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America and the EMP threat
americanthinker.com ^ | 5/3/2018 | Daniel Ashman

Posted on 05/03/2018 8:35:00 AM PDT by rktman

A congressional committee report states that a large electromagnetic pulse (EMP) inundating America could cause 90% of Americans to die. The EMP is inevitable. The dead Americans are not.

Pry explained that an EMP can happen in a few different ways: if an adversary attacks America using nuclear weapons, or naturally via a large solar storm. The reason why a large EMP hitting Earth is inevitable is that solar storms are inevitable. They happen regularly. The only question is when a large one will cross Earth's path. For instance, NASA reported that if a solar superstorm from 2012 had happened just one week earlier, it would have blasted the Earth with a catastrophic EMP. We are playing this slot machine every day. Eventually, we're going to hit the jackpot.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: emp; friedelectronics; prepper; preppers
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To: Mariner
Aye, and TACAMO and DCA.

I was AF Tech Control and I really admired Navy Tech Controllers at, Stockton and Sunnyvale and overseas at the NAF and NSGA. Seaman Flowers was visiting our TCF one night after dropping off at the Comm Center. When I commented about it he pointed out that on shipboard ET's have to know their job and the other guys job too. That's why we got six months of tech school and the Navy got two years. I'll never forget how they cut the modules for Antennas and Waveguides from our Tech Control course just before I got there to Keesler.

That TACAMO sounds like it was the real war. My most interesting was the TCF in the United States Readiness Command building when they were still setting up RDJTF, what later became CENTCOM.

161 posted on 05/03/2018 10:41:40 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Ancesthntr

I just said the PSC (or whatever regulatory body applies) has the power (no pun intended) and authority to do just that. The consequences of inaction are too dire - or so we’re told.

In addition, the states and Feds have no problem spending money and forcing people and companies to comply when they see fit, as I’m sure you know. Something of this magnitude should be a no-brainer.

Therefore either we, as a nation, face a grave threat with some outside force to cripple the electric grid and set us back 100 years, or we do not.

If we are truly vulnerable, and something meaningful can be done about it, then there really are no excuses for standing idle.


162 posted on 05/04/2018 3:56:21 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: MHGinTN

This is why, though I take no pleasure in shooting guns, I have an “arsenal” of five, each for a specific use. And, not counting the .22, I’ve not put more than 50 rounds through all of them combined.


163 posted on 05/04/2018 5:04:17 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: steve86

In that context, I believe “kV” is correct.

Volts/meter is a standard measurement of field strength.


164 posted on 05/04/2018 7:57:05 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: higgmeister

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACAMO


165 posted on 05/04/2018 8:30:51 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Southack
You're saying it would be - at worst - a local phenomenon? And could be treated like a hurricane knocking out power for limited region?
166 posted on 05/04/2018 9:05:07 AM PDT by GOPJ ( If you want a picture of the 'Deep State' imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever. Orwell)
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To: GOPJ

I’m just showing the math, which no one, anywhere, ever... has bothered to publish.


167 posted on 05/04/2018 9:24:20 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Southack
I’m just showing the math, which no one, anywhere, ever... has bothered to publish.

Math's comforting when reality matters...

168 posted on 05/04/2018 9:36:10 AM PDT by GOPJ ( If you want a picture of the 'Deep State' imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever. Orwell)
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To: GOPJ
A Carrington Event would fry all electronics - no more cars, or TV or internet or radio or water pumped to the house or hvac or electric lights or refridgeration or solar panels or computers or automobiles manufactured with a computer or anything with transistors - unless care was taken to store electronic devices in a way to protect them from electromagnetic radiation.

Per Wikipedia:

Other evidence and similar events

Ice cores containing thin nitrate-rich layers have been analysed to reconstruct a history of past solar storms predating reliable observations.

It is claimed that data from Greenland ice cores show evidence of individual solar-proton events, including the Carrington event.[21] More recent work by the ice core community shows that nitrate spikes are not a result of solar energetic particle events, and, indeed, no consistency is found in cores from Greenland and Antarctica, and nitrate events can be due to terrestrial events, such as burnings, so use of this technique is in doubt.

[22][23] Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec. On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" solar superstorm (solar flare, coronal mass ejection, solar EMP) was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was first shared publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014.[4][24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859

169 posted on 05/04/2018 6:56:17 PM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

It is a very viable and dangerous threat. Taking the grid out can be done in several ways besides EMP. Each with disastrous results.


170 posted on 05/04/2018 10:52:05 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Mathews
Read One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Get back to me afterwards and let me know what you think. Please?

Send a copy of the book to each and every Federal, State and local politician. If enough have the balls to read it we might get some action. Newt Gingrich wrote an Afterward everyone should read.

171 posted on 05/06/2018 10:08:04 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: immadashell

I just searched Amazon and (shock and surprise), it’s not listed!


172 posted on 05/06/2018 10:09:59 AM PDT by Kalamata (www.bibleresearchtools.com)
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To: Kalamata
Try again: One Second After
173 posted on 05/06/2018 10:19:42 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: immadashell

Hey, thank you for advising me to try again. This time, I got it! Thanks ; )


174 posted on 05/06/2018 10:22:47 PM PDT by Kalamata (www.bibleresearchtools.com)
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To: Kalamata
👍
175 posted on 05/07/2018 8:02:27 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: sneakers
Found the link I was looking for (finally met with contractors for underground to barn).

My Emp Shield
176 posted on 05/15/2018 10:07:45 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

“The nuclear bomb EMP effect was confirmed by the 1962 Starfish Prime test
which was fired 250 miles above the Pacific and impacted more than 1,000 miles away.”

To a very limited affect. Not exactly the Internet’s claim of total destruction of all things electronic and electrical.


177 posted on 05/15/2018 10:15:34 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: PA Engineer

Thanks! Bookmarked it!


178 posted on 05/15/2018 8:03:14 PM PDT by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party!)
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To: OregonRancher

bump to the top

The Carrington effect


179 posted on 04/26/2022 9:28:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC bimbos 'feel' companies that groom children shouldn't have to pay taxes.)
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