1? Meh. 2? Humm, 3? Wait a sec, 4? OK problem...

[Disneyphile]

I hope this doesn't mean something massive is coming. Sounds like a mob scenario - they create distractions for a little while and then make their big hit.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Coincidentally (or not), I've been having slow interwebs for a few days. Today it didn't want to load e-mail.

So, if the tubes collapse, and take celphones with them, how fast can we revert back to landline, letters, and Indian runners? And when the mandatory digital switchover happens with television, and this scenario occurs, how do we disseminate information?

srsly. I'm askeard.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Coincidentally (or not), I've been having slow interwebs for a few days. Today it didn't want to load e-mail.

So, if the tubes collapse, and take celphones with them, how fast can we revert back to landline, letters, and Indian runners? And when the mandatory digital switchover happens with television, and this scenario occurs, how do we disseminate information?

srsly. I'm askeard.

Radio, DirecTV, Newspapers, Satellite Phones, XM, Sirius.... There are a lot of ways to get information out.

Also even if every single undersea cable was cut it would still not "collapse" the tubes. Here in the USofA things would be fine. In fact performance might even improve if all the traffic from those foreign devils downloading naughty photos of our women was blocked.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Coincidentally (or not), I've been having slow interwebs for a few days. Today it didn't want to load e-mail.

So, if the tubes collapse, and take celphones with them, how fast can we revert back to landline, letters, and Indian runners? And when the mandatory digital switchover happens with television, and this scenario occurs, how do we disseminate information?

srsly. I'm askeard.

Via the fastest means of communication known to man... The office grapevine.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Well, radio (for now), and newspapers aren't digital, although a newspaper is hardly instant and late-breaking. My concern gets raised over things like the NSA having secret rooms in ATT and such. A narrowing of the information pipeline, if you will, that can be easily controlled. I'm not worried about the foreign devils as much as I'm afraid of the homegrown ones.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

Well, radio (for now), and newspapers aren't digital, although a newspaper is hardly instant and late-breaking. My concern gets raised over things like the NSA having secret rooms in ATT and such. A narrowing of the information pipeline, if you will, that can be easily controlled. I'm not worried about the foreign devils as much as I'm afraid of the homegrown ones.

I'm having trouble following you on this one...

Are you worried about:

A) The collapse of the Internet and/or other means of communications.
B) The monitoring of your communications by entities foreign or domestic
C) The Clovefield Monster?

[blueerica]

I am worried about the collapse of teh intrawebs and the Cloverfield monster.... so?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I'm having trouble following you on this one...

Are you worried about:

A) The collapse of the Internet and/or other means of communications.
B) The monitoring of your communications by entities foreign or domestic
C) The Clovefield Monster?

Teh "funny" answer: All of them!

The real answer: Not "A", but close. The control of the Internet and/or other means of communications, by enemies both foreign and domestic. I don't think there's enough manpower to monitor everything, therefore, just control the flow.

[BarTopDancer]

But what happens when the Cloverfield monster and the Lost monster meet. And what if they... shudder... mate?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

And what if they... shudder... mate?

[cockney]Wha' if they shudder, mate? Don' monsters 'ave the same righ' as any of us to a weaverproof 'ome? Oi![/cockney]