartridge, put the Nintendo 64 back on.

Right.

It's done.

Again, this was my understanding when I read this book.

And that is a much more terrifying outcome