Recent content by Drachasor

A military command structure is designed so that the smaller parts can act independently when they are cut off from the higher-ups. Things would not just break down because non-local communication was lost. You are forgetting two things. First, many people who have family on base or locally...

I'd also think it would be likely that when two America-loving groups met up, they'd start working on reforming the nation. First starting with States, then moving to electing a congress, etc.

Sure, easily 90% of the population could die, but the people who are going to survive as a group are going to be ones that immediately form societies with divisions of labor, etc. You'd have that a lot quicker than 10 years. Might take 10 years to reconnect to other regions or it might take...

Eh, and who are these people? I don't know about you but when a disaster hits you aren't seeing people going on rampages or freaking about because they have no cable. Now sure, a TON of people are going to die and starve to death. I am not denying that bit at all. That doesn't mean the...

All you describe is the chaos that would exist in the first year or two while you have a mass die-off. That doesn't mean that once the resources allow it people won't start cooperating and working together, reforming governments, etc. I mean, heck, it isn't like the Great Depression destroyed...

They didn't have a road system already made and they didn't have bikes (which can outpace horses over long distances on roads easily enough). Sure, things would be chaos for a while, but not long enough for people to forget about America and if there's one thing we have in spades it is patriotism.

Never said you'd arm everyone with them. You don't need that many to make melee combat an insanely bad idea. It isn't like flamethrowers require that much complexity to make either (and without cars the fuel is plentiful enough). Heck, they could have appeared in the first book, but barring...

Like I said the advances are small and rare. You name just about all of them there and they don't do much to actually change medieval tactics. They also have no advances (relative to medieval times) for infantry, which is rather silly. Point is, there's a huge mess of potential technologies...

There would at best be some similarities early on. AT BEST. Frankly I don't think using up oil would actually disadvantage humanity significantly. We'd have a while of high oil prices and governments and the industry would work to find alternatives. In any case, any natural disaster that...

Eh, I second the idea of a real language, living or dead. Latin or Ancient Greek would be fun for a dead language. For a living language something useful like Mandarin would be interesting.

Well, I actually just borrowed it from my brother and I stopped about 90 pages away from the end of the third book (hmm, nook pages at any rate, standard settings). At that point I just couldn't force myself to read it anymore. So I didn't waste any money at all. Edit: Hmm, no...

They are generally very primitive though and the few exceptions, at least in the first 3 books, do not come across as that advanced compared to medieval weaponry. There's just a LOT more that would be possible than he considers because besides a small thing here and there, he clearly wants to...

I think the following comic is a great satire of science fiction that attacks technological progress in general: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/

Well, like I said in the other thread, I think you'd have a lot of advancements over medieval era tech. One of the big problems in the books is the idea that if we don't do it because it is efficient compared to electronics, gunpowder, and steam, then it isn't worth doing at all. This is far...

Hmm, I don't remember much about them and I only read them a couple years ago or so. That and the fact I know I wasn't very impressed with them supports your thesis that they aren't very good. I do remember that Neanderthals are essentially hairy elves (with all the "better than thou" baggage...