Talk:Nightblood/@comment-75.72.106.125-20170407051228/@comment-75.72.106.125-20170410232755

One effect of Nuclear detonation is an elecro-magnetic Pulse which does in fact cause electrical devices to stop functioning, also without power there is no computers and you would have to have people who knew how to operate power plants in order to keep power running. I beleive that within a certain radius of a nuclear detonation, all active electrical circuitry does get fried. Things not active at the time of the detonation, might survive but you would need power to turn them back on.

Mount Wheather is a military facility which would be shileded from EMP pulses from the various detonations. Also ALIE's lab would have been shielded as well (its a pretty advanced place) so as to safely conduct the various experiments performed before the Detonations. Also, given the fact that it still has electrical power it apparently has its own power generators so ALIE would have been safe. I am sure that ALIE would have been farseeing enough to have made sure that she would survive the 'population reduction' since it was her primary directive to 'fix' humanity's problems and destroying herself would not have served that purpose. Therefore ALIE and Mount Weather are not proof that electrical devices were not damaged by the EMPs from so many explosions.

And while the first generation may have had the knowledge of writing and reading the actual teaching of these things is a pretty time consuming affair that may or may not have been a viable option post-apocalypse.

The Grounders DID NOT CHOOSE to abandon tech. They had no choice. No civilization has ever decided that knowledge is useless. A cult might have done so but I very much doubt that 2nd Dawn had much say in the matter. If they had then their pre-war religious ideas would have survived in some form. If all the original Grounders were 2nd Dawn why would they have built a religion that reflected their goals. Not one that heralded an outsider (Becca PromHeda) as its New Jesus. They most likely influenced Grounder culture but I dont think its likely that they were the only surviving people, after all we got a shot of Grounders in Egypt dying in a 'Death Wave' caused by a Power plant meltdown at the beginning of this season. So it wasnt JUST 2nd dawn that survived.

"A nuclear EMP is the abrupt pulse of electromagnetic radiation resulting from a   nuclear explosion. The resulting rapidly changing   electric fields  and magnetic fields may couple with electrical/electronic systems to produce damaging current and   voltage surges.

The intense gamma radiation emitted can also ionize the surrounding air, creating a secondary EMP as the atoms of air first lose their electrons and then regain them."



