i want to write post apocalyptic story after a nuclear war devastating earth a long time ago. let say some GPS receiver and some electronic device can survive EMP attack. is GPS still working? is sateliite imagery like google earth can be use? thank you. sorry for my bad english.
Answer by laCommunarde
If you read On the Beach, a book about post-nuclear-war written in the mid-1950s, various electronics still work. If you watch Ocean's Eleven and the scene where they blast the EMP device, electronics like cell phones still work. In power surges, things that aren't plugged into the wall still work. I think its a safe bet that you could write a post-nuke world in which some electronics would still work. Just remember that when they run out of batteries, they cannot be plugged back in.
Answer by PrettyInPunkkk
Well, I don't know about nuclear war, but I always pictured the whole zombie apocalypse thing.
Seems like satellites will still be in orbit, but with no power supply and nobody to control them, they will no longer be functional. You wouldn't be able to use Google Earth because the global Internet servers will be down and good luck finding a computer anyway in a post apocalyptic world. GPS would absolutely not still be working because the GPS servers, receivers and satellites themselves would be down.
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