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Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

TruPhan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:32:07 PDT

This idea is so cool that my head is spinning

TruPhan

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

moff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:18:11 PDT

@Annalee Newitz: Oh, boy. Now I have to take one of my "work breaks."

moff

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:03:19 PDT

@moff: Probably Silken Floss' -- I mean, if she's willing to wear those shoes.

Annalee Newitz

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:01:42 PDT

@JC_Hutchins: So I guess I was smoking crack when I wrote the post, but not when I wrote the comment. It's so hard to keep track! Fixing the post now.

Annalee Newitz

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

moff — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:12:26 PDT

@Annalee Newitz: Wait. Whose?

moff

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

JC_Hutchins — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:36 PDT

@Annalee: That crack is so tasty, you were right the first time! :) In OBSIDIAN, the blackout lasts two weeks.

Thanks for the awesome post!

JC_Hutchins

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:43:35 PDT

@Annalee Newitz: Oops, I mean eight weeks. Wow, this crack is tasty.

Annalee Newitz

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:08:08 PDT

Well, you could presumably stock up on fully-powered batteries and keep taping yourself for months. One of the things I like about the podcasts is that all of them are full of people saying things like, "Why am I doing this? The internet is gone."

Anyway, the premise of the story is that the blackout lasts only two weeks, and that these are the stories people recorded during it and then broadcast once it was over.

Annalee Newitz

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Dunny0 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:02:55 PDT

What camcorder battery lasts more than eight hours, let along eight weeks?
If there's no power, how am I reporting from the field? To whom am I reporting?
When thought of like that, it actually gets a bit scary.
Please don't turn the lights off!

Dunny0

Podcast the Power Grid Apocalypse with JC Hutchins

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:43:29 PDT

If the power is out, how am I going to access the podcast?