This book is an engrossing read. It's creates a scary scenario about the aftermath of an EMP attack in just the USA. Check out the website here:
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
Preppers’ PING!!
Article on the Carrington Event
A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event
http://www.history.com/news/a-perfect-solar-superstorm-the-1859-carrington-event
I wonder if NASA invented thunderstorms to cover up the sound of space battles?
TEOTWAWKI ping
Yeah.....sure.
In scale comparison with the rest of the solar system. We missed it by an ass hair...
Pics, or it didn’t happen.
Last week, The Bride and I endured a total brake failure on her SUV, and The Bride got a rental vehicle while the repairs were being done.
She was driving a 2013 Dodge Journey. They call it a “crossover SUV”, but we both agreed it was a soccer-mom-mobile.
The car had touchpad ignition, keyless entry, and every system in the vehicle was electronic. The Bride’s first comment was, “IN AN EMP EVENT THIS CAR WOULD DIE!”
Are this odds of this happening again in the near future?
No NSA
But Washington is giving them the cold shoulder, especially the administration.
Shouldn't surprise anyone. Why would Obamao want us protected against our enemies?
PING!
Am I a bad person if my initial reaction is, “Too bad it missed.”?
“an “electromagnetic pulse” so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.”
No......
Not to minimize a solar flares impact, but, a solar flare can impact the power grid only. It will not directly impact iPhones and cars.
It is not a “High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse” such as a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere - which can impact electronics.
mark
Better luck next time.
Don't you remember the scientific tests experts did of trucks/cars/ambulances when they bombarded them with electromagnetic pulses? Those were performed for the Commission on EMPs the government did in 2008 or 2009?
I know both of you read that - have you dumped scientific evidence and gone back to no cars will run crap and an EMP from a solar flare and an attack are the same?
Do you want that article put back on here for the truth or is it okay for people to freak out with wrong information. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous.
Cars will run whether it is a solar flare EMP or an attack EMP.
I watched that long meeting those three men had.
Henry Cooper, who lead strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has served on the staffs of the EMP Commission, the Strategic Posture Commission, the Commission on the New Strategic Posture of the U.S., the House Armed Services Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security for the Congressional Caucus on EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) that endeavors to carry on the work of the EMP Commission. He is also the Director of the United States Nuclear Strategy Forum, an advisory body to Congress on policies to counter weapons of mass destruction.
Cooper and Woolsey got their “scientific” information from the fiction book, One Second After, both of them talked about it. They also don't know the difference between the effect of a solar flare and an EMP attack.
However, Dr. Peter Fry was on the Commission and he knows the truth. He didn't correct these other two. Fry knows cars will run. The experts tested those vehicles for Fry and the others on that commission. I'm sure Fry didn't want to embarrass the other two men because they were so wrong.
Briefly, so I don't post the whole thing again, an EMP from a solar flare goes in a straight line from the sun and we will know where it is going to hit. It goes directly into the electric grid. If you have a device plugged into the wall, it's fried. If it not plugged into the wall, it's fine. Cars will run. During the test, a few cars stopped running and started again when turned on. On the ambulance, a computer stopped and started again when turned on (it wasn't plugged into the grid). Everything directly fed/connected by the grid will be fried. It's called straight line damage.
An EMP attack damage is regional. The region it explodes over is affected and takes out power. The height of the explosion also determines how far away it will damage. It's more an umbrella damage and not a straight line damage. If one happens over the west coast, at some distance the damage stops and it never gets to the east coast. The cars tests were specifically done to see the damage in this case. None happened except for a brief stop for some and they started again. Cars will run.
RFEngineer, you seem to know more about this than others.
Can’t we have a tax that would prevent this kind of thing from happening?