Posted on 11/30/2017 8:37:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, I'm certainly upset. I'd have to shoot all the Leftists who tried to take what I have.
Deary me. All those that hate and despise and demean me and mine for for questioning the basic goodness of Marxist thought...
Yup. I've done some deep soul searching, and have achieved a measure of Peace...
Should I put their heads, lined up on the picket fence, as a symbol of my inoffensive intent?
We should test our EMP (AKA - High Yield Nuclear Weapon) over NK.
Only problem is, it would likely affect Soul, SK and China (among others).
"Duck season"
"Rabbit season - nuke him, nuke him NOW!"
Run silent.
Run deep.
I’ve followed discussions of the consequences of an EMP attack for many years. The thought of a prolonged absence of electrical power is the stuff of nightmares and could be devastating, if doomsday scenarios plays out.
That’s a big ‘IF’, though, as it’s all theoretical, even if being based upon sound scientific principles. There have been other predictions of catastrophic events that turned out to be nothingburgers. Y2K anyone?
However, I do think it would be in our best interest to invest in the research and technology to prepare our electrical grid components for such an eventuality and ensure that it doesn’t happen to us if the potential for damage does turn out to be as severe as some say it is.
When you google this guy and understand his background you will discover that he is a genuine swamp dweller and "panel queen" who has made a nice living for himself staffing this long-running study. The concerns about EMP do not require more commissions and committees to hold expensive meetings, deliberate over expensive tax payer provided dinners and then provide their names to the cover of a report ghost written by a support staff that really has better things to do with their time.
This whinge is not about EMP but about the failure to fund this long-running boondoggle.
The extent to which EMP is a genuine concern rather than an overblown scare tactic to pry more support out of the congress for some inside-the-beltway contractors to keep up their lifestyle here in the swamp is a real question. It won't be answered by more panel queens.
And, as others have pointed out, if NK tries this, we may have a lot of other problems, but one of them won't be NK anymore.
Horse hockey.
Which we do. But that is not the issue here. The issue here is to keep funding this commission.
RE: Horse hockey.
Please elaborate.
I would just need to rig a hand pump to my well. If that failed, the groundwater in my area is about 5 feet below the surface.
It would be the last thing North Korea would do. They won’t win the war.
I think the danger is in the NORKs selling it to a terrorist organisation to let them do the dirty work and take all the blame while they stand by with a "not me" look on their faces....
Why are you embracing FUD?
I don’t believe it either. It would have to be a thermonuclear detonation at that altitude. Remember, the electromagnetic wave decreases with the square of the distance.
It seems more likely that they would be able to incinerate a city that pull off a high altitude detonation that would have this effect. More likely than that is that they’d get off a missile and that it’d miss its target or otherwise malfunction or be intercepted.
That said, I’m glad my remote bugout location is finished - unlimited water, well stocked on food and lots of hunting/fishing nearby, offgrid renewable power. Assuming that I can safely get to it, I’ll be set for a long time.
Those NK “satellites” are nothing more than debris. And, actually, after the X-37B spent 718 days in orbit, I really doubt the NK debris is even in orbit any longer.
My thoughts exactly. But even if Number 1 were untrue, Number 2 would still be a fact. I’m certain the US Nuclear Forces infrastructure is well hardened against such an attack.
While I have no doubts the Mullahs of Iran would be happy to find paradise, I do doubt that little fat prick in NK would not.
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